The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-12-05
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"A public pound-A Western prize fight.
"A narrowing play. Speed of the plough.


"A public pound-A Western prize fight
"A narrowing play. Speed of the plough.
A notorious eavesdropper. Rain.
Be wise; simply call on your druggist for
"Dr. Sellers Cough Syrup when you have
a cold or cough 25c. bottle.
Long division-Separation for life.
Apt to be hot.headed-The man who
has fire in his eye.
the United States for curing bilioushess,s sick
headache. &c.
The cradle is the first rock we strike
In the voyage of life.
"A boy being told by his father that ap-
plication was the only road to success, went
right off and made application for place In
the custom house.
GA tumor was removed from my head
by using DR.. Lindsey's Blood Searcber.'" "
s. Sarver, Pittsburgh, Pa. Sold by all
druggists.
-Propogating sponges by cutting the live
ones into small pieces, attaching them to
Jumps of rock and sinking them to proper
depths in suitable places Is proposed by
Prof. Schmidt. He thinks in three years
they will be marketable and yield hand
some profit.
Married persons in France are not 30
often criminals as are unmarried persons.
Out of every one hundred thousand unmar-
ried persons thirty-three are criminals but
one of every one hundred thousand married
persons only eleven are criminals. Why is
this so
troublesome Children.
that are always wetting their beds ought not
to be scolded and punished for what they
cannot help. They need medicine hav-
ing a tonic effect on the kidneys and urin-
ary organs Such medicine is Kidney
Wort 1t ha. specific action. Do not
fail to try it for them.
The odor of the African has never been
accounted for, although so many expedi-
tions have started for the scente of Africa.
The reason fashionable hats are neces-
sorry for the sty ish toilet is that all's we'll
that ends WE'LL"
PERsoNAL.-Should this meet the eye Ct
the individual who created disturbance in
church last Sunday by his continued cough.
ing, he will confer favor on the congrega-
tion by procuring a bottle of DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup which will cure him.
A Washington correspondent speaks Of
Madison Wells of Louisiana as "a plain
man." We thought he was colored.
The Boston Silk Hat Finishers have
reduced their scale of prices, but fat man
next you at the theatre, who reduces the
scale at about 200, will finish your hat still
cheaper, you leave 1t in his seat.
What Ails YouP
Is it disordered liver giving you yellow
skin or costive bowels, which have resulted
in distressing Piles or do your kidneys re-
fuse to perform their functionsf 1t SO your
system will soon be clogged with poisons,
Take few doses of Kidney Wort and you'll
feel like q new man-nature will throw off
every impediment and each organ will be
, ready for duty. o..
A Western man loaded some sticks Of
wood with gunpowder to detect q woodpile
theft, but ommitted to in form his boys of
: he went out through the side ofthe house 80
quickly that he did not have time.
IS A new feature has been introduced into
It some OF our country schools. When one of
# the girls misses q word, the boy who spells
>. fast forgetting all they ever knew about
u spelling, while the boys are improving with
% unexampled rapidity.
- VISIBLE MEANs.-'Ullo, Fwed What
son earth are you walking about with that
ia be astly sausage under your arm forP Ftced
;. -'Well-aw-thef fact is, the othaw day l
"a in tho tha at q falla'h hooO aant
the workhouse-aw-because he'd no visible
means of subsistence. Put me in q regular
blue funk, you know So got this sau-
sage to protect myself"
nd ADVICE TO TRAvELLERs.--A Philadel
ia phia newspaper man, who saved little
money during the flush times, lately did b il
IL first travelling On his return home thu
of first thing he wrote was some '"advice Il
N, travellers" His advice was as follows
in "FOr travelling, carry crow-bar 10 opel
car wind ows a spencer or Henry -MartiI
'as rife for protection against hackme an(
m hotel clerks good supply OF equable TEN
Ort per, and large valise to contain green
ese backs
he MIR. Worth, the Paris man-milliner,
rus described by Miss Brewster in The Tele
,in graph as q STOPPING, simply dressed NAH o
10, middle height, with round, good-nature
10y face, with homely, simple straightforward
'mS manners.
the r, Cor;,,,r, IT.. p,,-,,,..,
in THEIR CoRKscREws-Ihe buriingto
Hawkeye relates, that the other day, ma
!" stepped into railway car on one OF II
aay burlington roads, and asked for corkscre'
age Twelve gentlemen reached down for the
yer pocket ork-persuaders. While they we
;on feeling for them he explained that he wan
,on ed to get cork out OF bottle OF rheumat
for and Immediately twelve gentlemen we
IA surprised and grieved to discover that thu
',e' ,'o had left their corkscrews at home.
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