The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1875-08-19
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Al Sorts Of Items.

tWO teut thTOuS', WA toCeutty CUP
tursd mar New London,
....A Miss Lawrence. Of Toby.
hanna Mills, was recently burned
to death by her clothing being igui-
ted by coil oil.
... The Michigan farmers shear
their sheep by horse power. The
process Of making mutton Of thom by
dog power has been known for some
time.
-. Said ono man to another, "if
this wasn't Sunday, how much would
you take for that Iumberi" "If this
wasn't Sunday, I'd tell you, was the
proper reply
-. ."Ms," said Q small boy, ap.
proaching his mothor and exhibiting
uumistakablo symptoms ofa soro pain
in bis bow0ls, "do green applcs grow
in Heaven ?"
-. An Indiana lawyer elopcd with
his sistar-iu>law. but his wife never
shcd tosr. She sent his law books
after him, sold the furoiture and took
tho children to the circus.
....A young man in Wheeling
Va, got up . picnic, invited twenty
eight girls, took them all himssl
provided tho dinner at his own OF.
pensc, and went home to 6ud oigh.
teen challenges awiting him.
... The Rev. DR.. Parker, Of Bos-
ton, is dcfcndiug tho character of Ju-
das lscariot, aud somc editor will
presently s,aud up aud say that Par
kor and pirate Kidd are the only two
great men America has ever produced
-. "A little girl reading the His
tory Of England with her mother,
and coming TO the statement that
Horny 1. never laughed after tho
death of his son, looked up and said,
What did he do whom he was tick
led ,"
-. An editor having asked an
Illinois farmer for crop news receiv-
ed this answer "And now tho reap.
or roapeth, the mower moweth; and
the little bumble.bee getteth up the
busy granger's trousers leg and
bumbleth."
80. The newest new problem for
doctors is whether divorce is conta
gious or runs in families. At o re.
cent trial in New York tho witness
es examined were all related to each
other, and every one Of them had
been divorced.
-. The iron trade oil over the
world seems to b. depressed, most
Of the recent failures 10 England be-
ing in this branch Of trade. Not
wilhstanding the building ofiron ships
and iron houses, the supply exceeds
the demand, and the downward ten.
dency 10 prices 10 universal.
-. The Louisville clergymen re-
commend that states be hung in the
church vsstibules, to enable tho gisls
to register their names on entering
for morning services. This will OBJ
viate the disturbances created by
the young men who come TO see
whether the charmers are present.
No two sides OF any human
face are precisely alike. 1t il the
same with every limb no pair Of
limbs are fashioned alike. One hand
is almost always longer than the
other ; 80 with the foot, the leg, and
tho arm. But the greatest OF all
marvels is this mover were two hu-
man faces alike.
-. "A fearful fight is reported to
have recently occurred in Esoumbia
county, Ala, between two families
who had long been a. variance. Six
men, including father and two sons
on each side, were. Five were kill.
ed on the spot, aud the sixth reoeiv-
cd . charge Of buckshot in the
side which was expected TO cause his
death. II is said the combatants
we're Of Indian descent.
80. The Allentown (Ps) Herald
says "Thirty Ave years ago . young
man pawned a blanket to q Berks
county farmer for fve dollars, and
took Greely's advice by going wost.
Ho returned last week from Califor-
MIA, worth cool hundred thousand,
visited the farmer and redeemed that
blanket, which had been carefully
put away at the time it WAS reoeiv-
ed"
-. Prof.. Marsh, Of Yale College,
who was recently on an exploring
tour to tho Indian COUNTRY, makes
some very damaging disclosures In
regard to the supplies furnished the
Indisns at the Red Cloud agency by
tho agents. Ifthe supplies are found
not according to the standard stipu>
lated by the government. the agents
and oil concerned 10 cheating tho In.
diaus should be severely puaished
and then dismissed With loss OF pay.
%. "A cat was seen Q few days ago
10 Plymouth, making tolerably good
tiuo through . field towards . barn,
evidently tussliug with something
which inpsded hor progress. Inspee-
ton proved that the cat had caught
Q biacksnako four pd.a-balf foot long
and with her fangs sct firmly 10 Its
body about midway Of its length, was
dragging the varmint homo, tho
snake al the while Sighting and strug-
Cling, darting out its forked tongue
and trying to straightsa out its length