The Penn's Grove record., 1893-12-08
SELECT SETTINGS.
Ocean cables stretch 1870, $50 miles.

Ocean cables atretcn lSV,SOV mics
Every town In Mexico has . public
bath house.
They refoot stockings in England a.
q small expense.
A horsefy will live for hours after its
head has been pulled of.
Wine is frequently used instead Of
water in Spain in mixing shoe backing.
An Alaska Indian declares that within
4 year he has seen a live mastodon rum
uing wild.
More mushrooms arc raised In tho
siciuity of Paris than in any other place
in the world.
Brussels, Belgium, boasts ct a clocs
6hich is never wound by human hands.
Wind power does it.
Thorghatten, the famous Norwegian
mountain, has a hole extending entirely
through it from one side to the other.
Many OF the most appetiziug soups
that delight the palate of man are said
to have been invented in the middle
ages.
The Normans who conquered England
shaved the face aud the back of the
head, SO that Harold's spies declared
they were an army of priests.
There is a tribe in Central Africa
among whom speakers in public debates
arc required to stand on one leg while
speaking and to speak only as long as
they can so stand.
Rabbits are becoming a serious NUS
nee in some parts of Kansas. Barber
County pays q bounty of five cents each
for rabbit scalps, and about 5000 scalps
have been paid for there since last Octo-
her.
Macaulay, the English essayist, took
is Sunday dinner alone at q coffee house.
After dinner he would build a pyramid
Of wine glasses, which usually toppled
over. He would pay for the broken
glass and go.
Tho Atheuian Archaeological Society
las carried out some excavations on the
site of ancient Coricth, which have
resulted in the discovery Of a consider
able building belonging to the Sixth
or Fifth Century, E. @.
When a COW is two years old a wrinkle
,egins to form at the base OF her horns.
At three years this wrinkle is fully de-
geloped. When she is five years old an
other will form, and after that one will
'orm each year. Thus her age a be
| discovered.
Two COWS, the property of Hill Cos
elbow, of Windsor, N. G., were found
read with the neck of one fast between
he horns of the other. 1t is supposed
hat they were fighting, and, being
.aught in the above position, broke one
mothers neck.
Tom Malana broke 1000 glass balls in
| orty.fou minutes at Rockford, T., the
,ther day. He stood thirty feet from
he thrower and his feat breaks the
worlds record. Old marksmen say
Malana i, the steadiest man with a rifle
hey have ever seen.
Naval officers who find that THEN
;loves grow mouldy when their ships
ire in tropical seas will be interested to
earn of Admiral Crosby's device fol
lverting mildew. He placed his kid
gloves in an air-tight preserving jar,
md discovered that thus they retained
heir pristine condition.
A steamship flying at its masthead a,
road pennant of "burgee'' of red with
blue border, bearing in its upper LETT
land corner a blue eagle with a shield
upon It's breast and a bunch of arrows in
,ne claw and an olive branch in the
other, is conveying the United States
nails, under new laws which give our
,hipping lines a fighting chance for their
existence. This is tie design of the
~"ocesn mail burgess selected by POST
master. General Wanamaker.