The Penn's Grove record., 1885-05-02
NUMBER 80
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ol new DIX.
Germany has no bod carriers. Bricks
are passed by hand.
The roller skating craze has struck
the Sandwich Islands.
The Zuni Indians have smoked CT
garettes for 700 years.
"A street railway will soon be III op-
GRAFTON in Macon, Ga.
Berlin has but one church to every
$4,000 of its inhabitants.
-Quails in Montana are exempt from
the sportsman's gun for six years.
"A millionaire Chinaman IS among
the residents of Rockford, Dakota.
The Rothchilds never employs man
who has the reputation for i'll luck.
The volume of Southern travel this
season is said to be unprecedented.
-Fifty.fve per cent. of persons dying
in Psris are buried at public expenses.
A ~ive-year-old child was chOked to
death IN Cincinnati recently on a pea
nut.
Missouri produced last year the lar
gest crop of corn ever gathered in that
State.
Forest fires have been quite numer-
GUS in the vicinity of Wildwood, Fla,
of late.
Capital is being raised in London
for a new American cable via the Az
ores
General Earle, killed In the Soudan,
is to have a memorial in Liverpool, his
native city.
Cases of small. pox and scarlet fever
are reported from various points on the
Pacific Coast.
"A sash and blind factory with $780,
600 capital has been established at Biz
mingham, Ala.
"A plate glass insurance company
reports 761 losses during 1884 out of
about 5000 risks.
Napoleon Bonaparte is the name of
a colored man now living in Lancaster.
South Carolina.
Large crowds of colored people con-
tinue to leave South Carolina for Ar
kansas and Texas.
Coulter and Barton. large farmers
of GraysoD, Texas, have 700 mules, 500
of which are gray.
In a Saco mill a mar recently sawed
40, 100 feet of boards in one day, thus
beating the record.
-Melssonier's pictures In his late
Paris exhibition were Issued at the rats
OF 500 per square inch.
To encourage Irish manufactures
the Lord Mayor of Dublin contemplates
giving a ''poplin ball."
The value of real estate in Birm-
ingham, Ala. has increased S478, 400 in
the past twelve months.
"A boa constructor, 10 feet long, has
been presented TO the Sydney, Austria
liza, Geological Garden.
Stark w. Arnold, a nephew of
'Stonewall" jackson, is a member of
the West Virginia Senate.
The ties and wood tuel used by the
railroads of the United States cost an
nually about $25, 100000.
The authorities of Dalton, Ga, have
prohibited marble playing upon the pub
lie thoroughfares of the Town.
An Americas, Ca, citizen carries
an open face watch, the chrystal of which
was placed on it 40 years ago
AT a recent election for town off,
GERS in Smithtown, l.. L., there were 5
Smiths on the Republican ticket.
An original Raphael will soon be
placed on exhibition in New York city.
1t is said to be worth S100, 000.
-Alpharetta a young Georgia city
with a population of 200, has Ave law
yers, or one for every 80 persons.
The artesian well in Atlanta, Ga,
has been sunk nearly one-third of a mile,
but without encountering any water.
The Hudson river ice crop will
reach 1000, 900 tons this year, and of a
quality which has never been surpassed.
-Mocking birds are being trapped
and shipped by the hundreds by a party
of Indians encamped near Anaheim,
Cal.
The great screen of Winchester
Cathedral, built in the 18th century, ia
to be restored with its SO marble stat
ues.
Twelve wagon loads of letters and
papers are delivered daily at the Capitol
for members of the House of Represen-
tatives.
I'm a glass works near Paris air
stored under pressure has been made to
successfully supersede gas blowing by
the mouth, except in a few cases.
Portland, Me-, has 994 boys who
recently signed the triple pledge against
intoxicating liquors, tobacco and pro-
family.
The Legislature of Alabama has
passed an act prohibiting State, county
and nnNpIpfnal nffn2ra from nntffnU
drunk.
"A citizen of Stockton, Cal, died
of lock-jaw recently, being the last of
four brothers, all of whom died of that
disease.
"A juvenile farmer, eight years old,
who plows almost as well as a veteran
tile of the soil is boosted of by Henry
county, Ga.
"A pair of shoes measuring 29s have
just been made by a Milford, Mass,
| shoemaker for a female resident of San
Francisco.
"A Puoghkeepsie gossip was fined
500 for circulating reports prejudicial
to a person in that place. This Is an
age of reform.
Little speckled trout come up with
the water OF the arteSlan wells In the
vicinity of Austin, New, from a depth
of 260 feet.
Water In the flooded Comstock
mines GIBBS and flows with the regularity
of ocean tides, the Virginia, New,
Chronicle says.
The Sexton Of a New York church
has a crank in his pew by turning which
he regulates the temperature Of the
house during service.
The use of return-request envelopes
by all business men 1t Is thought, would
reduce the bus ness of the dead letter
office to a minimum.
The British Columbia militia are
| drilling twice a week in anticipation
that their services may be required by
the mother country.
tlvar fan Thousand dollars In cash