The Penn's Grove record., 1885-04-11
NUMBER SO.
NEWS IN BRIEF

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-~Cleyeland's salary will he sl37 i
day.
Watches were first constructed in
1476.
"A storm moves thirty-six miles per
hour.
The value of a ton Of silver IS $87,-
704.S4.
"A hurricane moves eighty miles per
hour.
The first iron steamship was built
in 1880.
Modern needles first came into use
in 1916.
Coaches were first built in England
in 1869.
-Venezuela has more territory than
France.
japanese laws compel fish to be
sold alive.
Illinois spent s., 1000, COZ for charity
last year.
-Pere Hyacinth is l%ecturing in San
Francisco.
Chihuahua, Mexico. is to be lighted
by electricity.
The first horse railroad was built
in 1861.
Michigan contains G9,000 people
who cannot write.
Six New York hotels have failed
since January l.
The United States contains Is, SOL
206 mich cows.
California grows large crops of the
%suceulent peanut.
Venezuelan street ears only seat Il
and are open ones.
"A Gordon fund of SIC, 600 has been
raised in England.
OF the $1,000 Indians in Dakota
10000 speak English.
The islands of Madeira are without
any wheeled vehicles.
The Kansas Legislature has four
girls among its pages.
Brigham Young's descendants
number 5000 persons.
More than. 200, 600 Americans are
wintering in Europe.
Gaming oranges is a new industry
in Florida and California.
Spain and Portugal together and
the population is 2, 121 ,000.
The railway from SuakiB to BsT-
Der will cost S35, 900 a miIe./
London has q 5000 people who live
by appearing on the stage.
There are Is, 900 New York people
on roller skates every night.
There are upwards of 81 1900 deaf
mutes in tine United States.
The Persians use assafetida as a
condiment with their food.
-Cincinnati mail bags recently
reached Berlin in eleven days.
The Argentine Republic is import
ing cattse to Improve her herds
-Georgia's cotton factories have
more orders than they can ill.
Fifteen republics of Spanish Amer
lea have exhibits at New Orleans.
One million dollars of gold coin
weigh 1855 pounds avoirdupols.
An average of'223 persons died ia
London every day Of last year.
1t costs Jay Gould about $500 for
every mile he travels in his yacht.
Nearly one-half of the American
sailing ships bear the name OF women.
Shop signs were introduced into
England during the reign OF Edward
III.
The freehold farms of New Zeal
and are estimated to be worth S170, 000,-
600.
A seyen-fOot member looks down
on the rest of the Mississippi Legisla-
ture.
Yale will have no more Junior pro-
hlenades without special consent of the
Faculty.
There are $50 tradesmen in Paris
who deal in nothing but old postage
stamps.
In Monteyideo and Buenos Ayres
all the street cars come from the United
States.
Two Oregon girls have been expel.
led from school for burning paper on
the steve.
"A tower l, 100 feet high is to be one
of the features of the next Worlds
Fair at Paris.
There are probably not more than
ten peers in London who live on their
W property.
The production of beet sugar OF
the whole world Is estimated at about
$500, 600 tons,
There are about one hundred and
sixty Mormon churches in Colorado,
Idaho and Arizona.
The manufacture OF perfumes from
grange flowers is becoming an extensive
industry in Florida.
Mrs. Senator Malone is a claimant
under the French S~p0liatjOns act to the
amount OF 100000.
The average daily consumption OF
eggs throughout the United States is
estimated at 40, 900 900.
The University press at Oxford has
appliances for printing books in $50
languages and dialects.
Chinese g~arden-truek dealers have
driven all other vegetable dealers from
the Tuscon, Ar, market.
The annual salaries Of the Senators
IN Congress aggregate 1886, 900; for
Representatives. u, sos, 600.
One quarter Of the women in Ger
many are lab0rers, and they do about
three-quarters Of the work too.
The root Of the burdock has been
introduced into France as a vegetable.
1t is said to resemble satisfy in flavor.
The German Parliament is made
up of 1877 Roman Catholics, 253 Profess
tants, two Jews and four free. thinkers.
Missouri has a law prohibiting the
State officials and the members of the
Legislature from accepting railway pass
ses.
OF the go Illuminating factories
started in Europe during the present
century 26l have been destroyed by ex-
plosiOn.
Scarlet fever has become epidemic
in Scotch Plains, Union county, N. j.,
and, 10 consequence, all the schools
have been closed.
There are twelve millions OF acres
Of uncultivated land in New York
State, Of which FIVE million acres are
covered with forests.
The Russian province of Viatka
produces n 00, 1000 pounds OF tar, s.