The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-08-02
NEwsY NOTES.
CALroRSrA has 5, 900, 900 sheep.

Coin IL discovered at lshpeming, Mich.
CHOLERA Is epidemic at Hong Kong,
China.
Six Kentucky counties are without
churches.
TIE shabby plague in Chicago is bccom-
ing unendurable
BuKSos AyREs is shipping wheat to the
north Of Scotland.
THERE are 800 men engaged In hunting for
diamonds In Australia.
THE annual consumption Of coffee is $50, 900
tons throughout the world.
The Egyptian Government expended $780,
600 boring for oil and got none.
DELAWARE has this year the largest peach
crop ever grown I'm its history.
New YORK CRY real estate is increasing
| at the rate Of 81 900, 900 n week.
THE Florida orange crop is expected TO
reach 1000, 900 boxes this season.
THE deficit I'm the Postoffice Department
this year will be only about s5,O00.0)O.
1T cost the Emperor of Austria $500, 900 to
entertain the Car of Russia for three days
A REJECTED colored lover tore out the ewes
OF Sallie Miller, colored at Jacksonville, Fla.
CONNECTICUT is officially reported TO have
55l9 pensioners who receive St42, Iy7 each
year.
Two counterfeiters were recently arrested
In Pittsburg with $4,000 in spurious green
backs
LARGE numbers of cattle are being shippe,
from the Sandwich Islands to the United
States.
GREECE has had such hot weather that the
currant crop has been damaged twenty. Live
per cent
FIsH-sALT, which is sure death to sheep is
being put out on their ranges by Montana
cattle men.
The amount necessary for maintaining the
San Francisco school department for next
year is placed at $4,000.
There are thirty seven tunnels of more than
1000 yards in England, the longest being that
OF the Severn, 1864 yards
THE consumption OF water In New York
city on hot day is about 1000, 900 gallons
more than in average weather.
A BED Of the finest clay, six miles long,
three wide and fifteen to twenty feet thick,
has just been discovered near Carrollton,
Ohio.
AMONG the heaviest investors In American
thoroughbred yearlings this year were some
Commissioners from the Argentine Re-
public.
SIXTEEN postoffices have been named
Cleveland and six Thurman, while there are
seventeen towns called Harrison and eight
Morton.
THE total number Of stamped envelopes
made at the United States envelops agency
at Hartford, Conn, during the year ending
June 80, was 433, $4,000.
PENNIES are now eagerly demanded by
the South and West, where they were once
despised, and 5000 900 pennies made at the
Philadelphia mint in one month were no.
equal TO the want.
The Government OF Bulgaria is taking
strenuous measures to keep Russian coins out
OF the country Orders have been issued to
Government agents to take any coins that
may be discovered and cut them into four
parts.
DEER are seen nearly every day in the
vicinity OF Bangor, Me, and seem to he
gaining confidence in man. A fine specimen
was seen grazing in a pasture "a few days
ago by man driving past, and the animal
did not leave at his approach.
The attendance at the Italian universities,
according TO the latest statistics, is between
1900 and $1,000. Napls shows the largest
number Of students, 40l3; Turin comes next
with 2l70; then follow in order Rome, l3i3;
Bologna, 1894; Padua, 1876; Palermo, ll0l I;
Pavia, 1868; Genoa, $40; Pisa, SOL.
N. &. PERKINS, who lives on the bay near
New Smyrna, Fla, has q sub-irrigation gar
den which has produced crops continuously
ever since last winter, when it was built AS
soon as one crop ripens another is put in its
place, and in this way there is IA constant
supply Of vegetables for the table. The cost
Of making 1t was very small