The Penn's Grove record., 1888-05-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hoffman,.
Foreign scientists have discovered
minute diamonds in meteorites found
in Siberia.
More than 200, 600 bird skins are
now shown at the Natural History
Museum in London.
I'm Morocco women who talk scandal
are punished by having cayenne pepper
rubbed into their lips.
Henry Clay was In the Senate of
the United States at t~wenty-nine, con-
trary tothe Constitution.
John Hampton, after graduating
at Oxford, was a student at law in tho
Inner Temple at nineteen.
Maurice of Saxony died at thirty
two, conceded to have been one of the
profoundest statesmen and one of the
Iablest generals which, Christendom has
seen.
On December 7, 1887, the King Of
Spain, aged eighteen months, was
taken to the Senate House and placed
on his fathers throne, with all the
paraphernalla, and amid great enthus-
|iasnl.
DIR. Schliemann has discovered the
location of the temple of Aphrodite
Urania in Cythera. Rain-storms and
an ~inundation of the river compelled
him, however, to return to Athens via
Sparta.
There are 200 private railroad cars
in the United States, representing a
value Of nearly s., 600. 900. They are
worth anywhere from 81, 900 to $6e, 900
leach tho moot lpvuriN,a rrnhohl,,
being that owned by George NJ. Pull
man.
The cornflower that was the IA
vorite of Kaiser Willamette blue
"~bachelor's button" of this latitude
is said to be the badge of the Liberal
party In Belgium. while the red poppy
is that of the Conservatives or Clerical
party.
From the earliest years of Queen
Elizabeth to the latest of Queen Vic
toria, England has had scarce an able
statesman who did not leave the uni
versity by the time he was twenty,
and many Of them left at an earlier
iage.
The late Lord ~Beacons6eld left the
l~cloister and entered the great world
early, as did John Bright, and CON-
menced his political career by writing
a book at seventeen, in which he pre-
dicted that he would be Prime Min
lister.
"A Kansas prairie chicken Is cred
tied with causing the stoppage of a
train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad
by flying against the bell 0 p and
striking it with such force as to ring
signal gong In the locomotive.
The wooden cross marking the
place where King of Bavaria Ludwig
ii. met his death, is to be replaced by
small chapel built on piles. King
Otho's condition has undergone no
change; on the last visit paid to him by
his mother he failed to recognize her.
"A traveller on a Georgia railroad
wanted to get off at a station where the
train did not stop. 1t was after dark,
aud so when the conductor woul not
agree to stop for him. the passenger
went to the front platform of the rear
car, drew the coupling pin, set the
brakes, and when the car stopped
jumped of.
AT Omaha, recently, the two-year-
old son of a Bohemian farmer fell 70
feet to the bottom Of a dry well. As
the latter was too narrow for a man to
descend, the work of widening it with
shovels was begun. After sixty hours
imprisonment the youngster was res.
cued, apparently little the worse for
his experience.
M. Gervais, a French authority,
says there are men capable of bearing
arms-in Germany, 5000, 900; in
France, A ,5Oo, 900; in Australia ungary,
800, 600; in Italy, 2 000, 600; in Eng
land, 5000, 900; in Russia, 5000, 900,
and In all other European States,
900, DOC. That gives a total of "a
y 10000. OF that number 10000, 900
are trained soldiers.
The latest entertainments In Chi
cago, according to an exchange, are
bird talk matinees." These consists
of a lecture ''replete with pretty
stories and unheard-of facts, coupled
with bits of verses and snatches of BIZ
ography. On a stand near the lee
turer are birds in variety-wrens, lays,
ravens, ~bObolinks, robins and larks-
illustrative of the lecture" The la
dies attend in ''pretty carriage and
street dresses"
In a carefully compiled table OF
labor statistics in the United States,
France, England aud Germany, 1t ap-
pears that labor of all kinds, skilled
and unskilled, Is paid over one humid
red per cent. more in the United States
than in any of the other countries
named. In some ~cases-notably in the
wages of women-the difference is
over three hundred per cent. in favor
of the United States.
There is living in Chennubbee.
Sumter county, Ga, a country girl
named Irene Wilkinson, who is quite a
curiosity. She is "a years old, weighs
II pounds, measures 2 feet 2 inches
around the head, 2 feet 4 inches
around h waist, 3 feet 4 inches high
and has arms and legs only Is inches
long. She is quite intelligent, does
good needlework, and also the cooking
for her aged father and mother.
Berlin, it seems, has gradually be-
come the headquarters Of the carved
wood industry, supplantlns Switzer-
land. Six hundred artists In wood
carving, the same number of turner's
and 700 carpenters are engaged In
manufacturing such articles as cigar
cases, newspaper ana picture frames,
napkin rings, etc. The value of the
annual export of these articles is given
as 100000 marks, and this is exclu-
sive of the costly carved wood furni-
ture, the manufacture and export of
which are assuming large proportions.
1t is interesting to learn that Mrs.
Cleveland always calls her husband
'Mr. PRESIDENT" Mr.. Cleveland adj
dresses his wife as Frank" Martha
Washington, in her younger days,
called her husband George" but in
the last twenty-five years of her life
always addressed him as General"
While in the White House Mrs. Hayes
called her husband "Mr. Hayes"
Mrs. Lincoln aud Mrs. Garfield always
addressed their husbands respectively
as "Abram" and "Jim." Now the
question is. what should a Presidents
wife. according to etiquette. call her