The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-08-15
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An evening star-A leading actor.

Operators on change--pickpockets.
The Toledo Blade speaks of the "show-
GUS"
MIR. Edson's electric light is still keep
ing dark.
Hanging is too good for fifteen cent
chrome.
The average size Of the farms in this
country is l54 acres.
Most of the emeralds in the world have
come from Peru.
The schooner of beer hardly ever gets
stuck on the bar.
cost about s4 ,000,0 900.
A couple of slices of lemon in the iced
tea is great addition to flavor.
OF the 81, 100000 of inhabitants of Italy
100000 can neither read nor write.
"A tall treasurer is something of cur.
iosity nowadays, SO many are SO short.
Girls should remember Where igno-
rance is bliss, It's folly to be wives"
Michigan aspires to be peanut-raising
state, and the small boy therein reioiceth.
The progressive photographer is al
ways introducing new features in his work.
"A lunch given to general Grant and
party at Canton, consisted of eighty cours-
es.
1t is singular thing that no railraod
man has ever applied for patent on the
day break.
This country needs more icemen and
fewer statesmen, in the opinion of the N.
Y. Express.
There is a great trouble with Mount
.Etna this season. The Italians cannot
keep the crater quiet.
The length of days at Mount Washington
aggregate forty minutes longer than at
ocean level.
"A burglar was caught in Boston the
other day, in whose possession were twenty
six over-coats.
Nearly one-hali of the Young Mems
Christian Association of the worlu are in
the United States.
Louisiana. on an average, has had new
constitution once in ten years, and now ex-
lists under its seventh.
Perpetual motion has at last been ac-
cOmplished. Indianapolis has female
The curious fact is mentioned that the
English sparrows, overcrowded in the East,
are migrating westward.
"A man never feels as though he is fall.
ing down a hatchway until, while walking
with all his might, one of the heels flies off
his shoes.
Secretary Sherman says the revenues of
the country are on the increase, and that
numerous signs point Enthusiastically to re-
vival of bus mess.
The best naturod man will get a trifie
mad when his wife tells him that she has
made ''ulsters for the boys" out of his last
winters ear-muffs.
A matter.of-f fact old bachelor calls the
new, sweet, darling pugs, the pug ugly dogs.
The horrid brute-the bachelor, net the
quadruped.
Mrs. Oliphant's handwriting is the small
est of that of any literary person. Printers
refuse to strain their eyes with it, and it has
to be copied for them.
For true specimen of awkardness per-
sonified commend US to the new grocery
clerk struggling to do up pound Of sugar
in an artistic manner.
Whose sheddeth mans blood by man
shall his blood be she'd" We commend
this passage particularly to the notice of
that sweet little bitter cup, the mosquito.
The W ather continues very chanagea-
BILE in central New York. A few days ego
man In that country was sunstruck right
at the close ofa snOw.storm, bee use he
couldn't get his ulster off quick enough.
Philip Brooks considers it the hardest
h0palaas w0rE of
keep our highest ideas and our commonest
occupations in constant and helpful con-
tact with one another"
DR. Stephen H. Tying Jr., says that on
ly thirty eight of the three hundred Protest.
ant ministers who were connected with New
York churches when he began his ministry
| eighteen years ago, are now in the city.
"A lady goes to her husbands office, and
learns, by inquiry through the telephone,
that lady friend who resides at a South
| End Hotel, upon whom she wishes to call is
not in. Does Society enter that in its books
as "call'?
Rev. w. G. Winslow says that Ruth and
| Naomi showed that they were good moth
ers-in-law and kind daughters in law, after
all, and that these women gave the lie tn
| the filings of society at these much-abused
| relationships.
"Sir. did you put your boots at the door of
your room ?" "To be sure did Haven't
you blacked them?" "Blacked them
Why, thought you put them out of doors
because you had not room for them. The
chamber is so small"
There is a sentimental poem in an ex-
change entitled Footsteps ON the other
side" All yes, it reminds us of the day
when we were young, when those footsteps
on the other side of a high board fence kept
us from sampling the farmers melons.
The height of elegance lis supposed to
be reached in white satin parasol having
pescock's feathers embroidered in each pan
ell. The feathers are wrought in chenilles
in their natural colors A deep fringe and
a carved ivory handle complete the affair.
| There was a case, not very long time
since, says the Transcript, when it became
necessary to draw cork. aud the only one
present of large party having pocket
corkscrew was clergyman. He remarked
that he used it 10 open ink-bottles
"A schoolship for the training of pirates
could be filled Immediately with cadets from
the class of boys who are reading dime now
els Many youth standing by while his
mother splits wood for cooking dinner, is
within his soul burning to be hero of the
high seas.
mamie Myrtle, sweet singer OF Illi-
nois, csks in recent poem, "Where do the
winter blossoms grow?" Well, you might
look on Mr.. Myrtle's nose, Mamie, along
some time next January. They generally
grow on that kind of SOIL What do you
want to know forY
| John, I'll give you good sapping
if ever see you do that again" said his
mother. '"rhe essiest way you can make
a slapped JACK" aud Johnnie kept right
along in his course, but he missed his slap
ping. His mother thorght that he was too
sw t already.
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