The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-11-08
CURRENT COMMENT.

1HE SuDan CONSTITUTIONAL convention Is IN
session. Ifanybody three years ago had proph-
esled this, Spain would have got real angry.
THE expectation of raw sugar from Germany
has always been exceeded by that of any Euro
pean country, but she ranks third in the refined
article
THE Adams "wind-cleaving," or cigar-shaped
railroad train has already averaged 50 miles an
ly, the world moves.
FRANCE makes % million pairs of gloves per
annum. One third Of these she keeps the re-
mainder being sold to her confiding sister ma
tions. And yet France imports gloves.
IT Is humanely interesting to read of those
$4,000 bets that the mllionaires are making
between each other on the speed of their auto
mobiles. 1t is enough to cause "horse laugh"
all over the country.
One Somerset county editor savagely refers
to another Somerset county editor as an sold rag
noscd pup" and it was all over Il political fight
The campaign seems to have been prolific of
journalistic amenities.
AN important recent capture was that of the
Filopino General Alverez and his staff, in the
Island of Mindanao. He was as active as a
mosquito and much more difficult to pulverize,
but he finally suck-comed.
FLORIDA is trying the orange business again,
Notwithstanding the many freeze-outs that have
overtaken her; and much capital is being invest
ed in the yellow-globed industry. Pluck will
always win in any business.
THEY are finding pearls in the Missippi River,
and there is great excitement There is no oc-
casion for alarm. They are merely pearls of
speech that Governor Roosevelt dropped as he
was crossing the bridge during his western tour
Two football players have been killed, one
has had his neck broken and one his skull frac-
turcd this season, and the game is still young
And yet there are some people who say that en-
counter between pugIists in ring is brutal and
ought to be stopped.
BRIGADIER- GENERAL RANDALL in his re-
port on Alaska, says that the native Alaskan is
in danger Of extinction. 1t would seem from
this that the white man and his rum have found
an abiding place in Alaska and that there is
room for reform IN that tlr-away country.
OVER hundred books are printed each day,
on an average, in this weary world; but the most
Of them are merely other books warmed over
and not thoroughly warmed, at that. A really
original book does not appear once in decade,
and when it does it is not properly appreciated
On the assessment books of Jefferson county,
Arkansas, few days ago, says an exchange, j.
Il. Neutrality-suspicious. listed
his property. He is is prosperous citizen, and
may continue so if his name doesn't sue him for
non-suppport and thus divide his living among
the lawyers.
IF Governor Roosevelt doesn't have fun with
Tammany in the next few months, then he is not
the man his friends take him to be. He ought
to, with the help Of a Republican Legislature,
clip the Tammany Tigers claws so short that
they will never make even an attempt to claw at
regulations.
DO not call anybody liar or a coward, or
any other little pet name like that, on postal
card, unless you want to get into the clutches of
Uncle Samuel. A heavy fine aud trimmings are
the penalties for such diversions. If the other
fellow is too much for you, telegraph him, and
then hunt your hole.
PEOPLE who take superficial view of scrpt,l-
raj teachings, clam that the prophecy of Nahum
applies to the automobile of the present day.
The prophecy runs thus: "The chariots shall
rage in the streets; they shall jostle, one against
another, in the broad ways; they shall seem like
torches, they shall run like the Eghtnings"
ACCIDENTS to the big steamers are happening
with alarming frequency. The American liner,
st. Paul, struck derelict and had her propeller
badly damaged, and two Hamburg-American
liners tried to shove the earth to one side and
were struck, and all within twenty-four hours
1t is good thing these accidents did not hap
pen before the rush to the Paris Exposition, or
people might have gotten very shy.