The Penn's Grove record., 1886-08-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.

"A FloridIan shipped six crates OF
eans to New York; gross returns, 20
tents.
The Mount Vernon association is
yoing to restore the old tomb of WASH
ngton.
The champion tennis player in
England IS SAID TO be a ~15-year-old girl
IF Rockferry.
Birmingham, Ala, is to have a new
furnace, yielding two hundred tons OF
pig iron daily.
Prince Charles and Princess Amelie
If Portugal, have but 100000 a year to
,egin housekeeping on.
"A Masonic temple for the lodges Of
hat city is to be built in Newport, r.
L, at a cost Of S25, 900.
Street railways in 233 cities and
owns of this country are said to have
n use 81, 800 horses and 1850 cars.
Mine prisoners were convicted OF
lrson In Lyon county. Kansas, lately
in attempting to burn their way out of
all.
-Shillalahs they say are never seen
n the hands of freshmen IN Ireland
low. 1t is the tourist who swings the
tick.
Princess Pignatelli, according to
he Paris Figaro correspondent, is now
Ierving as a waitress in a cafe in vi
,nna-
The names given to three Tennes.
zee post-of1ices- Mikado, Yum-Yum
Ind Nanki-Poo-wer suggested by
he post-ofice department.
In Buffalo, one style of soliciting
correspondence anonymously is to have
answers directed ''care Of Letter Car
iier No." so and SO.
The Alta CALIFORNIA claims for
Los Angeles that she had gained $50
per cent. in population since 1880 and
Ill through advertising.
People who go on excursions, the
New Orleans Picdyune philosophically
Explains, are so happy TO get home that
hey are glad they went.
An English champion pigeon. shot
announces that he Twill shoot any man
II America for s $1,000" General Crook
would like him to take a pop at Geron-
mo.
1.-THE Belle" a towboat, is declar-
I'd to be the Oldest vessel ON the Hud-
ion. She was built half a century ago
and has been in active service ever
lince.
1t is now proposed in Pittsburg to
lse natural gas as a fuel for the fire de-
partment, the gas to be supplied by
stand pipes placed near each water
plug.
The interest in athletic sports in
Park City, Utah, IS so great that the
ftAer day . large, number of residents
walked thirty miles TO witness a wrest-
ling match.
Anybody that knS0s"s snang De,
fore it happens is called, AV r. u7a,
was the detinition writte&On 'n1 sisto
Of an eight-year.old boy NJ Dos'on
school the other day. " d
Buffalo bakers find th&I BOSSES
oalky in the matter of having hVne pus
dnion men and paying unionS @teS.
Only about thirty out of eightNtoui
shops nave yielded to the demands.NA
In Lewis county. Wyoming Terk
Tory, there is not now remaining a
single one of the GOO Cinnamon that
lived there a year ago, and not much
over so are said to remain in Seattle.
-Bomby, the rhInoceros that was
imported for the New York Park de-
partment, and which died of pneumo-
MIA recently, weighed 1000 lbs, of which
the hide was found 20 weigh nearly one
eighth.
A child fell from a car window
while the train was in motion, some
weeks ago, at Lincoln, Neb., and when
the train vas stopped and parties ran
back to the spot, they found the little
one playing with pebbles alongside the
track.
-Neighborly people in a Maine town
not only helped to put out a fire at a
residents house, but stayed and re-
shingled the roof, which was burned,
aud took up a collection to pay for the
shingles. the whole being flushed be-
lore ulBut.
All the Indian scouts heretofore
used in the campaign against the hos
tiles have been sent back to their Teser-
walton. They. will be used only as
trailers hereafter. This change in the
new administration gives great salts
faction In Arizona.
Prince Baudoulu, eldest son of the
count of Flanders, the brother of the
king OF Belgium, has now been definite
ly Acknowledgements next heir to the
crown of Belgium; and, although emily
seventeen years OLD, takes precedence
of his father and mother on all official
occasions.
Jones. of Nevada, is one Of the
characters of the Senate. He Is a
thorough Bohemian and a good fellow.
He Is an able man, too, and an invete-
rate speculator. He is worth millions
one week and dead broke the next, but
always manages to keep happy.