The Penn's Grove record., 1885-02-07
NUMBER 81
NEWS IN BRIEF.

suggested by Goodwin Smith,
"A London baker recently bought
AZ, 500 sacks Of flour in one day.
The number of young lady physi-
clans in Germany is rapidly increasing.
Foxes are numerous and unusually
tame in and around Darlington. y. II.
OHIO is credited with having II ore
colleges than any other State in the Tn.
ion.
France has 5535 subscribers to the
telephone, while Germany has only
1000.
Church bells appear to be going
out of use in most large cities in this
country.
"A COW YVES among the bridal pres
ents received at a wedding III Sullivan
county, N. Y.
The musical profession In Naples
is SAID to have been entirely broken up
by the cholera.
"A new school is soon to be started
In Florida to furnish mental recreation
to winter visitors.
On wheat at present prices British
farmers, the London Economist says,
lose about $40 an acre.
"A suit to recover three hundred
gallons of buttermilk has been begun
by a Jackson, Ca, farmer.
Edmund About's death is ascribed
to a broken heart, brought about by
troubles with his newspaper.
The recent election cost st. Louis,
on an average, a fraction over IS cents
for every vote cast in that city.
An artesian well is said to be spout
ing ice cold water in Salamanca, n. Y,
at a rate Of $4,000 barrels a day.
1t was soltaire who said Of the Eng
fish thu - )ugh they have twenty tour
religions they have but che saree-
Italy is said to have expended a
hundred million dollars on monster wal
vessels during the past ten years.
TO escape compulsory military SER
vice nearly $4,000 young men have left
Prussia during the past six years.
Three clergymen at B%ordentown,
n. j., each lost a child recently by
~dlptheria. which is very prevalent there.
Russia has in its town of Sysran a
man whose age is said to be made Out
by undisputaUle evidences at l27 years.
The number of drowning accidents
by breaking through the ice has been
considerably increased W the cold
snap.
The prospects of an American e
] hihition in London next year are said
70 ne 80 good as e he absolutely as
sured.
9stsefpes ia Naw city ass
uspa polsie9 ~ sefgsap
deS8ciives retired tae 0taer Gay oM
y year.
This ytaf, Cor tae 9ist time, If is
4 said, Tia Sulns u !.4@a. tbs entire Di-
BILE translated for them into their own
language.
In London banks each one Of the
directors, Il Sc said, serves in turn a
short time as practical manager of the
institution.
The average cost of the fres deliy-
cry system in New England Post offices
is 3 2 mills for each piece of mail mat
ter handled.
The Italian opera season at Paris
was ~inaugurated by the production OF
"Lucia," with Nine. Sembrich IN the
leading role,
~CBdAAolA 0Nh olAS1 h0i haNC hhCA
TO a general use of dynamite, and there
is corresponding alarm IN Spain and the
adjacent islands,
The Car of Russia has ordered his
pictures out of the public squares at
st. Petersburg on the ground that they
are liable to indignity.
"A French nobleman, member OF q
family of very high stasding in Bor-
deaux, France died recently In a union
workhouse in Kent, England.
An assayer in Virginia City, New.
who became angi at a party of unruly
boys in front Of his office, threw acid
upon them. He was arrested.
An old lady in Rochester, N. Y,
the other day, was anxiously looking
for a shop where she had bought a pair
of corsets thirty one years before.
Clubhouse burnings still continue
to be remarkably numerous in the
South, seventeen g%in-houses in George
alone having caught fire recently inr
week. 20
tatives has dismissed the billy 80 4
the number of State SUPREME
to six and increasing the sal ~ e.
$4,000.
"A national mausoleum, .ke Vest
minister Abbey, for the reception of the
remains of Presidents of TIE United
States is urged by a Washington cor
respondent.
The establishment OF a crematory
in the neighborhood of Cincinnati IL
now certain, nearly all of the $4,000
necessary for its erection having been
subscribed.
A remarkable strong likeness is
observed between Queen Victoria aud
her grand daughter, Victoria Alexan-
dria Olga Mary of Wales, who is now
about IL years of age.
The model Of Abraham Lincoln's
apparatus for lifting vessels over shoals,
which is now in the Patent Office in
Washington, is to be in the Patent Of
fee exhibit In the New Orleans Expo
sition.
Two Cinnamon in Sacramento had
a foot race of 100 yards few days ago.
The beaten mau subsequently, remarked
that, if he had carried a chicken In his
hand, be thought he could have done
better.
AZ AkfAhA law NhAAt1AAA NhA4 RAVAN
people is remarkably high ia some sec
lions of the South, the ratio in Sayan-
nah. Ga, last week being 66 8 per thou
sand, while the mortality OF the whites
was but 21.6.
An immense viaduet is being built
in Chicago, which. when completed,
viii contain ratings and in all about
2, 000, 900 pounds OF iron, making, it is
said, the largest structure Of the kind
IN the country.
st. Louis, which has more trouble
with her pavements than any city in
the country, it is said, is pcs eFving
one Of prepared gum wooG aa4en 4 TO
be laid on a foundation Of concrete aH
glazed With coal tar,
The annual eoai pf0daefs0nases
|, Great Britain is abog l5e, k~99.eootons
OF this vast quantity ~ ,tsa 1886 ars APP
piled TO mechanical uses, sud the re-