The Penn's Grove record., 1888-02-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

INLNC 4AN bltkllt
james Welch, OF Portland, Ne,
was fined $500 aud sentenced to is
months in jail for liquor selling re-
Gently.
1t takes 1880, 600 gallons of oil a
year to keep the railways of Great
Britain going, and the cost IS nearly
$1,000, 900.
Echoes of the cold spell are still
being heard. The Newark JoHTadl
learns that it caused several dogs in
Beverly to 60 mad.
DIR. Buisson, of Paris, claims TO
cure hydrOphobia by hot baths often
repeated. He makes the patient re-
main continually IN a hot room and the
baths are made as hot as li2 degs.
Silver mining has been added TO
the industries IN Indiana, the Buck
Shoals Silver Mining Company having
beg IN TO smelt ore at the mines on the
White River, ten miles northeast Of
Jasper.
Joseph L~ippincott, of Burlington,
y. j., is three months old. weighs less
than two pounds, and is the smallest
inhabitant of tina: place. When born
the babe weighed Ii pound three
ounces,
The stockton (Kas.l Democrat
tells of a man III Rocks county, that
state, who las been arrested for steal
ing a school house. He had removed
the building to his " residence and
converted it into a kitchen.
-'Tomah. Witch" pronounced the
Oldest member of the Passamaquoddy
tribe of Indians in Maine, Is seriously
III. He1s said to be 1O7 years of age.
lie raised a good crop last year and en-.
gagged in hunting and trapping during
the fall.
An old widow, who had been sup.
ported by charity for twenty years,
died lately near London, England.
After her funeral there were found
sewed in the pillow case almost two
thousand dollars in silver and notes,
some of the latter forty years old.
Frank Moxie, Of Dakota, was
about to be married, but was busy with
u game of poker. The minister who
was to perform the ceremony went to
inform him that the company was
waiting. got interested and took a hand
and the wedding had TO be postponed.
AT the Minnesota State fair a Gu
riOus clock is on exhibition. 1t is made
oil red Cedar and is the work of an in
mate Of the North Dakota peniten-
tiary. a jackknife was the only tool
used. In the gable OF a Swiss cottage
sets the face OF the clock, with balco-
nies, piazzas and windows around it.
-C9ldwater, Mich, Las a schoolgirl
OF l4years who is quite a trapper. She
has a dozen traps set, and has already
sold n or two fine mink skins. She
has also toyed with a revolver enough
TO send one bullet through her finger
and another into the calf OF her leg.
Tax Collector Thaxton, of Butts
County, Georgia, has a copper piece
coined in 1863, on one side of which is
a Confederate flag, surrounded by the
words "Our flag, 1861" and on the
other side the word Dixie" sur
rounded by the motto, "lf any one al
tempts to tear it down, shoot him on
the spot"
An immense picture Of the cruel
fixion was recently found painted in
oil with a great deal OF artistic sA!I on
the wall of a cave on the !sIand IF
Davaar, in Completion Hagbor, SCOT
land. The discovery made q great
sensation until a Mr. Archibald Nc
kinuon acknowledge :has j. aad
been painted By him,
"A Hungarian Lis.5f q. r1uraz-
ing through the asch!y-s a. glt4-
Pesth, discovered over 40 N...a 5Assfi
between 1902 and l31t, w1.cE aAd :
put away 50 safely Tia. they tad peea
lost sight OF, and tie s.:ates 10 Ealca
they related bave been treated a.
though the persons making them had
died intestate. 4 dreadful crop 0;
lawsuits is expected to follow.
Several years ago watermelons
were almost unknown in California,
An old Missourlan, who owned forty
acres near Lodi and who had raised
the fruit in old Missouri, planted his
whole lot to melons. Ills neighbors
laughed at the idea of melons growing
without rain, and he was called the
Doss crank OF the century. But the
vines thrlyed and bore melons, 10000
of them, and he cleared so, 900 from
his forty acres. and now Lodi is the
great melon district of the Pacific
slope,
There are now cables Oh almost
every sea ard ocean bed, the total
length of wire laid, beng nearly 1l3, 900
nautical miles. There are nine cables
connecting Europe with America. the
first that was laid dating from 1865,
SO great also has the advance been in
the operative aspect of cable tele.
graphy, tina, practically no more DIM
Guilty is felt in repairing submarine
lines than in attending to defects in
those on land. 1t Is seldom that aay
serious arrangement of the tele-
graphic system takes place. When II
does, II IS comparatively Of short dura-
ton.