The Penn's Grove record., 1885-06-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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White potatoes sell for 81 a bushel
IN portions Of Florida.
France has completed war vessels
costing over SIG, QUO, coo.
The cultivation of cinchona is said
to he projected in Florida.
-5rooklyn has three colored drug
gists in good circumstances.
One of the New York papers has
facilities for printing % copies per sec
ond.
A horse which was known to be 50
years old died recently on Staten Is
land.
The California legislature has pas
sed a bill appropriating $40, 0O0to build
"A hotel for travellers III the Yosemite
valley,
The most valuable metal known Is
venadium, which is worth $4,000 per
pound.
"a descendant of seven Russian
counts has been uaturaIized in Mil
waukee.
Cannes has been selected as a site
Cor a monument to the late Duke of
Albany.
Italy has 1880, 900 lemon trees,
which produce l,2GJ, 600, 900 lemons
annually.
"A colored man, whose age is set
down as 100 years. lives in Oconee
county, Ga.
The value of the shipbuIlding IN.
dustry of New England for 1884 reached
Sd, GOO, 600.
Police, it is said, escort all visiting
clubs to and from the ball grounds in
Columbus, Ga.
"A number of private residences in
New York have been fitted up with
electric lights.
Mary Anderson is reported to save
more money in a month than most men
make in a year.
Tile Illinois Compulsory Education
law provides no penalties, and IS there
fore imperative.
Schenectady has an Excise Board
consisting Of a Democrat, a Republican
and a ProhlbItionist.
"A marked dimmution in the num-
Der of tourists bound Tor Europe this
summer is reported.
The Louisiana sugar crop is now
expected to fall short about a third Of
the or gInal estimates.
"A gold plate of false teeth lost in
Sierra county, Cal, thirty years ago,
was found there recently.
-Grasshoppers are causing serious
trouble on some of the railroads and in
ranches on the Pacific coast.
Two wells are shortly to be sunk
near jamestown, n. Y, in hopes Of
striking either gas or oil.
All of the public school buildings
in New York are to be connected with
the city's fire alarm system.
At a sale in London, recently, Lord
Wllton's champagne realized SIS a doz-
en-, and has claret $40 a dozen.
There are rs, 200 boys and girls EN-
ployed In mills, factories and workshops
located in New York State.
The license on roller skating Kinks
has been raised from S25 to $50 by the
City Council Of Oswego, n. Y.
twenty-five unmarried daughters
of a Carroll county, Md, man are liv-
ing in the same house with him.
"A shell collection valued at SIG 900
is owned by Cornell University, and is
claimed as the best in existence.
"A little girl arrived in Pittsburg
recently, after having made safely the
trip from the City of Mexico alone.
Excitement prevails in Mono, Cal
ifornia, over what IS believed to be the
discovery Of large deposits of tin ore.
A scratch on his hand, developing
into blood poisoning, has caused the
death of a man at Deer Lodge, NJ. 7.
Scarlet fever is reported to be abat-
ing in various Massachusetts, towns
where it has prevailed for some months.
The rumor that Mr.. Jay Gould's
son, George, has a taste for the Stage
and a desire to appear on it is denied.
Frost laid out the cucumber crop
in Wisconsin, and fire destroyed a pickle
factory in Cincinnati on the same night,
"A plan to burn the city's garbage
in furnaces heated by natural gas now
allowed to escape is talked Of in Pitts
burg.
The ant~i-treating law Of Nevada, it
is reported, IS not only a dead letter al
ready, but the universal subject of rid
icule.
"A hail storm at Corsicana, Texas,
recently dropped hailstones that are de-
clared to have weighed nearly twelve
ounces.
-Sixty-fye cents a pound was real
lied in New York recently by a citizen
of Hammonton, n. j., for a lot of spring
chickens.
In the neighbOThood of four OF five
hundred new peach orchards have been
planted this year in the lower part Of
Delaware.
"A ''pauper," who died in the poor
house at Bridgeport, Conn, left an es-
tate which has been officially valued at
over S1400.
st. Paul follows up the opening of
the Northern Pacific with smelling
works to reduce the ores of Montana
and Idaho.
On a farm on Little Lost River,
Idaho, IN II night recently four lions
killed fifty and injured thirty valuable
Angora goats.
Somebody has made a count or an
estimate Of the one legged men in this
| country and finds that there are about
5000 of them.
There are 200, 900 commercial trav-
| elers in the United States, They cost
their employers, it IS estimated, $780,
000, 900 a year.
The need of more facilities for ed
ucation is becoming apparent in Dako-
Ia, and preparations for the erection of
new colleges there are being made.
The professors Of the Uni ersity of
Toxic have formed thems elves into an
association for promoting the introduce
ducuou Of Latin writing and type in
place of the Chinese.
The Church OF the Holy Ghost at
Heidelberg, Germany, is divided by a
partition running lengthwise through 1t.
! On the one side the service is Protest
ant aud the other Roman Catholic.
Japan has an army Of 40, 600 men,
a reserve of twice that number, and a
territorial reserve Of $50. 000,all dressed
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