The Penn's Grove record., 1885-11-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Queen Victoria dimes at 9:45.
-Modieska meass TO spend her iifo
in California.
Mime, Janauschek mourns the loss
of a seventeen year old poodle.
I'm Havana cigar manufacturers
pay their hands three times a day.
Mrs. Langtry purchased two gem
uine sealps from an Indian out West.
Mrs. Oscar Wilde, that is to be, is
exhibiting her bridal dress in London.
The town OF Bernstadt, KY, is
populated entirely by Swiss to the num-
Der of 700.
Secretary Lincoln resembles his
father in personal appearance only from
the eyes up.
The farmers in Vermont and New
Hampshire complain that this is q poor
sugar season.
Oregon Is the place to hunt bears.
The Portland Oregopidn says the State
IS full of them.
Hundreds Of young women IN New
York city arr only 45 cents a day by
making shirts.
Emil Scarla, the great basso, is a
comparatively young man, but his hair
is white as snow.
The German 'kaffee klatch" is
superseding ''hlgh tea" in New York
fashionable circles.
Adult unmarried persons grow
more numerous in France and less nu-
merous in Germany.
Henry Berg has begun a crusade
against the practice of shoeing horses
with red-hot iron.
Augustus Schell, the New York
politician, recently deceased, left an es'
tate worth over $1,000, 900.
Illinois, following the example of
some other states, has just had her bat
tie flags enclosed in cases.
"A colony of SO people rec left
Mount Joy. Lancaster county j., for
Dickinson county, Kansas.
Prof. Northrop of Yale has accept
ed the presidency of the Minnesota
state university at Minneapolis.
M. de Lesseps says that his COM
pany now pays out $4,000 francs a day
for work on the Panama canal.
"A Brooklyn teacher has been ar
rested for threatening to kill one of her
pupils whom she caught whispering.
Senator Fair, it is said in Washing
ton, will be remarked soon to the wife
from whom he was divorced last year.
Senator Lamar is not quite 60 years
old. At the age of "a he was professor
of mathematics in the Mississippi uni
yersity.
-"Don't tip the waitersn is the, per-
haps, superfluous advice screamed by a
parrot in a Fulton street IN. " res
taurant.
An Oconee (Ga.) county man has
Just had taken from n of his legs a
mimic ball he had been carrying there
for D years.
Miss Gabrielle, daughter of the late
Horace Greeley, is still a lovely girl,
and has. it IS said, refused many ambr
tious suitors.
Cities and towns in Massachusetts
will hereafter be Obliged to furnish
children IN the public schools with free
text books.
The Charleston Is. CO. News sayl
that there is a man living in Laurent
county, Ga, "A years old, who is the
father of AZ children.
Warner Williams, formerly Of Ana,
mosa. Iowa, died recently at Anita,
Iowa. Though only six years of age,
his weight wa 200 pounds.
Living near Swapping Shoals, Ga,
is a colored woman whose age is report
ed to be 40. Her husband was thought
to be 100 years old when he died.
Grape culture IN California is ia.
pidly increasing, and it is thought that
at least five million vines will be planted
in Los Angeles county at once.
The hillsides near Marshfeld, Ore
gon, were recently strewn with dead
robins that persisted in the cold and
snowy weather of a few weeks ago.
The Kentucky House of Represen-
tatives has passed. a bill prohibiting
bicyclists from using the pablo roads
of most of the counties in that State.
Great Britain consumes annually
100000 tons of potatoes, Of which
200, 900 tons are imported, while the re-
mainder are raised on 54l 900 acres Of
land.
during The II years from 1871 to
1882, the number of lives lost by the
disasters to British ships was 3S, 722, of
whom $500 were crew and 1908 pas
sengers.
AT the New FORK Bench Show this
GEAR there is to be a special prize each
for speed, leaping and trick dogs; spe-
cial attention will be gwen to ladies'
pet dogs.
More than a million head of cattle
wIntered in the Territory of Wyoming,
and the general .'round up of this
m number will begin about the
middle of May.
"A four-year old boy at Felicity, D.,
is the sensation in that town, as he can,
O. is alleged to be able to, read books
and papers at sight, though he was
never instructed.
The most expensive book eyer pub
lished by q single individual is Lord
Kingshorough's Mexico" 1t has
seven volumes, with 1000 colored illus
trations, and cost $500, 900.
AT Tennille. Ga, last week. Jerry
jenkins, aged 90, and Eliza Brown.
aged SO, tremblingly stood before
hymen's altar and pledged their young
lives TO each other.
of the Black Hills In
Dakota have mined and milled 1,5l2,.
O5I tons of good ore, yielding $40, ABA
ZIG, or an average of IS rs per ton,
The mines paid in dividends TO the
shareholders s.. l42. 500. NJ &,
1t is 90 -. N""i''o"
reside NsHl not work isan obstacle no
Of rflaclp'e IN platforms and VI
caaaidaseS aai ? i.iy .,
u~A~olese9'ne.