The Penn's Grove record., 1888-03-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.

An average of four children a day
are named after President Cleveland
and wife.
The late Meredith Featheringil, a
Spanish soldier, leaves an estate Of ST.
100000 to heirs in Kentucky.
The Duke OF Duccleuch-the
richest man in Scotland-has an in
come of 81 800 900 per annum
Schuyler COZ is to have q
bronze statue erected in one Of the
squares of the city OF indianapolis.
Austria has decided to put her
naval establishment in condition to
cope with any of the European powers.
An English lady has had a costume
made by Nlcholay all ruby plush and
darkest sable, which cost ], 760 guineas.
"A recent census puts the total pop
'~ulation of the Chinese Empire at 392,-
900, W. They are piled in about three
feet deep.
1t takes Ia, 800, 900 gallons of oil a
year to keep the railways OF Great
Britain going, and the cost is nearly
s.. 900, GOO.
The report runs that the German
hhiCub uho oOubnb al lutouIlUu
for steering military balloons, and paid
a million marks for it.
"A lady Of Winnipeg had her photo
graph taken not long ago and her face
appeared in the negative covered with
spots. On the following day she was
Frustrated with a severe attack of va
rioloid.
"A Berlin doctor is said to have
caught the bacillus that produces can-
Ger. He has iRoculated dogs with the
germ, and is reported to have devel.
uped in them tumors Of a cancerous
nature.
There is a beautiful uncertainty
about the value of COPPER cents In
Mexico. In Vera Cruz, for instance,
1t takes 104 OF them to make 81, white
In chihuahua ninety-ive will pass
for 81.
Lord Salisbury recently sold his
property between the Thames embank-
ment and the Strand for $1,000, 000.
By the growth of house property In
London he is now n of the richest
men In England.
Mosquitoes in China haye a very
poisonous sting. In a Tientsin hos.
pital there were at one time this sum-
mer a man with an abscess in his facs
and another with blood poisoning from
the bite of the insects.
"A paper published at Sank Center,
Mimi, is successfully running It's
presses by the aid of power communi.
Gated to them by means of a wind
mill. THIS is probably the only in
stance of the kind in the country.
SHERMAN at Asbury Park, N.
holson and Up a sealed bottle on the
liam Cadyntaining a map showing where
.,o. Enegod treasure is buried at a place
Jar Wilmington, Delaware. The dis
covery has aroused a good deal of Gu
riosity there.
! AT Burg Hill, Ohio, Charles
Smith shot a blue heron at his carp
pond, and found forty-seven fish in It's
stomach. From the appearance Of the
carp they had Just been swallowed and
constituted only one meal for the
bird.
The cruel punishment of slow
death by hanging so as to stand on the
tips OF the toes is still extensively in
flicted In China. The barbarous GUS
tom OF conferrlng honors on women
who commit suicide is also continued.
king John of England who was
forced to grant the Magma Charta,
June Is, 1915. when the great seal was
affixed thereto at Runnemede, Q
meadow between Staines and Wind.
sor. The original Magma Charta is
preserved in the British Museum.
"A Norwich, Conn, cocker spaniel
that spent his early days in a family
of children and had his face washed
regularly will not now, in his old age,
eat breakfast until his face has been
washed. If his toilet is neglected he
sits down and bowls loud and long.
-Bavaria's late mad Kings per-
sonal effects were sold at Munich re-
Gently. a pair of scarlet trousers
brought ten pounds; a pair of musical
brushes did not sell, because the
Emusic wouldn't CO." The saddest
thing in the collection was the Kings
i~nseparable bed-fellow during the last
four years-a stuffed monkey.
"A little girl while playing one day
recently on a porch at Walllngford,
Conn, was startled by a large bird
flying over her head. The bird flew a
short distance away and returned
again and was caught and held by the
child until her parents. who heard the
noise. came out and secured it. 1t
proved to be a full grown partridge,
apparently uniiurt.
In Germany the average duration
OF the life OF gardeners, mariners and
fishermen is ffty-eight years; butchers,
h%fty-four years; carpenters and brick.
layers, forty-nine years; compositors
and photographers. forty-one years; and
laborers, thirty-two years. OF the pro-
fessions the average lifetime of clergy
men Is sixty-seven years; teachers.
ffty-seven years; lawyers, ff~ty-fou.
years. and physicians. forty-nine years.