The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1875-08-12
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their is little hope Of her ultimate re-
covery.
I'D. II. Pigg is tho Democratic
candidate for the Legislature in
Licking county. Ohio. lilo won't
save his bacon
49,. A wag lent o clergyman o
horse that ran away aud threw him,
and then claimed credit for spread
ing the gospel.
Marlborough, Massachu.
setts, is at present the residence Of
Of General Tom Thumb aud wife
and Miss Minnie Warren.
go. "A Now Haven man confessed
that he married his wife because sho
Was q good carver. That's the kind
OF help-meat cvery man wants !
Socialism is on tho decline in
Germany, the number Of tho adho'
rents having dwindled in a few years
from $40, 900 to about $4,000.
The Presbyterian Council at
London recently resolved that nm al.
lance ofall the Reformed Presbyte-
rian churches Of tho world should
be formed.
80. Michigan boasts tho most in
genious man in the country. A cit
izen OF the State has Just been awar
ded patent for new style Of Ia
dy's hustle.
80. The people Of France now
take their bathing houses with them
from Paris TO the seaside. They arc
made portable and can DO packed in
trunk.
... The following appeared lstely
in the agony column Of daily pa
per Dear Tom,--Como immedi-
ately. If you see this. If not come
on Saturday"
... An honest Virginia miller who
died tho other day confessed that
he had stolen 1000 bushels Of wheat
during his life time from his unsus-
pecting customers.
Some Galveston mon have
been held to answer on q charge of
stealing O whale. Tho charg doesn't
state whether theproperty was found
ON their person or not.
....A negro highwayman noar
Lexington bought revolver of u
man for S3, and then used the weap-
on TO rob him OF all his money, in
cludng the purchase money.
| -. The Sultan has eight hundred
wivos aud devo.es to bis owo aud
thoir use $4,000, 900 out Of the e.
100000 that constitutes tho whole
income Of the Turkish Expire.
....It is estimated that tbcre arc
about $4,000 acres under cultivation
in vineyards in California. comprising <
l6,90O,00O mission Of common vines,
add 100000 imported viues.
"A young lady, after reading
attentively the title If o novel. called
Tho Last Man" exclaimed, Bless
me, If such thing were ever to hap
pen, what would become Of tho wo-
men,"
| go. "A Newark girl hastened the
departure Of lingering gentleman
caller the other evening by remarking
az she looked out Of the window: l
, think We shall have beautiful sun
riss."
=. Mr.. Beecher has made q con-
tract with western agent to deliv-
or fourteen lectures at various points
in the west during the coming sea-
! son. The price is $500 night and
expenses.
.Iauer, the victorian brewer oi
Reading, intends to put into his
brewery copper cettle with Ca
pacity Of $50 barrels Of beor per day
He is getting ready for the Centen-
, nial, no doubt.
... "A man 10 Paris wants TO light
tho city by means Of one big lamp
suspended from q balloon. The au-
thorities have q prejudice against the
plan because tho inventor boards in
an insane asylum.
.... The Baltimore Sun speaks in
! confident terms Of the prospects ol
the grain trade in that city, Is the
crops in Europe threaten to be de-
ficient 1t is an i'll wind that blows
no one any good.
:. my dear, said a husband, in
startled tones, after waking his wife
10 the middle OF the night, II have
swallowed . dose Of strychains l.
"Wsll, thon, do for goodness sake liz
still, or it might come up"
go. 1t isn't such q very luxurious
: thing to be . duchsss, after all. Th,
o wife Of tho duke OF Edinburg has jus
( had her piu money reduced to ter
thousand . year. This leaves tn,
poor woman the Insignificant sum o
only two hundred thousand dollars ,
week.
|. %. An Indian came to a cortail
3 agent in the northern part Of Iowa u
procure some whiskey for . younl
warrior whs had been bitten by
rattlssnaks. "Four quarts I" repsst.
cd the agent, with surprise. "A
much ss that 7" eyes," replied th
i. indian, four qusrts-snsks very big.
% ... The postal card has grown il
popularity 90 that lAst year l07, ,6l6,
900 were sold, against 9l,007, 900 is
sued durind the preceding year, al in
Icreasa of ahOnt aiOhteen and One