The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1884-03-27
GLEANINGS.

New York.
The governor Of North Carolina
grants no pardons.
Christine Nilsson owns 4 125. 900 worth
Of real estate in New York City.
The most valuable building in New
York is the Mills Block, wor,h $l,475,-
900.
A pool-seller of experience prophc-
sizes that this will be the greatest year
of racing in history.
Arab Pasba gets nm allowance of
ESQ month from the English Govern
mcnt during his exile.
Josh Billings saws Artcmus Ward
left his mother $6DO.O .OJ0 ia his will
when he hadn't CD cents to his name.
John Connors. of Portland, Me-,
supported by the city rs pauper
was found to be the owner of six
logs.
Cincinnati has wife murderer named
Har,nc,t who says he killed his wife
because hc wanted 10 and ho would do
it again.
All goods manufactured in New Jcr-
sey State Prison must be- stampcd:
"Manufacturcd IN the New Jersey State
Prison
Mrs. Susan Fcunmorc Cooper n
daughter Of the novelist. Is educating
100 orphans ut her home, in Coopcrs-
town. n. Y.
Des Moines, Iowa, has n printers
brass band. but s,mc fatality has fo,-
lowed it. Ten of the original mcmbcrs
| have died.
Two veterans who were with "O,d
Hickory" In the war that ended seven
ty years ago are still living in Catawby,
County, North Carolina.
The Shakers of South Union, La,
ono of the thirteen Shaker settlements
in the United States. own 20 0O0 acres
Of the best parts OF louisiana.
Mr.. Edmund B. Southwick, n natur-
alist, who was cmp'ovcd last year to
kill insects in & 'n,ral Park, New York.
gives n lit of $40 varieties OF insects
that prcycd upon the tree.
In recent parade ut Hartford one
of the drnmmajors gracefully tossed
his stick over al electric lamp wire,
thirty feet from the ground, and caugh,
ii when ii came down without losing
step or jos,lng his lordly bearing
A lecturer on tho Indians said there
arc no profanc words in the Indian
language. They are not necessary.
Whenever an Indian is provoked, he
kicks his dog ana beats his squaw.
1t would be waste Of strength to
swear too.
There are twcntv-nino glucose facto-
ries in the United States, with an csti-
mated capital of $1,000, 600. They
consume about 40. 900 bushels Of corn
per day and produce grape sugar and
glucose of an annual value OF nearly
$40. 000,0 000.
When the law for the gradual man
omission of slaves in Cuba was passed,
several years ago, the slave population
was estimated at 3Sj. 500. IL il now
estimated that 2Sj, QUO OF these are set
free, and il is thought by some the
remainder will DO free within year.
A hunter who got lost during n snow
storm near Las Minas, Chihuahua, be-
came so hungry that he cut of his faith
full dogs tail for food, which he roast
cd aud ate. He then gave the bone
to the unfortunate canine, not unmind-
full Of the debt Of gratitude he owed the
sacrificing animal.
General Edward McCook, now in
Colorado, says; 81 fancy should like
to lead three or four OF the old cavalry
regiments l commanded during the
war against those Soudan rebels. That
number of such men Ms we saw twenty
years ago ought TO clean all Egypt OF
FL Mahdi and his followers"
The Salt Like TribHnc disputes the
correctness of the police statistics flc-
qncntly paradcd to prove tho superior
virtue of tho MOrmuns. The IiibUMC
explains by saying that when police
man finds an intoxicated Saint he kind
ly escorts him TO his homc. while
Gentle is run into the station house.
Miss Jennie MCGOWAN, M. d., who
is said TO bear striking resemblance
TO Mary Anderson, has been reelected
president of the Scott County Qowa)
medical Society. She has refused sew
eral offers OF marriage from prominent
physicians, perfrrring TO practice her
profession. Her chief labors are among
the poor, by whom she is worshipcd rs
an angel.
A point has come before Michigan
School Board. IL is the point Of pin.
Jocose pupils were accused of making
I puncture their teacher. lIc had
habit of saying, after making an ex-
planation and on taking his seat: Stick
Il pin there" The temptation to put
n pin upright in the chair, under these
A. ir.t1 ms TO ir,ngi,t;h1n fIka
question is whether the culprits ought
to be expelled.
w. w. Guerry, of Sumter, Ca,
now 40 years old, had both arms cut
oil above the elbows when child, but
never seemed TO mind it much. He
puts the end OF II penholdcr in his mouth
and writes rs fast and we'll rs most
men; ho swims, drives horses, ties
Knots, shoots and docs almost every
thing. He Is Coroner and bailiff, has
wife and several children, makes q
good living and is universally respect
An Atlanta Constitution correspond
eat says: 1.-The other night while talk |
ing to Senator Brown noticed piece
OF rabbit fur protrudng above his coll |
lar. asked him if he wore rabbits |
loot about his neck. No, he replied,
but do wear rabbit skin on my |
chest A lady recommended it rs the
best possible protection against cold. !
got n fine rabbit skin, cut of the feet,
and tying tho two legs together with |
4 ribbon, l tied the skin about my
neck. 1t has worked like u cy en-"
The San Francisco Buiiel states
hat, while there has been p liling off ,
in the aggregate immigrY TO Cali
fornia, the diminution if & tho Chi