The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-04-29

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bread.
Porse.moneys arc scarce at Con.
stantinople.
Wolves are devouriug horses in
Minnesota.
Temptation is the name Of a
Troy saloon.
Michigan papers call chickens
pie timber
The Aqtor library coa.ains 1S),
III volumes.
Most writer's Of childeren's books
use too big words.
Ia Barren county, Ky, miners are
digging for gold.
II is thought clue has been
found to the West Point mystery.
Its effects are said to demonstrate
that whisky is a demon straight.
Politics and pork packing rank as
the two great American industries.
Chambers JournT says that
cows have an ori ginal taste for mu.
sic.
A disease like black vonit is At
tackns chi!jron in Floyd county
Ind
A Nebraska hotel keeper who
steals eggs says ho only peaches
thcm.
financially spoakins, the French
are a frame people, while Italisns
are liars.
To indite M article is to pen IT,.
and tho same thing may Lo said Of
criminals.
Over twenty thousand Russian
prisoners are awaiting eziie to
Siberia.
Thousands ofacres Of timber lands
have. been destroyed by fire ia Pike
and Monroe counties.
You can always tell a camp.mcet-
ing congressman by the way he c!aps
his hands for page.
II Tillon rotires and namos hie
second choice who will pay that hotel
bill DOrshcimcr wont.
The birds of Carlisle, PA, have
begun masking froproof hosts out Of
wire. What does this mean
The Chictgo brewers say they ut
least have no intention of increasing
the price Of beer this summer.
Wm. Y. Mason, of Moadyillc.
and Matthew Smith, of Pittsburg,
committed suicide yesterday.
The prospective abrogl,ion Of tho
Clayton Bulwer treaty is attributed
to De Lassep's visit to Amo.ica
Large numbers of Rnngarians
have emigrated to America on ac
count OF the distress in that coun-
try.
When n woman wants to bo pretty
sho bangs her hlir, AMI when she
wants 10 DO ugly she bangs tho
door.
Tho southern press in general
does not hold that the negro in the
south can readily DO replaced b Y
white labor
Tho Rnv. Nawmau Hl'l's second
marriage proyokos a great amount
OF criticism from tho so-cAlloi re-
lisions press.
Last year tho Methodist book
concern made net profit OF so. 900
on a book aud periodical business
OF $500, 900.
II is natural NJ life that women
should be fond Of ribbons: Because
You sec, th, first woman was ma dc
from u rib b-b0ne.
An American hly recently snid
that she WAS going to Europe in Il
thoroughly artistic way to attend
Tho saloons of Paris.
4 boy can't SMOKE pipe and
whistle at the same time Parents
shoull consider thi3 before taking
away the moerschaum.
"Iie was iu tho legislature one
year, | believe, bnt I wouldn't say
anything ahont that. Othorwisa
bis lifo was free from blot
A Syracuse woman starchod
napkin last week, and a fow hours
afterward fell down a hatchway and
was broken NIL to pieces,
Queen Victoria has sent gold
watches ns presents to the persons
who assisted Princess Louise in the
runaway accident.
Latest dispatches from Syrlcuse
and Albany indicate that the TilJan
men will control Syracuse couvon-
tion but will act discreotly.
A new forest fire was last night
reported to be sweeping across
Atlantic and Cumberland counties
in the already fire tried state Of
Now Je Iecy.