The Penn's Grove record., 1885-10-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The widow of Santa Anna is still
living in Mexico.
-Croton water is purified by keeping
fish in the reservoirs.
Germany is fitting out four Arctic
exploration expeditions.
Most German army officers, it IS
reported, wear corsets.
Silver is scarcer than gold IN the
Nevada mining camps.
One and two dollar bills bring a
premium in New York.
Semi military discipline is to be IN
troduced at Vassar College.
A Rochester druggist has construc-
ted a safety jar for morphine.
The estimated losses by the cyclone
at Charleston foot up 81 500 900.
Cotton seed hulls are made into
kindling in an Alabama factory.
-Thes pire of st. Patrick's Cathedral,
New York, is to be $50 feet high.
The new postal cards will cost the
Government S47.71 per thousand.
-BoswoTth battle ield is cut into
quarters by a canal and a railroad.
AT least one ton of gold is buried
in the graves OF the dead every year.
The product of the mines of Boil
via is estimated at 10, ZOO, 900 ounces
Political gossips in Europe have it
that Italy is preparing to seize Tripoli.
According to a late estimate there
are 200, 900 Adventists in the United
States.
Within the last twenty-five years Al
daily newspapers have died IN New
York.
The manufacture of roller skates
employs thirty thousand hands in this
country.
The City of New York, 1t is esti-
mated, has at present no fewer than 400
m~illionaires.
The Bolivian government Ievies a
tax of four siXths for each ounce of
silver mined.
The ore output of Leadville for
July reached 1000 tons a day for every
working day.
The weight of 1000, 600 dollar bills
in greenbacks is within a fraction of
2,S4l pounds,
The Woman's National Industrial
League has decided that Chinese laun-
dries must go.
The circulation of all New York
papers is steadily falling away in the
West and South.
The payroll of the Comstock
mines for the month of July will be not
far from S115.0
The output of the mineral products
of the United States in 1884 was val.
ued at S403, l04. 1920.
-Adolph Sutro, the millionaire, is
about to establish a free scientific library
in San Francisco.
The Chicago bankers and moneyed
men are unanimously opposed to fur
Their coinage of silver.
Attempts to introduce American
brook trout INTO English waters have
not met with success.
The depression of the coal trade liz
South Wales Is so serious that nearly
10000 men are affected by it.
Fire has not left the hearthstone of
one farmer in Georgia since it was KIN
died with flint and steel in 1912.
The total number of self-supporting
women and girls over ten years of age,
in New York State, is 2,647, l57.
"A New York lawyer says he would
have no trouble in getting 1000 men in
that city to swear falsely IN a case.
The death is reported of Sultan
Abdul Munln of Brunch, in the island
of BOTneo, at the age of 14l years.
AN average of 15,673 letters for
every working day are received at the
Dead Letter Office in Washington.
1t is said that $50 farms in Iowa
are owned by women, and that twenty
dairy farms are managed by women.
The bones of Pizarro lie in the Lii
ma Cathedral, "a building that was fin
ished in 1910 and cost nine millions.
The ''brother-in-law is the Chicago
name for the bogus bell punch employed
in beating the street car companies.
The popular superstition that an
ostrich ever lays but one egg, and
drops that anywhere upon the sand, is
nonsense.
The ruins of Hierapolis, in the
Delta of Egypt, one above inundation,
are now beneath a deposit of seven feet
of mud.
The American Bible society ex
ponds Sl5, 600 year in translating pub
fishing and distributing the Bible in
foreign lands.
The people of Boston place great
confidence IN their newspaper n1en.
Twenty of them hold State and NUM-
cipal offices.
Fifteen hundred telephone lnstru-
ments IN Butfaloare supplied from cleo
tricity made by the water power of
Niagara Falls.
The stenngraphers in Buffalo as
sembled have decided that a speed OF
$50 words per minute Is unattainable
and undesirable.
The Australian authorities have es-
tablished offices where all patent medi.
cines intended to be offered for sale in
the country must be tested.
Mo ethan fifteen firms manufactur
in - a. aling in erOquet goods have
gone out of the business within two
years. The game is dead.
When potatoes were first intro
duced Into Connecticut it was held that
il a la ate them every day be could
not live beyond seven years.
Statistics furnished by the Cincin
natl Chamber of Commerce for the past
fifty years show that the average rain
fall is gradually decreasing.
The laws or prc pr1ery are so rigo.
rously strict in Mexico Jhat a man may
not ride IN the same carriage with the
lady to whom he is betrotned.