The Penn's Grove record., 1885-03-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.

l6JJeTS.
-Mo.He GARFIELD has entered Vassat
College.
There ara 2 900 900 acres OF deer
park in Scotland.
There are now 100 girl students In
Swarthmore College.
Harvard has more s]1phOmUres this
year than freshmen.
-Connecticut has 40 oyster steamers
with a capacity Of 60, 10 bushels daily.
Buffalo, despite Der proximity to
Niagara, is threatened by d water fam"
inc.
Birmingham, England, has the
greatest button trade Of any city in the
world.
Over 5000 Northern school teach
ers have visited the New Orleans expo.
sition.
In 1854, 2l6 New York men mar
ried under 20 years Of age and 2,9Is
women.
An ancient Egyptian Idol sold at
auction in New York recently for seven
dollars.
The finest wines are made from tho
grapes that are grown at the highest ell
ovation.
-Sieiian brides are compelled to have
their eyebrows shaved of previous "
marriage.
Congressman Rosecrans' son Is a
Catholic priest and his two daughters
are nuns
Electoral messengers to Washing
ton received 8S46S. 50 and travelled So
874 miles.
"A tramp is said to be the impor-
ter of the smallpox now raging in
Thomson, Ga &.
"A necklace composed of Il orHa-
mented pearls brought G3201 at recent
sale IN London.
Fifty eight per ceut. Or the power
exerted in driving the propeller Of y
steamship is lost.
In Southern California the pomegran-
ate hourishes as it does in Italy OF ia
the Holy Land.
"A cremation society las been
formed in Buffalo with Il capital of ten
thousand dollars,
There was an interval Of nearly 4
years between the last two marriages ia
HaYerhill, n. II.
"A garden seed war is lowering over
Athens, Ga, and in consequence prices
have been reduced.
There are se]yenty-eight women
studying medicine at Paris, thirteen Of
whom are Parislans.
There are G,239. SIS persons in the
United States above the age Of 10 who
cannot read and write.
Eggs, in some parts of Montana,
are reported to command ten cents each
OF a dollar by the dozen.
Australia boasts Of a cave larger
than the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky.
1t is ca led the Genoian.
-Four hundred Omnibuses pass a
given point in London every day, az
cording to a recent computation.
In Thibet n woman may have
two three, Or even four husbands, but
never more than the last number.
For sixty-six years a boatman at
Newport, r. l., has been in the employ
OF the United States Government.
The juveniles have been thought Of
in Montreal, and ~toboggan slides for
their enjoyment have been prepared.
The Prince of Wales has expended
$1,000, 600 on his Sandringham proper
ty, exclusive of the purchase money.
Six brothers who reside in Wal
palk township, n. J., aggregate 81 feet
IN height and 1900 pounds in weight.
"A young man of New Haven,
Conn, has a collection of 1000 BIRDS
eggs. embracing nearly 1000 varieties.
According to a Montreal paper
more fires occurred on Friday in that
city during 1854 than on any other day.
For publishing a translation of one
of ZOla's novels "a Dresden publisher
has been sent to prison for one month.
Complaints of the dearness Of the
New York cheap" cabs are frequent
ly written to the newspapers of that
city.
"A young lady acts as sexton of a
Lawrenceville, Ca, church, and is said
to be the only n Of that sex III the
State.
Russia will not build the projected
network of railwaysthroughout Siberia
just at present, owing to a lack OF
funds.
What is claimed to be the only bent
wood factory in the United States has
been established AT Charleston, South
Carolina.
Standardized Leland Stanford was
a student in CaZenoyia Seminary with
Joseph r. Hawley and Henry W. Slo-
cum in 1884.
-SignOr Rotoli, one of the most pop
ular musicians in Rome, will presently
come to this country to fill a professor
ship in Boston.
Several varieties of birds have app
peared along the sea coast of California,
which were never known before to leave
the mountains.
The elder duck does not take her
young into the ocean, as is generally
supposed but remains with them among
the islands along the coast.
-Orville d. Baker. the new Attorney
General Of Maine, a Bowdoin graduate
of '6S, was an extraordinary good first
baseman when at college.
james G. Jamison, the new Adju-
tant General, of Missouri, was a For
ty-niuer" in California, and a follower
Of Walker in Nicaragua,
Twenty Partisan dueljsts are organ
iZing a club under the name of La
Flamberge, whose members must ali
have fought at least n duel.
The editors, bookkeepers, type-set-
tiers, collectors aud agents of the Free.
man, the colOred organ published IN
New York, are all colored men.
An Indiana husband has been seal
ded eighty-one times with hot tea by his
wife, and has now come TO the cOnclu-
clusion that he is entitled to a divorce.
An English lady, Mrs. Hayward,
has been engaged as professor Of elocu-
an in the Cincinnati Law School and
the innovation has been received with
favor.
Cheshire, Mass, has two large bald
eagles, which have their nest high up
An the side Of a rocky clid. The hum
targ and pit1gans GENERALLY with a gpuea