The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-13
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The new coal deposit at Blackwater
+ No., twelve miles south of Marshall
begins four feet from the surface ant
s from thirty to forty feet thick.
) Scientists who have made a study
If the eye say that a fash Of Ugh
asting 40-1, 900, 0O0ths of a second ii
quite sufficient for distinct vision.
Baltimore. as well as Brooklyn, is a
.ity of churches. each having a greater
oumber in proportion to the population
than any other city in the United
States,
There were 100 inches of now on the
ground along the main line of the
Northern Pacific railroad in the Cas-
eade mountains. Washington, the first
week Of this year.
A mess of eels weighing 300 pounds
elogged the water wheel which run
the electric plant Of Riverhead, L. l..
the other night, and the town was IN
darkness for several hours.
Indian criminal statistics show that
there is one criminal to every 274 Euro
peans, 500 Euraslans, 100 Hipdoo Chris
tians and 1861 Brahmins, while the
proportion of Buddhist criminals is
only one In 3,7S7.
Lewis Gorsline, of Ithaca, car Justly
wear the belt as the champion sparrow
hunter of Michigan. Since June last
he has shot $4,000 of the little pests.
Gorsline has lost his right arm, but
that makes no difference.
Search is being made in the subter-
fanean rooms of the great Kremlin Of
Moscow for the famous library OF
Ivan w., surnamed 'the Terrible"
Eight hundred famous, but lost, manu-
scripts are supposed to be hidden there.
In the office Of a New York wholesale
dealer In horns and tips there is a pair
Of South American cattle horns that
measure, following the horns, nine feet
from tip to tip. 1t is believed to be the
biggest pair of horns in the country.
Providence, R. l., holds the nan who
says that the propulsion Of vessels
over the ocean will be rev%olutionized
when he gets his pneumatic propulsion
machine to working. A part of the
vessels cargo is to be used as a pendu- |
lum to pump air when the vessel pitch. |
es.
A society of men of art is being form
ed In Paris, after the model of the So
ciete de Gems de Lettres, to watch over
the interests of artists. At the head !,
of the movement are Tony Robert Fleu-
ny, Dubufe, Puvis de Chavannes, Bou-
guereau, Detaille. and Roll. Foreign
Ts will be admitted.
Some years ago the Austrian govern
ment issued a decree by which every |
engineer who has driven his engine for
an entire year without accident shall
receive a reward of 100 forms $3.50,
and that those who have done SO for
ten consecutive years shall receive 1000
aorins $500 and a gold medal.
In New York Yvette Guilbert, the
French chanteuse eccentrique, was
permitted to sing her questionable
songs at the Metropolitan opera-house,
but the police raided a Chinese theater,
where a performance of a Chinese trag-
edy was In progress, because the play
vas mot of a religious nature"
The British lords Of the admiralty
have decided to proceed with the work
of building new naval barracks at
Chatham, England, without further de-
lay. The scheme provides not only
for utilizing the old convict prison
building as far as possible, but also
! for erecting additional barracks on an
extensive scale.
A bridegroom of 90 was married to
a bride of 6S In Meriden, Conn. Each
had been married twice before. A good
deal of interest was evinced in the
match, and the contracting parties
| made public announcement Of q time
for the ceremony. They were married
a few hours earlier, and got safely and
quietly away.
Evaporated potatoes, prepared in the
same manner as evaporated apples,
ire to be put on the market from Min
aesota next fall. Last seasons pota-
% crop was so large that many mill
lions Of bushels were wasted, and ex-
periments were made in evaporating
potatoes. The experiments were suc
ressful, and W. big factories for pre-
barring potatoes in this are
building.
Only recently 1t was announced that
Hungary will have a millennium ex-
position in 1896. and already some great
schemes are ventilated for that occa.
sion. Albert Huss, an engineer at Buda
pesth, has started a company which
will build an immense tower 1925 fee,
high, which will consist Of Eve sections
each section being a steel tube 1925 feet
'ong.
In Vienna, Austria, all bicycle riders
before obtaining permission to ride on
The public streets are required to PAST
IN examination. They are required tc
tide between boards laid On the fool
without touching the sides or edges
If them. At the word of command they
must be able to dismount either right
left, or backward; until the rider passes
This examination satisfactorily a II
sense to ride on the public highway Il
refused him.
Something seemingly new in politics
has developed at Elizabethtown, KY
rhe Mayor announced on assuming Of
. Zee this year that he would give hii
salary to the city. The city council
men determined not to be outdone II
patriotism, and voted to allow thu
rity to draw their pay, too. Will
doubtless pure. their patriotism is no
particularly costly. The mayors sal
Try Is $75 a year. and the councilmel
, ire paid at the rate of 81 apiece for eacl
! meeting.
A nest of mixed metaphors has beef
a discovered by the London Chronicle
in the columns Of an influential col
temporary: France might have bee
in the throes of another presidents
crisis had not NJ. Felix Faure take
the wind out Of the sails Of his cowar'
Iy foes by couraHeously Beizing tt