The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-08-08
NOTES OF THE DAY.


Among them are four earls aud seven
eldest sons of peers.
A London clergyman will have doc
tor occupy his pulpit hospital Sunday
to urge the claims of the hospitals oil
public sympathy and support.
The new British silver dollar coined
for the use of merchants and bankers
In Hong Kong and the Straits Settle
ment weighs 416 grains 900 fine, equiv
alent to the Japanese yen.
In Geneva, Switzerland. the street
railway system is expected to earn
enough in ;he next fifty years to turn
over the roads at the end of that time
to the city without compensation.
A German has invented Il chemical
torch which ignites when wet. 1t is to
be used on life buoys. When one is
thrown TO n man overheard ut night he
can thus see the light and find tho
buoy.
The total number of Japanese killed
In the war with China was only 793.
The Chinese were the first people In the
world to use gunpowdcr, but that Is
about all they have been able to do in
that line.
IL Is reported that whales In large
numbers and of huge proportions are
tumbling In on the shores of Massa.
chusetts, and the incursion is said to bc
due 10 a scarcity of food in the deep
waters Of the ocean.
II man who lives near Newburg, Ore,
recently sold well-matchcd yoke of
oxen for 500 and bought team of fine
bay horses for $50. lie says he will
buy set of harness and then have
money left from the sale.
Rev. John ID. Long pastor of church
Mt Oak Island Beach, has cleared that
neighborhood of mosquitoes 10y pouring
Kerosene oil In the surrounding ponds.
and by SO doing has earned the title of
the modern st. Patrick"
A London restaurant uses an electri.
cally heated plate to keep ones food
warm. So long as the current is turn.
ed on one can dine in as lcisurcly
way as he likes. There Is no danger
of receiving Il shock from touching the
plate.
The new city of Depew, which pro.
poses to make Buffalo one of It's sub.
urbs, has the distinction of being mill.
ionaire town. Vanderbilt and Astor
united for once In their lives over It's
foundation walls, and its stockholders
are millionaires.
The twenty female teachers appoint
ed few days ago to teach In the Wesr
Chester, Pa, public schools during the
ensuing year were required to sign an
agreement not TO get married during
the year for which they were appoint.
ed.
chemical works on the banks OF
! the Rhone, In the canton OF Geneva, is
devoted to the manufacture of artlfi.
fishes, more especially the trout. in the
river which are caught In the ncighbor.
hood, have n musky flavor.
The natives who gather sulphur from
Popocatapeu secure small packages of
1t which they fasten to their backs.
mountains, after the manner of the
woodcutters of France. For this ven.
turesome work they get about 20 cents
day.
1t Is the custom of the Bank of En-.
gland not 10 pay any fractions Of a
penny. In the case of dividends on
government stock these fractions have.
in the course of years, amounted To
100000, which amount, 1t was stated,
was few years ago paid over to the
chancellor of the eXchequer.
OF the thirty-six generals In the Ger.
man army all but two are mobiles. OF
the seventy-fve lieutenant generals all
but thirteen, of the 40 major generals
| all but thirty eight, and of the 294 colo.
nels all but eighty-tivc are mobiles. In
the Prussian army there are forty-ninc
regiments in which every officer Is a
noble.
German bankers who have visited
the Placeritas camp in Arizona and
are satisfied of its worth propose to lay
three-foot steel pipe line six miles
lIohi aiabNla NItth w luttTlluS IOt
the working of six giants at hydraulic
mining which will employ 800 men. The
yearly output of these placers under
the most primitive methods has been
81 100000 for the past twenty.
w. Ashley was driving n number OF
fat steers to Milliken, Mich, TO ship,
and allowed the herd TO drink their fill
at pond near town. One OF the steers
gave n realistic imitation of going mad
for that moment, and after running the
town for two hours was finally shot.
Then live mud turtle measuring two
and one-half inches across the shell
was found in its throat The animal
had swallowed 1t while drinking
One of the landmorks of Vincennes,
Ind, is the Harrison mansion. Gener.
al William Henry Harrison came there
40 QavaFnar af the faPritnry a ahnut 1000