The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.

q ght TO nine hours repose.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt pays
Atr physician $4,000 a year.
Insurance was in general usa in
Italy, ll9l, and England, 1860.
AT Monersville, penna., Jove's
thunderbolt deigned to kill a cat.
Mary Andsr5on's half brother has
a rancho in Colorado, and he is said to
be the handsome5t cowboy in America.
"A Baltimore lawyer has INDUCED
In a speech 50 hours long.
-BorIngs around West Point, Ky,.
have revealed the existence of large
deposits Of salt and an abundance of
gas.
1t is said that tie Ccaiuy Mtaga-
zine receives al average OF 1000 man
uscripts Il month from literary aspi-
rants.
An artesian well sunk under the
alt waters of New York bay OIL the
Jersey side produces pure fresh water
in abundance.
Mrs. Frank Leslie told a reporter
recently that she had TO decline ION an
average two offers Of marriage every
uay OF ler HE.
Although 900 OF Talmage's con-
gregatlOn are hasking in the sunlight OF
Europe the Tabernacle is about as
crowded as ever.
The smallest baby vet is Miss
Minnie, of Chicago, who brought into
this vale OF tears lust thirteen ounces
of flesh and blood.
Bridal parties and titled foreigners
appear to have adopted lagara Falls
as their own, as they are said to form
the majority of the visitors.
Some forty.three descendants of
Rebecca Nourse, title piOus witch of
1922" pIcknicked in her honor at
Danvers Centre, Mass. the other day.
"A whole village in Brazil has &C.
cepted the Gospel through the instru-
mentality of a young business man,
who invited a missionary to that
place.
Over So, 900, 900 have been ex-
pended in Australia during the past
three years and a half to exterminate
rabbits. and they are more numerous
than ever.
The French crops have been dis
%astrously affected by the weather.
According to the returns the yield of
wheat will probably be 81, Gao, 600 hec-
tolitres short.
Mark Twain is an enthusiast re-
gardIng baseball, and attends all the
games played at Hartford. lie is
studying that department of American
humor which deals with unpires, but
finds that it offers but little insi ration.
More than three hundred Italian
labOrers sailed from New York for
home the other day, being unable to
obtain employment. Two briganGs,
who had been confined ever since their
arrival, were sent back 10y the same
steamer.
During a recent fete of the b.
I"Fna university the students of Parma
,ent to their Bologna brethren a Par
mesan cheese weighing LOO pounds and
covered with Latin inscriptions worked
in m%acaroni. A huge tuu Of Barbera
wine went with it.
The Danish Government has
granted a sum of : 400 for the pur-
pose Of having the oyster banks in
Denmark examined by an expert. His
object will be to ascertain the results
of their continued preservation, with u
view to the resumption of fishing.
The ancestral home of the Wash
ington family, IN Northamptonshire,
England, is to be sold. The estate
contains 22O acres, and was granted to
Lawrence Washington IN 1915. His
son, Lawrence, emIgrated to Virginia,
and was Gen. George Washington's
ancestor.
~ new state is about to I've added
to the sisterbUOi OF nations. Letters
patent have been granted to 1.-THE
British East African Company" giving
them full power to erect and maintain
Il government, with taxes and army.
1t lies north of the German East
African Society near Zanzibar, and
includes some of the finest land in
Central Africa.
"A curious custom that attracts the
attention of a stranger in Panama Is
the spectacle of native women walking
along the street smoking long, slender
cigars. 1t is the custom of the women
there to gather in the public market as
early as sunrise to gossip and talk over
affairs while enjoying Their morning
smoke.
The annual report Of the Canadian
fisheries department says the catch of
fish last year was valued at SlS.2S0,-
600, against SIS PA 600 in the previous
year. The lobster catch declined in
value 1891 600, and that Of cod S254,-
coo. Exports to tie United States
reached s., III, 600, or 40 per cent of
the total export.
An industrious English oma
has discovered what the average Eng
lish person expends annually for dress.
She found one lady who, with an ill
come Of $500, spent only $50 during
the year on her dresses. Another, who
with her husband, receives an Income
of Fl, 800, spends only $50, while her
husband gets along on G26 per auuum.
A boy has died in the Natchez
miss hospital under peculiar circum-
stances, and the theory is that his
death was due to a snake bite which
he received more than Il year ago. 1t
is said he exhibited all the symptoms
of ~hydTophOhia except An Aversion to
water, which lie drank with avidity
but which Lis stomach rejected
1t is alleged That recently in Nag.
pore, IGdsi a hey OF 10 was offered
IA sacrifice 20 the gods, in accordance
with q superstition that human sacri-
fees caused Il bountiful harvest. The
head was severed from the body and
Offered TO a goddess, while the body
was rendered TO a god.
w. Mosley, at Quincy. Mass, no.
tIced that his finest DOG was aillng, and
In 4 short time the animal was froth-
ing at the mouth, and gave other evil
dences OF being affected with hydro
phObia aud tried TO bite everything that
came in his way. Mr., Mosley having
heard that water thrown on a mad dog
would have I peculiar effect, he OBJ
tanned a bucket OF water aud dashed
it on the animal, aud in less than five
minutes the dog was dead.
"A novelty in the way of com.
mencement exercises was seen at u
New York Grammar school. After
the singing and Iecitltions the girls