The Penn's Grove record., 1884-10-25
NUMBER II
NEWS IN BRIEF

in 1869.
The average human life is thirty
one years.
The hotel business in New YORK IS
oyerdone.
There are I23 incorporated Oluus IA
New York.
Queen Victoria has nineteen grand
daughters.
The first steamboat pied the Hud
sou in 1907.
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared in~a652.
There are 15U distinct varieties
of the banana.
Five railroads now run into Jack
sonville, Fla.
The first newspaper was published
in England in 1888.
London has a society to promote
window gardening.
In Sierra MOjalia, in Mexico. water
sells for - per barrel.
The first use of a locomotive ia
this country was in 1929.
Horse thieves are operating extern
siyely in Chester county.
Birmingham, Ala, has gained 1000
population within a year.
"A certain ~cornleld in Georgia will
yield lis bushels per acre.
Savannah harbor will soon be TWEEN
ty-twO feet at mean high tide.
-Freemasonry, the world over,
braces IA, loo, 543 members.
The postal service of the United
States cost SIS, 22J, 800 in 1889.
Montreal policemen are required to
speak both English and French.
There are said to be 1871 ,2l7 illtt-
crate voters IN the United States.
Savannah is now the largest ship
per of naval stores in the world.
1t Is said that 5000, 900 meteors
pass through the atmosphere daily.
The entire city of Cumberland.
Md, is to be lighted by electricity.
-Lehigh county, Pa, boasts of the
first church organ built in that State.
"A man at Reno, Col, has had his
tongue paralyzed 50 that he cannot eat.
-Thirty-six men and nine women
committed suicide for love in Italy III
1888.
The last battle fought on the soil
of England was on Sedgemo0r, July Z.
1886.
1t cost the United States s., 49,
3S9.3I to take care of the Indians in
1888.
Near Norwich (Conn.), there ale
SAID 10 be two square miles OF pond
lilies.
The wool clip Of 1884 is estimated
at 300, 0o0, 900 pounds and is worthS85,-
900, 900.
Experiments in raising tobacco
a Quakertown, Pa, are proving sue
cesstul.
"A Bucks county, Pa, man OWNS a
dictionary printed IN the sixteenth cen
fury.
Mime. AlbauI, It is announced, will
sing in concert here early in the ON
Ing year
In Canada, one per on in every H.
230 is an inventor; i'll South Carolina,
one in u, 1S2.
For the purpose of transportation
to America the Bartholdi statue will be
divided into three hundred distinct
parts.
"A Paris physician is quoted as say
ing that ''it is a legend, not a fact, that
cholera hastens the corruption Of =
corpse.
"A prisoner in Jail at Louisville is
said to have no less than ten wives lig-
ing, and he is not a professional Nor
mon, either.
Pennsylvania manufactures $685.
S54 gunpowder "A year; also in paper
bags, 1854 AIS; upholstering materials,
SIZE, 900.
-Alligators' teeth are DOW used for
buttons, bracelets. earrings and ban
giles. They take a high polish and are
very durable,
The Indians who were found on
this continent east of the Mississippi
by the first European settlers did not
exceed 200. 900.
The Worcester (Eng.l, Musical
Festival recently held, Melted $40 over
that of 1881, the total receipts being
el066, Is. Adj.
Sharks, some of which are nine feet
long, have become so numerous in Long
Island Sound that spearing them is now
a popular pastime.
The ball which surmounts the dome
of st. Peters at Rome, is hollow, and
has room inside for Is persons. 1t bears
aIoft a monstrOus cross.
-One-third Of the population OF Jeru-
salem are Jews. They number $4,000,
aud devote themselves exclusively 10
mercantile occupations.
"A movement, 1t is said, is on foot
TO expunge all traces of English on
quest in Dublin by substituting Irish for
English names to all the streets.
There are seventeen quinine facto-
ries in the woTld-siX in Germany, four
in the United States, three in France,
two in Italy, and two in England.
There are three Sundays every
week in Jerusalem, Friday is observed
by the Mohammedans, Saturday by the
Jews and Sunday by the Christians,
"A Los Angeles fruit grower has
several banana trees in growth, con
tanning nearly 100 punches, and believes
the raising of the fruit is an assured
success.
A bill will be presented to the next
Vermont Legislature |forbidding the
importation of or manufacture Of cleo
margarine or amy Of the limitations OF
butter.
"A white pine forest, containing les
timated) LOCO, 900, 900 feet of lumber,
is situated in the centre of the Terri
tory of Arizona, which is supposed by
many to be a treeless waste,
Discovered among the ruins OF the
Zuni and Aztec cities are spindles and
whorls remarkably like those employed
by the Highlanders in Scotland. The
position Of some would indicate an an
tiquity of at least 1000 years.
Six thousand tons of silver money
in round figures $136, DOC, 900 are now
in the U. 5. Treasury, the bulk OF it
lieing stored in New York. Only about
-, DOC, 900 of 1t, it is stated, is actually
ta11 az tho ItFA.gnTU ItapgF fmaDf in