The Penn's Grove record., 1885-10-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.

plOy fO,UOO men.
Detroit has adopted standard time
and wooden street signs.
Drunken women in London are
more frequent than men.
"A slight fall of snow occurred in
Hartford. Conn, recently.
Sitting Bull fears that some of Gus
ier's friends Will assasslnate him.
General Moltke IS health is so bad
that an early demise is anticipated
N early $4,000 police officers now
protect London including sergeants.
Forty million pairs of rubber boots
are made in this country annually.
Troy, New York, is talking about
investing S25, 600 in a crematorium.
-Squaws do the grain-threshing for
farmers in Owens River Valley, New.
The London Times. according to a
current item, is valued at S25, 900 900.
According to tradition. famines
occur in Japan every forty or fifty years.
Bismarck has lost / 900 people and
has $50 houses vacant as a result of the
business depression.
New York is the wealthiest State
in the Union; Pennsylvania comes
next, followed by Illinois. third.
The Abyssinian alphabet consists
of POS characters, each of which is
written distinctly and separately.
"A New Haven managed to
get drowned in two feet of water the
other day.
Dakota with its population of 49,
900 has gained 207 per cent. in the five
years since 1880.
The first railway in India dates
from 1853. and there are now $4,000
completed miles of road.
There are still public lands open to
settlement in nineteen States and eigd
Territories.
-Muskegon, Mich, reports the case
of a child being stung to death by a
seventeen-year locust.
"A bill In the Georgia Legislature
proposes a tax of 500 for every base
ball game played in the state.
Paper is taking the place of wood
in the manufacture of lead pencils.
Gas pipes are also made of paper.
The cofin-plate of Hogarth was
stolen eal ago. sand it is believed his
skull is no longer in the grave.
The Chicago authoritiisss are deter
mined to stop the Salyatioion I'M per
tormances in the streets of In n.y..
Two tons of gold, wortt 700,
are lost every year from the Ng'ieland
tear of and personal use.
"A sexton in Plymouth, Mass. lately
deceased, dug no fewer than $3.50
graves.
Lady Burdette-C outts owns the
smallest pony In the world. He is 8
years old and 10 inches high.
There are now only eight lots of
land in the burned district Of Boston
that remain to be built upon.
1t is remarked that the average
number OF persons composing a family
in the United States is decreasing.
"A Georgia man has a hen twenty
years old caring for % large brood of lit
tie chickens of her own Matching.
The United States Navy has I,ll9
officers and 80 ships, or nearly 30 OIL
GERS to each ship.
Jay Gould is and TO be determined
to have the fastest yachtin the world If
it take a million.
Robert Toombs is the richest resi-
dent in Wilkes county, Ga, his estate
being assessed at $3.50, 600.
"A Georgian claims t o bave perfec-
ted a contrlvance for running street
cars by a quicksilver motor.
"A boy at Grass Valley, Cal, while
digging a hole, struck a valuable quartz
ledge the other day.
The duration of vitality in seeds
depends very much IN the manner In
which they are kept.
German biologists estimate that
the Dead Sea will be a mass of solid
salt a Thousand years hence.
In 1902 Daniel Webster was a
schoolmaster in FIyebury, Me. and was
paid a salary of $3.50 a year.
"A distillery has lately been put IN
operation at Charlestown, South Caro-
lima, for manufacturing oil from pine
wood.
Wheat in Western Iowa will aver
age only ten bushels to the acre, and IS
the poorest IN quality raised for many
years.
The Chinese in New York have
published an almanac. 1t looks like a
fire-cracker label, and is as large as a
barn door.
-"Pickpocket" is the only English
word adopted into the French language
which the French write and pronounce
correctly.
"A third set Of teeth Is reported re-
Gently to have been cut by Il ninety-six-
year-old colofed resident of Polk eoun
ty, Georgia.
The agricultural depression in Eng
land has most seriously decreased cleri
cal incomes, and Glebe lands have de.
preeiated from % to so per cent.
"A Piute Indian living neal Whine
mucea, New, is reported to have killed
seventy deer single-handed IN "A hunt
ing trip into the mountains recently.
The great Eastern is the champion
coal consumer in the world. She
burned 2,S77 tons of coal during a ten
days run from Liverpool to New York.
A vicar, aged so years. who recent
ly published the bans of his own mar
rage in a Dorsetshire, Eng, Church,
created a considerable sensation there
by.
"A lady 10 Logan county. KY,
sleeps two or three days and nights at a
stretch, and then remains awake for a
like period. She is now eighty years
old.