The Penn's Grove record., 1886-10-16
NEWSIN BRIEF

The ballet of the Paris opera costs
5000, 600 a year.
The Princess of Wales spends SO,
900 a year on bouquets.
The leading New York restau-
rants and cafes have undergone reno
vations for the winter season.
Gen. Booth, the head center of the
Salvation Army, is said to have prom
lnent, massive and very red nose.
The statutes Of New Jersey now
forbid the killing, woundlng or catch
ing of any song birds at any time.
Lumber is said to be growing
scarce in some parts of Alabama and
has to be transported long distances.
Prominent members Of the Ohio
club gave ex-senator Thurman a rou5-
ing reception at Cincinnati recently.
An English angler explains his de-
yotion to the sport by saying that 1t IS
"the only amusement fishes everhaye'"
OF the thirty-four large coflln fac
tories IN the United States, Cincinnati
claims the largest and Chicago the
next,
There r thirty-two separate taxes
on wheat IN Mexico from the time it
leaves the field until It reaches the
miller.
White ash of fine quality is consid-
cred the best for the inside finish OF
cars, being the most durable IN reflect
ing light.
Senator Edmunds is enjoying de-
llghtful autumn weather at Buffers
Island, Lake Champlain, the guest OF
DR.. W. S. Webb.
Large jobbing houses in the grocery
trade in New York are complaining OF
the condition of the canned peaches put
up in Maryland.
The New York Times says of the
opening of autumn in the Catskills that
the sumaes are aflame and there is an
avalanche of girls.
We suppose it had to commence
somewhere and at some time, so the
Chicago Inter. Ocean has discharged Eli
Perkins for lying.
The New York Mad Express says
"the really better element Of tie re-
publican party in that city are rapidly
coming to the front"
The new French line steamer La
Gaseogne, which cost LILO, 900 has
made a very ~fattering passage from
Havre to New York.
Emperor William has accepted the
g0dfathership in the case Of the recent
IL born eleventh son of a well-to.do
master butcher in Barmen.
The United States iiotel, at Sara
toga, made 800, 600 the past season,
and the Grand Union, which has no
rental to pay, made $4,000.
Gov. Foraker, of Ohio, Is doing the
people of not only that state but OF all
other states a valuable service by ex-
posing penitentiary rascalities.
Cranberry picking on the lower
part of Cane Cod will begin IN a few
days, the crop is fully up to the aver
age, and the fruit is we'll colored.
"A transparent man, through whose
body large print can be read, is adyer-
tlse1 as on exhibition III a Chicago mu-
seum-an ex-glass eater, perhaps.
"A young woman, named Miss
Downer, is the regular pastor of a
Methodist church in Kewanee. H., and
Is an earnest, convincing preacher.
-Munkacsy's famous picture, Christ
Before PLATE, is to be exhibited in
this country. In Europe 1900, 00U
persons have paid admission fees to see
it.
London clubs are becoming so
thoroughly "Amerlcanized" that, so
the rumor goes one is to be started to
which only proved Londoners are ELI
gible.
The congressional committee, not
the president, win send invitations to
French dignitaries and citizaSs TO be
present at the Bartholdl statue inaugu-
ration.
A photograph lately taken in Will
Transport, Nd, shows a young couple
and their infant child, surrounded by
the latter's two graudfathers and three
reat'graudfathers.
"A British ship, the Melanope, from
London, was dismasted in rounding
the Horn, and proceeded all the way
under jury masts to San Francisco,
where she arrived recently.
The richest country in the world,
England, has a million of paupers, and
Of the eight million worklngmen more
than half, says a member of parliament,
stand at the workhouse door.
The Charleston Neps says the de-
mand IS reSsing In that city for add.
tional bricklayers, carpenters, slaborers,
and others whose work goes into the
erectloe of buildings.
Recent discoveries in various re.
mote places of families living like wild
beasts indicate that no we'll regulated
museum or circus need be without Its
wild'family feature this season.
Ben Butler Is developing a fancy
for yellow ribbons on the backs of all
of his chairs, and he is an expert with
the knitting needle, and In his time has
worn stockings of his own make.