The Penn's Grove record., 1886-07-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.


ported over-crowded.
The town of FalI1cath, MRss., has
celebrated her 200th birthday.
1t is a rose OF clear green that the
Partisan florists now talk about.
Too much rain has seriously injur-
ed peach trees in parts of California.
"A round million wasspent upon the
new Cotton Exchange in New York.
The Corean Government has deci-
ded to abolish the custom Of selling Of
fees.
-Spain's royal baby has four nurses,
who take turns In administering pare
goric.
Two boys In Boston, made ill by
poison in brown cloth, barely escaped
death.
Primrose china has been introduce
ed by London dealers for Conservative
dinner parties.
Bouquets of jonquils or dafydo-
wndillies are seen tied upon the new
sunshades in London.
The question of using ~bloodhounds
to pursue the Apaches is being discuss
ed by the Arizona press.
The streets of Cory, Pa, are now
lighted with natural gas, supplied from
a point forty.one miles distant.
"A Buffalo court has decided that
ten thousand dollars is sufficient recon-
pense for the loss of ones reason.
Miss Lillian Smith, Of California,
a young girl of IA years, has broken
1923 glass balls in succession with the
rife.
Plate glass insurance companies In
New York received last year S3S0,000
in premiums and paid out SIG, 500 in
losses.
The insurance feature Of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers has
paid to families of members since 1867
the sum of 81, $50, 900.
The German National Industrial
Exhibition at Berlin In 1888, has been
unanimously decided upon by the pro-
yisional local committee.
News from the volcano centre is to
the effect that the indications are very
favorable towards the volcanic fires be-
ing soon ''active" again.
Colonel E. K. G. Judson, familiarly
known as MED Bantline," died at his
home, Eagles Nest N. Y, and was
buried on Monday, June 10.
"A mountain grouse, while pursued
by a hawk, flew into Lake City, COL,
and through a pane Of three-eighths-
inch plate glass that cost SIC,
The great monument to Victor
Emmanuel at Turin, costing $200,0 900
has been erected by King Humbert
entirely at his own private expense.
After being fined $50 for having
Numerically chastised his boy, a Santa
Rosa, Cal, resident quarreled with his
lawyer and got BADLY done up" by
aim.
"A seven-foot-long kite was sent
over 1000 feet into the air at Rarltan,
ILL.,, recently. Three men and a wind
lass were required to draw it back to
earth.
1t is asserted that Mr.. Robert Gar
rett will walk a mile to avoid being in.
terviewed by a reporter; but when he
is caught by n he yields to his fate
with grace.
-Ex-Governors Curtin, OF Pennsyl-
vania, Kirkwood of Iowa, Ramsey, of
Minnesota, and Sprague, of Rhode
Island, are the only war governors"
10Y living.
of the 5000 communes in Italy,
more than 1000 are totally unprovided
with sewers. There are 37,206 dwell
ings underground, which give shelter
to 101, 457 persons.
"A Southern contemporary thinks
1t might be worth knowing that not a
single member of the United States
Senate either wears a wig OF dyes his
moustache or beard.
"A pearl that is declared the largest
In Europe was sold IN London lately
for $3.50. 1t was two inches long and
four inches in circumference and
weighed three ounces.
-Workmen on the Clyde have been
greatly irritated by the arrival of more
than a hundred Germans from Bremen
to finish the wood fittings of a large
steamer being built at Glasgow.
1t vas German critic who re.
marked that Sin order to prove the alb
surd irregularities of English pronunci-
alton 1t will suffice to state that the
word Boz is pronounced Dickens"
Part of an ancient hull, in which
there wa a rust-eaten cannon, has been
found by dredgers heal the Charles
town, Mass, navy yard. 1t is supposed
that the vessel sank in Revolutionary
days.
1t was disclosed at the hearing of a
Cambridge, Mass, man recently on
the charge of ~swindling that since 10
he has squandared the greater part of a
fortune of s207. 900 left him by bis
father.
Mrs. De Young, wife of the pro-
prictor Of the San Francisco Chronicle
has given an entertainment in which
the principal feature was a series of
tableaux wants illustrating scenes
from "Don Juan
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