The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-04

ia as large as the South. excluding
as.
Is as large as all the States east
the Mississippi and north Of the
including Virginia and West vir-
a
makes San Francisco east Of our
Ire.
coast line is $4,000 miles.
has the highest mountains In
th America.
has the only forest covered glacier
he world.
has the best yellow cedar in the
i'd.
has the greatest seal fisheries.
has the greatest salmon fisheries.
has cod banks that beat New
ndland.
has the largest river in the world.
man standing on the bank OF the
ION $50 miles from its mouth cannot
the other bank.
be Yukon is twenty miles wide 700
IS from its mouth.
nth its tributaries 1t is navigable
miles.
is larger than the Danube.
is larger than La Plata.
is larger than the Orinoco.
discharges one-third more water
y the Mississippi.
he water Is fresh fifteen miles from
mouth.
color Is beautifully blue to its
ctlon with the White River, l,lOO
IS above Its mouth.
aska runs l.500 miles west Of Haw-
be necessary eruptlve force for the
nation Of great fissure veins Is evil
everywhere In Alaska
Tx should be worn next the body.
B woolen. then furs.
ric acid should be taken to pre-
scurvy.
ma beans are good portable food.
bow glasses should not be forgotten.
owhere are mosquitoes so numer-
here are two kinds Of poisonous
Oose are plentiful. The flesh re-
bles horsefesh.
here are no snakes In Alaska.
central and nothern Alaska the
pnd is frozen to a depth Of 200 feet.
owfall In the interior Is very light
! inches or so.
be heaviest rain and snow are on
southeast coast.
b land contains finer spruce tim
its low temperatures gold filling
eeth contracts and falls out. Use
llgam.
en- born In southern latitudes have
Pme insane in the long dark.
IKE chess board and men. They
Fent dementia.
be medicine chest should hold pills,
pills.
temperature of rs degrees below
has been recorded.
hen 1t gets lower than so there Is
find.
tent is as good as a house, and Is
hper.
shelter is needed except when the
blows. At other times a sleep
bag answers all purposes.
st below rapids ice forms only nine
thick, and there fishing Is done. In
places 1t will reach forty feet.
The dark season twilight lasts six
rs
X cariboo and grouse are common.
easily killed.
y frozen fingers use cold water.
u can battle only the feet and face.
pht eat snow or ice. Melt them.
quinsy.
low temperatures the inside OF the
at sometimes freezes. That Is To-
called frost burning"
eat under blankets In summer, or
rheumatism.
summer all land not mountain is
mp.
pderfoot Is Ice cake, overhead
'y-two hours sun.
erybody gets vermin. Boil under
ihs' Freeze sleeping bags.
TX on the ice pack Is heard a half
away.
" an expert placer miner can pan
RsEan dust" is as big as wheat.
me gold Is fine enough to float.
Far silk gloves. then fur.
Eskimo is virtuous; the Chilkat
en is not.
nadian rapacity will drive the
rs into American territory.
'aalan police are highly efficient
'nuch so to suit American ideas.
'naeer will be the locomotives for
parts OF Alaska for a long time.
skan dogs are wonderfully intelll-
-'he result Of selection and hered-
natives eat much decayed fish;
ey are all honest-the natives. as
as the fish.
O,isa nd. -.