The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-02-07
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Dressed rabbits sell in Indiana, Kentucky
and Illinois four for dime.
Hereafter every loaf Of bread sold In Gin.
cinnati must have Its weight stamped. .upoa
1t.
That story from Fountain County, Ind,
about Leonidas Glover being killed while
in bed by meteoric stone was lie.
40, Lord" Kentucky minister prayed,
'thou has seen by the morning papers how
the Sabbath WAS desecrated yesterday"
Mr.. Lacy was fined IS by Justice in Pc
kin, Texas. '1'll toss cent to see whether
you make it e10 or nothing" he said. Lacy
won.
A Paducah tKy.) paper says money 10 20
scarce in that place that even the change in
the weather Is hailed with pleasure.
General James Shields, Senator from Mis-
souri, till the 4th of March next, has already
sat in the United States Senate as q repre-.
sentative of Illinois and Minnesota.
BY the way of consoling the shareholder
Of the exploded City Of Glasgow Bank, tho
Lord Provost tells them that the f5, ,000, 900
sterling lost represents but six months ex-
penditure of the inhabitants for liquor.
Wisconsin pays $40 apiece for wolf scalps,
and this protection has largely developed
the industry Of lupiculture. In some of the
oldest countries in the State, according to
State Senator Bailey, there are honest far
mers who make . good living BY reafinE
wolves and scalping them.
The answer of Socrates to . person who
asked when was the right time for dinner.
was the following: IF you are rich,' said
he, you can dine when you like; and il you
are poor, you may dine when you cau.'
According to the report Of the Board Of
Directors for the CONNECTICUT State Prison
the cities do not as rule furnish the largest
number of voters. New Haven County fur.
nishes one convict to every $40 voters, and
but three counties, Tolland, Middlesex and
Windham, show smaller ratio than that.
Hartford, which contains the leading city Of
the State, has q more creditsble showing
than Litchfeld, which has no city at all.
Nice law.point recently raised in Houston,
Tex: Candidate promises voter pony for
his vote and influence. Pony falls dead on
the street while being taken to his new ovn-
er. Health officials desire voter to abats
nuisance. Voter declares the pony was not
completely in his possession also, that It
never was out of the candidates, the bar.
gain being void as being corrupt.
An aged deacon at Mamakating, N. Y,
becoming wearied Of the nocturnal visits OF
his neighbor's dog to his sheepfold, caught
the animal, tied him to a tree and shot him.
The owner of the dog asked the deacon Why
he had killed the animal, and the good man
replied that he had mistaken it for Wild
cat, which indeed the dog resembled -
| closely as 1t did q rhinoceros. Then the
owner said, why did you tie the supposi-
tious wild cat to tree before shooting it r
and the deacon answered meekly, Because
| was afraid of it,
Fitx Hugh Ludlow, in his narrative of
| travel in The Heart of the Continent tells
of an eccentric genius who improved on the
old yarn to the.,effect that the weather would
have been colder if the thermometer had
been longer by saying he had been where
it was so cold that the thermometer got
down of the NALL
There's a good deal in living-for some
people, at anv rate. Had Lord Beacons.
field, for instance, died thirty years ago, he
would have been chiefly remembered - the
author of some clever novels, and the most
bitter assailant of Peel on the Corn Law
question. Yet he would even then have
been Byron's senior by twelve years, and
Pitts by one.
The antique tower of Belem, near Lisbon,
which served as prison for political ofsn-
ders, crumbled to the ground on the 18th Of
December. 1t was q part ofthe old Heron
ymite Convent, and splendid gallery in the
Moorish style was building in connection
with 1t. Eight persons were buried in the
ruins.
California this year produces seven mil.
lion gallons of wine, and starts rsisin cul-
ture Of great future promise with . product
of 10000 boxes. All known varieties Of for
eign grapes that gave any promise of -four.
l iahirnE In GaiEarriaI, soil haxa hoax t.isd