The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-11-08
: CURIOUS FACTS.
Thames is pronounced Tens.

Inc hepuDllc OF beneVa was Iounueu
in 1912.
Eschylus introduced dramas and
stage, 4S6 b. G..
The Welsh are the descendants of the
ancient Britons.
Cats seem to be the general favorite Of
the animal world in Italy.
There are about six thousand different
descriptions OF postage stamps in exist
tence.
Epigrams derive their origin from the
inscriptions placed by the ancients on
tombs.
A descendant of the Indian Emperor,
Chin ,lpopoca, is civil engineer in
Mexico.
Charley Dickens, fourteen. year old
colored preacher, is astonishing the peo-
pie in Georgia
lawyer Marbury recently made
speech thirty-tivc hours long in u Balti.
more court room.
Mrs. Sarah Chaplin lockwood. of
Cortland, n. Y, is nearly one hundred
and three, and enjoys good health.
Hetoglyphic pictrpc writing used by
been invented by Athletes, 2ll2 b. c.
Although small of stature, Chief JUS
tice Fullcr's new gown of office took
more silk than the dress of n society
women.
Helen Mathcrs, the English authoress,
wrote the novel VIII ch male her rcputa-
tion in the hope of bringing back her
lover, who had left her in II lit Of anger.
a new dog is coming into fashion in
London. 1t is the Tartar fox terrier.
His coat is silky, smooth and red, with
markings at head and tail. lie is good
tempered.
The tennis "arm" has been succeeded
by the tennis "leg." 1t consists of
rupture of the membrane covering the
muscular part of the calf in consequence
of sudden starts.
The leash" used as coin all over China
are made from an alloy of copper and
zinc nearly the same ms the wcll.known
Muntl metal. 1t takes about one thou
sand of them to make change for n
dollar.
A citizen of Marietta, La, put some
chestnuts on the roof to dry, and the
get the chestnuts, and when it ralncd
the water came through those holcs with
a rush.
\ IIartwel (Ga) divine tells of an
eloping couple who were married on
horseback while going full tilt, Justice
of the Peace galloping alongside of them,
with an irate father in hot pursuit Il
short distance behind.
II. II. Stoddard, the poet has a lock
of hair believed to have been cut from
the head of Milton. 1t is light brown
or golden and has been successivcy
owned by Dr. Johnson, Leigh Hunt,
George II. Boxer and others.
The first iron made in New Jersey was
at place ust south of Trenton, fIom
the limonitc or bog ore that abounds in
that section, and the first forgemaster
was Governor evils Morris, who came
to Monmouth from Barbados before the
year 1850.
In many towns in Germany and Swift
zerand are found hotels owned by free
holders which are entirely under the
management of the Evangelical
Union" In some OF them there is even
ing prayer ut half-p mnc every even
ing, conducted by the house father.
\ regulation has been adopted in the
Michigan State Prison by which here
after cOnvicts may earn the right to
wear plain gray suits instead of the
prison stripes. Men who obey the prison
rules for six months may discard the
stripes, but if after that period they be
come unruly again they must once more
don the oh ectionablc clothing.
on the spot where Louis II. of Rava-
ria is supposed to have sat with his ply
81 ian, Ir. Guddcn, Just before taking
the fatal leap into the Starnbergcr Lake,
Il column is TO be erected bearing per-
pctual light. The bench on which the
King repo,ed, which has disappeared in
the shape of innumerable relics, is TO be
replaced by an oratory.
Mrs. Buckncr, wife of the Governor
of kentucky, wears as ornaments u
conch-shell lacepin and sleeve buttons
which, in addition to their beauty have
the charm of romantic history, having
been purchased by her relative, General
George Washington, from n shipwrecked
and destitute sailor, and by him worn on
the coat in which he was inaugurated.
/ \ matchmaker gives out that the new
rich are large and liberal buyers of bat.
tered and wornout pocket timers, the
which are furnished up and duly en-
graved with initials and crcsts and
''sich," and then exhibited as heirlooms
from some Roundhead or Cavalier or
Maytlower pilgrim, who has been injec-
ted body, boots and breeches into the
new owners pedigree.