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

1NDfANAS finances arc low.
Iowa is TO have fruit palace
1MHieRArIoS docs not slacSen.
INFLUENZA is epidemic in Iceland.
THERE are 40,39i physicians in japan.
The corn crop is very good in the South.
THE drought In Kansas has been broken.
GEoRGINs crops will surpass those OF last
year.
THERE are 1890 acres OF sorghum in
Kansas.
MEXICO has just borrowed s4oOoO,OJo in
Europe.
THE city of Hamburg has surplus Of
SA2jO,OO0.
CANADA has surplus amounting TO
e., sos, ,40l.
| TUE wheat yield is now estimated at 425,-
000, 900 bushels.
THE dog population of New York is esti-
mated at $4,000
The English wheat crop will be tn, worst
for many years.
ALMOST 5i,6)0 Frcnchmen belong TO the
| Legion OF Honor
THOMAS A. Edison took out eight patents
| during a recent week.
THE balance OF tradci Is now quite heavily
in favor of this country.
The financial panic in South America is
| reported 10 bc subsiding.
The Italians in this city will erect 500, b.
| 900 statue 10 Columbus in lSJn
THE wheat crop ofEnglanl has bccn badly
damaged by wind nnd rain storms
| THE long distance telephone is making it,
way rapidly everywhere ia Europe
! NEW SoUrn WALES will shortly introduce
! penny postage throughout the colony.
| CELLuLoID manufacturers have formed a
| trust with a capital stock of 81, 900, 600
| CorroS is advancing in price, and cotton.
seed Is worth more now than year ago.
FoUR pearls found in river near Galena.
| ILL.,, were sold 20 a icNclcr IN Chicago for
QUiTE a number o. new banks have been
! opened in the South within the past sixty
! days
ASJur 1890 miles of new railroads were
built in the United state, the first siN months
Of this year.
TIM new German Army hill will aid So.
! Dl,OO1 to the annual expenditure OF the
| Government.
DURING the last twb moa,hs there have
been 40 eases of cholera In Spain Ot these
25l have been fatal
NEVER in the history of the cattle husinc,,
| has there been such wholesale slaughter oi
| calvesas is now going on
TnE visible supply Of pclnuts is iDl.Oll
bushels, against go, O0) last year al this dat,
and the year before 200 OOJ.
SHARrERs have been swinding the farmer,
| Of Central Illinois by yinnocuntlug swim, with
u bogus remedy FOR hog cholera
THERE will he no fair in North Dakota this
season, the Legislature having failed 10 make
an appropriation thcr'for.
| lT Is rcp3rtcl that thcuvw census will show
| 10000 commercial travellers in this country
| ~ the last census there were 200 900.
MANY settlers arr leaving Oklshoma,
whore they say everything Is burning up
aud the crops viii bc almost a total fail.
urc.
ADMISSION, Ala. in population sine, the
| last census, has gained 100 per cent D. or, in
| Guiding two large suburbs about 1000 per
| cent.
TnE population OF LAREDO has increased at
n greater rate than that nf ANY other Texan
town In 1850 IL wa ljJ), and now IL is
| l!,jGG.
THE largest contingent OF recruits ever
demanded 10y the Russian War Office, 2;O 600.
| was fixed for the next enrolment by the
lates: ukase.
HEAVY shipments of raw material aud
merchandise are coming over Southern roads
into Northern markets, averaging 1000 cur
loais per day
A STATEMENT prepared by tho Pension
| Bureau shows that out of the 1851 clerks
now employed in that bureau 233 are now
drawing pensions
The extent Of the territory acquired 10y
England in Africa, under the agreement with
Germany, is estimated 10y Henry VI. Stanley
nt $50, 900 square miles, besides tho irotcc-
torate of Zanzibar
THERE are now about 40 Protestant
Chinese converts IN Pcking China, one
fourth Of whom Hre PrcsbyterinnS In all
China there about 10000 Protestant and
1000 Catholic converts.
TuE Chinese Government, us II CuuScq scncc
Of the recent resignation of Admiral Lang
AN cN-British naval officer declares that
hereafter II will never confer upon any FOR
cigner real authority IN the navy,