The Penn's Grove record., 1885-07-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

railway.
Three Georgia weeklies are edited
by ladies.
Southern prisons contain $4,000
convicts.
Idaho VIII build a capitol at a cost
OF $1,000.
-Camels sometimes live to the age
of 100 years.
Drivers in Paris are very cruel to
their horses.
-Tneendiarism appears TO be On the
increase.
Minneapolis charges 81 900 for a
circus license.
Fully 1000 Mormons settled ia
Arizona last year.
"A gas well is 1900 feet down
through Milan, o.
There's good slelghing yet in the
Michigan woods,
Louis XIV throne has been sold
at auction for G260.
As many as 20 fire engines attenda
large fire in London.
Leather wheels are made in Francs
for railway carriages.
Last year 333, 629, 500 one cent pos
tai cards were issued.
The wheat crop of Italy amounted
to ia, 600 600 bushels.
"A wholesale dog poisoning is in
progress in Richmond, Ind.
burning charcoal is a leading in
dustry in North Alabama.
New York is suffering with an epi-
demic Of amateur theatrieal5.
Omaha, Neb., claims to be the best
paved city III the United States.
Grant will get better now One of
his doctors has gone to Europe.
"A gypsy dance was a brilliant feat
ure of the Ktrmess in Baltimore.
The number of colleges in the
United States is set down at 80.
DR.. Glenn, the California wheat
king, is said to be worth g, 000, 900.
Paper is now used in the manufac-
ture of lead pencils instead OF cedar.
Germany contemplates a or and ex-
hibltlon of German industry in 1888.
Many white people p~atronize the
Chinese theatres III Californian cities.
Mark Twain's "reading" tour is
said to have netted him nearly $4,000.
No more Struggling" matches are
to be permitted in Stockton, Califor-
mia.
Vienna has ten times as many doc
tors IN proportion to population as Lon
don.
The manufacture of broom corn
toMhpicks is a growing Kansas indus
Try.
An offer of 5000 0 has been made
for a copyright of General Gordon's dI-
airy.
A Leetonia, o., citizen is GONZALES
cling from having been walked on by. a
mule.
1t is said that William Il, Wander
bilt has not used tobacco for thirty
years.
The interest bearing national debt
of Great Britain in 1884 was 5 ,20e,-
003, 900.
in 1884 CO. 00, 900 gallons of water
were used in extingulshing fires in
London.
1t is stated that Queen Victoria
has arranged to visit Ireland next
autumn.
A statue of Garfield, to be erected
at San Francisco, has beeD cast at MI
remberg.
Steel nails are destined to super.
sede the use of the ordinary nail in a
few years.
"A natural ice cave is reported to
exist 80 miles east of Fall River Valley
in California.
The electric light is to be used on
all trains running through the st. Goth
ard tunnel.
Out of the word ''incomprehensi-
bility'' a Connecticut lady made 2,249
different words.
Earthquakes in North japan are
more numerous and severe In winter
than in SUMMER.
The Manufacture of artificial ivory
from bones and scraps of sheepskln ia
a new industry.
The Earl of Selkirk, who died very
rich lately, left a years salary to all
employed on his estate.
Extensive forest fires are raging in
Campton, n. H., and much pine lum-
Der has been destroyed.
Russian exports to England
amount to e one million pounds for
the first quarter of 1885.
Even in Dakota the farmers are
growing tired of grain farming and
advocate mixed ~husbandry.
Youths under 90 years of age are
not permitted to carry dangerous wea-
pons under Nevada's laws.
The stealing of a whole saloon out.
tt was the offense with which a mar
was recently charged in P~ittsbuIg.
-Rowdyism on the river Thames is
decreasing, owing TO the employment
of an increased number of police boats.
One of the best Latin and Greek
scholars IN Athens, Ga, is working for
seventy cents per day sodding some
land.
"A steamboat propelled by a kero'
sene engine has been licensed to u OF
the st. Johns river and other FloridS
waters.
"A street railway probably the only
International one in the world connect
Paso del Norte, Mex, with lei Paso,
Texas.
Natural gas has been discovered in
Nagasema-gori, Chm ken, Japan Elk
perIments made showed that it burned
brightly.
"A par Of English sparrows have
built their nest within The glass shade
of one Of the electric lights in Bridge
port, Conn.
English hahsom cabs have been in
troduced into St. Louis, and are ex'
pected 10 revolutionize the transit bust
ness Of that city.
"A convict recently pardoned from
the san Quentin (CaL.) prison is repof
ted to have fallen heir to three quarters
of a million dollars.
Numerous works 10y Leonardo da
Vinci are in the possession of the Ital-
ian government, and are to be published
at the States expense
Females won this year all the prizes
given by the University Of Mississippi,
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