The Penn's Grove record., 1885-05-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-NleaT britain has vO,OD more 10
males than males.
FL Mahdi was q 1ogJ builder before
he became a prophet.
Victoria, British Columbia, claim,
a population Of 1900.
"A Vermont individual Gains to
have a hen 80 years old.
The horse, says a writer, cannot
jump more than y feet.
Minnie Hauk has bought a chateaa
near Basic, Switzerland.
The United States sends four irOa
bridges a month to Brazil.
France paid $50. g00 for the destrUc
ton of I,305 wolves in lsS4.
The kindergarten system was first
practiced in Germany in 1S49.
Over Il 1000, 600 pounds of dynamite
are made IN the United States.
The Hawaiian kingdom spends S7s,'
600 "a year for its public schools.
General Villas made $50 new post.
matters for his first months work.
England and France find it difficult
work 10 civilize the barbar0us nations,
Henry VI. Stanley hopes to visit the
United States at the end Of this month.
Germany manufactured 1877, O0O, 900
cigarettes last year and France 100000.
600.
The jails and penitentiaries Of the
United States contain over 1000 Grim.
malls.
The freehold farms Of New Zeal
and are estimated to be worth $40, 600.
900.
1t is estimated that 7,OOO.O 900 ser
mons are annually preached to Ameri-
cans.
For tropical fruit 81, 74j, 357 was
paid at the port Of New York during
1888
-Canada's 100 cheese factories pro-
duce So, ZOO pounds of cheese q
year. ~.
Thirty Thousand people in Paris are
Engaged in the manufacture Of artificial
flowers.
Japan has now 10000 common
schools, 5000, 600 pupils and 81 TOO
teachers.
London has %, 200 people who get
their living by appearing in public on
the stage.
Operators in the jute factories OF
Dundee, Scotland, get only Sl.62 to
81. 40 a week.
-Piute Indians are proving success.
full farmers Oh the Pyramid Reservation
in Nevada.
Physicians say that about IA per
cent of all school-children suffer from
headaches.
About 1,250, 900 cat-skins are used
annually by turner's, and about $4,000
skunk-skins.
"A belt Of solid salt s. feet thick
has been discovered on a farm near East
Aurora, n. Y.
An English clergyman recently
performed 10S baptisms and 9 marriages
on ont Sunday.
Indians have killed 1900 deer in a
single county in Wyoming during the
winter of 1885
The thousand Of finger rings worn
i'll this country are estimated to be
worth SOS, 600, 600.
-One-half of the orange crop of
Florida is raised within a radius of "a
miles around Ocala.
The Government Of Montana Ter.
ritory paid S12, 900 last year IN bounties
for scalps of wild animals.
-Thelargest vineyard in the world is
in California and contains between g.
900 900 and 1000, 900 vines.
The care and maintenance of the
White-hOuse grounds and greenhouses
costs $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
The number of farmers in the
Pennsylvania Legislature is said to be
decreasing from year to year.
Some genius has invented a fishing
rod that registers the precise number
and weight of the fishes caught.
Coal mining machines capable OF
doing the work Of twenty men are being
introduced III the Panhandle mines.
Patent medicines are estimated by
a leading English medical Journal to
cause the death of $50, 900 persons pei
{ year.
The farmers of Oregon will SOW a
larger acreage or wheat this year than
| last, and are o busy in all portions Of
the State,
"A bill has been passed by the Texas
Senate requiring railroad companies to
give thirty days notice of a reduction
in wages.
The experiment of ostrich farming
now being tried in California, is likely
to prove a success, according to reports
from there.
In 40 years the mean duration Of
human life in England has gained =
years among males and nearly - years
among females.
A courtship that has covered a pc.
riod of thirty-one years, is said to be
still tenderly pursuing its rosy way in
Stratford, Conn.
"A Parliamentary return shows that
in four years So men in the ranks of the
British Army have been promoted TO be
| commissioned officers.
About hundred marriages between
Christian and Chinese couples are re-
ported as having taken place In the San
Francisco Mission Chapel.
American railroad securities are
the only investments IN the London
market that are not suffering from the
scare of a wan with Russia.
The total Of the enrolled volun-
teers in Great Britain at the present
time is announced as 2l5,O0O men, the
/ greatest number yet attained.
The crews of the New Jersey life.
saving stations say that the weather OF
last month was the most severe they
ever experienced along the coast.
The newspapersand periodicals now
published in the United States and Ca.
NADIA number 10, 402, an increase of l 500
in the last year, and of 5,6lS in the last
decade.
"A chicken with four legs is exciting
no little Curiosity in Orange City, Fla,
where 1t is walking around as hale and
hearty as any other member Of the
feathered tribe
The Hon. jeff St0rts, member OF
the Missouri Legislature from Shannon
county, is credited with an intention 10
introduce a bill compelling eircusses to
Il, "a ttav a1 yarf TgH