The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-08
NEwSY GLEANINGS
THE corn crop Is abundant.

THE corn crop fs abundant.
LONDON contains 90, 900 paupers.
CANADIAN industries are prosperiu.
THERE are $40, 900 miles Of railroad.
THE Shah is still the rage in Europe.
THE debt of New York city is sss, 900, 900.
ENGLAND is constructing fifty-two war
'hips.
ABOUT 10000 people a day go up the Eiffel
Tower.
Coal is s1s a ton and gas IS thousand in
Venezuela.
THE number of dogs licensed in New York
dty is S032.
THERE are now 1O1 geographical societies
n the world.
Iowa has paid Off her last dollar of Stats
lebt-s90, 000
A SWEET POTATO TRUST" has been formed
it Baltimore.
YELLOW fever has broken out on the 18TH
nus OF Panama.
A MOUNTAIN OF pure manganese has Just
been found In Colorado.
HUMAN sacrifices are still quite common
On tho East African coast.
In Chicago I, ,324, 900 hogs were packed this
Fear against |, ,555 900 in 1856.
THE Georgia Legislature has passed bill
prohibiting the sale of cigarettes TO minors.
CRoP indications throughout tho country
3oint TO the largest yield Of oats ever re-
ported.
A BRITISH syndicate Is said TO have paid
5000, 600 for an American patent medicine
business.
Mr.. PARNELL has surplus of Sl0O, 900
ifter paying his legal expenses before the
Commission.
THE new French army law extends tho
age Of liability TO service from forty-tiVo
gears TO fifty.
MoNTANk's Constitution makers have re-
iectcd woman suffrage by a vote of thirty
three to thirty-threc
NINETEEN salmon capncries are In opera
ton in Alaska. They are so thick in the
wnters that the boats often cannot crowd
through them.
PHILADELPHIA has caught the common
scold complaint. aud recently two unbcara-
BILE termagants were placed under $500 bonds
10 keep the peace.
REFINED sugar has gone from six and a
half 10 ten cents pound at retail, and the re-
finers have got 100000 barrels Of it stored
away in Brooklyn.
HORSE stealing has increased to such nm e1-
tent in Nebraska that IL is proposed to revive
the old vigilance committed which ceased to
exist over twenty years ago.
SINCE Buffalo Bill has been showing In
Paris no has had offers OF marriage from
twenty-nine French women. The women
were Of all ages and conditions, three or four
Of them being enormously rich.
THE headless skeletons OF 200 people. be-
lieved to have been white. have been uu-
sarthod near Yankton, Dakota. They are
believed to be the skeletons of victims Of an
Indian massacre Of fifty years ago
YRADE statistics in France SHOW that the
export of French kid to this country is falling
I of The French kid gloves are nearly all
made of rat skins tanned, rats being more
plentiful than kids in La Belle France.
THE United States War Department has
about decided 20 adopt the snoleless and
noiselcss powder invented by Captain Noble,
an Englishman. The powder is of n gray
color, and comes in long threads like whip
cord.
A HAIL storm In Villafranca, Piedmont
was of such enormous stones that more than
100 persons were badly hurt, and boy and
girl had their skulls fractured. The weight
Of some hailstones was estimated at two
pounds.
The total cantonal vote In France for the
Councils General is as follows: General Bon.
anger, 15S, 900; republican candidates 1900.
200; reactionist candidates. 100000.