The Penn's Grove record., 1885-07-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Italy bas 4 800, 900 lemon tees.

"a IA llt5IlAE eh.l'#AE 4 tLA-DAAL
fish dealers.
There are 10000 trees IN the streets
Of WashiugtO
British postal savings banks have
1928 Sos, s65 on deposit.
The fortune Of the Marquis Of
Ripon is $500, 900 a year.
Good crops and prosperous mining
operations are reported from Arizona.
"A marked falling off in the CON
sumption o. alligator skin leather is
reported.
The United States now furnishes
one-half Of the worlds supply of gold
aud silver.
-Whoopiug cough is on the rampage
in Tallahassee, Fla, but no deaths are
reported yet.
Irwin, Penn, boasts Of aone-armed
bicycllst, and Chicago claims a bIcyclist
with a cork leg.
1t is claimed the experiment OF
making black glass from shale has pro-
ven successful.
Nearly forty mine million dollars
are on deposit IN the savings banks of
New Hampshire.
1t IS expected that river fire boats
will soon be added to the fire depart
ment Of Chicago.
Passengers by the overland route to
Portland from san Francisco make the
trip now in about 80 hours.
A zee stung a little New Orleans
girl recently IN the ball of the eye, com
pletely destroying the sight.
Iowa has 800 cattle to the square
mile, a larger number, it is said, than
any other State in the country.
Only about One-siyth Of the couu-
ties IN Georgia, it is said, have failed to
adopt either prohibition or high license.
Ants are said to guide well diggers
IN selecting spots in Dakota, as the lit
tie tollers themselves build over water
veins.
"A resident Of Geddes, Onondaga
county, \. Y. is reported to have sold
his wife for live dollars, saying he ''Was
hard up"
Surgeon from Lake Ontaro are
said I've manufactured into ''smOked
halibut' to as great au extent as the
real article.
Loo owood. said to be indigenous to
Nevada. is relished by horses, and brings
on a species Of mild insanity which
lasts some days.
Nine Brooklyn saloon-keepers, who
were charged with selling on Sunday,
surrendered their licenses recently
rather than stand trial.
During all seasons Of the year, it is
said, the earth ut Yakutsk, Siberia. is
frozen at from the depth CT fifty Feet to
that of about 1000 feet.
New Bedford, Mass, carpenters
shingled one side Of the roof Of a house
before they discovered they We're work
ing on the wrong building.
-Baldheaded men are so Numerous
in Chicago that an audience in that city
Is said to look, when viewed from above,
like a cobble-stoue pavement.
"A teller in a Providence bank was
a few days ago to be made cashier, hut
instead languished in jail for being a
defaulter in the sum. of So, 900.
The die from which the Franklin
cent was made is now used, the n. =.
Tribune says, as a paper-weight in a
hardware house IN New Haven.
The Kentucky State Prison con-
tains rs prisoners sentenced for life
terms. This, it is said, is the largest
number IN any prison III the country.
"A pair of steel boiler heads, l02 iu-
ehes in diameter and one-half inch
thick, were rolled at the Spang Steel
and Iron Works, Pittsburg, recently.
Michigan holds the championship
of the union as a shingling manufact-
uring State. From 1,649 establish
ments , ,584, III 900 are made per an.
mum.
A roller rink proprietor, ia whose
establishment in Chicago a girl was So.
riously injured a short time ago, has
paid over to her parents $1,000 as dam
ages.
Not a single lire that required the
services of the tiremen has occurred in
Pittsburg for one week, an incident
that has not occurred there before for
years.
OF the long roll of English soyer-
eigns, only nine have surpassed Queen
Victoria in longevity, and only three
have occupied the throne longer than
she has.
The degree Of doctor Of laws which
the University of Chill BIZ. Just con
ferred On Or. Logan, our Minister at
Santiago, is the first it has eyer gwen u
a foreigner.
Fires have been discovered on two
different British wal vessels at BeTmu-
da, recently, and the authorities are
said to ascribe them both to the agency
of dynamiteTs.
"A scheme IS being agitated in Pitts
burg to create the Office of purchasing
agent, the duties of which shall be the
buying of the supplies for the various
city departments.
"A meteor, which appeared to be
about the size Of a -four barrel, was
seen flying through the air recently by
several residents of Sherman and Me
Kinney, Texas.
"A colored man, residing in Little
Rock, Arkansas, studied law while in
business as a shoe dealer, was admitted
to the bar and has nov been elected a
police justice.
Mosquitoes have put in an unusual
appearance at some of the seashore re-
sorts. but the man who insists on taking
a poll of votes on the Presidential ques-
ton Will not turn up.
The largest business ever done by
the United States Patent Odice. it is
SAID, was that of April, when there
were 1889 applications for patents and
500, $40 received for fees.
An engineer employed for the past
2 0years on a Georgia railroad claims TO
have travelled during that period a dist
ance equal to about - times the cir
conference of the earth.
An average of 10 cents a pound
was realized 10 Chicago for the several
tons of cherries shipped there recently
from san Francisco. The growers
profit by the transaction is estimated at
about 500 "A ton.
The despatch announcing the VIM
ner Of the Derby races was dashed from
London TO New York. saws the Journal