The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-07-25
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Sure of their crops-Hens.

-"Man's stomach IL the sepulcnfe OF tne
rest-of animal-kind."
Animals die if their vital temperature Is
increased one twelfth.
IF there is anything we banker for when
we have a cold, it is handkerchief
About five hundred miles of railroad
will be constructed in Minnesota this year.
-Modieski's maiden name was Helena
Benda yet she never went on one in her
life.
Fruit, eaten at seasonable hours, fur
nishes all the acid which the system re-
quires
All the new Partisan walking-suits are
made short that is, they just touch the
ground.
In feminine shoes the tendency is to
pointed toes, high heels, and scollops around
the ankle.
Matches are made in New Haven. A
New Haven man has just married his fifth
wife in that city.
Some men forget childhood so slowly
that they never learn the fact that table
napkin is not bib.
The choir of one of the colored Catholic
churches in Washington is considered the
best at the capital.
Some people pay a hundred dollars for
moving in order to save fifty dollars in rent
and call it economy.
Reform is necessary. There must be
more lemons and less water in this seasons
picnic lemonade.
An amateur singer frightened pair of
canary birds to death. 1t was a case of
killing two birds with one tone.
Olive LSgan says Miss Nelson grows
more beautiful every hour. 1t must be
dreadful to make toilet as often as that.
1T is openly affirmed by Brooks the Tex
an Ranger, that man would rather live
with cross-eyed woman than with cross
mouthed woman.
The Chicago Tribune gives directions to
enable persons to ''see the wind" But
what most persons want to know is how to
"raise the wind"
"A Maine paper says, 'If you see a man
sitting beside the road, do not upbraid him
as a tramp-he is repairing the highway at
$3.50 day, and wanting 81 CO."
Jay" of the Gazette, says there is man
in Boston who 'not only invents, but con-
structs with his own fingers, some of the
most artistic bonnets worn this side of
Paris.
Mrs. Partington has been reading the
health officers weekly reports, and thinks
total" must be an awful maligant disease,
since as many die of it as ..all the rest put
together.
The Tribune says those who talk flip
PANTY of "overcrowding" should reflect up
on the fact that all the inhabitants of the
globe could stand on Long Island and each
have ten feet ofland.
Coal, with other American products,
has been benefited by the late Paris Expo
sition, and its shipment to Europe steadily
increases. At last accounts one man in
Rome was negotiating for 100000 tons.
The st Albans advertiser, not to be out.
done by the early vegetable stories of its
| contemporaries, says that some bean-poles
in that village have already attained the
| height of six or seven feet.
A Judge said to Bishop Haven: II think
Texas is best described by saying current
here. A husband, sitting by his fire, says
to his wife : "Wife, reckon Ill 90 to pray.
er-meeting bring me my revolver"
1t is reported that the ocean steamship
| lines are about to form combination for
1
tion to the United States is now at the. rate
of nearly 1000 persons each week.
An English dog. .fancier says that "dog
that curl their tails to the right are never af.
hcted with hydrophobia' This is we'll
enough, but when fellow owns bob-tail
dog, what is he going to do about it?
A very charitable man and nobody's
fool was he who used to say, when he heard
any one being loudly condemned for some
fault, "Ah, we'll, yes it seems very bad to
me, becuse that's not my way of shining"
The local physicians attribute the sud.
den death of a young lady in North Adams
Mass. who dropped dead a few days since
to the drying up of her blood from her hab-
it of eating large quantities of cloves every
day.
-"You listen to Phillips Brooks and fee
} that here is the door widening, widening
widening, till you are in the church univer.
sal and right at home in the midst of all the
saints says correspondent of the Tri
bune.
New York ladies, when they take theil
pet pugs or Skyes to Central Park for al
J airing, tie up their little throats with bright
colored handkerchiefs. or deck their head
with the fanciful hats and still gayer rit
bons
A new hotel having somehow got tn
. reputation of being the headquarters {
Spiritualists, the proprietr published a car
/ saying that no spirits could be found in th
: house other than those usually found at tn
first class hotels.
There is only one object in the worl
which will attract young lsdy's attentio
j from the handsome young man whom sh
meets on the street, and that is another We
y. man with hat ON two laps ahead of an
style she has yet seen.
The New York Herald asks 90
p. Christianity failure p and a Souther
II exchange answers From the fact that IL
o Herald continues to make its daily appea
ance, we should judge that Christianity WI
not complete success"
When milliner becomes musical, sh
10 at least has he honesty to warn the publ
IS of it by sign-"F Fluting done here !" no
different is the course of the young man wi
i studies this instrument he would pls
till he ded-and make no sign.
!. "A story is told to the effect that
young man left off smoking and in f
years was worth $4,000. The New Yo
a. Commercial Advertiser spoils the moral
IN it, however, by needlessly adding that t
N money was left to him by an uncle.
Reports from Minnesota, Wisconsin, !
or wa, Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois. Michigs
- Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and Nilsson
vi show that the yield of winter wheat will a.,
ng is thought, be about 100000 900 bushe
cy against 26 .092 900 bushels last year.
An examination into the color blr
ness oftrain employees of railroads cent?
ing in Philadelphia shows that 8 l-2
cent. could not distinguish shades distinc
ch enough to make their employment on rs
r a roads safe, where red and green signals W
ala used.
nd Never" said writer on etique
.he take bits out of your mouth with y,
'r hand" He is evidently writing for
oe lower class of society. People of tone
tile culture never take hits out of their mo-
with their hands, They remove them "