The Penn's Grove record., 1885-02-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.

gdlLleS are now az LhelE
height In New York.
There are 170,0 Doc Italians living In
the United States.
New York city derives $500, 600 a
year froEa ferry rents.
snow shoeing clubs are to be intro.
dnced in New York.
Hartford has Sl64, O57 900 invested
IN banks and Insurance.
Mary Hewitt still lives in the Tyrol;
she IS now SIS years old.
The bishopric Of London has been
offered to the bishop of Carlisle.
-Meriden, Conn, is about to invest
$4,000 or less in a city hospital.
Madrid is described as the dullest
capital in Europe tins winter.
No building has been destroyed by
Ere in Warner, N. H., since 1873.
Paper is taking the place of cedar
IN the manufacture OF lead pencils.
"A Norwich, Connecticut, pastor
wants his salary reduced 20 per cent.
The French army in Tonquin con
sumes $500 worth Of quinlne a month.
Lulu Hurst, of electric fame, Is
now giving exhibitions IN her own State.
London is now consuming water at
a rate of over 5000, 900 gallons per
day.
Fresh American oysters" is now
a familiar sign in many places in Lon
don.
There are nine American COUNTIES
ses aud marchionessess in Rome this
winter.
There is a rage for bisque dgure5 Of
all kinds, but particularly for bisque
dogs.
"A child recently died in Rye, Eng
land, of fright caused by a boy wearing
a mask.
The desire for Egyptian curlosttIes
has assumed the proportions of i craze
in London,
Two Buffalo women have been mads
crazy by the stories told them by a for
tune teller.
There are IA, 900 sheep Ia Arson,
Me-. the banner sheep raising town OF
the state.
"A farmer of Charlton county, Mo,
pays SI.29 taxes on his horses and Sl2
on his dogs.
There's are 4, 500 compositors IN Paris
and their pay averages about thirteen
cent an hour.
"A French woman who aspIres 10
dentistry is performing street operations
in Augusta, Ga.
The fall in the price Of sugar last
year saved the British public, it Is estt-
mated, $50, 900, 600.
-"The Plains" have almost disap-
peared from the greet West. Ibs Ta4
road explains II.
An owl which measured = feet
inches from tip to up was ktiled az Con
cord, \, Il, lately.
"A prisoner receaty discharged from
the Massachusetts State Prison took
away $500 in savings.
Miss Rebecca Thomas, vi Middle
boro, Vt, was born In the first hour OF
the nineteenth century.
L B. Hamlin, Of Augusta, Me,
SIS years old, enjoys skating on the ice
as well as any Of the boys.
Between 80 and 80 years was the
average age of the persons who died
last year III Dublin, n. II.
Services in the churches Of Thorn
SON, ca, nave been discontinued owing
10 the preye!eucY OF small p0z-
great revival Of business is 70
poiled ,fUm1
factory IS ruuniGf 1a fuli tine.
A Q0-year-old Fair Haven, Com,
woman ''shucks oysters with the rest OF
the girls " and beats most of them
Oranges, of California production,
are a drug in San Francisco, where they
sell for 10 cents a dozen on the streets.
1t cost more to maintain the city or
Boston, in proportion to population,
than any other city inthe United States.
There are 347 female blacksmlths
in England, all of whom swing heavy
hammers and do mems work generally.
The heaviest snowfall in a half
century's history of that place,it is sta
ted, is now lying in Jacksonville, Illi-
noIs.
The most dIminutive Shetland pony
at a New York agriculture show stands
but % inches in height, and weight only
80 pounds.
Transatlantic steamers arriving at
Boston report having encountered a Sc
ries Of gales and heavy seas the whole
way across.
Kind words prevent a good deal of
that perYerseness which rough and i'm
perious usage often produces in gent
Gus minds.
The Belgian periodical press of Il
present day comprises about $50 news
papers and magazines. There are 70
daily journals.
A Stonington man who hasn't
learned that the one million stamp offer
is a fraud has collected GO 900, and la
gathering more.
The introduction Of electric lights
into Tombstone, Arizona, which has
been agitated there for ONE time. has
been abandoned.
Seven savings banks in Conuecti-
cut have between them 500, 900 belong
ing to nobody in particular, so far as
they can ascertain.
A new orchestral club in Boston,
which gave its first concert there last
week, contains nine ladies among Us
hrst and second yiollnISts.
The acreage of grape vines in So.
nora county, Cal, which fifteen years
ago was but fifteen hundred. is now
about twenty-five thousand.
In the French military hospitals
chaplaincies have been abolished. This
aecessity Of reducing the army estl-
mates is the official explanation.
"A large number of the choicest
shops in Paris, even such as are in the
Rue de lOpera and the Rue de Riyoli,
are inlet, and few, If any, of the large
Partisan hotels are paying their expen-
seS.
What is generally taken to be a
sign of severe winter weather was late
ly perceived in Paris, namely, q numer-
GUS fight Of wild geese to the south
ward.
"A Government pensi0ner Of Edgar
town, Mass, is the fourth of his line Ia
direct descent who have drawn pensions
from the United States by reason OF
military service.