The Penn's Grove record., 1886-06-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.

I'm 1867 there were 1000 negro slaves
In Boston.
Tampa, Fla, has a cabbage two
feet across
-"St. Patrlck's blue" is a new tint
worn by Wing girls in England.
"A Hagerstown (Md.) lady dislo-
Gated her jaw while chewing gum.
Lydia Maria Child was the first
woman journalist In this country.
An Indian whose age is set down
as ITO years died in Lockford, Cal,
lately.
"A man was charged in Indianola,
Neb., lately with the theft of q house
roof.
1t is stated that upwards of nine
hundred women own and manage farms
in Iowa.
"A bill to prohibit prize fighting in
Oregon has passed the House unanI-
mously.
"A girl baby born in New York
during a terrible storm, has been NAM
cd Cyclonia.
"A Michigan farmer is in bed from
the effect of a humping he received in
q hail-storm.
The word candy comes to us from
the Arabic and Persian quand, another
name for sugar.
New York has 1000 miles of rail-
road within her state limits and 146, 900
freight cars run on it.
Sir George Grove has been honored
by Glasgow University with the degree
of Ii, d. in a~bstentid.
"A Cleveland paper says a large
number of young men Of that city paint
and powder their faces.
Russian mobiles are declared to be
even greater eplcures than the daintiest
class OF Partisan good-livers.
An acrimonlous-looking error, in a
New Haven paper the other day, made
alum water out of alma mater.
The sentence of a criminal was
postponed in Buffalo until he should
overcome a fit of the %hiccoughs.
"A hotel is talked of in Florida on
the st. Sebastian River, which, with its
grounds, will cost SIG, 000, 900.
An Iowa newspaper a that a
brother of the late A. T. Stewart is a
rag-oicker at Cherokee. in that state.
A Tampa, Florida. Judge fined a
mar FIVE dollars the other day for eat
ing peanuts durlnga session Of court.
Three snow.white beavers were
taken on the Sacramento River, near
Chico, CAL, the other day. The fur
was as soft as silk.
"A rustic visitor to Burlington, VT.
spent Thanksgiving Day on the horse
railway, making the trip Of four miles
twenty-five times.
"A Chinaman, arrested In Grass
Valley, Cal, for operating an opium
joint, hanged himself in the prison cell
with his queue.
The extent Of Anglomania in
France is shown by the existence Of
such oddly-named establishments as the
Casino du High Life"
London, according to a statement
In one OF Its w newspapers, has only
thirteen daily papers, or less than the
number published in Philadelphia.
"A mail carrier has been indicted in
North Carolina for throwing Congress
slonal documents into the river. He
claimed they were so heavy that they
interfered with quick delivery.
of the seventy-six United States
Senators ten are called John, nine are
called James, five William, four Joseph
three Thomas, four Henry and three
Charles.
"A misguided citizen of San Fran
cisco mounted a tall derrick in that
city recently, and undertook tho Oft
tried flying act, and with the invariable
result. He had to be carried home.
Cocaine Is reported to have been so
extensively used by person ignorant Of
Its properties, In Detroit, that O num-
Der of persons there have, as a result.
become unable to take care of them
"A deaf man riding a bicycle and
wearing q long-tailed coat, the extrem-
cites of which were On fire, was a some
what striking figure on one of the prin-
clpal streets of New Haven, Ct, re-
Gently.
The day of felt hats it is said, is
over, and the coming covering for the
male head will be wood pulp. It is
called a paper hat, and is said to be
impervious to water and not wanting
IN fiexibility.
Thirty female printers were intro
duced into an Austrian town three
years ago. Now they are all literally
unionlzed, male members of the typo
graphical society having secured every
one OF them by marrying them.
Applications for divorces has been
made by a Lewiston Me- couple, who
is SAID, did not exchange words for
nearly a quarter Of a century until a
month ago. They lived in the game
hous all the while.
THE n ETS