The Penn's Grove record., 1885-07-25
NUMBER 81
NEWS IN BRIEF.

~ thh-AlACo9a At 10 c9-NA NtA8 10 VA
l~uestIOnably decreasing in England.
Over one hundred thousand persons
pay taxes on real estate in New York.
Female telegraph operators in Ger
many receive $40 a year with nc vaca
ton.
The largest tree ia the world Is 4
chestnut tree near the foot Of Mount
Htna.
Threats Of lyncbing are driving
Mormon missionaries rapidly out Of
Tennessee.
-Leprosy among the Chinese p0pula
ton Of British Columbia IS causing
great alarm,
"A couple, aged 70 and Y years re
spectively, were married neal Clarks-
dale, La, recently.
A plan is on foot in North Carroll
"a to drain the swamp lands Of the
State by convict labor.
The first Swedish lodge Of Odd
Fellows was recently instituted at Malm
and named ''Scania."
Lead from a pump chain poisoned
3 well in L~yndOnville, Vt, and caused
the death of a child.
1t is estimated that the Nebraska
wheat crop will be in excess Of 10000,
600 bushels this year.
"A hot spring, which emits steam
and sulphuric yapor, has been discoy
cred at Osyka, Miss.
Lincoln county, Tenn, boasts OF a
woman-Betty Frantham-Wbo is re-
puted to be 149 years old.
No less than twenty three architects
have submitted plans for the new public
library building in Boston.
"A society IN New York city beaded
by Father J. j. Kean, has for its object
the eradication of profanity.
"A farmer was robbed on the way 10
his home in Rehoboth, r. l., recently.
even his false teeth being taken
The elephant Emperor, nearly as
tall As Jumbo, went for $500, it is n
ported, at a recent auction in England
Twenty-Five English and seven Ital-
ian, French and German opera cOmpa-
MES, It is said. are in the field Jbis sea
son.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
has Hinety-seven conferences and in
cIudes $4,000 clergy and 1920, 900 mem-
bers.
Property owners il springfield,
Mass, are considerably agitated over an
advance of fifty per cent. in the insuT-
ance rates.
The annual consumption OF lmpOT-
ted and domestic cigars is sixty to every
man, 3ma and child in the United
States.
The valuation Of Dakota has
nearly doubled in two years. In 1882
it was $47, 900, o00, and is now over $50,
coo, 600.
Indiana has no less than two hun
bred and six coal mines, which produce
annually two ana one-half million tons
of coal.
"A Virginia walnut tree was re-
Gently sold for $500. 1t was SO big that
the purchasers made money by the
transaction.
"A divorce is wanted by a 325-pound
Waterbury, Conn, nan on the ground
that his wife beats him with stoVe-lids
and filters.
The English Postmaster General
says the condition of the English work
ingman has not been improved during
the past so years.
Los Angeles, Cal. boasts Of a dog
which eyinces sucn a great appetite for
honey that BE rOb5 hives whenever OPP
portunity offers.
Georgia, it is said has enough water
power to supply 10000 times as many
mills and factories as are now IN opera
ton in that State.
Since the development of tree cul-
ture, the forests Of Europe have in
creased from one-sixth TO one-dfth of
the entire territory.
Anthony Thompson, one OF the last
of the old New Jersey slaves, died Ia
West Orange, a few days ago. He "a
born at Raritan, In 1898.
The crematory planned for Chicago
is to cost about $25 900 and is to have
three retorts, one for men, one for wo-
men and one for children.
There were l .664 pictures exhibited
in the Royal Academy this year, of
which 203 have been sold at prices rang
ing from a guinea to 81, 900.
The faces of all the guests at a lawn
party in Newport recently, were discol-
ored by a practical joker who put salt
on the carbons Of the electric lights.
"A ring was stolen from a jewelry
store in Sanford, Fla, recently, and
after some search, was found to have
been taken by a pet squirrel.
Leaks in natural gas mains stllls
continue to occur in Allegheny. One
took place there a few days ago, the es-
Gaping gas being lighted by small boys.
The Government of Canada has
recently tai en- a census of the Indians
living within the Dominion and find
their number to be in excess of los,
600.
The lance is to be banished from
the Australian army under a recent
general military order, by which the
Laneers will be transformed into light
cavalry.
An immense anti-Chinese mass
meeting was held lately at Tacoma, w.
T., to take measures to exclude China
men from Tacoma and the entire Ter
ritory.
The two Islands OF the Straits of
Sunda, Steers and Calmeyer. which
sprang mp last year at the time OF the
kTakatoa eruption, have again been
swallowed up By the sea.
A three year old boy in MiddleseX
county, N, j., was playing with a guam
Lily Of lima beSns the other day, and III
some way got one OF them in his throat,
which caused his death within twelve
hours.
"A juror, aged 50 years, in attending
Court recently at Monticello, the county
seat of Sullivan county, \. Y, said 1t
was his first visit 30 the county seat,
though he had always lived in the
county.
Blank prescriptions signed by al
Atlanta doctor are sold for a small sum
in Gainesville, Ca, to parties wanting
a drink Of the forbidden juice OF the
corn, and drug stores are centres Of Ak
Filtration.
The town han at North Easton,
Mass, is among the''ten finest buildings
la this country, rs settled by a majority
vote taken by the Aatsricda Architect.
but the Philadelphia new City Hall is
not in the list