The Penn's Grove record., 1885-04-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Michigan contains 5000 people
who cannot Write.
Spiders eat 70 tfus5 their own
weight each daF
American canned frogs are in great
demand In France.
Finger rings are said to be going
out Of fashion.
Lemon growing is becoming 4 pro-
ftab,e industry in Florida.
st. Paul, MINI is to have a Mason.
ic temple costing SIj0,0Og.
An international exhibition TO DO
held in London next spring.
There are 9lG nurches Iu London
within a radius of II miles.
The sale of cigarettes e. children
In NJ ssouri is forbidden 10y law.
In Mexico, there is a petrided for
est in Mexico covering 300 acres.
Three billion wooden toothpjcks
are made annually in this country.
The population of the United
States is now Teckoued at So, 700. 600.
The pistol, or hip pocket, is to DO
prohibited by law at Galveston, Texas.
Dakota has $500 miles of railway.
1000 school houses and rs newspapers.
One cider mill ia Massachusetts
uses 100000 barrels of apples every
year.
Richmond. Nd has 10 skate fac
tories with a capacity of 5000 pairs per
day.
The population Of London is in.
creasing at the rate of 100, 900 people a
year.
Nine teLths of the disasters at sea
occur during the watch of the second
mate.
High license $500 per quarter) has
cleared Santa Clara co. Gal, Of skating
Kinks.
1t is SAID that over three million
trees were planted in Great Britain in
1888.
"A new railway station to cost a
million dollars is to be erected III Indi-
annapolis,
Or all the United States bonds IS
sued the $4,000 registered bond is the
largest.
The cost of patents has been re-
duced one half IN England since the lst
of January.
-Muskegon. Mich, has a lad who,
although only IL years Of age. weighs
235 pounds.
The number of cattle in Califor-
mia Is said to be less than it was thirty
years ago.
"A foreigner cannot WI mining
property within 90 miles of the Mext-
can border.
In Porto Rico an outlay Of 81 Will
clothe an entire family of six persons
for a year.
The production Of coal in France
is twice as great as in either Germany
or England.
The mandatory of artificial ivory
from bones and scraps of sbeepskIn is i
new industry.
The French originated the indus
trial exhibition the first was held III
Paris in 1898
During 1888, $1,000 pounds of cop.
per were extracted from the Lake SUI
perIor mines.
Minnesota employed 5, 432 teachers
last year, of whom 1885 were men and
1867 women.
"A law in Sweden grants divorce to
those who have been separated for more
than five years.
The United States and France are
the greatest chocolate consuming cOun-
tries in the world.
The Duke of Argyle has computed
that the world will not be destroyed Ia
10000 900 years.
The consumption of coal in France
IN 1892 was about 10, 600, 900 tons more
than she produced.
"A 80 acre peach orchard at West
Point, GA, has yielded $4,000 worth
of fruit since 1881.
-Mustald mills have been started at
San Francisco to work up the product
of Southern California.
"A Southern Illinois newspaper prin-
ted its edition ON wall paper during the
recent snow blockade.
The "nickel" is in great demand in
Boston since the beginning Of iye-ceut
horse car fares in that city.
The japanese have a new diction-
airy of the Chinese language, cOmpTis-
ing no less than 40 volumes.
Great Britain manufactures 700,-
900, 900 envelopes yearly. The United
States turns out $500, 900, 900
The United States contains 5,OO0,-
900 colonies of bees, which annually
yield 100000 900 pounds Of honey.
"A lad, only nine years of age, was
arrested in New York recently, the sec
ond time within a year, for picking
pockets.
The United States has II, 900 dem
fists, who use a ton Of gold, five tons of
other metals and make 1900, 000 arti-
fetal teeth annually.
slavery dies hard in Brazil. The
province of P~ernambuCO has stlll 49,.
600 slaves. AbOltiOuists are not In IA
vor in that province.
Eleven national banks, twenty-five
State banks, eleven savings banks and
twenty-seyen private banking instItu.
tiOns failed last year.
In Eagle City Arizona, the enthu-
siastlc miners recently presented the
mother of the first child born there with
a purse Of 5000 in gold dust.
Articles used in evidence in the
Paris courts are sold once a year at auc.
ton and usually bring good prices. The
money goes TO lawful claimants.
The Porte is so absolutely lmpot.
emit and ~apathetic that half the world
forgets that it own Egypt, and tia:
British troops are doing its lighting.
Two lads, aged respectively 5 and
Z years, arrived 10y the Oregon at Castle
Garden recently, duly labelled and con.
to their father, in Connecticut.
Providence, r. l., sinners are now
besieged by two cohorts of SalvatiOnists,
General Booth having established a sta
ton there as a riya, Of Major MOOre's
people
The population Of Mexico, tnclud-
ing natives, Indians, ~Spauiards, and
those Of mixed blood, numbers about
10000, 600. The area OF the country is
nearly 100000 square miles,
-FIoridians claim that Is, 900 North.
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