The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-26
NOTES OF THE DAY


kee, has begun a crusade against dance
halls In his city. He says that they
are among the worst of evils.
A game protective law Just passed In
Missouri provides severe punishment
for any one convicted Of killing doe
deer in the next five years.
Los Angeles Is having new BOOM
| The superintendent of buildings there
reports SGOO,O0O put into buildings dur.
ing the month OF July, following 1885,.
900 In June.
Red tape is driving shipping from the
new Baltic canal. 1t causes so much
unnecessary delay that the old way
around Denmark is preferred, and be.
| sides the pilots and officials are iInpo.
! lite.
A dog belonging to George Wilcox of
| canton. Conn, met Il porCupine in his
wanderlngs Il few days ago, and came
home so full of quilts that II took u
long time to pick them out and two
men to hold him during the process.
Brussels. where the vilest books in
the world are openly published aud
sold, is appropriately selected as the
meeting place for an International con.
gress for the suppression of immoral
| literature ucNt October, Of which Jules
Simon will bc president.
The Paris Figaro calls attention to the
/ fact that three of the principal inter
/ prefers of "raunhacuser" at the Paris
! opera house were born In 1861. the very
| year when Wagncr's work was produc.
/ cd Tor the first time in the French cap
| ital with such disastrous results.
In the River Tay, opposite Enrol. an
ancient Calcdonian canoe was recently
| discovered and is now in the Dundee
museum. 1t Is formed from Il single
/ oak trunk, followed out. probably by
| IRE, Is 30 feet long and I feet wide at
the stern, narrowing to . feet ut the
| bow.
woman named Butler Is the first of
her sex To vote at a general election in
England. Her name was put 10y mis-.
take on the voting list at Barrow, and
the presiding officer at tie polls held
that he had no authority To- inquire into
her sex when the name was once On III,
list.
y census OF centcnarlans recently
taken In France gives 213 persons of 100
or over, 141 of them women and GC
men. The oldest was a woman who had
just died ut 15O, In IA village of the de.
partmcnt of lIaute Garonnc. Nearly
] la, I..I
lowest ranks IN lfc
There Is said to be only one settlement
In Massachusetts located more than n
dozen miles from railroad. Cumming.
ton Is thirteen II 'l"s from the nearest
line, but is only little further away
from three other railroads, being near
the center Of a square formed 10y four
roads
The bluejay is proving decided pest
In California by eating the eggs of other
birds, particularly quail and game
birds. SO the Olympic Club of San
Francisco has appointed ST. Bartholo
news day on which every one who
can buT'Or beg or borrow shotgun is
10 join in the slaughter
A Yorkshire plaStercr. who was M
Tor bigamy before the West Riding rs
size court, explained that he had sold
his first wife Ia another man some
years before for shillings and q pence
ana as she had gone of willingly hc had
decided 10 have nothing more To do with
her. He'S'as found guilty, however
When IT. mahdl died. reports Slatin
PaSha, ne ,.pponted three KhaliraS who
were to succeed him in turn. The pres
ent Khalifa was the first to inherit the
power and though the other two are
still living he Is intriguing to pass il
on TO his son. He has 500 wives
Among his female slaves many are
nearly white.
Slatin Pasha has just recovered the
sword that was taken from him when
he was captured. 1t was the one he
had when he first entered the Austrian
army. Five years ago Mr.. Cook of the
tourist agency bought the sword of an
Arab at Luxor, and when Slatin attend !
ed the geographical congress In London
he restored it to him.
a new solar physics observatory is &c !
be erected in India AT Kodaikanal. H. |
the Palani hills. 800 miles south of |
Madras. 1t will photograph the sun
daily and Will undertake a systematic |
spectroscopic examination of the sun
The temperature Of the station is very /
even, ana the number of cloudless hours |
each day unusually great.
Paris proposes To put an end TO the |
complaint that policeman can never
he found, by establishing seventy po
lice kiosks in different parts of the
city. A policeman will be always on
duty there, who will communicate with
the nearest station 10y telephone, and al
night will have another policeman with
him 10 send out at once in ease Of need
Moltke's strategy at Gravelottc and
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