The Penn's Grove record., 1886-07-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The new Colorado State house win
cost $1,000, 900.
-Fowlervllle, Mich, it is said, has
fifty widows and three widowers.
The Russian Government has de-
cided to attempt tea cultivation upon q
large scale.
-Judic, it is stated in Paris, made
100000 $1,000 per month"; by her Am
erioan tour.
-Four weekly newspapers are pub
lished in the Chinese language in San
Francisco.
"A goose owned by Nelson Hoyt, Of
C~raftsbury, VT, is said to be over
sixty years old.
1t is stated that a large body Of
very fine chalk has been found in the
Mojave desert.
New York capitalists are about to
establish a mile race ours at Eliza
bethport, N. ].
American women TO the number
of thirteen, are studying at the Unlver-
sity of Zurich.
1t is estimated that one hundred
million oranges will be gathered in Cal
1fornla this season.
Each of the hands on the House OF
Parliament (London) clock weighs n
hundred pounds, 1t is stated.
The man VINO never does any harm
might crawl into a ave and stay there
10 years without being missed.
Pierre Wamlyeff, correspondent Of
the Moscow Gazette, is in Chicago, In
vestigating the labor troubles.
The Customs Department has de-
cided that regalia for use in Odd Fell
lows Lodges can be imported duty free.
The game preserves of a single
owner On Long Island, at Bay View,
contain over 5000 quail and 1000 part
ridges.
There is said to be more money in
the small hard clans now caught in
Oyster Bay IL. IL harbors than in
oysters.
"A man at Los Angeles has com
menced to manufacture perfumery out
of California flowers, and claims great
success.
"A suit that has been dragging
through the courts for nineteen years
was dismissed in Yolo county (Cal.) the
other day.
"A Flint, Mich, physician recently
received e~ighty.four bushels of horse
radish In payment for a bill for profess
slOnal services.
Everybody has heard of Oscar
Wilde, but not everybody knows his
full name. 1t is Oscar Fingall O'Flah-
critic Wills Wilde.
The Japanese believe liz bathing.
Public baths are so numerous at Toxic
that there is one for every three hum
bred inhabitants.
"A Chicago man VINO began saving
hog bristles at the Chicago slaughter
houses now lives In a mansion and is
worth a fortune.
The plenlsphone, an instrument
that unites the tone Of the violin. viola,
cello and double bass is a recent inven.
ton of a Buffalo musician.
But one Chinaman now fingers
within the borders of Guerneville, CAL,
and he has changed his name to Ma
honey and cut off his queue.
"A brewer in Providence is about to
turn his establishment into a soap fac
tory, under the influence OF the new
prohibition laws in his State.
"A boycott has been established in
California, with the sanction of the
Knights OF Labor, against strawberries
| picked by Chinese laborers.
"A cats eye valued at SIS, 900 isone
Of Ceylon's gem exhibits (among a
great number of lesser gems) at the
London Colonial Exhibition.
"A cave large enough to aecommo.
| date all the citizens of the town is to be
dug at Clifton. D. L. It's designed as
a safeguard from tornadoes.
"A New York woman who is fond
Of notoriety has had the hoofs Of her
horses gilded, and they create a sensa-
ton when driven in Central Park.
The fear that he had contracted
CHAMBERS and that his family would do
likewise, SO worried a Danbury man
that he committed suicide recently.
"A bedstead made to order by a
Milwaukee firm is "a feet wide and has
nine compartments, each intended to
hold n of the purchasers children.
"A burial service near Adrian,
Mich, consisted of a poem and an ad-
dress by the husband of the deceased
and the recitation of a poem by his
daughter.
An engineer on the Stonington
Conn road has filed the position for
81 years and has travelled in that time
a distance equal to forty times the cir
conference of the earth.
Blush fogs have prevailed in the
early mornings at Cleveland. Ohio, Of
late, and people who assert that a like
appearance has heretofore preceded
outbreaks of cholera there are getting
anxious.