The Penn's Grove record., 1895-11-15
NOTES OF THE pAr.

100000 in 1910.
Sweden has a deaf and dumb corps
Of the Salvation Army. Four meetings
IRE held weekly.
One hundred thousand Odd Fellow
have died since the order was organized
In the United States.
In Middle S~mithdeld. Pa, there Is 4
chestnut tree that measures nineteen
feet in circumference four feet above
the ground.
Gold heaters say that a speck Of gold
weighing less than one-millionth pat
of a grain can be seer with the naked
eye.
Half a dozen men who were rollinl
In wealth in the prosperous 1Si9 period
are now inmates Of the San francisco
poorhouse.
The first military order issued by
General Grant is in the possession OF
Colonel Dawson, late quartermaster Of
the Twenty-frst Illinois.
There is only one wooden church
building in England to-day a chapel,
guarded by a tower wei 200 years old,
IN Greensted park, near Ongar.
Hubert, the great Canadian author.
lty on potatoes, says that 100000 tu-
bers Of that species al be raised FROM
q single one in four seasons.
In Russian Poland all trains mus
stop at every station until the police
Tor gendarmerie) captain Of the place
gives permission for its departure. -
In a tavern at Leer, Holland, O younA
fool lately bet 30 cents that he could
eat a thousand flies at one sitting. fhd
flies were caught and put in q beoi
| glass, and then he o
japanese houses In the largest elite.
are of one general shape, two stories
high and put together by a curious
method of mortising, at which these
people are adopts, not one nail beng
used throughout the construction Of the
building.
y partly lighted by 10000 electric
lamps, which number is being con.
stantly increased. Fifty .rienced
electricians are employed to keep the
| system in order. But there Is still q
gas bill of over $4,000 for the year.
About $200,000,00O is the estimate bl
areful authorities Of the worlds pro.
duction of gold during the year 1898.
The figure last year was $1S0.O00,0 900,
an Increase of S23, 900 over 1898. In
three years the worlds stock OF gold
has been increased by 537,000,000 and
the stream of fresh gold from the mines
grows larger and larger.
The Philadelphia street car conpan
les calculate that they have received
$4,000 from trolley parties exclusively
during the past summer. The average
amount received from each participant
is estimated at 10 cents, and this would
show 100000 persons who INDUCED In
this amusement, which appear to have
Its chief center In Philadelphia
England Is laughing at the case OF 1
tory squire, a widower over ~ years
| old, who is said to have settled NIL his
| property on his son, with the exception
| Of a slight annuity, in order to cvade
the death duties. The old gentleman
then fell In love and was accepted. but
| the unflial son declined to provide
funds to set him up In matrimony and
the match Is of.
Tossing In a blanket was formerly {
punishment for insubordinato volun.
teers during the Napoleon panic period.
The Westminster boys once seized a
| bookseller, Curle. who had pirated and
published the head Of Kings scholars
| grafton without permission, and after
| tossing him In a blanket tucked him
under the pump and kicked him out OF
Deans yard.
A party Of Bangor bicyclists rode t,
| Bucksport and on their return they
stopped at a farmhouse to get a drink
of water. The man told them tLat he
| could not accommodate them with
water, but they could have all tho milk
| they wanted. He said that he had ia
| drive his cows Ave miles to water them
and on account Of the dry weather
he found 1t almost impossible to get
water enough for use in the family.
A woman at Old Orchard, Me-, In,
succeeded In making quite q pet of a
humming-bird. The little creature has
become perfectly domesticated, and has
been allowed to fly in and out of the
house at pleasure by a window that has
purposely been left open. 1t is a house
hold pet. By night 1t perches on a
piece of clothes line strung In the kitch'
en-, and on rainy days futters about
the plants and flowers in the house.
Indiana Is taking steps to hold a mid
continent exposition In the year 1906
as a centennial celebration of the or
~ganization of Indiana as a territory OF
the United States, embracing at that
fine all of the Northwest beyond Ohio.
| The territory was born July 4, 1900,
and General w. II. Harrison, the fu-
ture president vas its governor for the
next eleven years The State was ad.
United In 1916.
At ages is and 10 fourteen womel
marry within twelve months put OF ev-
cry thousand husbandless women of
these ages. At ages 20 to "a 107 women
marry within twelve months out of
avery thousand h~usbandless women 81
these ages. At ages % to 81 IS women
marry within twelve months out OF
avery thousand husbandless women OF
these ages. At ages 35 and older IL
women marry within twelve months out
of every thousand ~nuspandless woney
Of these ages.
The New York Legislature, at IT'S las
session, enacted a law which has Just
gone into effect the object OF which u
to prevent telephone operators from
injudicious talking. The act makes 1t
misdemeanor for any telegraph or tel
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