The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1875-08-05
Al Sorts Of Items.

! Always back your friends, and
face your enemies.
| .... No man gives moro than he
that keeps back nothing.
... Despair as much a. you please
Of self, but mover Of Jesus.
-. .Contcntment makes ono happy
and rich as the greatest king.
| go. No one in his right mind will
so to a picnic without an umbrella
| 49,. Low as the gravo is, only faith
can CLUB high enough TO 500 boy yond
il,
....Thc thoughtful man doesn't
wait until it rains to borrow an um.
brella.
80. Tho wife OF Victor Emmanuel,
King Of Italy, was once poor how-
or girl.
-. The shades Of adversely is bet
ter for some than tho sunshine of
prosperity.
Philadelphia papers claim l25,
600 strangers can be accommodated
10 that city.
-. Happy Is tho man who has
found out his sins before his sins have
found him out.
-. Heaven IL . day without
cloud 10 darken it, and without a
night TO end it.
... Texas will have surplus
wheat crop this year Of over two
million bushels.
80. Tho Women's Congress will
hold its annual session in Syracuse
in October next.
go. Berks couoty, contains q su>
gar bowl said to be three hundred
and seventy years old.
"A son of Martin Van Buren,
was recently sent to the insane asylum
Of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
... .Pennsylvsuia has about $50
Masonic Lodges, with q membership
Of S35, 900 Master Mssons.
"A. T. Stewart is seventy six,
worth $50, 1000, 900, doesn't live with
his wife, and has no children.
-. The potato bug has boon de-
molishing the tomato plants in the
eastern portion Of the State.
-. Tho true secret of living ut
peace with all the world is to have
an humble opinion OF ourselves.
... Poverty pinches, but not half
80 hard as vice. The one wounds to
heal, the other leaves an ulccr.
....One hundred any fifty picked
Welsh singers" are organizing an ex.
pediton to attend the Centennial.
Magnificent Abe, como hith.
er, my dear, said the girl when he
told her he'd ten thousand a year.
.... The average personal wealth
throughout the whole United States,
including the Territories, is S772.
.... We should not only break tho
teeth of malice by forgiveness, but
pluck out its sting by forgotfulness.
-. .Louisians will raise two huns
dred thousand barrels OF rice this sea-
sou, or twice as much IA last year
1t is now settled that tho
American can beat tho Irish man with
q rifle. But how about the shillalah
go. Tho importation of breech,
loading rifles and fixed ammunition in
to the Territory Of Alaska is forbid
den.
.... The whole amount of United
States currency outstanding at date,
Of all denominations, is 3il7,4l7,-
1869.
Ills il not strange that a little
silver dust should blind our eyos aud
divert them from beholdiug him who
is altogether lovely ?
-. Chicago fills up with grain as
fast as she ships East, showing that
the Northwest il still carrying last
years crop to a large extent.
Three young mon in Milton
county, Ga, on June 80, while in q
field threshing wheat, were struck
by lightning and instantly killed.
ia Kansas paper says "A
mule kicked an insur ance agent in
this place on the cheek tho other day.
The agents cheek was uninjured, but
the mules hoof was broken"
When man travels il doesn't
take him long to find out things. Ho
soon discovers that the brakemon own
all the railroads, and the clerks all
the hotels what is left OF the rost of
the world isn't worth having.
-. Colonel Gilderslosve. who is
doing such credit TO tho American
eagle abroad. was fifteen years old
pefore his father allowed him to have
q shot gun. Hs distinguished him
self upon thst occasion by putting the
powder 10 last.
-. The Centennial Exhibition will
six months, commencing
April 10th, and closing October 10th,
1876. 1t is thought the average daily
attendance will bo $4,000. At this
rate the aggregate attendance during
the six months will be about 8,00O,'
900.
.... 1T isn't often that q man Is
married by his own son, but such an
0cou rronco took nlaoe in Nav York