The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-02-14
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Mile Ambro, the new prima donna, wears
100000 worth OF diamonds and pearls In
L Africaine.
I'm rutabaga and here's where plant
myself said tramp as he entered farm
house near Freeport, ILL.,, and seated himself
at the table, I'VE alters bile ours, said the
farmers wife. and soused him with dish
painful of boiling water.
Church.goers at Somerville, Mass, were
surprised on Sunday morning to find the
trees covered with saussges and lard, but
subsequently discovered that a tank had ex-
ploded in pork packing establishment.
A Washington correspondent having ask
ed if the introduction into Congress of a few
Indians would not have a good effect upon
that body, the Louisville Courier journal
makes answer If they we're trained to use
their scslping knives with proper discrimi-
nation, it certainly would
At Shoreditch, England, the other day q
shopkeeper sued gentleman for s2 les.
and the defendant said nothing but when
the case was called in court produced . re-
ceipted bill that the tradesman had to admit
was genuine. He complained that the de.
fendant should have produced the receipt be-
fore instead Of allowing the case to go to
trial, and the judge said the defendant had
acted strictly within his right, but he doubt
ed whether the courtesy displayed was at all
commendable. Under the circumstances the
defendant was to blame and he must pay the
COSTS
The English at Teheran got up paper
hunt the other day, pursuing instead of q fox
two young men on horseback, having with
them bags filled with fragments of newspa-
pers. The next day the Persians saw curious
bits of paper with cabslistic signs on them
strewed for several miles among the hills In
ces were picked up and taken to the town,
There the priests had solemn meeting which
lasted for several hours At last the real ex-
PLANTATION of the mystery was discovered,
but as since that time there has been no rain
the orthodox are convinced that the infidels
have bewitched the skies.
WHAT JUDGE HILTON SAYs-Judge Hill
ton has set at rest rumors which have been
current for months past in connection with
the mysterious disappearance and reported
discovery of the body OF the late AT. Stew
art. The body lhss not yet been found. In
conversation with very prominent citizen
this week Judge Hilton said:
Thave not yet got the body. Of course
there are several people who informed mo
they were following clews, all of them of
seperate and distinct nature, which would
lead finally to the recovery of the body. I
have no confidence In any of them. have
no doubt will be able to get the body in
the end, but thus far our efforts have not re-
suited nlits discovery.'-M Y. Star.
Another Aagrant case of interference with
Federal officials is reported from Georgia.
An alleged revenue officer went into Dali
ton cigar store and bought the last FIVE cigars
in box !; then arrested the proprietor for
having an undestroyed empty box in his
possession. The .vigilant official offered to
say nothing to Secretary Sherman in consid-
Grafton tof $40, but the merchant had him
arrested TOR trying to obtain money under
false pretenses and he has been held fol
trial.
The trial of the directors of the City OF
Glasgow Bank, on charge of fraud, theft
and embezzlement, which was begun on the
goth ult., in the High Court of Justiciary
has resulted in the conviction of Lewis Pot.
ter Of the Glasgow shipping firm of Potter
Wilson & Co., and of Robert Sumner stron-
sch, the manager of the bank, of the ofencs
as charged the other directors were found
guilty of uttering false abstracts of bslsncs
sheets. Stronach and Potter were SENTENCED
to 18 months imprisonment. The sentenc'
Of the other directors was.S months.
The Swiss some time ago sanctioned tn,
Introduction of what is virtually unlimitet
facility of divorce. The result of the expert
ment does not speak well for its effect on th,
domestic happiness OF the people. In 1877
the various courts of the confederacy decree,
,O36 dissolutions of matrimony and 10
temporary separations, being 4,74 for ever
hundred marriages. The rate varied from "a
70 in Catholic cantons like Uri, Oberwslde
' and Unterwslden, up to 497 in Berne, 6.6
, in Geneva, 7.O8 in Zurich and 1882 in Glsri
A commentator remarks that it is curiou
. fact that divorced people marry more resdil,
. than celibates, but does not apparently tax
D into consideration that in many cases th
| divorce is obtained as preliminary to r,
Q marriage.
The present is the severest winter the
3 have have had in California for q long tim
D and it has increased the mortality, chief
among persons Of middle and advanced sg
fully twenty per cent. At the same tin
when their weather is compared with Ess
s ern winters, 1t becomes difficult to unde
stand why they should find it SO trying. Fl
about two months, with occasional rain, the
have had white frost every morning, b
l. as soon as the sun was fairly up that has di
; appeared. A beautiful sky was overhes
!. there was only just wind enough to gi
Al motion to the atmosphere, and when the a,
Is was up doors and windows could be left wi
1t open, to let in sunlight, air. and the odor
Ic flowers. At night, however, great fires we
u pleasant, and extra blankets serviceabl
er The.incresse in mortality ia attributed