The Penn's Grove record., 1895-10-18
NOTES OF H DAY

Maine that do nothing but manutactur,
butter the year round.
A man in Gilsum, N. H., while clean,
ing out a racsway recently, found 8
gold ring which his wife had lost sever
years ago.
A herd Of 1000 horses was bought OF
4 Washington ranch the other day by
the Portland Horse Meat Canning
Company at So a head.
About 1000 grammar school gradu
ates Of Brooklyn are unable to find
places in the high schools, so crowded
ire those buildings.
Boston is said to have spent $4,000
TO entertain the knights Templar, and
the knights left behind 100000 III
the city of baked beans.
1t is estimated that the city of New
York contains fully 10000 children Of
| school q who cannot be accommodate.
ed in the public schools of that city THU
year.
The record Of attendance at the pub.
| lie schools of the United States during
the last year gives a total of 1886. 26S
pupils, a figure larger than that of any
other nation.
Many efforts have been made by At.
lanta BARRIERS to induce the authorities
to allow then to keep open on Sunday
during the exposition. The matter il
uew settled with a positive negative.
In California 1t has been found that
peach stones burn as well as the best
coal, and give out more heat in proper
ton to weight. The stones taken out
Of the fruit that is timed or dried ar,
collected and sold.
Professor F. FL. Gushing asserts that
bne of the most ancient things man has
made is the arrow. 1t autedates even
the bow, and in its embryonic state Is
older than either the stone ak or thu
shaped knife or flint.
The Kansas City Board Of Educa.
ton has promulgated an order forbid
ding the smoking of cigarettes by pu.
pills during school hours ION penalty OF
expulsion and instructing teachers u
rigidly enforce the rule.
When the commission Of cardinals
for the administration Of Peters pence
proposed to Pope Leo XIII. recently to
invest 100000 francs in foreign Sc
curities the Pope insisted that the
money should be put into Italian gov
eminent bonds.
1t is proposed to erect statues of
Siemens and of his colleague and
friend, Helmholtz, In front of the tech
nical high school in Charlottenburg, in
the same manner as the statues of the
brothers Humboldt We're erected IN
front of the Berlin University.
The highest speed ever attained upon
the water Is credited to the new Rus
sian torpedo boat Sokol Russian for
hawk, just launched in England, which
went thirty-fve miles an hour on her
trial trip. At that rate an Atlantic liner
would cross the ocean in three or four
days.
The death rate of Berlin for 1894 wa
l7.2 in a thousand; that OF London, III
Brussels and Hamburg, 1871; Amster
dam, 1873; Copenhagen, 1871; Turin.
1873; Rome, 1915; Glasgow, 200; Paris.
20.2; Manchester, 20.4; Vienna, 22.s,
Liverpool, 1913; Dublin, PAT; St Peters
burg, S1.4, and Moscow, BAL.
At Mystic, Conn, sheep owners art
arrayed against the dogs, which have
been devastating their focks for some
time past. Many sheep have beer
killed, some of which cost $50 to I'M
port, and others are valuable animals
Several dogs have been caught among
The locks and several have been
killed.
A curious outcome is reported Of the
great robbery of the Buda-Pesth post.
office eleven years ago. The two
thieves, who got away with 100000
horins have been caught The princi'
pal has been tried In Buda-Pesth and
released under the ten-year limit law.
His accomplice will be tried in Austria
where no such limitation exists.
A movement has been projected al
Vincennes looking to the establishment
pr a university at Lincoln City, Ind, on
the site where Lincoln sent his boy
hood. The general Idea Is to ask for a
subscription of 10 cents from each
school child in the State, the inceptorf
figuring out that the giving would be
patriotic inspiration to the children.
In Spain exemption from military
service may be obtained by the pay
ment of 1900 pesetas. The other day a
worthy man presented a petition to tho
queen regent stating that he had al
ready paid $4,000 pesetas for ten of his
sons, and requesting that he might be
excused from paying for the other
fourteen, as he had no money left. Hi
request was granted.