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The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

Princeton College has received in
gifts during the past year more than
$500, 900.
Prof. j. b. Smith, of the New Jersey
Experiment Station, believes that the
peach louise which infects the roots Of
peach trees, is responsible for much of
the SO called ''yellows" that exist in
the State. Potash, in the shape Of
kainit, dug into the roots, he believes
10 he q remedy and at the same time a
fertilizer. Tobacco dug in has u SINH
lar effect.
Halbertstown, the new Jewish settle
ment eight miles below Millville, is
just now one Of the liyliest places in
South Jersey. Forty houses are being
| erected, and many more will be put up
as soon as possible, $4,000 brick have
| been ordered for a new clothing manu-
| factory, and rug and furniture factor
| les. A brick yard will also be operated
ses 5000 acres and is controlled by a
New York syndicate.
Last Saturday Mrs. Lemuel p. John.
son, of Bridgeton, was burned to death
| by q coal falling on her dress while
raking the fire.
Seventeen female descendants of Mol.
lie Pitcher, the heroine of the Revolu.
tionary battle at Freehold, have form
ed themselves into a chapter of "The
Daughters Of the Revolution"
A baby whale came ashore at Angle
sea last Sunday and the mother follow
ed and got stranded, and died OH shore.
1t weighed about four tons. The young
whale has been kept in a hole which
fills with every tide and makes a rart
sight for many sojourners at Anglesea
The health inspector of Trenton ha'
found that several bodies have not beer
buried the required depth. The Law
requires that every coffin shall be a
the top four feet six inches below the
surface of the ground.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

The Wisconsin AUTHORIZATION Con-
yention finished its labors ON Saturday.
A platform was adopted declaring OPP
position to local option because its
success means the downfall of personal
liberty. Wherever the local option
principle has taken root, the most strict
prohibition measures have followed. 1t
will CONT in Wisconsin as surely as 1t
has come in Iowa, Kansas and Dakota.
We most earnestly condemn the action
of the members of the Legislature who,
by breaking pledges and proving faith
less to the platform of their party, de-
feated our cause.'' The platform is
held to be a tacit confession that the
temperance sentiment in that State has
been gaining ground.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

Gov. Albeit has appointed an EN-
else Board for Camden county to grant
iiauor licenses as the local board was at
loggerheads. 1t was for such places as
Camden and Atlantic City that the law
was formed. The Governor is wise
enough not to appoint a board for Cum
berland county where the popular vote
is against liquor.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

al weeks, unless his presence should be
required by some emergency.
Col. j. ID. Weber, Superintendent of
Immigration at New York, who is to
go to Europe as chairman Of the COM
mission which is to investigate immi-
grafton, has been here comforting with
officials of the Treasury department.
He intends sailing from New York on
the 9Th of July, and will meet the 9TH
er members Of the commission, who
have already gone over, in London.
While IL has not been fully decided
yet what interest is to be paid on the
extended AZ per cent bonds, there is a
| general belief that it will be 2 per cent,
| which Is the figure at which the New
York bankers offered to take all thai
were presented to the Treasury for re-
demption.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03
Will Delaware Avenue have to b

Will Delaware Avenue have to be
opened il Il notice is served on the town
ship Committee? Is a mooted question.
What can be done with the Committee
if they refuse to act? Would the peo-
pie have no redress if the damages were
put at SIC, 1000? 1t is reported that a
recent decision of the Court of Errors
and Appeals will relieve the people OF
e~xhorbitant damages by relieving the
obligation of the Committee TO act.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03
r-oxsunrrIax CuREp.

An old physician, retired from practice, hav.
ing had placed In his hands by an East india
remedy for lie speedy and permanent cure FOL
Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and
all other throat and Lung Anections also a
And All Nervous Complaints, after having tested
cases, has felt il his dnty 70 make T. known
and a desire 10 relieve human suffering. Will
send free OF charge, 10 all who desire Il, this
recipe, in German, French or English, with III
mail bv Addressing with st2mp, naming this
tc.y,N. n, s6ly.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

Wonder what the Gar of Russia will
say when he receives the petition five
miles long aud signed 10y 100000 citiz-
ems of this country praying him TO be
more lenient and civil with his poll
tical subjectsp 1t will take something
more like dynamite to put "a sense OF
political liberty in such IL p~ig-headed
despot as he.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

Raising the tariff on wool in the Nc
Kinley bill will not aid McKinley's cleo
ton in Ohio for Governor for before the
tariff was raised wool was worth 35c per
pound in 1881, SAC. in 1890 but now UNI
der the increased tariff only size. per
pound for Ohio wool. As tariff on wool
is the corner stone of the tariff plea to
farmers this shows that the farmers are
beinp fooled.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

The State Board of Education Will
give two examinations a year for state
Certificates, beginning on the flrst
Thursday of June and December and
owing to there being more applicants
for admission to the Normal School
than there are vacancies preference will
be given to graduates of High School
on the approved list, persons holding
teachers licenses, persons holding coun'
ty diplomas, merit MS ascertained under
entrance examination.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

The Sunbeam has shown clearly That
Deerfeld township in Cumberland coun-
ty would have much less taxation If it
comes wei into Salem county. When
mes pocket book is touched it is time
to move. We welcome Deerfield.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

Frank Melbourne the Australian in
ventor of the alleged rain machine with
which he claims to have caused ire
quent heavy rain storms in Canton, u,
in the last month, has arranged for a
public test next Tuesday. lie will, he
says, cause rain to fall over io,ooo
square miles. The Government authori-
ties have invited the inventor to Kansas
to experiment.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

1t is not believed that the numerous
cases of ice. cream poisoning published
this season has had the slightest effect
upon the consumption of that delicious
compound. Young people pay abont
as much attention to these stories as they
do to physicians warning of the dan
gers attendent upon kissing.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

Many prominent Republicans have
organized an Independent club to get
rid of Quay and his political satellites.
The quickest way to dol is to continue
TO do what the independents did last
fall, elect good honest Democrats in
Pennsylvania.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

Senator Adrain denies that he is a
candidate for Governor. AT present all
he wants is to be State Senator for
another three years from MiddleseX
county. He affirms that Senator Werts
is the coming Democratic candidate for
Governor, as far as the situation al be
DIAGNOSED this early.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

The Democrats. who have the COVER
nor and legislature, of Michigan have
made a shrewd move on the presidential
board by making a good number OF
Congressional districts democratic and
by making the election of Presidential
Electors by the same districts, which is
constitutional. That give the Demo-
Gratis several electors from that state
where they would have none.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

1t is said that the political machln-
cry of New York, New Jersey and In
diana is favorable for Gov. d. b. Hill,
of New York, for President and thai
he will control the delegates of these
states. Wait and see. The people fav-
or Cleveland,
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

As Ben Butler has never found a
writer to vindicate his public action in
war and politics, for which he has been
bitterly assailed, he will soon issue a his
tory of his life. 1t will undoubtedly be
spicy and clear up some false ACCUSE
lions.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

As Pennsylvania shook Delamater
from her public service last fall, all the
Delamater family has shaken the dust
of Pennsylvania from their feet and
gone West, as their failure in business
has completely DESTROYED their influence.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

As land is worth 23 cents a square
foot, equal to 1000 per acre. according
to the assessment of road damages in a
"country village" is 1t not nearly time
for PENIS Grove to become incorpora-
ted into a city? Is not that city pricesr
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

The Behring Sea agreement between
Great Britain and this country says
that seal poachers ''may' be seized, but
its a good deal like telling a man with
out dog or gun that he "may" have
rabbit for dinner. oh, humbug, diplo'
macy is one of thy many aliases.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

A Bridgeton fruit packer has inyesti'
gated the infant tin factoryin Philadei'
phia. 1t occupies one room and en-
ploys two men and two or three boys
The men were imported from Wales
and dip % boxes of roofing tin a day
The process is too slow and the cost
more than imported tin. Tin used FOL
canning purposes cannot be made there
successfully.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

The trial of the fifth batch of cleo
tion officers for frauds at the Guberna-
torial election in Jersey City in 1888
was put on trial on Monday. There
were four of them of the Third Oh
s.Popcorn' Precinct of the First Dis
trict, All we're convicted.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

Should the Prince OF Wales ever be-
come the King of England, which his
recent action has made somewhat doubt
full, his official title would be Albert
VIII, but to most people he will al
WAYS be known as Albert, the gambler.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

The colored citizens of Wilmington
are demanding representation on the
police force. They say if a Hebrew and
an Italian can be appointed they should
be given some show.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

James Smith, Jr., the big Demo-
cratic boss of Newark, says the New
Jersey delegates will not favor Cleve-
lands nomination. Albeit can have
them il he wants them.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03
FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1891.

Divorces come cheap in Chicago. A
lawyer there advertises divorces pro-
cured at reduced prices" His charge
for breaking the tie is S25.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

The Cape May County Times, pub
lished at Sea Isle City, donned a new
suit last week and look as fresh and
bright as IL it had an ocean bath.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

"Methodists call themselves soldiers
of the cross, don't they, pa2" asked
Jimmy.
81 believe they do, Jimmy"
''Then I suppose the Baptists are the
sailers.n
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

Those needing Job Printing in Penn's
Grove should keep in mind that they
can get it done at the RECORD office.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03

Visit Stites's ice cream parlors and
lunch rooms
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03
ng goods Mans NiIiTc fOr XI(lm
a rush "'o'' o"'eo
{ w9 more Mems Suits for $780,,
The time $1,000, $500.
Dress Suits up to $4,000.
BOYS Suits the best.
Selling goods
With a rush
~ouf we're
making more
all the time.

No discount on Wanamaker & Brown Clothing.
Thirty years at manufacturing, remember. We're
never done making improvements in the manufacture.
You should see the huge buyings of cloth. An army
of workpeople all the time at work for us-not us,
but you.e We do the inspecting, seeing that the cloth
is honest, alLwool, the right wear kind. We see that
good thread, trimmings and sewing get into it. You
are the gamers by it. Our prices are low-just a
small profit above the cost. We don't want a slow
selling, stay-on-hand stock. Quick sales are better:
Low prices is the tune for quick sales. For Good
Clothing-they couldn't be lower.
A feature in our great business is our Bargain
Room. In the manufacture of Lots from 100 to 500
Suits-we necessarily have remnants and small Lots.
They meet with quick sale, for we cut the price very
low 10 close out the Lots. Keep in mind the Bargain
Room. Statesmen may not always think TO introduce
you to it. Better ask to see the Bargains.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03
Wanamaker & Brown,

Sixth and Market, p'asf23alphia.
Our offer to pay your Railroad fare holds good the year
round, provided you buy $40 worth.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-12-19
4 Uniana Snot is Long, Island.

A unique spot is Lopez Island in tho
San Juan Archipelago of Puget Sound
The inhabitants for the most part arc
old fronticrsmcn vino have been con-
tinually moving west until they could
go no further, and, strange to say, they
arc satisfied with their environment.
Eat when VIC come to describe Lopez
Island, it is not strange. The climate is
akin to perfection for those who cannot
bear extremes of heat aud cold. Iu the
autumn there is hint of frost in the
air, but the winter is never rigorous,
and, owing to the warmth of the cir
cunambicnt waters, srow is unknown,
Summer heats are tempered by breezes
blowing over the wide Pacific. Little
bays in which the white sand runs up to
groves Of fir inlent the coast liue, aad
every islander has his bit of water front
aud his boat fcT fishing aud pleasure
voyagiug, Game is SC abundant that
the larder need never be empty, aud deer
would be rs thick rs rabbits if the rile's
report was not heard daily. In fact,
the inhabitants when they put venison
Oh the table apologize to visitors. Quail
sound their notes 10 every clearing.
Ducks. waterfowl, and wild pigeons are
also plentiful. Seven kinds of tooth
some fish swim round the sea-girt island.
and clans arc accessible to the latest
of men. And this suggests the state
mint that Lopez islanders inst tickle
their ground enough to supply the n
selves with food aud a little moaey for
raiment. Sheep pasture everywhere,
their owners never quafrellins about
metes and bounds. The island contains
twenty nine sections of land. 10 brain
weary New Yorker perhaps its crowninc
glory would be that no steamer puts in
with tourist 9r pleasure-seeker, aud that
three -fourths O. the people OF Port Tom.
send and Anacortes, the nearest towns,
are ignorant of tle existence Of Lopez
Island. As type OF settler there is the
old lady who lying, it seemed, at the
point OF death, defiautly said: ~ don't
want no doctors nor preachers bothcrin'
round here; an' don't you send for e.a.n
She got well, --NsN York Pa.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-12-19

CURIOUS FACTS.

Brazil is a country of extraordinary fer
tility
Two pounds of beef arc consumed to
oac of mutton in England.
The waters of thelGrand Falls OF Labra.
dor have excavated a chasm thirty miles
long.
People in Japan are called by the
family name next aad the honorfc thus,
smith Peter Mr.
A man in Concord, Mich. makes
living by raising English sparrows and
selling their heads for the bounty.
An industrious hive of Andrew County.
Missouri, bees lately made record of
twelve pounds of honey in twelve hours.
John Stowe OF Birmingham, Conn.,,
recently elected a live frog, which he
declares be swallowed two years pre-
Siously.
Melons were first callel canteloupes
from being cultivated at Cauteluppi, u
village near Rome, where they had beea
introduced from Armenia by mission
aries.
The earliest inhabitants of Greece were
probably the Pelasgi, an Aryan nation
who came from the high tabie-land of
Asia, passed around the Caspian Sea into
Europe, and settled in Greece and Italy.
Western Washington loggers tell of an
immense log. recently floated down the
Snoqualmie River, which five oxen had
difficulty in hauling. 1t was fire log
thirty-two feet in length and eighty nine
inches in diameter at the largest end.
Twelve thousand silk worms when
newly Matched scarcely weigh one-quar-
ter of an ounce, yet in the course of
their life, which lasts only about thirty
five days, they will consume bet veen
three hundred aad four hundred poau Is
of leaves.
A Gardiner (Me.) pastor collected 400
copper cents during his itinerancy, an1
paid them over to merchant in that
city the other day. Bat tle merchant
got nearly even with tnc gool MA by
handing him back 1000 of taem III the
shape of a wedding fee.
There are naturalists in this day aad
age who believe that horse hairs will
turn to living snakes; that toads will
/ live for thousands of years in the cavity
/ of a rock without food OF water; that
the barnaclc goose was Developed from
the shell fish of that name, and that the
bird called Sora is species of the winged
/ frog.
The City Of Loadon is pat d0wn by
| Geo3raphers as the centre OF the landed
hemisphere. In other words, a radius o.
about 5000 miles on the curved surface
of the earth. with London as centre,
would describe circumference enclosing
more land than any 600J-miie circle thar
could be drawn from any Other city in
the world
Down to the time of Homer, who
fourished 917 5. c., as little WAS known
of the surface of the earth as is now
known of the interior. Greece was then
regarded as the centre of the earsh,
which was surrounded at the distance OF
500 miles by the ocean river. Later the
land was extended farther and limited
form given to the old Continent.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-12-19

The entrance to the Bay Of Rio dc
Janeiro, Brazil, is one OF the finest
panoramas in the world The Bos-
phorus alone can be compared 10 it.
Since 1895 Rio de Janeiro, like the
District Of Columbia, forms a metro
politan district and is entirely indie
pendent of any state government.
The climate Of Rio is superb. There
are but two seasons. the winter or
rainy season, extending from April "a
September, and the summer or dry
season, extending from October To
March. The city is literally provided
with educational institutions. There
are two medical colleges, a school OF
pharmacy and a school of art. There
are % schools Of primary iustruc-
tion for both sexes, and many other
scientific and private establishment
There are - benevolent and mutual
aid societies. "a literary. scientific
philotechnic and historical societies
The liberal professions are far ad
vanced. The legal and medical fra
ternitics number many distinguished
/ lights in their ranks. There are ~
papers aud reviews of all kinds pub
lished in the city. There are IA lead
ing thcaters, the largest OF which
built in 1872. is as large as the Scala
of Milan Every season cXcellen
companies are organized in Europe {,
play there. and Italian. French. Ger
man and English opera is pfcscntc,
With all the circumstance 81 the Eu
ropcan performance. The Iardin d.
1 Campo da Republica is one Of thu
most beautiful parks in tho world
/ ana contains so, 000 eXoteric plants
The city has $4,000 houses and a pop
I ulation Of $50. 600.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-12-19
Curious Rain Showers.

We find frequent mention, in ole
writing, OF blood rain, which was sup
posed to fall only at rare Intervals, and
to portend some dire calamity. This i
no other than red rain, which, with red
snow, is perfectly natural, as contra.
distinguished from Il supernatural, pho
nomenon, and is caused by various sub.
stances-plants, animalcules, and min.
erals infinitely small, which, gathered
into the air by the wind, mingle with the
rain globulcs in such untold quantities.
as to completely hide the original color.
Some years ago there fell shower o.
red rain at Bristol, which, on examina
ton, was found to derive its color from
the seeds of ivy berries which fell with
il. Pollen showers, vulgarly called vel.
low or sulphur rains, are comparatively
common; some are the pollen of the
Scotch fir; and one extraordinary fall OF
this kind of rain, which took pace dur
ing the night, was pdosphorescent, and
greatly alarmed the beho,ders. Ole at
ternoou, we are told by DR.. Thomson,
in his introduction to Meteorology,
the wooded part of Morayshire appeared
to smoke, and for time fears were en-
tertained that the fir plantations were on
fire. A smart breeze suddenly got up
from the nortn, aad above the woods
there appeared to rise about fifty col
umns of something resembling smoke,
which wrcathcl about like waterspolts.
The atmosphere now Gained, and the
mystery was solved; for what seemed
smoke was, in reality, the pollen of the
woods. Readers Of the "Origln of Spe-
cics' will readily understand the i'm,
portauce Of this distribution of pollen in
the fertilization of the fir trees, Show
ers of "manna,' like that, presumably,
which saved the children of Israel in the
wilderness, are frequent, and consist of
an esculent lichca, which, IN times of
famine, has done COOL service in the
preservation OF whole people. In 1915,
lake in the south OF France su lenly
became a patchwork of rel. violet, and
grass-greca which, on cXannltion by
Klarpoth, WAS found to have been caused
by myriads Of various colorc | animal
cules.
Black rain is another curious phcnomc
non which has not yet bean properly
aud adequately explained. There fell,
on the 23Iof November, 1919, Il remark.
able black shower at Montreal, accom-
panied by appalling thunder. The fa
had been preceded by dark and gloomy
weather over the whole of the State, m
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-12-19
rHRowNINTo BOILING sPRINos
New Light Upon the Fate ofthe Christians
In Japan Two Centuries Ago

In Japan Two Centuries Ago
Any one who reads books on Japan
win remember that he is told If he
ever visits the barber OF Nagasaki
that he must look at the lofty rock
Of Pappenherg. descending sheer for
some hundreds OF feet into the deep
water He is further informed that
III the Seventeenth century, when
there were many Chistian converts in
Japan, thousands Of them were cast
into the sea from this cliff. twill
be remembered that therc was re-
bcllion o. Christians Ill Southern
/ Japan. the rebels undertaking To
overthrow the Government and es-
tahlish their new faith as the state
religion Of Japan. Ii was after the
suppression of this rebellion that the
frightfiil persecution Of the Christians
begun.
DIR. Reiss, a professor in the Uni
versiiy of Toxic, has recently been
investigating the records OF this
Christian rebellion. He has shown
quite conclusively that the rock Of
IalilIfAOtAE was iiR4 ANift AUA Nflt ffksN
pose described to tourists. No mem
tion of throwing the Christians over
the rock is made in any OF ths'con-
tcmporaneouS records, and DR. ReiSs
says that il would have been absurd
to have dragged the prisoners to that
distant place.
What happened, however. was even
more frightful, and the scene was
quito different. The rebellion oc-
Cured i'm Shimabara whose interior
has for its most conspicuous object 4
volcanic mountain mass, called On
scnga, which is said TO have one OF
I the largest craters in the world. while
its slopes and base are full OF boiling
I sulphur springs in a constant state OF
effcrveScence. DR. RciSs SAYS that
the greatest number Of victims to the
I rage of heather Japan were taken TO
/ Onsenga and hurled from Il precipiee
on the mountain side into the
boiling sulphurous springs below,
japanese sources Of information coin
eide with the missionary reports that
Z this was the form Of execution com.
monty employed, and that it remained
in use for a long period. Shimahara
is almost an island in a great inlet
on the west side Of KiuSiu, the big
! southern island Of Japan. 1t is con
\ nected with the mainland by a mar
row isthmuS. The volcanic mass d
| Onsenga. in the center Of the district
is MAINLY marked on any good map,