The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-03-05
N=N5Y CLEiNlNcS.

Nearly i.o5o.00O people die every fortnight.
! Asia contains more than half the people of
| the world.
Seventeen per cent. Of Great Britain's doc.
| tors live In London.
This year the Gregoran calendar has heen
introduced into Korea by order OF the King.
All the telegraph messenger BOYS In Lex
ington, KY. are TO be equipped with bicycles
A hog weighing trife more than 1000
| pounds was killed at Rye, n. H.. fow davs
ago.
A free silver resolution was adopted bv tho
! Mississippi House OF Representatives ly iOl
| toll
Losses 10 shipping on the Great Lakes by
disasters for the past season amounted to
S2.096.G97
Swapping horses on the streets in Kentucky
IS prohibited in a bill now before the State
Legislature.
The annual meeting was hold Of tho Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers Association a,
New York CITY,
The Michigan Fish Commission is busy
planting its lakes and streams with troutani
other game fish.
lady Of eirhty-thrcc wears has Just dis.
tingushcd herself In West Stoneham. Me.
by killing bear
A man In coonskn coat and cap created
u sensation on the streets Of n Kansas town
recently. Such Enrb was once common in
Boston.
Mrs. Bowman Ames. OF Blanchard. Nc.
has shot = largo deer and trapped nvc fo,cs
near her HON" this winter without aid from
any one.
Five generations NJ ono family are living
on homestead AZ Blrdstown. Gu. The head
of the family, w. q. Cherry has 1876 living
descendants.
A new set Of natural teeth nr, pushing
through the lOnc-smooth gums of eighty
four-year-old Uncle Jake Lawrence. of
Uniontowu, XIV.
A. W. Patterson, u wcalthyand highly con.
neciel citizen of Madison. Wis, after tho
family had retired, shot his vile through tho
head and then killed himself Thcrr are five
children. No reason for the murder aud sui.
eide Is known.
The Co-opetatiye Gas Company. drilling
south Of lola, Kan. struck the largest now
ot natural gas over discovered IN that field
The now measures about 0.O0O,OlO cubic
feet n day. The gas VIII be- piprd over the
city, and used for lights and fuel.
At the time Of his death. q few DAYS ago.
Othuiol Gaycr. of Norwich. Conn, was tho
Oldest town clerk in the United Siatcs i'm
point OF continuous service, and perhaps also
In point Of age He was nincty-siN years old.
and ha held ofllce continuously for "a little
more than ilty years.
The Cocopa volcanoes, near Yuma. Arizona
are again very active. Those on the plains
arc throwing out hot water. steam and mud.
while the dry ones pour forth smoke by day
aud lumc by night. plainly seen fifteen miles
away. There are more than 10000 Of these
volcanoes in the plain.
John p. Swoopc, OF Huntington County,
Pennsylvania. made u record as "A ttapprr
during last year that has never been cuualicd
in the STAT. lie collected $6O7 SO in houn-
ties for scalps Of animals killed In the county
during the year. This sum represents not
far from thousand animals of all sorts. iIe
received more than half of the boun;ics paid
by the county.
Indiana's Oldest residents ara Alexander
Ferguson and his sister. Of Frankton. Alex
ander Is i0S years old and his sister f. iO7.
Alexander worked on his farm every day,
doing the ordinary chores OF the place until
he had passed his hundrcdth birthday, aud
is still in excellent health. He takes n daily
walk OF n little more than two miles His
wife is over ninety and is in good health,
XII. -. Jy auesyione uss.
Nicholns and Arsene Consigny, brothers,
both experienced machinsts In electrical ap.
paratus, were experimenting ut Quebec.
Canada, on the manufacture of acetyene
gas in order 10 reduce It's cost as a luminary
when nm explosion occurred. Arsene was
killed aud Nicholas was seriously injured.
vcnezuein's Thanks.
Both Houses of Congress at Caracas, Ven
ezucla. passed resolution thanking the
Government and people Of the United States
for their attitude on tho boundary dispute
hetwecn Grpat Britain and Venezuela as TO