The Penn's Grove record., 1888-01-21
NUMBER %.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NETO ~ DfLIEp.
Six and a half tons of diamonds
have been taken from the African
mines within a few years, aud yet some
people cling 10 ''Rhtnestones."
"A richly cut, solid glass bedstead
has been recently made at a Birming-
nam, England, factory for a Calcutta
millionaire. The king Of Burmah also
has one.
"A physician has discovered that
the older a man grows the smaller his
brain becomes. This explains why the
young men know everything and the
old men know nothing.
Nevada is about as proud over the
fact that a big vein OF fine anthracite
coal has been struck, as it is of Its
silver mines. There's about as much
money III the coal, too, as in the silver.
The Alaskan Indian is pre-emi-
nently the dude of his race. He is al
ways clad in handsome furs or blankets,
and carries "A w~alking-stick which is
often a beautiful specimen Of elaborate
carving.
Mosquitoes in China have a very
poisonous sting, In a Tientsia hospital
there were at one time last summer a
man with an ahsCess in his face and
another with blood-poIsoning from the
bite of the insects.
The congregation in a Bloomfield
IN. ID church II night or two ago was
startled By a strange animal observed
walking about among the chairs. The
visitor was run down aud killed, when
1t was found to be an opossum.
An electric motor Car is to be run
eXperimentaIly on tie Tenth avenue
line, New York, throughout the win
ter. Should it prove able to cope with
the heavy weather, it is considered
likely horses will tie dispensed with in
the spring.
"A weeping rose tree in a garden at
koosteren, Holland, Is so large that
thirty performers lately gave a concert
under Its branches. 1t is 65 feet In
circumference, and it has been esti-
mated that it had 10000 roses at the
time OF the performance.
Mrs. Nancy Honaker, of Floyd
county, Kentucky, is the owner of a
mule which has been a resident Of
that State over sixty years, and she
knows not how much longer. The
animal served through the war and
was in some hot battles. He is still
capable of good service.
TO determine whether her two
canaries possessed the sense of color,
a Chicago lady placed before them two
bathing cups, one of ordinary white
ware, the other of colored glass. After
a mnnant's hn5ttation tha hide
plunged into the colored cup, and
have since refused to battle in any
other.
"A postage stamp "exchange,"
which was lately held in a restaurant
on the I~nsa copy Of the Rural is re-
I'M er with live copies of its series ct, ,
Cartoons printed on fins.a nour
ported tN..:,- 49, c.Iu the saGeS were
large. 1t is algeaGy proposed to create
brokerage system for the benefit Of
foreign collectors.
The new Maine law forbidding
children less than IL years Of age to
work IN the mills, aul requiring that
all bet ween the ages of II and 10 shall
nave at least sixteen weeks schooling
each year, has increased the attend
ance at the schools remarkably. 1t has
also increased the age of small children
remarkably, as the mill superintendent
lind when they take the ages OF opera
tive5. .,'
While a number of Indians were
taking a ride on the platform of a mail
car near Pocatello, Utah, recently, the
trainmen noticed that one of the red
skins was summed by all the others.
The grimaces of disgust bestowed upon
the ostracized member of the party led
to an investigation, which revealed
that the lonely n was a tramp DIS
gnised as an Indian in order TO get free
transportation.
in Algeria there Is a small stream
which the chemistry of nature has con-
verted into true ink. 1t Is formed by
the union Of two ~rlyulets, one of
which is very strongly i~mpregnated
with iron, while the other, m~eandering
through a peat marsh, imbibes GALLO
acid, another ingredient in the forma-
tion of ink. Letters and other manu-.
script matters are satisfactorily written
with this singular natural compound
Of Iron and gallo acid.
An Orange Heights (FIa.) woman
turned her horse out in the pasture
the other afternoon, and was looking
at it as it fed, when il disappeared
right before her eyes. When she
reached the place where the animal
had stood she found that the earth had
sunk eight feet below the surface. The
horse was got out none the worse for
the adventure, but why the earth gave
way has mo- yet been explained.
"A newly patented pavement Ia said
TO have been suggested by the surface
OF an elephants tooth, which consists
OF intermiDgled layers of hard and soft
material, so that tho of wearing
always produces a series of ridges upop
tue surface. The new system of paw
ing is the idea OF Mr.. lanyard, the
English astronomer, and comprises the
use of blocks having alternate hard aud
SOFT layers, such as Portland cement
and a mixture Of sand and cement,
which are set upon edge so that the
edges OF these laminae form q wearing
surface. The blocks aIe mads four
Inches high, and may be worn to less
thanan inch without becoming smooth,
like granite blocks.
Some very singular electrical phe-
DAaiNA CIV OOnSi Ntu ltCclllly. OH lWC
very dry days, at a printing office in
Malnz, when the whole establishment
seemed to be converted into a huge
electric battery. Electric sparks sew
eral centimeters long could be drawn
with the fingers from all parts OF the
printing machinery, Just as may be
done from a charged electric machine.
The action OF the sparks became so
pronounced that the layers-on and
takers-off refused to work, as burning
sparks were emitted every time the
machines were touched with the hands.
The phenomena lasted for two days.
AT the distribution in November,
1887, of the annual "prlzes of virtue,n
awarded by the French Academy, the
Montyon prize of 1000 francs was given
to Jean Ado!phe Delaney, a Calais
pilot, who has twenty-one times risked
his life in saving shipwrecked crews.
In one case. in 1867, twelve English
sailors had launched the llfeboat and
ATTEMPTED to Iescup a crew in danuaYL