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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

The reason why that the Fourth of July
is so short is because they signed the Dec
laratiou Of Independence all in one day. If
they only had went slow, and been three or
four days about it, then we would have had
long pull at the fireworks, and plenty of
time to make things lively mostall the week.
When your mother sends you to the gro-
Gerry, with basket, for two dozen eggs, in
hurry, and you get into soft game of
marbles on the way, and win good many,
and don't come home for two hours, that's
forgetiulness. But your mother don't forget
you when you come back
There is boy who lives in the Fourth
Ward has got feet 50 egregious big that he
can't play hop-scotch, but then no hair-pin
can throw him in a fair rassel, and hard
wind could never blow him over in Il storm
When you slide down on the long banis-
ter of the front hall stairs and go on down
to the bottom so fast that it burns you clear
through your trousers, that's friction.
Some Saturday when you are in the kitch
en-, and the hired girl has just shined up the
knives, when she turns her back you mustn't
dip them one at a time in the vinegar jug,
because if you do the chemistry will turn
'em black, and then you will have to go
careless down to the back fence to get out
Of the way of some hot water or something.
When you see boy with splendid new
overcoat as fits him, and is real tailor-made,
and you haven't got any overcoat yourself,
and it's awful cold day, and you want
his'n, that's envy. But you can't help it
when you amt Christian.
Your father would never spend $12 for
big dictionary for you in hundred years,
but if you was to win one i'll hard spelling
match, he would make you study it nights
till you nearly went crazy. That's always
the way.
When your mother is frying doughnuts
and your hungry, it don't make any differ
ence how her hair is combed, or if it is
combed at all or not; just only tell her that
you think she looks so handsome with her
hair done up in that way, and she will feed
you on hot doughnuts till you swell up like
q toad.
When a sack of peanuts gets busted on a
dray and split out on the street, and your
pockets don't hold many, because they're
nearly full of other things, then a daily
newspaper would be good thing to have
and would be useful
Why is the world like your father? This
is a hard conundrum, which you might just
as well give up. Because the world is round
always, like ball; but your father is
round only of a Saturday afternoon early,
just when you don't want him, and when
the circus in the stable has only just com.
menced.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

How TO GROW RICH-The only way by
which capital can increase is by saving. II
a man gets but what he saves that constitutes
you spend as much as you make you will
never be richer than you are. It's not what
his wealth. You must learn the first rule in
the Arithmetic, Addition. Every business
man, in each year of his life, should make
some addition to his capital, however slight.
If your increase is but little, and the next
year you will get more, for you will have the
profit on the sum you save The man who
goes on spending all he makes and expects
by some lucky hit to be raised to wealth, will
be disappointed, and most likely sink to poy-
erty.
But stick to business, stick to one business
economise, marry some good intelligent, poor
girl, who will help you save don't be dis
couraged by anything, be civil to every
body, and you can't help prospering; it is
not in the nature Of things for you to
fail.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt
True love and high morality are always
the same.
Hasty people drink the water of existence
scalding hot!
If you would not have alliction visit you
twice, listen at once TO what it teaches.
Water is the best drink. Exercise and
pure air the best medicines.
Suspicion is counterfeit of truth as we'll
as falsehoOd
Happiness is not the share of the learned,
but of the good.
There are reproaches which give praise,
and praise which reproaches,
Love is weapon that will conquer men
when all else fails,
A great mind will be easy in prosperity,
and quiet in adversely,
One cannot always be hero, but one may
always be man.
Lay by good store Of patience, but put
il where you can find it,
Small cheer aud great welcome make a
merry feast, after all.
He who has good health is rich man,
hnd rarely knows it,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17
Miscellaneous.
A am ov cOllNOY SEyyE.

- NHAhAA w hNstHNAN ANNaN NNat
Some girls are loved Tor beauty sake,
Ana others for their brains;
Ana some Tor artful ways that mako
Slaves Of their many swalns.
But let her bc rs bright as day,
she can have no pletensc
To mans esteem unless she I've
A girl Of common sense.
She may dClude The passing hour,
And make thy bliss complete;
Aud show loves deep and subtle power
In whispers warm and sweet.
She may have face ana form divine,
And dress at great expense;
But outward graccs cannot make
A girl Of common sense.
Her voice may warbe Ike a bird,
In songs that please the ear,
And never breathe an angry word,
a murmur or Snecr.
Admirers may lmplorc her smile,
And say, go, she's immense"
But are they sure that she VIII prove
\ girl or common sense?
Deception may bc strange to her,
She may be bright and pure;
\ lofty will may guard her life,
And every wrong abjuro,
such girls may I've, but whcrc2 Alas!
Though meaning no olIcnse-
think It's pretty hard to mud
glrl OF common sense.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

GIVE Your CHILD A PAPER.-A child
beginning to read becomes delighted with a
newspaper, because he reads of names and
things which are familiar, and he will pro-
gress accordingly. A newspaper in one year
is worth quarters schooling to a child
Every father must consider that information
is connected with advancement. The moth
er of family, being one of its heads, and
having more immediate charge of children,
should herself be instructed. A mind occu-
pied becomes fortified against the ills of life,
and is braced for emergency. Children
amused by reading or study are, of course,
more considerate and more easily governed.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

Don't forget to say "good morningp Say
it to your parents, your brothers and sisters,
your schoolmates, your teachers, and say it
cheerfully and with n smile-it will do you
good, There's kind of inspiration in every
&C. good morning." heartily and smilingly
spoke, that helps to make hope fresher and
work lighter, 1t seems really to make the
morning good, and to be a prophecy of a
good day to come after it. And if this be
true of the good morning., it is also of all
kind heartsome greetings; they cheer the
discouraged, rest the tired ones, and some
how make the wheels of life run more
smoothly. BE liberal with them then, and
let no more mornings pass, however darl;
and gloomy it may be, that you do not at
least help to brighten by your smiles and
cheerful words
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

An inebriate stranger preciptated himself
down stairs, and on striking the landing re-
proachfully apostrophized himself with; I'll
you'd been wantin to come down stairs,
why in thunder didn't you say So you wood
en-headed old fool, an I'd come with you
an' showed you the way.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

A father fearing an earthquake in the re-
gion Of his house sent his two boys to dis
tant friends until the peril should be over
A few weeks after the father received this
letter from his friend: "Please take your
boys home and send down the earthquake -
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

When Pennsylvania farmer sold his
farm to an oil company he went to town the
day he got his cash, and bought his wife 200
dozen clothes pins and twenty-five clothes
lines. He said he'd had growing and jaw
ing enough about that house.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

Gas to being conhicted with the gout,"
said Mrs. Partington, "high living don't
bring it on, 1t is incoherent in some fam
lies, and is handed down from father to son.
Mr.. Hammer, poor soul, who has been so
long i'll with it, disinherited it from his
wife's grandmothern
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

Some western paper says that General
Burnside and his whiskers will soon be
brought out as a candidate for the Presi-
dency
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

If man is going to leave the world and
retire into solitude, he must take large stock
of virtues with him, for these are the Only
things he can enjoy there.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

"Any letters for Mike Howe?" asked an
individual of a clerk at Post-Ohice win
dow. "No letters for anybody's cow"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17
PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD.
Philadelphia & Erie r. r. Division.
SUMMER TIME TABLE.

ON and after SUNDAY, MAY 23d 1875,
" the trains on the Philadelphia 81 Erie Rail
Road division viii run rs follOws
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

Discoursing sweet music-blowing your
own trumpet.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17
CARPETS! CARPETS!!
S. H. MILLER & SON

HANE JUST RECEIVED and are offering
for sale at very low prices one of the best as
SOrtmcnts Of CARPETS ever offered for sale OF
The town of Bloomsbury, They are all new ana In
the very latest styles Prices vary from 20 cents TO
$3.50 per yard. Can and see them.
oct. 23, 74-tf.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17
WOULD NOT, BE WITHOUT
V VEGETINE
mod rpNNT rNJNJES ING GnCT

The great benefit have received from the use of
NEGErSE induces me to give my testimony In Its
favor. believe 1t 10 be not only OF great value for
restoring the health, but preventive or disease
peculiar to the spring and summer seasons.
would not be without ii for ten times It's cost
EDWARD TILDEN,
Attorney ana General Agent for Massachusetts, Of
CraftsmenS Life Assurance Company, No. 40 Sears
Building, Boston, Mass.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17
COLUMBIAN OFFICE,

The Columbian Printing"Estab-
Iishment is amply supplied with
the necessary Presses, Types and
other material for executing all
kinds of Printing at low rates and
in the most expeditions and salts
factory manner.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-04-15
Our Tell Tale Lips.

1 have observed that lips become
more or less contracted in the course
of years, in proportion as they are
accustomed to express good humor
and generosity, or peevishness and a
contracted mind. Remark the effect
which a moment of ill-temper or
grudgingness has upon his lips, and
judge what may be expected from an
habitual series of such movements
Remark the reverse, and make SINH
lar Judgment. The mouth is the lank-
est part of the face; it can't in the
least conceal its sensations. We can
neither hide ill-temper with it, nor
good; we can effect what we please
but affectation will not help US. In a
wrong cause it will only make our OBJ
servers resent the endeavor to impose
upon them. The mouth is the seat of
one class of emotions, as the eyes are
of another or, rather, it expresses the
emotions, but in greater detail, and
with a more irrepressible tendency to
be in motion. 1t is the region of
smiles and dimples, and of trembling
tenderness of sharp sorrow, or q full
breathing joy, of candor, of reserve.
of anxious care, or liberal sympathy.
The mouth, out of its many sensibili
ties, may be fancied throwing up one
great expression into the eye-as
many lights in city reflect broad
lustre into the heavens Phrenolog.
ical journal.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-04-15
Sun Spots.

The large spot, which was mention
ed in our last report as having just ap-
peared, crossed the suns disk nearly
in line with the equator. Photo
graphs were taken of it on the five
days during its passage, showing it to
be large and very black spot sur
rounded by broad and distinct pen
umbra On March IT large spot ap
peared in about the same position !;
and as exactly twenty y-seven days had
elapsed since the appearance of the
other, it is without doubt return of
the same spot. It appears somewhat
smaller, and not so intensely black as
at its first appearance, but it is still
very large 1t will probably be visible
for about twelve days longer. Besides
the large spot, several small ones in
groups and pairs have crossed the
disk during the last month, and feculae
have been observed several times. On
the 10th of March two spots, one upon
the eastern limb and the other on the
western, were seen surrounded by
strongly marked facula; and remote
from any visible spot, a luminous chain
of the same appearance extended, from
the edge, nearly one third across the
disk Scientific American April 1 9th
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-04-15
A Journalistic Murderer.

The other day a eompositor in this
Office got hold of part of a page of
the chirogrRphy of G. NJ. D. Bless, of
of the Cincinnati Enquirer. 1t isn't
writing at all, but Bloss seems to kick
the ink bottle at sheet of paper and
then send the paper down to the COM
positors as editorial. This part of a
paper was used as the foundation of a
Plot to destroy human life. A line
or two was written above it; Bloss's
page was marked s'solid :" it was hand
ed to 'jour" who had just struck the
Office. He claimed to be ''lightning''
on the ''set'' and on reading the man
uscript, he set up the Introductory line
like whirlWind. When he came
down to Bloss' he snatched for a cap
GA" had it for minute and then
dove in the fFY'' box, threw that back
and picked out dollar mark, then the
composttor paused, spit on his hands
and rested one foot on the Gro ss-bar of
his rack. After a moment he grabbed
"ffi," but slowly replaced it, and toy
ed with an italic ssZ.', Then he spat
on his hands once more, corrugated
his brow, and hauled the manuscript
under his eyes. It was no go. He
held the page further of, close to his
nose, slanting toward the right, and
square before the window, but he
couldn't start it, and he knew in his
soul that no other human compositor
outside the Enquirer office could do
it. As afternoon faded into twilight,
he laid the sheet aside, set up two or
three lines out of his head, and then
he slipped into his coat, said he must
go to the depot to see a friend, and
was gone. In his stick he had set up
the words: "Tell my mother l will
meet her on the other shore" He
was seen at the foot of Griswold
street; heard to ask if death by drown
ing wasn't easier than hanging, and it
is probable that his marble form now
lies at the bottom of the cold, green
river, while Bloss is murderer.-TDe
troit Free Press. 81
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-04-15
General Geiger's Lecture.


The many spontaneous effusions of
humor that have characterized the nu-
merous speeches that have been deliv-
cred by General Joseph H. Geiger, in
Ohio and elsewhere, have stamped him
as one of the most entertaining speak
ers of the times. There. is an eccen,
trio independence about him that
dresses up his caustic sarcasm, as well
as his most profound thoughts, in the
most palitable shape. When public
meetings have been dull, General Gel
ger has been a main dependence for
many years in infusing the lively ele-
ment; if campaigns have been char.
acterized by Iethargy, General Geiger
has always been relied upon as trump
card to save the day He is a peculiar
type of Western ratory, combining
sarcasm without assumption, with a
native fund of humor that gushes out
as though it could not be held There
can be no doubt that when he sets
about discussing the erratic subject of
Swapping Turtles, Natural and HUI
man." as he will at the Opera House
tonight, he will be entertaining. In
his lecture he will have the advantage
of having had time to polish whatever
rough corners impromptu production
may leave; but at the same time there
will doubtless be sudden inspirations
not down in the manuscript.-TO S
Journal.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-04-15
Wool.

The Boston Commercial Bulletin
notes a large decrease in the South
American supply of wool this season,
and says:
Private advices have been received
here by dealers that the clip in the Ar
gentine Confederation will fall short
this year just about one-third, or 5O,-
100000 pounds. This is owing to the
war there year ago, which, reports,
state, has been much more disastrous
to sheep than cattle. The present full
supply of hides, they state, comes
from the free slaughterings by the
cOmmissary departments, but the neg
lect of sheep in pasturing and breed
ing, and their heavy slaughter for
food, are to be this season noticeable
in the supply of wool. These are facts
which, it is said, have had their effect
upon the London auctions at the close
and secured recovery of all. that had
been lost at the opening.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-04-15
Facts worth remembering.

One thousand shingles laid four in
ches to the weather will cover one,
hundred square feet of surface, and FIVE
pounds of shingle nails will fasten
them on.
One-fifth more siding and flooring
is needed than the number of square
feet of surfaces to be covered, because
of the lap in the siding and matching
of the floor. 1ei
One thousand laths will cover seven
ty yards ofsurface, and eleven pounds
of lath nails will nail them on.
Eight bushels of good lime, sixteen
bushels of sand, and one bushel of
hair, will make enough good mortar
to plaster one hundred square yards.
A cord of stone, three bushels of
lime, and cubic yard of sand will lay
one hundred cubic feet of wall.
Five course of brick will lay one
foot in height on chimney, six bricks
in a course will make fue four in
ches wide and twelve inches long, and
eight bricks in q course will make q
lue eight inches wide and sixteen in
Ches long.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-04-15
Failure or Success in Life.

Here are useful suggestions from a
member of the British Parliament,
Lord Derby, who is robust, manly
man. He says:
Take two men, if they could be
found, exactly alike in mental and
bodily aptitudes, and let one go on
carelessly and idly, indulging his ap-
petites, and generally leading a life of
pleasure, and let the other train him
self by early hours, by temperate hab-
its, and by giving to muscle and brain
each their fair share of employment,
and at the end of two or three years
they will be as wide apart in their ca
pacity for exertion as if they had been
born with wholly different cOnstitu-
tions. Without a normal, healthy CON
dition there can, as a rule, be no geed
work; and though that qualification
can not absolutely be secured or pre-
served by any rules, little common
sense and care will go long way both
in securing and preserving it. On
that point would give you these
hints:
/. That it is not mental labor which
AAA - al pOOS, uu16SS luG excess DC
very great, but rather fretting and
fidgeting over the prospect of labor to
be gone through; so that the man who
can accustom himself to take things
coolly, which is quite as much a mat
ter of discipline as of nature, and
who, by keeping well beforehand with
what he has to do, avoids undue hurry
and nervous excitement, has a great
advantage over one who follows a diff
ferent practice.
2. I would warn you that those stu
dents who think they have no time for
bodily exercise will sooner or later
have to find time for illness.
3. When an opportunity of choice
is given, morning work is generally
better than night work; and lastly-a
matter which I should not stop to al
lude to but know the dangers of an
over-driTen existence in crowded
town-if a man cannot get through
his days labor, of whatever kind it
may be, without artificial support ar
tiicial support-that means beer or
bourbon), it should be serious con-
sideration for him whether that kind
of labor is fit for him at ALL
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-04-15
From Gannoy's, South Carolina.

This is new town on the Airline
Railway, twenty miles east of Spar
tanburg, in full view of the Blue
Ridge, twenty miles from any other
town and one and one-fourth miles
from Limestone Springs. The pro-
ductions of the surrounding country
are cotton, corn, wheat, rye, oats,
sweet and Irish potatoes, vegetables
of all kinds; clover does well here al
so, and might be made great source
of improving our lands. What we
lack is capital. This part of the coun-
try has abundant water power on the
Broad and Pacolet rivers, and plenty
of lime and iron ore of the best quail
ity.-H. C. C.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-04-15

There's beautiful song the sIum ber0us air
That drifts through the valley of dreams;
1t comes from the cline where the roses are
And tunefR1 heart, and bright brown h air
That waves in the morning beams.
Soft eyes of azure, and eyes of brown
And snoW-white foreheads there.
A glimmerinE cross and glittering crown
A thOrny bed and bed of down,
Lost hopes and leaflets of prayer
4 rose leaf and a dlmpled hand,
A ring and plighted vow;
Three golden rings on broken hand.
A tiny track on the snOw-Whlte sand
A tear and a sinless brow.
There's tincture of grief in the beautiful song
That,sobs on the summer air,
And loneliness felt IN the festive throng
Sinks down in the soul as it tTembles along
From cline where the roses are
We heard it first at the dawn of day.
And it mingles with matin chimes:
But years have diStenced the beautiful Law
And its melody flOWeth swiftly aWay
And we call it now "Old Times -
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-04-15
The Catholic War ON the Public
Schools.

The New York Tablet, the leading
Roman Catholic paper in the country,
in noticing a denial that Father Walk
er of that city denounced the public
schools as nests of vice, and hoped
the day would come when any Catholic
parent who allowed his child to attend
one would be denied the sacraments,
saws :. eve will take it for granted that
the reporter conveyed faithfully the
substance ofFather Walkers remarks.
Most likely he did. For it is only
wbat has been said by the Bishops all
over the world over and over again,
in their pRstorals. And We heartily
inderse it, ae