The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1891-01-08
NEWSY GLEANINGS;
CLOVER seed is going to bo scarcs.

tLONfH SeCu II gong 10 DC Sc-,rS9.
on has been struck at Valparaiso, Ind.
THE supply Of natural gas in Ohio is fail
ing.
THE value OF the European potato crop is
SG0J. 100000.
WISCONSIN has large cranberry crop of
good quality.
The ice crop in Maine this year isestimated
at SSS, 600 tons.
a GENUINE case Of leprosy is reported at
Defiance, Iowa.
A LARGE acreage OF wheat has been sovn
for this years crop.
THE railroads pay-rolls for 1890 were
nelrly 500, 100000.
VEIN Of salt 30 feet thick has been found
at kanopoiis, Kan.
AMERICAN corn will hereafter be admitted
duty free into Mexico.
THERE are thirty thousands cases Of tho
grip in New Orleans, La.
THE golden poppy has been selected as the
State flower of California.
CHICAGO has n canning company that is
composed entirely of women.
A SUGAR beet factory, TO cost 500 600. will
be built az Pierre, South Dakota.
MucH of the corn grown in the West last
year was too soft TO put into cribs.
THE Papal income for 1891 is estimated at
sl,400OOO, and the expenses SlilO,0OO
THE German Emperor will shortly mike "A
tour through France in strict incognito.
PETROLEUM was struck IN an art esian well
alta depth Of sl5 feet at Chinook, Montana.
THERE Is 50 much ice In the Antwerp bel
gium) harbor that wooden shipping cannot
enter.
THERE were moro suicides than over last
year at Monte Carlo, the European gambling
resort
Ir costs from $4,000 to $1,000 10 clear tho
streets OF New York City after one snow
storm.
EIGHT new monasteries are being built in
Barcelona, SPAIN where there are already
fifty-hye.
An army o. locusts is moving across sew
eral districts OF Victoria, New South Wales,
causing great loss.
SAN Francisco has been without rain for
nine months. Settlers are leaving the dry
districts OF California.
THERE are 30, 900 pension attorneys in tho
United States, and their profits aggregate
uvers2, ,O))OOO per year.
MESSRS KiDDER, PEABODY & Co. of Bos-
ton, last year made gifts to their employees
amounting to over $4,000.
THE London money market is in good con,
dition again, and confidence ON the London
Exchange in American securities is rapidly
gaining
Tue aggregate amount now 20 the credit
of the pupils of tho public schools in the
Long island City (N. " Savings Bank /,
l6,5lO3S.
ApyIcEs from the fruit belt on the lake
shore OF Michigan state that the condition
ot the embryo crop Is good and that 1t will
be able to stand n severe winter.
A CHICAGO publishing house is reported e
have refused to fill an order for maps from
the State of Indiana unless the cash accom-
panied the order the firm alleging that the
States credit was not good.
THE neurological records of New Hamp-
shire showed that during the past year six
persons have died vino had reached the age
of 100 years, one being l05 years old Seven
teen persons died whose ages ranged be
tween niuety-fve and 100, AMI nearly seventy
Others who had reached or passed four-score
and-ten.
EMPERoR WILLIAM is following the ex.
ample OF Frederick the Great in cnlstng the
tallest men that can be found FOR his Guards.
The latest acquisition is Il young Rhine.
lander whose height is seven feet four aud a
half inches. He is the tallest mau in thc
Guards since 1850.