The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-07-24
NEWsY GLEANINGS,

1SpfASA's finances are low.
Iowa IL TO have fruit palace.
lMmeRArIoS docs not siacSen.
INFLUENZA is epidemic in Icelan1.
THERE are 4O,32i physicians in japan.
THE corn crop is very good in the South.
THE drought In X insas has bcen broken.
GKoRoiEs crops will surpass thoSe OF last
year.
TuraE are 10, 100 acres of sorghum in
Kansas.
Mexico has just borrowed s4o,OCO,Oo1 in
Europe.
THE city of HAMBURG has surplus Of
81 $50, 600.
CANADA has n surplus amounting 20
1908, 401.
The wheat yield is now estimated at i25,-
600. 900 bushels.
THE dog population Of New York is esti-
mated at $4,000
THE Eng.is wheat crop will be tn, worst
for many years.
ALMOST 5i,6J0 Frcnchmen belong to the
Legion OF Honor
THOMAS A. Edison took out eight patents
during a recent week.
THE balance OF trade is now quite heavily
| in favor os this country.
The financial panic In South America IS
| reported 10 be subsidng.
THE Italians in this city will erect a 500, o.
| 600 statue 20 Columbus In lsI!
| TnE wheat crop ofEnglan1 has been badly
| damaged by wind and ratn storms.
THE long distance telephone is making it,
| way rapidly everywhere in Europe
! New SoUrH WALES will shortly introduce
penny postage throughout the colony.
! CELLuLotD manufacturers have formed a
| trust with a capital stock OF 81 1000
COrroN is advancing in price, aud cotton.
/ seed is worth more now than year ago.
Four pearls found in river near Galuna
| H.. were sold TO a ieNeler in Chicago for
SiOt.
QUrrE n number o. now banks have been
! opened In the South within the past sixty
days
ASlur 1880 miles of new railroads were
! built i'm the United States the first six months
| OF this year.
THE new German Army bill will aid So.
! UJLOO1 To the annual expenditure OF the
| Government.
DURING the last twp moa:hs there have
been +i5 eases Of cholera in Spain. CT these
! 2jl have been fatal.
NEVER in the history of the cattle hu,inc,s
| has there been such n Wholesale Slaughter ui
| calves as Is now going on.
| The visible supply of pclnuts is iDlOO
bushels, against 900 OOl last year az this datc,
and the year before l,2Ol.0Oo.
SHhRrERS have been swindlins the farmer.
! OF Central Illinois by innoculntiug swin' with
| "A bogus remedy Tor hog cholera.
THERE will bc no fair in North Dakota tai,
! season, the Legislature having failed TO max,
an appropriation therefor.
! lT is repJrtcl that the new crnsus will show
! 10000 commercial travellers in TINS country
| At the last census there were 2DDO0p.
MANY settlers are leaving Oklahoma.
whore they say everything is burning ur
and the crops will bc almost total fail
| urC.
ADMISSION, Ala, in population sine, th,
last census has gained 100 per cent. or, in.
Guiding two large suburbs, about 2O0O pei
| cent
TmE population OF LAREDO has increased at
greater rate than that of ANY other Texan
town In 1850 IL was ljOD, and now IL j,
| Lice.
THE largest contingent OF recraits ever
demanded by the Russian War Office. 2;O, coo
was fixed for the next enrolment by the
lates. ukase.
HEAVY shipments of raw material auj
| merchandise are coming over Southern road
into Northern markets, averaging 1000 cur
loais per day
A STATEMENT prepared by tho Pension
| Bureau shows that out of the 1851 clerk,
now employed in that bureau 233 are now
drawing pensions.
THE extent of the territory acquired hy
England in Africa, under the agreement witt
Germany, is estimated 10y Henry NJ. Stanley
at GjO OO0 square miles, besides the protcc
tOrate OF Zanzibar
THERE are now about 800 Protestant
| Chinese converts IN Peking, China, one
fourth of whom are Prcsbyteraus In al
China there about 10000 Protestant AM
| 100, 900 Catholic converts.
The Chinese Government ASA Couscu .cnC,
| Of the recent resignation of Admiral Lang
AN eX-Britlsh naval officer declares that
| hereafter II will never confer upon any FOR
ciguer real authority IN the navy.