The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-10-25
CURIOUS FACrS.|

No gold or silver coins are !,
the Chinese Government.
Edith Brinkham Of Racine. NJ
her life by falling out of bed.
The leap year privilege is ~
ak hundred and sixty years old |
Ben Franklin recognized the
time. He invented three clock |
A skipping rope has been !,
which sets in motion a small NM
In one of the handles.
Mary Goodwin of Atlanta
thirty-eight years of age and 4.
OF twenty-seven children.
II is against municipal law IN 4
dig over 100 feet to find well ny
is the idea that the bottom w.
through.
Ice was produced in summe, /.
of chemical mixtures by Mr.. W,
1888. This was the first know
in this direction.
The first patent in America W,
in 1890 to Samuel Hopkins, a
delphia, for an improvement
manufacture of potash.
Near Oakland, Tenn, an eSr.,
struck a fallen tree and every .,
rails, yet not a single passe0,
either killed OF wounded.
A Washington Territory n
$4,000 for all the delicacies Of "A
to be fed to his dog, while his
was made heir to his watch a
only.
Eiahty-four children belorp
mothers of Media, Penn. Mn
Field has 2S. Mrs. Jose h Cha,
Mrs. James Barrett 10, aud Mr.,
Wright 10.
A Missouri horse fell over a clij
five feet high and escaped vii
scratch on his leg. Next dav
piece OF corn.cob in his tlo
choked to death.
The Bermudas take their n,I
their discoverer, John Bermnl
visited them in 1922. The IN
was Sir George Summers, who
away on them in 1909.
While Charles Cogswell wa,
a pretty young woman of Brn
Conn, the other day, he dro,
by her side. She tainted from
and was for a time likely to di.
Timothy Carter is believed d
Oldest stereotyper. He introi
trade in Boston. School bod
of him in 1917. He is still
mau, lives at Newton, aud
years of age.
At Texarkana the other dr
horned steer undertook to knod
elephant Of travelling circus.
on his native heath was no mad
big foreigner, and was laid ou.
stark in Just half a round.
At Kearney, n. j., a factor
is being erected, which will,
ished, be the tallest in the cos
the fourth highest in the word
be 335 feet high. There are 4
chimneys in Scotland and ons
land.
A hotel waiter in Cincinnati
from a guest, hid the mon
''turn-down" collar. He was
Of the theft, and, while being
TO the stationhouse, the Office
greenback protruding frosA
hiding place.
A beetle as large as a sparc
received by the State Entor
New York. 1t came ircr
America. He has another curi
resembles two green leaves aa
twig. 1t is called a camel cd
was produced In Texas.
A Massachusetts, cat, which
the age of twenty years andT
is buried under a granite obea
to resemble Bunker Hill mOnui
deeply chiselled with the nan
erly," the which high soundil
ton belonged in life to the Cs
There was a race lately in q
tween a zebra and an ostr
though the bird came in huI
ahead, the beast won the pug
done IN this wise: The zti
claimed that he had been pa
fowl, which nobody with a "a
biography could deny, and 50
was awarded where it did MOI
Sailors believe religiousIy
frigate bird can start at day1
the trade winds from the coaa
and roost the same night
American shore. Whether OF
fact has not yet been concl1
termined, but it is certain I'D
is the swiftest of winged creai
is ably TO fly. under favoring
200 miles an hour.
The etymology of the word
is thus given by good
"Among the northern nation
there was ancient practice Of
ried couples to drink methes
a kind of wine made from b
drome) for thirty days after
Hence the term honeymonih
moon. Attila, the Hun, dra'I
mead at his wedding feast thai
vapatahIas Of National In