The Penn's Grove record., 1888-06-16
NUMBER 46:
NEWS IN BRIEF,

The Prince of Monaco ia 20 year.
old and has an income of 5000, 900.
The largest fish market in tie
world is Billingsgate, London, whers
$4,000 tons OF fish are sold a year.
Sir Morell Mackenzie Is really q
Hebrew, assert some German papers,
and his rightful name is Moro Marco.
witt.
An egg of the extinct great aux
was recently sold in London for SllOO.
1t is said to have been bought for an
American.
More than $751; has, 1t is said,
been already collected for a present to
Alexandra, princess of Wales, for her
silver wedding.
Arkansas and Texas claim that the
immigration into those States during
the past year has been greater than in
any previous season.
Norway has a battalion of armed
skaters, who maneuver readily on the
ice or snow. Their skates are SIX
inches wide and nine long.
The English call an elevator n
lift" and the French call it a ''help,"
while the Scotch put In their oar by
referring to it as a drop"
Cork is the latest material pro-
posed for making railroad cars. The
idea is that in case of collision It would
simply bound off the track.
Tea cultivation, 1t is said, is to be
tried by a rancher at Elko. New, who
proposes employing Indian women and
children to gather the leaves,
Mrs. G. II. Moore, of Philadelphia,
wears the most costly diamonds of ali
the society women of the Quaker City.
Her jewels are said to be worth about
5000 DOC.
The Prince Of Naples, crown
prince Of Italy, Is, 1t is rumored, q
candidate for the hand of Princess
Sophie, daughter OF Emperor Fred
erick, OF Germany.
The profession of '~'chirrupper"
has been brought before the courts.
A c%hirrupper encourages the singers in
music halls, and one has been sent to
Jail for blackmail.
"A convention of lawyers was
held in Washington on May % to form
a national bar association and to urge
upon the several States the adoption Of
uniform marriage aud divorce laws.
"A. woman in Tennessee found a
bombshell the other day and decided to.
use II as a hand-iron. She put it on
the stove to heat and went about her
cooking. The funeral was largely at
tended.
"A thief stole the fruit trees one
night last week that John Cooper, a
farmer living near Abilene, had planted
during the day. 1t is still customary
to leave the railroads III Kansas out
over night.
Mime. Janauschek's name is pro-
nounced in three or four different
ways, but her own way is as though
the name were spelled "Yan-ow-shek,"
with each syllable plainly sounded, and
the accent upon the first.
One OF the most enterprising of
the newspapers of Buenos Ayres is
edited by Winslow, the Boston forger.
Since he became Il citizen of the Argen-
tine Republic lie is said to have
amassed a fortune of S500,0 00.
The North American aborlglnes
recognize no greater delIcacy than
boiled dog, the animal being immersed
IN the pots without the formality OF
skinning or otherwise cleaning, and
regard the intestines as the choicest
part of a buffalo or steer.
-Wonk Kong, a Chinaman, who
lives in Harlem and has a grocery
store in New York city, thinks he eau
beat champion ''Jim" Albert in u
walking match. "His confidence is
based on the fact that he always walks
down to business, and frequently gets
to Chatham Square before a horse car
with which he starts even."
The health of New York compares
very unfavorably with that of London.
The annual mortality in tine British
metropolis is about 20 in 1000, while in
New York it is % in 1000. The pop
ulation of New York Is also much
more crowded, there being all average
of IL persons to a dwelling, while in
London the average is only Z.
Trees long retain the scars in
flcted upon them by rife balls, and
trees are standing on the old Indian
battle ground near Dawson, Ga that
still bear the scars of the rifle balls fired
into them during the fight of July,
1886. The pine tree that one of the
soldiers assembled to spy out the move
ments OF the Indians is still there.
The decay of American teeth, and
to some extent the loss of teeth of all
civilized races, has been accounted for
by the ablest English authorities OH
the score of the heavier draughts made
by the brain on our general physical
and nerve systems. 1t Is supposed that
the force that would be applied to re-
pairing the teeth is used elsewhere.
The high license system in Florida
is a rigorous one. Under its prOvis-
Ions an applicant for a License must
have his application signed by 300 cit
liens and printed III the county paper
at his own expense. He must pay for
his license Sl5O to the State, Sl5U to the
County Treasurer, and Sl5J to tie
town or city in which he proposes to
sell.
Mr.. ASsheton Smith has planted
the side Of a mountain on his estate at
Llandielnolen with forest trees so ar
ranged as tn display the words "Ju-
bilee, 1851" in letters 2QO yards long
by % feet wide, to all the surrounding
country. The letters are worked in
trees Of ilght-colOred foliage planted
amid others forming a dark back
ground, and $4,000 have been used in
the undertaking.
According to the Chicago Mai!,
Mr.. IL. w. Seymour, the new editor of
the Herald of that city, used to be
telegraph editor of the Chicago Times,
when that paper was notorious for It's
sensational headlines. and it was he
who put the caption ''Jerked to Jesus''
over the new of a hanging. But he
did it only at Mr.. Storey's dIctation,
and far from being proud of 1t now
regrets that he ever did such work.
There are said to be several gyp-
sizes in New York that are worth over
100000 apiece.
In a certain reference suit In LON
don the cost on one side has already