The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-09-27
SELECT SETTINGS.

New York received III, 500, $40 eggs
last year.
A Nottingham bass singer is said to go
down to B Hat.
A French physician reports an attack
of gout in boy of fifteen.
A mocking bird in Albany, N. Y,
whistles "Boulanget's March,"
The longest street in Paris is the Rue
de Vanguard, 440O metres long.
Bald headed Indians are becoming
numurous since the adoption of hats aud
caps by the race.
In Maryland no man can become Gov.
ernor until he has been resident of the
State for ten years.
Birds nests of the edible sort bring
their weight in silver for the tables of
rich Chinese mandarins.
The railroad bridges of this country
II placed continuously would reach from
New York TO Liverpool.
The latest English word in Paris is
''struggforlifer,' meaning one who has
TO struggle for living.
A boy who was playing on the beach
near Liverpool, England. was engulied
and smotheied in hole of his own dig.
ging.
The most northern electric light In the
world is at licrnosand, sweden, on the
Gulf of Bothnia, about the ed degree Of
latitude. Light is needed there ut 2. 80
P.M
Excavations made in Tzintzuntzan, in
Yacatas, Mexico, in search of treasure,
are said to have revealed magnificent
palace which is an arch illogical
wonder.
In England it has become quite COM
mon to eat pepper on strawberries.
Some think that 1t improves their flavor
and others believe it renders them more
hcalthful.
Candidate Harrison has been presented
with piece of the curtain under which
Christopher Columbus walked when he
called on Ferdinand and Isabella, after
discovering America.
As test of his memory gentleman
OF Athens, Ga. read through an article a
column aud half in length in news
paper he had not previously seen, and
then repeated it without an error.
Photography on q small scale and with
amateur equipments is now a favorite
pasiime with Englishmcn of leisure.
Even the Peers have taken up the craze
and carry their cameras with them.
Colonel Fremantle, of England, kept a
regiment Of volunteers mannuvring for
two hours in n drenching rain, and
finally the signs OF mutiny became so
manifest that the inspection was brought
to u close.
Jack Williams, a Maltese sailor, has
been breaking all records on the Missis-
sippi River by swimming twenty five
miles with his arms strapped by his side
and his legs bound together. 1t took
him eight hours to do it.
Kentucky claims to have the largest
man in the world. one Hansen Craig,
who weighs ,J2 pounds. He is an ab-
normal expansion of avordupois. His
mother weighed but 122 pounds and his
father but llj. Strange to say for O
kentucky man, he "neyer touches a
drop"
In China, tendency to go straight
to the highest authority is corrected
by the bamboo. A law prescribes that
if complaint is made to a superior
ollclal which should have been origina
ly addressed to an inferior one, the com
plainant shall receive fifty blows with
the bamboo.
A barber fn London recently made a
wager that he could shave sixty men in
sixty minutes. 'rhe bet was accepted,
the men were latherel, and the razors
stropped and opened, ready for use At
the end of the tifty.ninth minute the
sixty men had all been shaved, and tho
barber was complacen ly counting his
gold. This, it is sad, breaks the record.
The Queen of Englan never sends her
personal correspondence through tho
regular mail as her subj jects do. Every
trivial communication, whether of a
personal or private nature is delivered
ut its destination by Queens messeI-
ger. She is the only European sovereign
who does this. The other potentates
are democratic enough to use the mail.