The Penn's Grove record., 1888-01-14
NUMBER "a.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

AT Il sale Of autographs 10 Paris a
letter written by Charles TX brought
$50, Il by Louis XIV So and a Mo-
Fart manuscript $50.
Another walking phenomenon is
reported from Pierson county, 5. G. a
despatch credits him with being per-
fectly sane, and says lie would like to
stop walking, but cannot.
AT Oxford, Pa, the other dag, a
sparrow hoped upon a pile OF clans
and was suddenly imprisoned by one
of the biyalycs, which closed it's shell
together over the binds feet.
The first translation into English
of a Hebrew novel will shortly appear.
France first discovered that there were
Hebrew novels worth t~Tanslating, and
has had them for some years.
THE Japanese have a legend that
fish are the embodiment of the souls OF
naval officers, and the African ne.
groes believe that magicians assume
the shape of fish and come to their
nets to work evil.
A lady interfered with an impa-
tient driver in Lynn and started q
stubborn, balky horse attached to a
heavily loaded coal wagon by giving
the animal four apples and then sim
ply saying, Come along
"A 5000 foot well is being sunk at
San Diego, Cal, 1t is hoped that a
supply of water equivalent to 2,000,-
900 gallons in every twenty-fOur hours
will be obtained from that and an
other deep well now beng sunk.
There Is Il cotton plant at Mar
coOssee, Fla, which is over five feet
across the branches and has from $50
to 400 blooms, buds, and bolls. 1t
contains cotton in all its stages, from
the swelling bud to the mature article
itself.
"A flock of seagulls were seen re-
Gently on the Scbuylkill river, neal
Hamburg, Pa. One Of the birds was
shot. 1t Is supposed that tue dense
fogs and storms on the Atlantic coast,
100 miles from Hamburg, drove them
inland.
Monkeys IN Eastern countries are
said to acquire such IA fOndness fol-
opium that they will habitually smoke
any that may be left IN the pipe when
the master lays it down, and when
deprived OF 1t Will snffer from ner-
vousness and depression.
"A Kansas City confectIOner drew
crowds of curious people to his store
n sold quantities of candy by sus-
pending five dead mice from miniature
scaffolds and labelling them with the
names of the condemned Anarchists.
The toughest resident of Silver
City, Ari., is a little Indian boy who
was captured during Geronimo's raid
two years ago. lie is only t years
old, but lie has already nearly Killed a
boy by cutting him with a bowie knife.
Pennsylvania has two of the thirty
eight widows of Revolutionary soldiers
who draw pensions from the Govern
ment. susan Curtis. of Maine, and
Nau.J nf'u., u H3-n~Azsa ara i,rnha-
bly, the Oldest widows.
"A merchant of Merrill, Wis, has
adopted a novel and successful method
of advertising. lie took his old white
COW, plastered her over from head to
neels with advertisements, and set her
at large in the streets Of the town.
-"Diamond," a cat famous as a
prize winner for which an offer OF Sl3l.
is said to have been refused, died il
Hartford recently. She was of int
tiger variety, and so large that size
was unable to stand under ali ordinary
chair.
"A party Of sporting men in .Har.
lem, n. y, recently witnessed about
tie ~strangest contest on record. 1t
vas a fight between a ferret and a
cat, and a lively and exciting battle
rDS1t1toI fHha atiInn1c fnInht ton
minutes, and the referee decided the
battle a draw.
"A sea turtle, weighing about 1000
pounds, eight feet in length from nose
to tail, two feet through and eight
feet from clipper to clipper, was caught
by James Buero. a Sequel fisherman,
while out with nets fishing near Capt..
tola, Cal, a few days ago. 1t is the
largest sea turtle ever caught on the
Pacific coas'.
"A woman of jersey City recently
brought home a strange egg as the
souvenir of a trip and placed it on the
parlor table. One week after she was
surprised to SEE "a little turtle break
the shell of the egg and slowly crawl
out. The heat of the room had
Matched it.
The coolest known spot on earth
is WerchOiausk, in Siberia. The mean
temperature for the year 1855 was
2.9o F., below zero for January and
December it "a G2 % below, and for
July it rose TO 6O.Go above zero. The
lowest temperature in July was 1925
above, while in January a fall To SS.6 c
below zero was experienced. Wercho-
IanSE 10 in t1ffttla tTG2If Innrftr,la
1881.
The continuous decrease of crime
in England is very remarkable. So re-
Gently as 1869 the prisons contaihed nc
less than ll,6OO convicts. In July last
there were only 7,4Il. What is also
very interesting the education act
marked the turning point Ill the his
tory of crime, Since the passage OF
that act the decrease of crime has
been steady.
"A remarkable accident recently
occurred at Chapul,cpeo. a YOUTH
full student named Contreras was
about to cast in bronze a small statue
representing the Aztec emperor Cuauh.
temOc in torture, when the vessel con-
tanning the molten metal burst and let
it fall on his feet, producing horrible
burns, similar to those inflicted on the
tortured emperor.
"A young lady of Philadelphia. a
teacher in a young ladies' seminary at
Newburg, escaped death III Il remark
able manner. ''She attempted to get
on a car on a West Shore passenger
train on her way To Philadelphia. The
train started and she lost her balance,
rolling between the trucks. y brake
beam showed her OF the track into the
ieep snow and size again rolled on the
edge of the track. Again did the same
thing happen. Thomas Gilhooly. a
~newsboy, grasped the young lady and
attempted to keep her from the rails,
but she slipped from lis grasp. The
last ear of the train had, however,
passed and Mss Bigler was picked up
without having received a scratch
Tie Japanese Bamboo never grows