The Penn's Grove record., 1888-08-04
NUMBER |.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

1921.
The Prince Of Wales has seven.
teen brothers.in-law, sixteen uncles,
ffty-seven cousins and ~fifty-eight
nephews and nieces.
Glasgow, Scotland, obtained q
charter under James H., 1451; made a
royal burgh by James VI afterwards
James l of England). 1911; wasted by
TIRE, 1902; received charter from Wi.
liam and Mary, 1890.
There are about thirty grand dukes
in Russia, all of them being neal rela-
tives of the Car. Each receives from
the State an annual pension amounting
to $50, 900, n the majority OF them
have large private fortunes beside.
Queen Victoria is very fond OF
straw hats. She recently had a photo
| graph taken of herself as she sat at
breakfast surrounded by her family.
On her head was a most remarkable
straw hat, the most striking object Of
the picture.
East river is the geographical
name by which the strait dividing
Long Island and Manhattan Island Is
known. There Is no doubt but 1t is a
strait, but for all the purposes of COM
merce, literature and geography it Is
the East river.
The a~crostatic corps OF the Ger
man army have succeeded in taking
good photographs of tho surrounding
region from a balloon which was poised
about One.and .a-half miles in the air
the first practical work of the kind
ever accomplished.
king Kalakaua, the versatile mon.
arch of the Sandwich islands. has
written a learned treatise on the diam
etrical physiognomy OF the earth. The
article is based on observations of the
volcanic phenomena for which the
Hawaiian group Is noted.
Twenty years ago this country
consumed SOC, 900 bales of cotton of 400
pounds each, and all the rest of the
world 4 800, 600 bales. Now the rest
of the world consumes 1900, 600 bales,
an increase of 20 per cent, while this
country consumes 400 900 bales, an
increase of 200 ler cent.
Parchment was invented for
writing-books by Enmenes (some say
by Attalus) of Pergamus, the founder
Of tue celebrated library of Pergamus,
formed on the model of Alexandria,
about 100 Ii. e. Parchment books
from this time became most used.
Shaving was introduced among the
Romans about b. G. 800. PiIny says
Sclpio Africanus was the first Roman
who shaved every day. Subsequently
the first day of shaving was regarded
by the Romans as the entrance upon
! manhood mud onlnlr,taA yp,th ,,n,k
festivities.
Joe Jefferson is the only actor
possessing a separate summer and win
ter estate. When the icy winds are
owing about our heads here, the
veteran player is in Louisiana among
his flowers. His summe home is in
New Jersey, and in both places he Is
a free, handed entertainer.
Mr.. Edmund Yates describes
Queen Natalie of Servia as "decidedly
of the fine woman order; tall, broad
and MASSIVE, with large features and
black eyebrows and Eyes and black
hair, which she wears down her back,
as the sayln' is as poor Sketchley used
to say, like a horses tail."
From a paltry 10 cents worth OF
iron ore may be developed s.. 50 worth
Of bar iron, $40 worth of horse shoes.
$3.50 worth of table knives, S6,SDO
worth of fine needles. 1924 worth of
shirt buttons. $500, 900 worth of watch
springs, or 81, 100000 worth of pallet
arbors FUSED in watches.)
While e%xcavating IN Norwich,
Conn, recently, wOrkmen unearthed
tile complete skeleton of an Indian.
The skull held a well-preserved upper
set OF teeth. Beside the body were
found a scalping knife with a horn
handle, parts Of an old gun and a brass
ornamental head to a IL
"A singular freak OF nature Origi-
nally discovered in Western Australia,
Is likely to remain unexplained. 1t
consists of nine fine pearls adherlng
together in the form of q Latin cross
seven i'll the shaft and one each side
of the second pearl. A suggestion is
that a fragment Of Seaweed in the
shell of the oyster formed the frame on
which the cross was built.
Little Mandy Taylor, aged eleven
years, child of French Taylor, ESQ.,, Is
teaching school at her home near
Treck, Kentucky. She is said to be an
unusually bright little miss, and has
the dignity and p%oliteness of a grown
woman. Her discipline IN school is as
good as can be had, and the way she
lnstructs her pupils, five in number. is
simply wonderful.
"A singular accident happened to a
consignment of young fish and eggs
being conveyed south in the United
States fish commission car, A change
of water vas found to be necessary at
Atlanta, Ga, and artesian well water
was supplied. Within al hour 65, 900
fish were dead, and nearly 5000 600
eggs are supposed to be spoiled.
-Experlmcats rave-proT6d that the
tensile strength of a wet rope is only
one-third that of the same rope when
dry; and a rope saturated with grease
or soap is weaker still, as the lubricant
permits the 1bres to slip with greater
facility. Hemp rope contracts strongly
on being wet. and a dry rope twenty
five feet long will shorten to twenty
four on being wet.
The length Of the principal rivers
In America are: Missouri TO the Mis-
sIssippI, 300; Missouri to the Gulf,
1850; Mississippi, 3,1G0; Amazon,
5000; River De La Plata, 2,240; st.
Lawrence, 2.l00; Orinoco, 1000; Rio
Grande, 1880. The Missouri Ito the
Gulf is the longest river in the world.
The Danube IS the longest river In
Europe, the Yang.tse-Kian In Asia.
and the Senegal in Africa.
oliver z. Rahm, inventor OF the
self-scratchl1g matct., is living quietly
in Bonneville, N. Y. He is now an old
man, and his fortune, estimated at
$3.50, coo, gives him every comfort and
successfully .eeps the wolf from the
door. His famous match was an i'll
spiration which came to him in sleep.
! On retiring lie had attempted to light
J his gas with an ordinary match and
had burned his fingers. He had q
dream which suggested the device by
which he made a fortune.
~ s.,sN $4,000 A.