The Penn's Grove record., 1885-06-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Great Britain has tUu,OD more 70
males than males.
The actual membership Of the Nor.
mon church is T9,SS3.
Forest fires are raging in severe
parts Of Massachusetts.
Base ball clubs are being organized
throughout the country.
One ostrich egg makes a good pan
cake meal for three men,
There are nineteen metals that are
worth about 81, 900 a pound.
Tennessee farmers are at least on,
moBth behind in their work.
-Pitsburg has a hose brigade which
assists in cleaning the streets.
-One-ffth Of the whole population
Of Switzerland is in the schools.
New South Wales contains NOR,
lowering plants than all Europe.
"A silver mine IS reported to have
been discovered in Hudson, n. II.
Pneumonia caused nearly a fifth o.
the deaths in Boston during March.
There are 100 college papers in ths
United States and o in Germany.
-Grasshoppers are creating terrible
havoc among the crops in California.
Abraham Lincoln's largest fee as a
lawyer was s., 600 in a railroad case.
France is now getting large sup,
plies Of canned frogs from the country.
The Penobscot River is now open,
after having been closed four months,
Early frnit and vegetables IN Mis-.
I sissippi have been destroyed by a heavy
freeze.
This country controls three. quart.
ers of the eorn-felds of the whole
world.
An epidemic of sore throat known
as tonsilitIs prevails in Newark, New
Jersey.
Not for ten years, it is said, were
shad so cheap in New York as they were
recently.
Rev. Won Schleumbach, the great
German r%eviyalist, IS visiting friends in
the South.
Experiments are being made In the
manufacture Of ammonia from the nj
trogen of coal.
An inventor i'll New Haven has
been toiling for thirty years over perpetr
ual motion.
The value of wood used annually
in cooperage in the United States il
S33, ia, 10.
English papers announce that r.
Wings last trip to America nettea him
about $3.50. 600.
More thantwo.thirdso of Nashville's
wholesale liquor dealers, it is stated, ars
church members.
There are twenty persons whose
riffs to American colleges aggregate
over $23, 00O, 600.
-ButternUt wood is largely used for
making shoes to wear in breweries and
other damp places.
Portland, Ne. has a colored woman
"a years old, who supports herself by
taking in washing.
-Archduchess Maria Theresa, Of
Austria, is learning to make jewelry in
a Tyrolese workshop.
An American Philistine has built
himself a house on the topnost peak OF
biblical Mount Carmel.
"A malady, which is proving re.
markedly fatal has broken out among
he horses in MOOrestown, n. J.
-Advices from Calcntta report that
The tea and indigo dist lets in India are
suffering severely from drought.
Mrs Burnett, the daughter of Jas.
Russell Lowell, will preside over his
home after his return TO America.
There are $50 periodicals printed
in the different native languages in In
dia, and about 10000 copies in all.
The Portland Oreqonian says it is
thought the run of salmon In the Co.
lumbia River tins year will be hight.
Statistics show that in Marsachu-
sets pneumonia has, since 1857, grown
almost twice as fast as the population.
The land Of Holland is cultivated
by l45, 694 persons, of whom sixty per
cent. are owner of their own holdings.
Every Mussulman who makes a pill
gTimage to Mecca is hoGored during the
remainder of his life by the title OF
Iadji.
Dom Pedro, the emperor of Brazil,
has reigned for ifty-three transformer
than any other living sovereign, He
was but six years Old when called TO the
throne.
Queen Marguerite, of Italy, con,
verses iuently inthe language of almost
every stranger who visits the Italian
court.
Albuquerque, n. NJ, has a jail of
adobe walls, through which. it is said,
prisoners can push holes with a broom
handle,
Will boring an artesian well in
Buffalo Bluff, Fla, recently, the drill
PASSED through a cypress tree at a depth
Of 60 feet.
Queen VIctoria's only surviving
aunt, : e Duchess of Cambridge, has
not b n outside Of st. James Palace
for f5er twenty years.
A tanned bulls hide, addressed TO
p Brooklyn woman, was received at the
posJ-ufice in that city recently. 1t came
by mail from Dakota.
In one county in Alabama mad
dogs were so numerous recently that
The schools were obliged To supend lest
The pupils should be bitten while
abroad.
1t is computed that $50, 900 people
70 into London by rail every dag to
earn their livelihood, and leave it at
night, and yet an accident rarely oc.
ours.
Whales have become remarkably
numerous of late IN the vicinity of
\Iorehead, n. c., two large ones having
been caught there during the past
month.
"A long-haired elephant. larger and
nore perfect than any specimen hith-
.rto secured, is reported 10 have been
ext ;ated from the ice at The mouth of
tLe Lena Delta.
The japanese Government is max
ing copper coin out of the hundreds OF
I'D lannon's that have been sent to the
Oska Mint for the purpose.
The wine making industry in Ham.
m~ondsport, n. Y, IS rapidly increasing
another company having decided to 10.
cate there with a plant costing S25, 900.
Sir Justin Aylmer, the heir TO an