The Penn's Grove record., 1896-05-15
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was assailed on religious grounds.
Italy's deficit is about $12,500,0o0 a
gear, and Greece, Turkey, Portugal and
Spain are also running behind in rev.
enue.
A Tombstone merchant, doubtless a
very successful one, with an eye to the
folbles Of womankind, advertises
Beautiful ladies' dress goods"
A few days ago a Wilmington, Del.
woman received a little box by mail in
which was a watch and chain that
were stolen from her twelve years
ago.
1t seems, according to the latest sur
vey, that Mount st. Elias, the great
peak of the Pacific coast, is evenly
divided between the United States and
British America.
The Empress Eugene has presented
o the Paris Museum of Decorative
Arts all the plans and drawings for the
Drnamentation of her private apart
ments In the Tuileries.
The old chair that Governor Benning
i VI ANe" idhlpShiiS otNu
pied while he filed that office in 1741 is
still to be found in the council cham.
Der at Concord In good condition.
Sawdust Is turned into transportable
fuel in Germany by a very simple proc
sss. 1t Is heated under big steam pres
sure until the ~resinous Ingredients be-
come sticky, when 1t is pressed into
bricks. One man with a two-horse
power ma chine can turn out 5000
bricks a day.
The collection of Hawaiian idols be-
onging to the American board, and
which were sent to this country as ~
riosities by the early missionaries to
the Sandwich Islands, has been sent
| back to Hawaii to be deposited in the
/ National museum. They are said to
be the only specimens of the original
1t Is stated by one who has inveSti-
gated the subject that the average
yearly expenses of a cooperative build
ng and loan association of Philadelphia
Is $3.50. In most cases no salaries are
paid except to the secretary, and he
receives about $3.50 per annum. There
are over 400 associations in Phila.
ielphla.'
The banks. of issue of Europe con-
ained $3.50, OOO,O 900 more at the close
IF the veal 1895 than they did at the
md of 1890, without any corresponding
Increase In their loans or notes of is
sue. The decrease in the mount of
aew capital placed in London was
over 81, 100000, 900 for the years 1915
compared with 1SS6-90.
Professor Woodrow Wilson, who has
Jeen delivering a series of lectures at
the Johns Hopkins University, con-
.ends that American city governments
ire inefficient because they copy too
| closely the structure of the federal
government, with its two chambers
md executive. The system of checks
and balances and division of power is
not suited to municipal needs.
BY order Of the Supreme Court of
Ohio II. A. Harrison, Columbus; W.
Is. Groesbeck, Cincinnati; S. n. Owen,
columbus; II. j, Dickman, Cleveland,
and l.. T. Neal, C~hillicothe, have been
appointed q committee to prepare and
submit to the Supreme Court a mem
prial on Allen G. Thurman, deceased,
for publication In the ffty-third vol.
qme Of the Ohio State reports.
An analysis of 1900 accident poll
eies on which benefits were paid shows
531 persons injured by falls on pave
ments, 243 by carriages or wagons, sew
enty-ave by horseback riding; III were
cut with edge tools or glass; ninety
six were hurt by having weights fall
lon them, and seyenty-six were hurt
Sin bicycle accidents, while seventy
1.-TWO were hurt by falling downstairs.
A New Orleans paper reports that
while tho South has gained 81 per
cent. in population during the last
Twenty years, the enrolment of Its
ischool attendance has increased 100
per cent. The value Of Southern school
property in the same time has increased
from S16,0OO,O 900 to $51, 000, 900. 1t Is
ESTIMATED that of the $320,0O0,000 ex-
pended for education In the South in
1.-THE last eighteen years one-fourth has
been for colored pupils.
j, w. SleeTb, bUh VI iub amour ut-
dgner of the America cup, in a talk
about his father which has just been
published, states a fact that was prob
ably known to but a very few peo-
pie. 1t Is no less a revelation than
that the renowned America cup has
no bottom. This fact was not known
10 the New York Yacht Club itself until
o,,o Sraar VIC n flor fha nTIn uaa hrOpphf
aver, and It was proposed upon occa-
sion by the club to drink a bumper
from 1t.
A curiosity which is attracting the
attention of the folks around Crofton,
in Marion County, Kentucky, is a calf
lowered with a fine coat of wool in the
place of hair. 1t is the property of o.
10. West. The mother Of the curiosity,
la small Jersey COW, has no unnatural
characteristics. The calf, too, has the
appearance Of any commonplace calf.
with the exception of Its coat, which is
as woolly as that of a sheep. 1t is per.
lfectiy healthy.
James Morris, serving two n in
the penltentiary at Columbus, O., for
counterfeiting, having been sent up
from Newark, O., is in the prison hos
! pltal under peculiar circumstances. At
the age of II years he swallowed q
pin. Recently, after roaming about
his organism forty years, the pin, ap
peared In his left breast to such an ex-
tent that he is in a serious condition.
The pin was extracted, but the patient
is stilLdangerousiy Ill.
The equine 'roa+er" Is no longer ?
bother to English veterinary surgeons
who now perform tracheotomy on the
horse so afflicted, and thereafter he
reathes easily and well through a
white metal tube, silyer-plated. Many