The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-10
WINGED MISSILES.

dollars to the railroad company. a thous
and dollars worth of powder would no
have accomplished what the rain did. Tn.
rock and dirt fell into the bulkhead Jus
where 1t was wanted.
The prince of Wales has become a yer,
regular attendant at the sessions OF the En-
s.nsh parliament The fact is that the
pr1uce is very much worried about The
chances Of the succession In case OF hi,
mothers death, and wants to make a.
many friends as possible.
In 1884 a Maine man was charged with
stealing 500 from an express company.
The company failed 10 make out Its case
and had to pay him $1,000 damages, but
only q week ago, after patiently watching
for all these years, they got the drop OF
him and he will now go TO prison.
Walker Fearn, late United States minis
ter at Athens, states that brigandage nc
longer exists in Greece. He says that he
and his daughter and a few friends, un-
armed and without an escort, visited on
horseback the widest parts Of Greece aud
met with nothing but cordial hospitality.
Riveting by electricity has been
successfully accomplished. The cold rivet
Is placed In the hole, and when heated to
the proper temperature it can be closed by
any Of the ordinary apparatus now in use.
The heating Of q half inch rivet Of two or
three inches In length takes about half a
minute.
The late Henry w. Grady was q great
raconteur. He was o master Of dialect,
and was never afraid Of giving q good story
plenty Of coloring. 1t was considered q re-
markabls thing in the Office Of the Atlanta
Constitution II week went by without q
new yarn from Grady. His stories were
always witty but never vulgar.
Seattle was founded thirty.eieht years
ago by some thirty or forty men who went
there In the Schooner Exact, which had
been chartered BY . party Of California
miners to 60 to Alaska. These young men
were landed at Alki Point, and went to the
site Of Seattle, which was then an Indian
settlement and mainly . dsnss forest
The last venture that We read OF in the
use Of human hair ID Q fan valued at t250,
says Harper's Bazaar. Deft fingers must
have fashioned this unique curiosity, for
what appears to be costly lace fringins the
sticks Is really human hair; baby curls,
like unto fairy thistle down, we doubt not,
yielding to the gentle wooing Of summers
softest bree1eA
General Khaireddin Pasha who recent,
died ct C~onstantinople, was q remarkable
man. He was q Circassisn and was pur.
Turkish state treasurer. After various
adventures he was made grand vizier by
Abdul, but his tenure Of ONCE was brief.
The Turks resented his success, and his
downfall was as sudden a. his rise.
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brought from Paris the secret OF the manu-
facture Of a new and cheap building mater
ial which he IL about turning to . good
account In Paris he found many large
structures built Of concrete mixture, Of
which volcanic sand 10 the chief inered
lent This SAND exists In vast quantities
near Santa Fe. The other known insredi-
ents are lime and water, and the secret IL
in the fourth ingredient and the proper
tionats use.
Stanley says that during his recent Afrt.
can expedition he came across . new aud
interesting race Of blacks, the Wahoumas,
who were absolutely European in type and
very intelligent They appeared TO be de-
Of the ancient Philippians, who
settled In some way not known TO him in
Africa These people never In
t~ermingled with the aboriginal races, but
kept their blood intact considering the
ordinary negroes beneath them.
Pundits Ramabal, that accomplished
lady who Is so well remembered In
New York and Boston, has formed . club
Of ''king's daughters among her pupils in
India, and says that she already sees the
effect OF 1t in the steadying and strengthen
Ing Of character In these irresponsible and
lndeveloped maidens Sh has translated
INTO Maratti the four notices Of the Words |
clubsi Look up, and not down."
Look forward, and not back" Look out |
and not in" and LEND q hand.n
Among the exhibits at the indianapolis
Of the Western Canned Goods As |
are two cans containing beef soup, |
part of a lot prepared for the United States
in 1918. They are owned by William |
.aggett, Of Indianapolis, whose grand. |
'ather was at the head Of Dageett b Kens-
EFT, OF New Haven, Conn, in the early
part Of the century. The contents are sup.
posed to be In good condition; II not the
and creation Of gases within
would break the seal. The soup to-day Ia
seventy one years old
A Cleveland artist says that Q genuine |
artist is very much like q singed cat He
IS better than he looka. In speaking of
artists in general he ssys that the artist Of |
ability does not differ In appearance from
he ordinary man. He says that in Munich
when the student begins TO draw from the
he lets his hair grow long and car
q paint box around with him. When |
10 enters q more advanced class he cuts
ais hair reasonably short and leaves the
paint box At homa When he gets down to
painting he wears his hair Il the |
ordinary style and dresses like the ordi |
mortal
In a recent work On THE Pphysiology OF
Bodily Exercise" DR.. T. A Lagrange says |
hat fencing, apparatus gymnastics aud
riding school lessons may b safely pre-
scribed for the person whose brain
for want Of work" But for sa |
child overworked at school, for 3 person
whose nerve centers are congested owing
70 q persistent mental effort in preparing
Tor an examination, for such We must pre-
scribe long walks, the easily learned exer-
else OF rowing, and, telling bet
the old game Of leap frog and prison
IRIS base, running games, anything in fact
rather than difficult exercises and acrobat |
&c gymnastics
The force Of an Ice shove Il Illustrated
BY an accident related in . Montreal paper,
. house and family were swept away:
''The man and woman and their two or
children were IN the house, which |
an old French style affair. The house
had foundations and walls three feet thick
IN placeA 1t was about u o'clock, and the
family were At their dinner, when suddenly |
the ice commenced 10 move. The upper
Ice struck the sasot Of shore Ice and sent II
ike q huge knife up the bank, scraping all
before It Before tho family had time to I
Escape the edge Of the knife hsd struck the
1t cut It clean away and left not a
soul alive Of the entire family. Hardly one |
remained upon the other, 80 heavy
wa. the crash Of the Ice upon the house.
In 1899 over 5000, 900 kegs of nail,
were made in the United States. of
which one-half were of cut steel. less
than one-fourth of cut iron, and more
than a fourth from wire.
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