The Penn's Grove record., 1885-04-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.
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rheumatism.
Chicago invested S45, 200, 600 Ia
real estate III 1884.
San Diego, Cal, exported /, 1O8, 900
pounds Of fish last year.
Australia has four universities
equal to Yale or Harvard.
st. Paul Masons are about to erect
a temple to cost $3.50, 600.
-Sixty-four women eugrayers earn
their livelihood in England.
Sugar is reported to be selling ae
two cents a pound in Cuba.
Helena, NJ T., has acalf 10 months
old that weighs $50 pounds.
The annual revenue of the British
government is 9210, O00, 900.
Anthracite has been ~discovereu Ia
new hnd) near ella Bend, A, T.
Cincinnati people are buying tall
old clocks, just to have them.
Rabbits damage Australia to the
extent Of $40, coo, 900 per year.
Farm rents in England have de-
clined six per cent. in five years.
There are 600 professional beauties
in London who don't work at all.
There are 452 women editors IN
England and 300 photographers.
American steam brakes are used
by French and English railroads.
Good butter is selling for III cents
a pound in Napa City, California,
Every member of the Texas Land
Board is said to favor its abolition.
One town in North Carolina ship
ped last year 103 900 600 cigarettes.
San Francisco has 1000 Chinese
children Ineligible to public schools,
Not a solitary young mar in Ogle-
thorpe, Ga, it is said, ehews tobacco.
Kit Carson's monument at Santa
Fe is to be unveiled on Decoration Day.
Farmers near Fresno, Cal, are
marketing green orn and strawberries.
in Baltimore recently, 100, 900
cases of canned corn were sold in one
day.
"A Massachusetts physician has m-
duced forty young men to stop smOk-
ing.
There are 558 persons engaged In
the Postoflce Department in Washing
ton.
There are 1l2, 995 English school
teachers, nearly all of whom are spins
ters.
Berlin expects a visit from Sitting
Bull and ten other Indians next sum
mer.
There were 1888 ~postofices estab-
lished last year, aud l,G21 were discon-
tinued.
"A pearl has been found on the
western Australian coast valued at
$4,000.
"A gentleman of Rockingham, N.
c., has a palr of elks that he drives to
a buggy.
An astronomer in Kendall, Or, as
serts that the moon is a semi-transpar-
ent body.
-Buffalo's Music Hall. which was
destroyed by fire a week or 50 ago, is to
be rebuilt.
The dber of the hop vim is substi-
tuted for rags by French paper anu
factuTers.
Nearly 81, 900, 900 worth of print
ing ink is used in the United States.
every year.
"A reversible boot, which may bo
worn indIffere ntly on either foot, has
been patented.
Ten thousand five hundred women
bind English books and 1902 assist in
printing them.
The number OF postotices robbed
last year was 467, while 81 others were
destroyed by fire.
There were 468 postmasters who
died last year, while there were 705 who
were suspended.
Winnipeg, Man, has 9l2 trading
establishments, doing al annual bust,
ness of 5 %, 600, 600.
The number of farmers in State
Legislature is said to be decreasing
from year to year.
The number Of postal notes issued
last year wa 1859, 237, amounting III
money to san, 992 As.
A parrot, seventy-ive years old.
still spry and a great talker, is the pride
of Mauch Chunk, Pa.
The record for 1884 shows losses in
the United States and Canada to the
extent of SIP, 900 600.
BY a small majority the Trustee Of
the British Museum have decided ia
favor of Sunday opening.
There were 1,450, 76S, 400 ordinary
postage stamps sold last year, the value
of which was S20,077 ,444.
Lincoln County, Ga, will charge
$1,000 for liquor licenses on and after
the LIST of next October.
The people of GlenwoOd Springs
Col, have not seen the sun for a month
owing to the constant rains.
The son of an English peer, it IL
stated, is employed as a c~ar,staTter at
the Union Depot, in Pittsburg.
There are 90, 1873 women nailmakers
in England. The nails are used in fas-
tening h~orseshoes in place.
The free delivery system is now ia
operation in 1853 cities III the United
States, employing $500 carriers.
Statistics are cited to show that
there is one divorce for every sixteen
marriages in the State of Ohio.
There are in this country at pres
ent, according to estimates, very nearly,
if not fully, $4,000 skating Kinks.
There are 16, 600, 600 school chill
dren in the United States, 10000. 900 Of
whom are enrolled in the public schools.
The largest sum ever accumulated
in one body is said to be the $500, 600,
600 now in the United States Treasury.
just sixteen years ago the interest
on the national debt amounted Sl43,-
OO0, 900 a year. II is now SOS, 600, 600
George o., a famous Maine horse,
for which $4,000 was the price recently
refused by the owner, died the other
day.
"A cent Of 1904, uncirculated and
perfectly bright in its cotton packed
box sold recently in New York for $500,
it is stated.
The death of his grandchild, which
occurred a few days ago, so affected a
male resident Of Newport, r. l., as to
cause his death.