The Penn's Grove record., 1888-08-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.

manufactured in the United States
annually, one-fourth Of which are *
ported.
"A comparison of the work of Eng
lish, French and American detectives
show the latter to be IL per cent.
ahead all around.
The coins struck at the Berlin
mint duriug the reign of the late EN-
peror Frederick are already scarce and
at a big premium.
One hundred and six million feet
of lumber, valued at 81 1890, 900, has
been shipped from F~ernandlna, Fla,
in the current year.
Thirty bushels per acre the county
through is the measure of wheat Just
harvested and threshed In Carroll
county, Maryland.
More than 1000, 600 working peo-
pie in the United States are now idle.
In New York city alone 81, 600 men
and $4,000 women are out of work.
Sir Isaac Newton's autograph, in
the shape of a letter, brought S3l5 at
a recent sale In England. 1t was
bought for Trinity college, Cambridge.
"A Cincinnati druggist has killed a
PntnChb W ihohluS q IhloIuhC III PuttluS
up a prescription, the first mistake III
eight years and in 200 900 prescriptions.
"A turtle weighing 800 pounds,
containing 500 eggs and measuring
nearly five feet by three feet, was
caught on the beach at New Smyrna,
Fla, recently,
Tho prize of 10. 900 francs offered
by the city of Paris for the best musi-
cal composition was kept back for the
reason that none of the compositions
was considered worthy of it.
The richest peer in England is the
Duke Of Westminster, who own vast
estates in Cheshire and in Wales. His
income is said to equal thirty shilling
a minute.
The cord and tassel is a favorite
mode for trimming the spring cos
TUNES of wool. and draped gracefully
like a girdle they make a simple yet
graceful trimming.
Dumas. the French author, fire.
quently has a housekeeping mania.
He is very orderly, and is often seep,
feather buster in hand. busting his
study and changing pieces Of furni-
ture.
Josef Hoffman,, the prodigy pi-
anist, is under treatment at Eisenach
by a celebrated specialist In nervous
diseases, and his nervousness has been
greatly subdued. lie practices an hour
each day.
Telephone rates are comparatively
low in Sweden. at Orebo, for instance,
the subscriber pays an annual rental Of
but four dollars and gets the use OF o
telephone system extending 100 miles
into the country.
of the ten thousand piano-makers
in this country, about five thousand
live in New York. Each one makes
about SIS a week and belongs to an
organization which takes care of Its
members when sick or out Of work.
"A petrlfied pignut has been found
in a coal mine neal Wellston, o. 1t
was taken from the slate which covered
a coal seam. A mass of rock sixty
feet in thickness rested upon the slate.
The tut was in the hull, and the pet
rifaction was complete.
The first volume of the correspond
ence of Peter the Great, edited by
Count Tolstoi, has been published.
There will be ten very large volumes,
containing upward of 10000 letters,
which have been gathered from ar.
chIves all over Europe.
There are three American ladies'
who are not obliged to skip over to
the postoffice fer stamps every time
they write a letter. Mrs. Polk, Mrs.
Garfield and Mrs. Grant are the foGtu-
nate three, the government having
given them the Thanking privilege.
The largest iron casting ever at
tempted in America was recently made
at Bethlehem, Penna. 1t was the base
for the steel compressor to be used in
the gun steel works. and l24 tons Of
molten metal were used. 1t Will DO
some weeks before the huge casting
will be cool enough to examine.
In Austria school-teachers who
have taught twenty years have their
salaries raised every year until they
have taught as long as they are able,
or reach thirty years of school work,
when they are retired upon the salary
of their last year of teaching, this being
paid by the State.
-Sponges are marine animals. not
fishes, however. The breeding time ,s
In spring; the young sponges swim
about for some time, but finally be-
come fixed to rocks and grow. The
sponges we use are obtained princi-
pally In the Mediterranean Sea and
among the Bahama Islands.
The most valuable manuscript In
this country, judging from the price
paid, is in the possession of John Jacob
Aston. 1t is the Sforza Missal, for
$l5, 500 was paid. 1t is dated in the
Fifteenth century and comprises 494
pages Of vellum bound in red morocco.
Among the policy holders of a
German Life Insurance Company, the
death rate of medical men III 1887 was
11.53 per cent. above the total average.
This was due to diseases of the respira-
tory organs, consumption, and infee-
tious diseases. There was only one
case of post mortem poisoning out Of
1862 deaths.
Native converts in Japan, with
average wages of less than twenty-five
cents u day, contributed last year ST.
000 to mission work. During the year.
3.640 adults were baptized, making a
total membership OF IA, Sl5. There are
now 1893 organized churches. "a OF
them self-supporting, SO native minis
tiers and 1863 theological students.
-Catharine wheels are so named
from Saint Catharine of Alexandria,
who suffered excrucIatlng tortures on a
wheel before she was finally put to
death. They are made In great num-
bers of sizes, the smallest being called
pin wheels because they can be fastened
up with IA pin. some are made la
parts, each part being of a different
color. so that 1t changes as 1t turns.
Curious markings in walnut wood
are not uncommon. A specimen re-
markable for the close resemblance Of
the marking to a figure of a bird was
recently exhibited in Philadelphia,
Penna. The section had been sawed
from a black walnut log, and measured
about six by ten inches. For several