The Penn's Grove record., 1888-05-19
NUMBER AZ.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The great Cromwell left the Uni
versity Of Cambridge at eighteen.
Michigan and Canada supply New
York weekly with 10000. 900 eggs.
Theodore Thomas's wife takes as
much interest in cookery as he does In
music.
The sales of diamonds in New
York are estimated to foot up $50, 0OO,-
600 a year.
Scotland and ireland together have
l4l Congregational Churches,
The Queen OF Corea is attended by
an American lady physician, who re.
ceives a salary of $4,000 a year.
"A Philadelphia oculist declares
that the use of opera glasses strains the
optic nerve and Injuries the eyesight.
An orange tree In the gardens of
Versailles, is 450 years old. 1t was
| planted by Eleanor OF CASTLE in 14l6.
1t takes every year a million
horses tails to keep a Iawtucket Or.
H. hair-cloth factory in running order.
The South African diamond fields
last year yielded gems amounting to
3,646,S99 caratS and valued at over
500, 0O0, 900.
1t is now an Imperial regulation in
Brazil that persons who die from yellow
fever shall be cremated, the State
bearing the expense.
Queen Victoria is al autograph
collector, and she has recently added to
her American department an auto
graph of Andrew jackson.
Berry, the English hangman, has
executed lib parsons up to the present
time, sixteen Of them having been in
Ireland and two in Scotland.
The average time of 5000 New
York business men at their down town
luncheons is eight minutes. This is a
matter OF record in IL leading restau-
rant.
William II. Seward commenced
the practice of law at twenty.one, at
thirty-one was president of a State con-
vention, and at thirty seven Governor
Of New York.
The body of Emil A. knotser,
formerly of Puck, was cremated at
Fresh Pond, l.. l., recently, making
the 1S9th inclneration since the open
ing of the crematory.
The last public whipping in the
| State of Rhode Island took place in
Providence July Il, 1927. Two horse
thieves were logged with a cat-o'-nine
tails by order of the court.
Strange as it may SEEM, more peo-
pie enter Russia than come out of it.
Between 1873 and 1881 the number Of
emlgrants was 5000, 900, and the mum.
Der Of immigrants 9.450,O 00.
"A %grandniece of Keats. Miss Elena
Blockman, who has gained consider
able distinction as a painter, Is at work
in Madrid upon a life sized portrait Of
the Queen Regent and the infant
King.
"A philanthropist in London has
established a Spectacle mission. where
poor printers, ~taIlors, shoemakers and
seamstresses can have their eyes tried,
and obtain spectacles for little or
nothing.
The Emperor Frederick is said, by
London Truth, to be a comparatively
poor man, having been left little under
the will of Emperor William, and has
nothing to dispose of by will except
about el20,0 00. The job of Emperor
lis not as lucrative, it seems, as 1t once
was.
The number of fowls kept in
France has been estimated to be
43. S5S, $50. The average product Of
| chickens reared is 3 to each hen, and
the average product of eggs per hen is
| 100 per year. The total money pro-
duct is SOL, 600, 000.
"A reader Of the Boston Globe re-
| nprto tbot tha ,rOrl gsIt,ia1S 10 70 hn
| found in the dictionary of the Swahili
language spoken by PzangibGs ne
| groes-that the plural is ''mastude"-
and the word itself probably older
than the hills.
Prince Bismarck's decllnation to
become Duke Bismarck, on the ground
that he has not the ways and means
to cut the proper ducal dash, will occa-
sion hilarious suspicious that the Iron
Chancellor IS getting unusually ironi-
cal. Bismarck would be rated A / In
the mercantile lexlcons.
1t is seldom that three Expresses
meet each other at the same time.
That unusual sight was seen in Berlin
recently. Stranger still was the fact
that they were mother, daughter and
mother-in-law. Perhaps a similar &C.
cuTrence has never been seen in the
worlds history.
"A German newspaper tells OF an
old gypsy fiddler who awoke II night
to find his hut flooded with water, and
who, having no movable goods except
ar old bed.stead, a stool and a bass
| viol, seated himself on the latter and
padded to dry land, using one Of the
Stats of his bed as an oar.
Queen Christina, OF Spain, has a
mania for being photographed in COM
pany with her children. a recent pic
tuTe presents a most charming family
group. 1t represents the queen regent
pouring tea at table, the baby king in
his high chair at her side and the two
infants looking demure and beautiful
in their PLAIN white dresses.
John Quincy Adams body servant
while he was President, was Borney
Norris, a Virginia negro, who has Just
died at Galeua, Ills, a. an advanced
age. When he was IA boy he was a
| slave in Commodore Stephen Decatur's
family, and was present at the duel
ling ground at BladensbuTg when his
master was killed by Commodore
Barron.
The Lefl-Ilanded Clubof Houston,
Texas, has hanging over one OF the
doors of Its house Horseshoe, or rather
a muleshoe, with a history. One day
last summer at lass CavallO a mule
waded out into deep water. First he
knew Ii of his hind legs disappeared
into the big mouth of a passing shark.
A few days atterwaTd tie shark was
caught by the crew of the State Quar-
nntine schooner, and the leg OF The
mule was found in the interior of th.,
big fish. The shoe was taken from the
hoof, and now keeps OF the witches In
the home of the aforementioned
Left Handed Club.
Mr.. Maignen last year made a sue.
ceSsfull and satisfactory exhibition Of
his process for softening water by
means of the material called ''antical-
caire." Steam boilers which have al
ready slightly incrusted with lime
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