The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-21
NUMBERS S.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Darwin's Life has reached a sale
of $4,000 in England.
The founder Of the Adams Express
Company, Alvin Adams, started his
career as al office boy in a Boston
hotel.
w. W. Corcoran, the p~hilanthro-
pist millionaire, who died recently,
was born in Washington, Nov. q.
1898.
"A prisoner in the Ohio Peniten-
tIaTy fighting with a guard, said he
would die before he would yield. He
died.
Tile centennial of Washington's
Inauguration in New York as Presi.
dent, occurs April 20, 1859. 1t will be
duly celebrated.
"A movement has been started in
Boston to provide a memorial building
In honor of the memory Of the late
Wendell Phillips.
The venerable John G. Whittier,
the Quaker poet has a lingering fond
ness for the trade he learned as a boy,
that of shoenaklng.
No foreign Jews are allowed to
settle in Jerusalem. Jewish visitors
are only allowed to stop thirty days.
lady Morell Mackenzie, in addi-
ton to the India shawl she recently
received from the queen, has several
valuable gifts from tie German royal
family.
Washington was a distinguished
colonel in the amy at twenty-five,
early in public affairs commander of
the forces at forty-three, and PresI-
dent at ffty-seven.
Denver las In it more men worth
over $500 ,0OJ than any other city in
the United States, except New York
and Philadelphia. They all made their
fortunes out Of mining.
Napoleon at twenty-five com.
manded the Army of Italy. AT
thirty he was not only one of the most
i!lustrious generals of all time, but n
of the great %law-givers of the world.
AT forty.six he saw Waterloo.
With the mercury at 81 degrees
below at Eagle Rock, Idaho, a locomo-
tive taking water from a tank, the flow
of which could not be stopped, was
frozen instantly in a bed of ice extend
ing three car lengths and to the tops
u rs lutE
1t is said that George Gould does
not spend over 81 GO a year on clothes.
lie Is very modest in his taste and ale
WAYS selects good, plain cloth, but is
very particular regarding the fit, His
younger brother Edwin IS more of a
dude.
In order to try the extent to
which 4 tragic actress Is moved by the
whirl OF stage passion, sarah Bern
haTdt's pulse was once tested at the
wings Immediately after IA scene of
great intensity. 1t licked as regularly
and normally as an eight day clock.
Jonathan Edwards acquired early
renown as the greatest metaphysician
in America and as unsurpassed by
any one in Europe. He commenced
the reading of Latin when six years
old. AT ten lie wrote a remarkable
paper upon the Immortality of the
soul. AT the age of thirteen he en-
tered Yale college, where he gradu-
ated four years later.
Madame Munkacsy, wife of the
painter. has been so impressed by her
husbands glowing accounts of America
that she has made up her mind to pay
this country a visit at the earliest oD-
portunity. In the meantime she is
paying particular attention to Ameri-
can visitors In Paris, to whom she ex-
tends an o~pen-handed hospitality.
Madame Munkacsy was the widow of
a wealthy Austrian baron when she
married the Hungarian painter.
The die of the Goddess of Liberty
used on our coins was first cut by Mr..
Spencer, the inventor of the Spencer
lathe. He cut a medallion Of Mrs.
Washington, wife of General Wash
ington, and some of the first issue of
coins were struck with her portrait.
When General Washington first saw
them he was much d~ispleased, and re-
quested that The figure be changed.
Mr.. Spencer then placed a cap on the
head, altered the features a little, and
called it the Goddess of Liberty. 1t
has been used ever since then without
material alteration.
The Royal Botanic Garden of Cal
cutta has completed the first century
Of its existence. 1t practically estab-
lished the now tiouTishing tea industry
OF that country. The Directors were
the first to grow potatoes in India,
and they imported the c%hinchona tree
from South America, and made India
one OF the great quinine-producing
countries Of the world. From the
West Iudies they bought the best va
rietles of sugar cane, while systematic
and successful experiments we're made
in the garden with flax, hemp, tobacco.
India rubber, tapioca, cocoa, coffee,
vanilla, ipecacuanna many other
valuable products.
in Morocco the bastinado is used
on the slightest provocatlon. Not long
ago the keeper OF the prison there wa
asked by an American traveller, whom
for some reason he was anxious to
please. what the punishment of the bas-
tinado was like. The answer was that
he should see for himself. In a few
minutes a man was brought in, fast
ened to the floor face downward and
terribly beaten upon the upturned soles
Of his bare feet. The screams and en-
treaties of the poor wretch were so
heartrending that our cOuntryman in
terfered and begged for mercy, when
the punishment was Immediately
stopped. "What has this man doneP"
said he to the officer. Nothing" was
the reply. ''rhen what are you whip
ping him for9" was the amazed ques-
ton, which was answered IN a tone of
equal establishment, "Why, didn't you
ask to see a man ba~stInaIoed2" They
had gone into the street, seized q
pasSer-by, and severely whipped an ill
offensive man merely to crafty the
curiosity of an amiable foreigner.
In the large plains known as the
Llandee9, in southwestern France,
| .-lt.G r-n N-1N1 Nnr,. H.,I, A.
people are in the habit of using stills.
The latter are not held in the hands,
but are firmly strapped to the sides of
the leg. The person wearing them
carries a long pole to balance himself
and aid him in walking. This pole
has usually a cross-piece at II end, SO
that, by putting it at a slant on the
ground behind him, the ''stilter" can
sit down on il and rest. II tS a com.