The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-09-19
CURIOUS FACTS.
The turnip originally came from Rome.
The peach originally came from Per.

Inc turnlp OrlRinaity Cainc irOm hoths.
The peach originally came from Per-
pia.
Bull fighting is getting a foothold
among French amusemcnts.
A fiyc-year-old child in Monson, Me-,
is said to speak three languages.
The practice of feasting at funerals is
still in vogue at Lancaster, Penn.
A tree was cut down at Orting, Wash
ington, that measured $40 feet long.
At Huntsville, Ala, pink and white
chicken was Matched short time ago.
Reversible trousers, to correct the
"bagging," arc proposed by a bcnefccnt
tailor Of Akron, Ohio.
Old Mrs. Sidncr, who died at Decker.
town, n. j., the other day, aged 105,
had smoked clay pipe for forty years.
A strange and fatal disease has ap.
peared in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Victims
fall in the street, vomit foam and blood,
and die.
They have a trained lion at the Paris
circus that rides on the back of horse
around the ring and does all the customa.
ry feats.
General Charles Williams, Of Manches
ter, n. H., will give a fine park to that
city, to be enjoyed especially by poor
children.
Large land OWNERS in Scotland arc i'm.
porting reindeer from Norway, in the
hope that they may become acclimatized
, and increase.
A swarm Of butterflies, so thick as to
almost obscure the rays Of the sun, passed
through Mott, Cal, recently. There
were myriads of them.
A rustic bridge just completed ir
Houston County, Ga, contains fifty.
seven different kinds of wood and vines,
and all were grown in the county.
1t is claimed for the Mitrc Hotel, Ok.
ford England, that il was first opened
as a public house in 400. No one TO
/ look at it can doubt the statement
The California State Board of Trade
reports that there are 10000 acres
of arabic land in that State capable OF
being rendered productive by irrigation.
The cemetery at Sea Cliff, n. Y, has
been closed because there is so little use
for it-only fifteen burials in four years,
and the receipts not equal to the cxpcndi.
lures.
| James Buchanan, of Ashtahula County,
Ohio, cuts his hair in very peculiar
manner. He shaves all his forehead
short, except a ridge from his forehead tc
the back of his neck.
The latest fad in mechanism is an in.
genious contrivance in the form Of d
large ice-cooler, from which, if one
| drops n penny in the slot, he can obtain
cupful of icc-cold ygeia water.
A consignment of 100000 kilo.
: grammes of terra alba which arrived al
New York on British steamer few
days ago will be converted into candy
j for the delectation of the American peo.
pie.
A novel idea in church building has
been started in the neighborhood OF
Dawlish, England, where it is proposed
to raise funds for Il new church by de
bentures bearing interest at four per cent
secured as first mortgage on the oller-
tories.
Azoth, which was bcsiegod by Psam
metichus, the Powerful, held out, ac'
cording to Archbishop Usher, for nine
teen years, and according to Herodotu.
for twenty-nine years. Troy held on
for ten years. These are the two Longest
seiges of which there is any record.
The latest and newest thing IN New
York shop windows is huge spider wei
made of fine twine and remarbabl!
natural. 1t is at least four feet high anC
is as true to nature as though Gulliver
like spider had used the window for I
home. 10 intensity the illusion spide
as big as a mans fist, cleverly manufac
tured, has been placed in the centre o
the web, while artificial butterflies ar
scattered promiscuously about.