The Penn's Grove record., 1885-02-14
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NEWS IN BRIEF.

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The genuine silver dollar OF 1904
is worth $500.
Stealing door plates is the latest
mania IN Boston.
Nearly 1000 900 children die every
year In Russia.
Frau MaJerua is suffering from =
sprained ankle.
The salary Of the Viceroy of India
is SIPS. 600 a year.
Berlin has 1927 physicians, or one
to every 1880 inhabitants.
Germans make the most delicate
watch wheels Of paper pulp.
Frederick Douglass is believed u
To be worth at least Sl50,0O0
There are 1852 women mission
aries and preachers in England.
Hereafter the New York Star will
show its light but once q week.
The newest craze is to collect every
kind and shape Of parlor lamps.
Several Western Railroads have
stopped the sale Of mIIiage tickets.
yale is discussing the ACCESSIBILITY
Of founding a cooperative society.
The number of men employed on
the Panama Canal works is 1900.
The United States used LOO, 600
tons Of sugar during the year 1884.
Counterfeit silver quarters, bearing
date 1871, are plentiful IN Brooklyn.
The United States uses three times
as much paint as any other country.
The Harvard DIVINITY School has
seven professors and eleven students.
The United States is the third silk
manufacturing country IN the world.
The highest priced pew in Grace
Church, New York, is $1,000 per year,
The wages Of the British iron work
ers were reduced 30 per cent. in 1884.
There are 600 professional beau
ties IL London who don't work at all.
1t is a wise woman that knows her
own sealskin sacque from dyed beaver.
Vermont school teachers are pro,
hIbited by law from the use Of tobac-
co.
There are 453 women editors Ia
England and 800 female photograph.
ers.
-Ihere are eleven million horses ia
the United States, one to every five per
sons.
Locomotive that cost Sl5, 900 apiece
a year ago a be bought for 5000
each.
The United States is the Lhird Lar
gest beer producing country IN the
world.
There are rs, 995 English school
teachers, nearly all Of whom are spins
tiers.
In New York and London musical
circles the ''See,Saw" waltz is the
craze.
The United States contains three,
quarters Of the coal fields Of tho whole
world.
In some parts Of Germany paper is
now used In the manufacture Of lead
pencils.
1t may become necessary to quar-
antlne against those foreign earth.
quake5.
A pearl has been found on tho
Western Australian coast valued al
$4,000.
A war ON billboard displays Of Oh
~iectionaOle posters has opened in New
York City.
AS an outcome of the hard times,
no shut down of a brewery has yet been
reported.
Foreign students in Paris complain
of Determinations ana being treated "a
intruders.
Wachtel, the once famous tenor, has
tardily followed his voice and retired
from the stage.
The poor of Paris are now crying
for bread. They may soon be clamor-
ing for blood.
Out of Italy's twenty-nma million
inhabitants only one million subscribe
to newspapers.
The Nihilists In Russia continue
busy enough to keep the procession u
Siberia moving.
-Windsor's great park costs the
Queen Sl25, 600 a year and brings in
rentals of $4,000,
A twenty-six pound mountain
trout, forty-seYen inches long, Is on e1-
hibition in Denver.
There are sixteen locomotive works
in the United States, aside from shops
owned by railroads.
Two Boston houses send about
100000 gallons OF rum to the Congo
district every year.
The Lights o. London" are $780,
600 gas jets. consuming nightly l3,000,-
900 cubic feet Of gas.
"A Norwich, Conn, lady has a ba-
mana plant on which several bananas
are now ripening.
In London 149 tons Of chloride OF
lime are daily used for the deodOrizIng
Of the sewer outlets.
1t Is said that Miss Mackey will
never permit her Italian Count to 60
into the peanut business.
The four million and odd farms in
this country are estimated at a total
value Of $40, 1877, 096, 776.
-Minnesota's assessed property val
uation has increased 50 per cent. since
1870, being now yer $500, GOO, 900,
-Cleopatra's needle, in Central Park,
n. Y, is gradually crumbling away, 1t
is said, owing to climatic influences.
A newly married couple at Bangor,
Maine, were So bashful that they would
not allow the event TO be published ia
the papers
Twelve thousand invitations Will
be sent out for the Presidential inaug.
uratiou ball. But the recipients viii
10 all attend.
Nearly 5000 new books were pub
lished IN England last year, oue-sixth
Of the whole number being on theolOg
J zeal subjects, Ats were novels.
Policemen IN Detroit can no Ion
ger receive rewards, the commissioners
being determined to make the health
and life fund Of the department the re
! cipieut hereafter.
James j. Perm, Treasurer Of the
School Board of Lafayette. Ind, has
presented the city with a library con
tanning over 10, 900 Volumes OF carefully
| selected books.
Floating sawmills are common ON
the lower Mississippi. They PICK up
the drifting logs, turn them into lum