The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-06
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rith a fanlly Oh tWenty-one children,
8 suing her husband for divorce.
A rattesnake seventy-nine inches
ong and having twenty-one rattles was
tllled neal Jefferson. Ga, recently.
Van Buren, County, Michigan. made
record last year Of one divorce to
very seven marriages. There were
hirty-six divorces In the county during
he year.
An Arctic owl, measuring q little
more than three feet from tip to tip Of
is wings, was shot on one of the ISL
tnds in the harbor of Portland, Me-, o
,ew days ago.
At an election In a Masonic lodge In
Richmond, KY, a few days ago, ]. ID.
Feeney Jr. was made senior deacon
Ind his father, J.. d. Feeney Sr. was
made Junior deacon.
An omnibus for smokers and nom
smokers has been plying for some time
Il Berlin. There are no outside seats,
put the inside Ia divided into two con-.
partments by a glass partition.
A red rabbit was caught heal East
nan, Ga, a few days ago. 1t Is alive
md on exhibition In that place, and the
farmers living Whereabouts say 1t is the
arst of the kind they ever saw.
Forty girl students Of the State Nor.
nal School In Warrensburg, No., have
rganized an athletic association, They
ire going to devote much attention
10 outdoor sports. and will wear bloom.
yrs and sweaters.
A telegraph line is being laid from
Cape Town, Africa, to Lake Taganyika,
md DR.. Laws, who is In charge, has
Atonga converts trained to act as ope-
rators. Chinese operators are at work
On the China overland wires.
A Denver paper has collected Stats
ties which show that the number of
men now employed in Colorado mines,
mills and smelters is 26,359, as com
pared with 22,951 just before the panic
If 1864 gain of about 10 per cent.
Hawaii Of the Sandwich Islands is
10 thoroughly Christianized that the ma
lives themselves send out missionaries
Ill over the Pacific. At the same time
they have an abundance of home mis-
honary work, for there Is a population
VI 12,000 Portuguese, 1900 Japanese
md 10000 Chinese.
Justice Brewer was born in Smyrna,
Asia Minor, Of parents who were among
The earliest missionaries to Turkey.
That the "root of the matter Is still in
him Is evident from the fact that JUS
dce Brewer IN the teacher of q Bible
class In the First Congregational
Church Of Washington.
One of the ablest and most popular
editors Of the religious press is DR..
Abram 8. Isaacs, of the Jewish Mes
senger. DR.. Isaacs is probably better
known outside Of his church than any
bther Of his editorial oonfreres of the
Jewish faith. He is a man of broad
culture and liberal and progressive
IDEAS, qualities which show Themselves
~conspicuously in his paper.
The Japanese are right up to date.
whether in the usages of war or relig-
lon. A Japanese church at Kioto has
lately adopted Individual communion
gNpst Win tnO AchItJ InuOESCluCAb u
Ill the members. A somewhat novel
plan was adopted in distribution, a dea-
ron and deaconess serving the cups,
which were gathered by another deacon
and deaconess who followed.
The Danish girl of society is con-
armed between her fourteenth and six
teenth year, and is then considered
'out." The result OF this early entry
into society car hardly be deemed salts
factory, for as soon as n girl has reach
I'd the age Of % and is still sin maiden
meditation, fancy free" she cease to
be asked to dances or youthful gather.
ngs, and is, SO to say, ION the shelf"
Berlin has had built within Its lin
It's during the past tel years twenty
i've Protestant churches. There are
ZONE monster congregations in the Ger
man capital. At present there are sixty
four Protestant parishes In the city.
Of these, Holy Cross numbers 120,S13
FOULS; the Emmaus congregation num-
oers $4,000, the Thomas congregation
n,271, the Twelve Apostles 6S,57S.!
Among the questions which will prob
IDLY go over into the next century for
settlement, along with such other prob
ems as the authorship of the penta-
!euch, is that concerning the oldest re-
dgious newspaper in this country. The
claim lies between the New York OBJ
server, of the Presbyterian faith, and
the Herald of Gospel Liberty, n of
the opponents of the Campbellite de.
nomination.
The Methodist Episcopal church Is
the only one of the larger denomina-
tons which owns and controls Its own
Journals. These official organs There
ire eighteen in this country are all
Known as christian Advocates" The
mpport of the Advocates is laid upon
he membership Of the churches as a |
,art of their religious duty, and for
his reason they are generally well sus
aimed and profitable publications.
1t is not generally known that the I
.hildren's department of the Christian
lnteligencer, the organ Of the Dutch
Reformed Church, has been edited for
many years by Margaret q. Sangster,
The poet and editor of Harper's Bazaar.
Mrs. sangster did her first literary
work on the Intelligencer. and many
If her best and most popular poems
and miscellaneous writings have ap-
pearsd In the columns Of that Journal
The Vicar OF Tattershall, Lincoln
shire, England. recently delivered a
course of Sunday evening lectures on
The Church and Modern Wesleyan.
lsm." In these lectures he undertook
10 show that Modern Wesleyanism" is
contrary to the example Of Christi CON
ftary to the teachings Of Christ; CON
trary to the precepts Of and the practice
Of the apostles; contrary to the teaching
II John Wesley; contrary to common
ense.
Warden Haley, Of the indianapolis
state prison says that there is a re-
harkable religious revival among the
inmates of that institution, that 100
" the moat hardened conyfcts have