The Penn's Grove record., 1888-03-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.

A fortune of $4,000 has fallen,
through the death OF his father, In
Germany, TO a prisoner serving out a
sentence In a Nebraska Jail for the
theft of a steer.
At Columbus, Ohio, a railroad
train entering the station jumped the
track, but almost the next instant re-
gained the rail and moved on without
the slightest injury.
William Goldlng Henry, the col
ored centenarian who died III Canada,
left twenty-six children, more than
fifty grandchildren, and a scors or SO
Of great-Irandchildren. :,
The Poor Farm In Pawnee
county, Kansas, is said to be Il failure
for lack of paupers. And this is
suffering Kansas
I'm the view of the scarcity of coal
in San Francisco. the adoption of crude
petroleum as a fuel is being very gen.
orally talked of there.
Stringent measures are being
taken. it is said, to rid Detroit of the
''crooks," who have found that city u
'oNse"1aA No'n0 oAn0 i" pos"
After having suffered from a
great food, China is now complaining
Of a severe drouth.
Georgia Troup, a 13.year-old girl
living in West Bridgewater, this
State, Is said to have eaten two quarts
OF peanuts the other evening, since
which time she has been at the point Of
death.
-rrbe I~ororest hook ever bound ia
owned by Queen Victoria, and meas
ures eighteen inches across the back
and weighs thirty pounds. 1t contains
the jubilee addresses of congratulations
from members OF the Primrose league.
AT last accounts smallpox was
spreading in Hong Kong. China, and
the authorities were nn1i great diff
fculty In compelling the Chinese to
pay attention to even the simplest
laws for preventing tie spread OF the
disease.
Owing to the action Of the frost,
a crack occurred in the bunk Of Il
large reservoir at Burlington. Yer
mont. starting a leak which soon de-
yelopsd into a large excavation 10 feet
wide and two feet deep. so that about
200, 600 gallons Of water ESCAPED.
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Irn;taJ SEA- ~ 5nf On0 NM enon%b
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tnhah;3ont a. ,t'st aro hmaboi Mnr
tvaax Tbis is mora han enomgh corn
alone to supply all the food required,
but the larger portion is consumed by
live stock, being therefore converted
into meat. .
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;ts h=r;iiiarnr ch;aSv tbron@H tno
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uresidaa nnar hs nonoiSrra ~ nnrtnr
HThis nsioGai $500 go
90 ,.ha go r. ho'sa asIdr 49,
49, :. 800 oases on osriv h,nr ~
ninbt IN 1biS aoconn, ,aa,la stow ~
bnms avsninas amJ tba straats ara d"N
serted,
-Experimants vera made at Mil
ford Mass RECENTLY with the pnlson
teIepbone which has bsen narferted Inv
Jerome Prince ard Iemuei Miller. and
operates without the use of electricity.
A loose wire was extended I.65O feet
from a transmitter to a tree. with a
Ioose end Tging on the proun3. Con
y~ersation was heard distinctly by SIM
ply placing a straw hat on the wire.
Ordinary conversation was heard
through n Derby hat as a receiver at n
distance of sixty feet.
For wears Indian arrow heads have
been found in such numbers on the
shores of Rantam Lake IN Connecti-
emf that antinuarians thought a hattie
must have been fought there once.
Recently workers direing there found
corroboration Of the battle theory in
tbe form of homes Of men mingled with
rare Indian weanons ApparentIv the
men had been bnrlpd In a sitting nos.
ture. and one grave. by its unusually
LARGE collection Of weanons indicated
tbat its occupant had been a chief or