The Penn's Grove record., 1886-06-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

1t takes 144,0 900 watch screws to
weigh a pound.
-Ceylon now claims to grow the
finest tea In the world.
"A Nebraska Shylock recently took
a chattel mortgage on a we'll.
JOHN Brlght's oratory is still the
delight of London assemblages.
The use of epaulettes will soon be
discontinued IN the French army.
The best running tracks now have
their turns thrown up like the trotting
tracks.
The Dryer Bros fremont, is
by everybody considered the best 2-year'
old or the year.
The establishment of adaily church
newspaper is advocated in London.
In China the fee for medical atten-
dance is from i've to ten cents visit.
Lucy Larcom, whose poetry is
widely copied, once worked In a cotton
mill.
-Thirty-two of the ISL prisoners in
the Maine State prison are serving life
terms.
AT the drum tap nine million
drilled soldiers would take arms in
Europe.
Three great-grandsons Of Charles
Wesley are now clergymen of the Church
of England.
The doors of st. Chrysostom's
church IN Philadelphia are never closed
during the day.
Prince Bismarck is unhappy be-
aus his doctor wants him to shut off
on beer drinking.
Pacific City, Ia, claims to have
the champion curiosity in the person Of
a whistling ghost.
Last year the number of commHni-
cants in the Presbyterian church in
Canada increased 1886.
-Pig-styes of rosewood logs are to
be met with in Mexico, so plentiful are
the precious woods there.
Mime. Etelka Gerster has returned
to Paris fully restored as to health and
voice by her sojourn in Italy.
Founders can now be caught with
the hook and line by the thousands in
any of the Long Island bays.
The late George Sloane, the New
York dry goods merchant, left his
81, 600, 900 estate to his wife.
1t is proposed to erect several city
mission halls in London In memory Of
the late Earl of Shaftesbury.
john Boyle O'Reilly has overwork-
ed himself in speech-making for Ireland
and 50 has to go on a vacation.
Orioles have been seen with unu-
sual frequency in various parts OF Mas
sachusetts for several weeks past.
by a Japanese process seaweed is
made into paper 10 transparent that it
may be substituted for window-glass.
Snow still lies to the depth Of three
feet on the mountains between Will
mington and Bennington in Vermont.
"A piece of property in Berlin which
was purchased 30 years ago for $4,000
marks was sold latelyfor 1926, 600 marks.
The State prison In Massachusetts
expended during the past year $40, 800
and earned 1862. There are 1872 con-
victs confined.
AT the London Zoo" a hall has
been erected and a course of lectures
on zoology will be given during the
summer months.
-Topsfeld. Mass, has a citizen
named Holmes who is 6 feet s inches in
height, and believed to be the tallest
man in the state.
Ostrich feathers are said to have
declined in price from $50 70 Gl0a
pound tor the best. Cape farmers are
returning to wool growing.
"A seventeen-year-old lad in Pope
county, Mimi, has invented "a COM
bined hayrake and cocker'' for which
he has refused an offer of S15, 900.
The ~life-savlng stations on the
Long Island coast are TO be furnished
with a new style of life-boat, claimed
to be a se|lf-righter aud self-bailer.
Last year the expenses of India ex-
ceeded the revenues by $4,000, 900,
owing mainly to the war in Burmah.
A surplus of S4O0, 900 for the next fiscal
year is figured out.
The Trafalgar, which is about to
be commenced at Portsmouth, Eng,
will cost nearly goo, 900, according to
an estimate that has been approved by
the Admiralty.
-Four members of a Blount county
(Tenn.) family have married in as many
weeks. First two sons went off, then
a daughter, and now the father, aged
three.score years.
"A strange fish resembling a sperm
whale with an animals head, but only
about eight inches in length, has lately
been on exhibition in a iewelry store at
Gloucester, Mass.
"A meteorite fell on the ice recently
near Aastvedt. in Bergen, Norway,
with the effect of making a hole about
eighteen inches in diameter, though
the ice was eight inches in thickness.