The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-01-05
NEWS IrEMs.

A GIRL In Otah rec9nuy leu hcNl
from lacing too tightly.
a cow in Indiana recently eat up
300 n greenbacks.
SgIv FIR coin Is legal tender In En-
gland for only forty shillings.
A BAND of female counterfeiters has
been broken up in Illinois.
A SwEDE named Larson is said to be
the best billiard player in Europe.
COMPLAINTS of thescarcity of coal are
made in various parts of Belgium.
A MAN was frozen to death recently,
whilst riding on top of an omnibus in
Paris.
GEORGE WASHINGTON recently as
suited Henry Clay, at Omaha, and |
gave him a severe beating.
THE Grand Duke Alexis finds that
his engagements will not permit him to
go on that buffalo hunt.
MARrIAs vs. Vineyard Juan Fernandez
Kumler il the name of woman in In
dionapolis.
A LARGE roll of unpaid bills in his
breast pocket, saved the life of Flori-
dian from the knife of an assassin.
TEXAS paper says: On the Goth the
a
horse stealing at Eagle Pass"
SOME OF the towns in Illinois have
contributed two dollars for each inhabi
tant, old aud young, in aid of Chicago.
A CALIFORNIA ruffin is said to have
"a wonderful talent for bereaving any
family he does not happen to like"
THE x.Empress Eugenie is repre-
sented as no longer beautiful wor7an,
. but quite gray and wrlnkled."
A VENERABLE goose, supposed to
be over 20 years old, still lives at Dover,
Mo, according to the Lexington Cau-
casion.
ILLINOIS is about to instruct her
Representatives to favor an act giving
sixty acres of land to soldiers of the
war without pre- emption.
Don MICHAEL ANGELO CAEToNI,
the blind Duke of Sermonte, can repeat
the PONIES of Dante from beginning to
end.
A DISC listed Ohioan, wishing to
commit suicide in novel manner, ap-
piled for admission to smallpox hos
pital.
A CALIFORNIA clergyman recently
visited the Atlantic States, and during
his absense his wife filled his pulpit and
acquitted herself creditably.
THE ST. Louis papers consider the
large quantities of petroleum stored in
warehouses in that city source of great
danger, and fear the fate of Chicago.
A BLACK Nashvilian who wouldn't
reply when asked "whar he was goin'
wild dem cabbages OBJ mine," was
promptly shot dead by man and
brother.
a VENERABLE lighthouse keeper
recently died in Connecticut, and his
daughter has been appointed his success
or 1t is said she has discharged the
duties for fifteen years past.
THE observance of Christmas as a
holiday seems to be growing in New
England. The Providence journal says
1t was more nearly universal in that
city this year than ever before.
Mr.. MEDILL, the new Mayor of
Chicago, is called, in most of the letters
Which still come from foreign countries
bringing contributions for the relief of
Chicago, the Lord Mayor"
AN economical Indiauian placed
lighted cigar for safekeeping in one of
his pockets, which contained some
loose powder. The exhibition of fire.
works attracted an enthusiastic crowd.
The trustees of Princeton College
have elected Prof. John s. Hart to the
Chair of Ithoeorioan and L2nsrlioi. Lieesa-
ture. DIR. Hart hae accepted the posi-
tion, and will enter at once upon its
duties.
NEARLY one hundred chickens were
used in baking pie for fair at Bridge
port, Conn.,, few days since. 1t was
the largest chicken pie ever built and
baked in the nutmeg state, and requir-
ed four men to move it,
THE Fredericksburg (Va.) Star re-
cords the death of Mrs. Cloe Flatford,
aged 118, who had smoked and chewed
for 100 years, and of Abby West, colored
who died at Dumfries, aged 80, and
whose pipe was her constant compan-
isn."
THE building in which the Interna-
tional Exhibition is to be held at Vienna
in 1873 is to be 1000 feet long, $50 feet
wide, and is to have cupola $50 feet in
diameter. A separate building will be
provided for exhipiting machinery and
another for works of art.
A FORT Wayne woman has discover.
ed that the marriage ceremony with
her husband, with whom she had lived
fourteen years, was illegally performed,
for pay for services rendered as an EN-.
ployee of his house during the entire
period.
A MINISTER lecturing in East Boston
recently, suddenly remembered that he
had agreed to marry a couple at that
very time. He stopped his lecture for
fifteen minutes, fulfilled his agreement,
married the happy couple, and return
ing finished his lecture.
SOMEBODY says that the three hard
est words to pronounce consecutively
are 81 was mistaken" And we think
he is mistaken. Let the fellow who
made this assertion try his articulating
powers on the names of the lakes OF
Maine-these three for instance: Hu.
kuXtyokabok - -ZitZmOrnmngohphri- -
Mahogaphragohgog. If he thinks these
are easier TO pronounce than ~ was
Mistaken" then we are mistaken.
THE BARN IN WHICH JOHN WILKES
BOOTH WAS KILLED.-Mr. Lewis pre-
seuted in the Senate the other day, q
petition from Richard II. Garrett, o
Caroline county, Virginia, asking com
pensation to the amount of 50 ,525 fol
his barn and goods destroyed by Col
onel Baker to effect the capture of John
Wilkes Booth and ID. G. Harold, in
1865 Booth and Harold, 1t will be
reLnemDe'eu; were concealed IN Gar
>, rett's barn. and Ii was destroyed by fire
In order to get them.
ABOUT thirty years ago two younE
ladies, sisters were at school in London
where they had been sent from Jamaica
their native place. After every one bu
themselves was asleep they used to gel
up quietly, slip down into the kitchen
andrthere catch and eat the cockroaches
This extraordinary habit was not de
tected for some time, but at last tht
mistress found it out, and demonstrated
with them. they, however, defended
themselves by saying that they haC
seen her eat shrimps, which fed upon al
manner of carrion, whereas the cock
reaches were clean feeders, living OF
:. the crnmha which had hnan snffnrel I,