The Penn's Grove record., 1885-03-07
NUMBER 81.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

road last year.
-''Coyer"is what the English broker
calls Margin
Coal tlard) fetehes S23 per ton At
Helena, Montana.
New York gets 100000 d year
from ferry rents.
-Eugland has p, $50 breweries and
Germany % ,9J2.
The number of deaths at Chicago
in 1854 was Il. All.
The Paris opera receives SI60. 600
yearly from the State.
The first complete sewing machine
was patented in 1916
Over 1000 Swedes have settled In
Washington Territory.
-Pauperism In Paris is net increas-
ing, but diminishing.
Between 1890 aud 1884, 24s British
peers have been created.
KENTUCKY furnishes sc, 1000 appli-
cants for federal offices,
There were % Baptist churches
built in England last year.
Nearly 5000 churn patents have
been issued in this country.
Bismarck is again i'll, and has been
ordered TO leave Berlin for rest.
Italy exports three times as much
fruit as 1t did thee years ago.
The late Secretary Folger's estate
will not realize above 500, O00.
New Haven is moving for the as
tablIsImenJ of a public li0rary.
Tile newest craze is to collect all
kinds and shapes of parlor lamps.
The Kansas Senate has forty men-
bers, of whom all but three are lawyers.
"A boy mestnerist from Boston is
doing wonderful things in New YORK.
George Alfred Townsend, better
known as Cath, - IS forty-two years
old.
Some needless fellow passed a $50
Confederate note in Montreal fora nice
ring,
-Disraeli said a man helped twice to
soup viii drink tea ana coffee out Of the
saucer.
OF the twelve prisoners, IN the San
Diego county, Cal Jail recently, nine
were Indians.
The average charge for the passage
OF a ship through The Suez Canal Is sta
ted at about $1,000.
The japanese have a new dicttou,
airy of the Chinese language, comprLs-
ing no less than 40 volumes.
twenty-five of the great sugar
plantations of the island Of Cuba are
far1ed By the Jesuit order.
Nine hundred and eighty-six thou
sand cigars were shipped from Key
West to New York recently.
Morocco schools the Koran only
Is taught. and the pedagogUe receives
fifteen cents a month for teaching it.
"A Berlin Doctor IS reported TO
have been fined for not keeping himself
posted on modern methods OF practice.
In Frankfort-on-the-MaIn, a city
Of 10000 people, the recent sale Of
Christmas trees reached $4,000 IN uUne
Der.
The bite of a large black spider,
back of the ear, killed q Port Norris
IN. j. Infant recently within a few
days.
Following the example Of other
places in the South, Lincoln county,
Ga, is to raise the liquor license to
$1,000.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has
refused to allow a woman preacher OF
Nantucket to perform the marriage GER
emory.
The honor of having the first straw
berries of the season is being eagerly
contested for by the several towns In
Florida.
Disastrous floods have inundated
many places in the northern provinces
Of Italy,an are increasing to an alarm
ing extent.
Obituaries of a distinguished law
yer, who died a short time ago in Chi-
cage, mention that he started his career
as a bootblack.
New Hampshire has 1913 Presbyte-
rian churches. S~eventy-hve of them
do not sustain permanent preaching
without help.
"A Jew named Jacob opened the
FIRST coffee house in England, selling
coffee as a COMMON beverage at Baiiol
College, Oxford.
Providence, r. l., has had but one
Mayor, Thomas A. Doyle, for the past
Ii years, and has just started him on
another term.
"A prominent business man Of Daw.
son states that he and one Of his clerks
used 100 pounds Of tobacco from April
last until November.
There are a35, 565. $50 IN Bank OF
England notes in circulation, and the
banks public and private deposits
amount to e34, 052, 4T9.
-SDringdeld's, Mas, public library
contains $4,000 volumes, The annual
fee Is now ST., but it is proposed To make
the library wholly free.
The Ice bridge at Niagara this
winter is said to be the most massive
for many years, and 1t IS estimated TO
be over go feet thick.
Snow shoes are used by the mail
carriers on some OF the routes in Call
fornia, 50 impossible have the roads
been made by the snow.
In Madagascar no one could read
sixty years ago, but now there are
nearly 100000 on the island who have
some part If the Bible and read il.
-Deer.hounding in the Adirondacks
is to be prohibited by law, II a number
of gentlemen who nave interested them,
selves 10 the matter can secure that
end.
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berg-Furth railway have resolved 10
solemnly commemorate on December
7th next the dItieth anniversary of the
Inauguration Of the first railway In
Germany.
The playing Of two tunes on a gui-
tar by the bride was the pay which an
O~glethprpe county, Ga. Justice Of the
Peace received recently, for marrying al
couple.
Prohibition liquor laws along the
lower course Of the Ural river, in Rus
STA, are said 70 have started up a con.
sumption of cologne, o little town
using about 200 bottles a year.
During his recent visit to Frank
lfort-on-Main, Nh. H. N. Stanley had
the diploma Of honorary membership
or the Frankfort Geographical Society
presented TO him BY its President, DE-
Oven