The Penn's Grove record., 1886-08-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.

1t is said there was boycotting In
China long, long ago.
Philadelphia has a saloon that took
in 1925, 900 last year.
When a house is not rented in
Mexico it is not taxed.
Thistle green is a new tint tina
goes well with dark blue.
Miss Adele Grant wears the costly
jewelry given by Earl Cairns.
"A Hamilton, o., girl graduated
one day and married the next.
In the Island of Java there are
twenty letter-press printing offices.
An English firm has at last succeed
ed in making a colored water mark.
-Burdette, the humorlst, has a tai.
ented sister who can make addresses.
Corn eight feet high is reported
from the southern counties of Kansas.
"A newspaper has been discovered at
Pekin that wa started in the year Oil.
San Francisco has about fifteen
Chinese carpenters; they have a union.
by the decision of a Philadelphia
Dogberry an ink-eraser is a deadly
weapon.
"A Methodist missionary has been
appointed chief physician of the Chi
nese army.
Japan is to have a national assem-.
bly, hall modelled after the German
Reichstag.
All the railroads in Louisiana are
run al ? loss sc far as local traGac- Is
concerned.
An Athens, Ga, firm offers $4,000
for the exclusive privilege to sell liquor
in the county.
The Boston Postofiice yields the
government an annual net revenue OF
over So. 0G0, 900.
The vein of iron ore discovered at
Negaunee, Mich, turns out to be $50
feet in thickness.
Philadelphia grave diggers, it is re-
ported, have organized a branch of the
Knights of Labor.
George Bristol, of Piano, Ill. sneez-
ed so hard the other day that he frac.
tured n of his ribs.
The Russian authorities admit that
there are SS4 penitentiaries in the eoun-
try, with "a ,9l5 occupants.
Shears with two blades and a spring
back were used in old Rome for clip
ping sheep, hair and hedges.
"A Florida firm is shipping $500
bIdSklns a month to Newark, n. J.,
to be used as hat decorations.
There are now published in the
United States IA, 160 newspapers, an
increase of 666 over last year.
Some of the Western newspapers
have been printing a cut of LYDIA Pink
ham as that of Miss Folsom of Buffalo.
Last year 19,067, $50 ~ rial gall
Ions of beer were exported IrUaI -.
mich, an increase over 1884 OF 80 per
cent.
The girls III the public schools of
Brooklyn are compelled to commit TO
memory the constitution of the United
States.
Italian railroads, 1t is said, reduce
by 60 per cent. the fares Of all dog-bit-
ten persons who go to consult Pasteur,
at Paris.
Ell Telegrama. of Guadalajura,
Mexico, is the smallest paper published
on this continent. 1t is five by three
inches in size.
"A cargo of Norwegian ice has been
imported into New York; but the profit
is so small that such ventures are not
likely to increase.
"A Flint, Mich, physician recently
received eighty-four bushels of horse.
radish in payment for a bill for pro-
fesslonal services.
Cincinnati policemen who served
in the war will wear on their left sleeve
a red tape, to distinguish the soldier
element of the force.
There is a woman In Union Pc II,
Ga, with a beautiful beard nearly .
foot long. She is well to do and thus
escapes the dime museum.
The French are about to celebrate
at Montdidier, his native town, the
centenary of P~armentier, who intro
duced the potato into France.
"A woman by the name of Johnson
was severely bitten by a cat at Larned,
Kan. The maidstone was applied to the
wound and 1t adhered three times.
Measles have closed all the schools
at marlborough, VT, where about
half the pupils and ome of the teachers
have been down with the complaint.
In London last year there were
1851 alarms of fire, or al average OF 8
a day. OF these 2270 were veritable
fires though only sixty resulted in seri-
Gus damage,
"A Gales Ferry, Conn.,, man killed
with his gun the other day five rattle
snakes, the largest of which was nearly
the size of a mans wrist and had
eleven rattles.
Mrs. Jennie Wright. of Indianapo-
lis, has brought suit to recover the
value of her sewing machine, which her
worthless husband carried to a liquor
saloon and rallied off.