The Penn's Grove record., 1886-06-05
NEWS IN BRIEF,

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-Favorite winter resorts - heated
apartments.
1t costs So, 900, 900 a year to sup
port the churches in New York city.
M. De Lesseps predicts that the
Panama Canal will be opened before
1888.
"A Massachusetts, man SO years old
married a girl OF 10. She is his third
wife.
New Hampshire still has ninety
eight surviving veterans of the wal OF
1912.
Canadian inventors petition for the
adoption of the American patent law
entire.
In January 1850 Canadians left
for the United States in search of en-
ployment.
Efforts are to be made to stop
smuggling between the United States
and Canada.
Ohio has coal in thirty different
counties, and put out nearly 9,00O,OOO
tons last year.
There were 10,C46 marriages, 9S6
divorce suits and $50 divorces IN Chica-
go last year.
Over two thousand patents have
been issued on sewing machines n
attachments.
Susan Fennimore Cooper, daughter
of the novelist, is educating 100 orphans
at her home.
The first newspaper in the United
States was III 1704, and was the Boston
NelUs-LetteT.
-Zoroaster, who reformed the Magi,
was a Bactria king, and flourished
about $50 B. G.
-More than 5000, 900 trees were
planted in Great Britain during the
season of 1981-82.
The capital required to build the
proposed ship canal to Manchester,
England is e9, 000, 900.
-Gould's annual income from divi-
dends and interest on his holdings
amounts to So, 600 900.
The demand on the United States
treasury for one and two dollar notes IS
on the increase.
The Boston Transcript is the only
daily paper in the world owned exclu-
sively by ladies.
In Illinois the value of 10, 508, 79l
tons of coal mined in that State last
year was STAG per ton.
-Coonskins are used as a substitute
for money In Calhoun, KY, their value
being fifty cents a piece.
In the days of Ovid girls were
taught to smile gracefully. There was
no giggling or simpering then.
Insurance publications state that
the losses by fire in the United States
last year aggregate SOB, 600, 600.
Sixty millions pounds of copper
are SAID to have been produced by the
Lake Superior copper mines last year.
In the last four years $500, 900, 900
has been spent building new railroads
and improving old mes in the Southern
States.
Apples are being shipped to New
York by philanthroplc farmers in New
England to be distributed among tho
poor g~ratuitously.
-Meissonier has painted APO pictures.
His new painting is three metres In
length, and shows the knightlng of
Francis 1. by Bayard.
If is estimated that the sAttle and
stock interests of Tennessee amount to
$500, 0000. 900, and the great interest OF
Tennessee is grasses.
"A Californian has perfected ar
engagements whereby $40 families from
Alsace and Lorraine. Germany, are to
settle in the Golden state.
-Holyrood Palace is built on the
site of an abbey founded by David |,
in 1128, and several of his successors
are inferred within its walls.
The controversy in the church in
regard to images began in 726, and was
finally extinguished in $40, when the
iconoclasts were accommodated.
Money seems to possess no attrac-
lions for Miss Vera Manning, a niece
of Cardinal Manning. She is heiress to
$4,000 annually, yet prefers convent
life.
There are 1906 coke ovens in the
neighborhood of Connellsville, Pa, OF
these IT'S are idle. The remainder are
running from three to five days per
week.
AT the sale of the Murphy library
in New York recently, the "Jesuit Re-
%latlons," written between 1884 and
1879, comprising forty-two volumes,
brought $1,000.
Elijah Youngblood, aged 65, of
Coffee county, Ca, has captured ,991
deer during his hunting career, and
hopes to make the number 1000 before
he retires
The Cape May IN. j. members Of
the Grand Army of the Republic are to
erect a monument costing $4,000 to the
memory Of the soldiers from that
county who were killed in the civil war.
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