The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-08-01
NOTES OF THE DAY.

There are 1854 persons in Great Brit.
ain who pay tax on an income Of more
than $4,000 a year.
In the royal palace OF servia lights
are put out Invariably by IL o'clock
by order Of the King.
There are no fewer than four Euro
pean banks In Yokohama and in japan
120, all with large capital.
In the gardens around London there
are more specimens of the cedar of
Lebanon than on Mount Lebanon itself.
In Norway law provides that no
person shall be permitted to cut down
a tree unless he plants three saplings
In its place.
The coronet worn by the Countess Of
Aberdeen on state occasions Is distin.
guished by five emeralds, which are the
largest In the world.
According to n Connecticut statisti.
clan there are $4,000 crazy people in
the United States, of whom only 6,5OO
are under sufficient supervision.
An eccentric farmer who died the
other day In Connecticut directed that
his body should be inclosed In an iron
casket and thrown TO the bottom OF
Long Island Sound.
Ii Is n remarkable fact that the actual
cost of the Kiel ship canal was below
the estimates. They amounted TO 15G..
100000 marks (S3T .I40,OOO), and the
cost was 155.3IS,OOO marks (S3T .2OO,.
TOO.
A colored man was recently shown
n skeleton by Portland doctor He
had never seen one before and was
greatly Interested. He examined the
skull closely and finally asked, "Where
are the earsT'
A family In Knox County. Maine, that
sleeps too soundly 10 bc awakened by
a chanticlccr has novel alarm. A big
cowbcll Is attached to the neck of the
dog, and at certain time In tho morn.
Ing he makes tour OF the chambers
A Boston paper which has gone daft
on abbrevintions thus reports n news
Item: "EIis Hon. the Lieut. Gov. OF
Mass. returned from y. ii. yesterday
with u doz. other citizens of Mnss.. and
expects next wk TO so TO y. Y. by way
of Prov"
People OF middle age can remember
when the only use for India rubber
was to erase pencil marks The i'm.
portance OF the article now is indicated
by the fact that I'm the first three months
OF 1895 this country paid $4,000. go for
Its importation.
Massachusetts may not grow as rap.
Idly in population as some Of tie larger
States, but It's wealth continues 10 pile
up steadily. II carried n fire insurance
last year of $3.50, ,OO0. 900, or about five
times that of other States with about
the same population.
For one person who cares about thea.
ters there are thousand persons In
England wild about cricket, and II the
ministry had given G. w. Grace a
knighthood among the birthday honors
II would probably have been the most
popular net Of their existence.
Statistics have been accumulated
which reveal that in respect to color.
blindness there is n remarkable differ.
per cent. of men are color-blInd 10 q
marked extent, while not more than
40 of / per cent. of women are thus
afflicted.
A store at Tempe, Ari. is about 10 In.
augurate novel cash system. When
anyone desires credit he is referred to
the office. where, II he be solvent. his
note Is taken for the amount needed
the cash is advanced him. and he goes
into the store and with the money ac
quircd does his buying.
Lord Roscbery will this year exhibit
no fewer than twenty.four head of
cattle and sixty sheep at the fat stock
shows at Birmingham and Smithheld
His lordship will thus be probably the
largest exhibitor. His exhibits will In.
clude many noted prize winners at last
years Scottish shows.
The first horse on record whose pedI.
gree can be authenticated was bred 10y
Charles III. and called Dodsworth: and,
for his amusement when he resided NJ
Windsor he appointed races 10 be run
In Datchet Mead, and at Newmarket,
where, II Is said, he entered horses and
ran them In his own name.
"Charley's Aunt has reached Portu.
gal and Is attracting large audiences to
an Oporto theater. In its Portuguese
guise II is "A Madrinha de Charlee."
With the exception of an original play
of Shakspeare's, this is the first tim.
In years that an English drama has
been performed on the Portuguese
stage.
William Scrubby, Trenton's official
dog catcher, rendered a pail full OF
dogs tails as vouchers for the number
Of CANNES he laid low in the perform
ance OF his duty and on which he based
his claim for payment The officials
refused 10 count the tails, but agreed to
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