The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-02-21

dollar per year for each line.
Items.
Bayard Taylor's Goethe collection will be
sold in Berlin.
There is a birth in London every four
minutes and death every six.
The grist tax in Italy, so much complaint
ed of by the Italian milers, yielded last year
sixteen and a half million dollars.
Eli Perkins has been engaged to tell 200
| lies in 2700 quarters of minute.
"A Maine editor advocated retrenchment
a week later the sll00 office held by his sou
| in the Belfast Custom House was abolished
The murderer who was sentenced to 80
years imprisonment ip Kentucky the other
day VOWS he'll never serve out his time--he'll
die first.
There are 90 counties in Kansas each of
which raises more corn than New Hamp-
shire.
Instead of going into the State Treasury
the,proceeds of liquor licences ought to be
applied to the support of our local prisons.
There is an intimate and evident relation.
ship between the two.
man out west dropped a counterfeit half
dollar in contribution box and then Drop
ped in fit. Make moral to fit the case
yourself
The Howard officers are now burning all
the tents used in Chattanooga, Memphis,
New Orleans and other points during the
yellow fever epidemic.
At the suggestion of Queen Victoria the
| names of the men who lost their lives during
the storm in the Bay of Bscay in October,
1877, in their efforts to rescue the crew Of
the boat carrying Cleopatras needle, are to
be placed upon the pedestal supporting the
obelisk.
On the 9th of July next the Bank Of
England will be lS5 years old. The charter
granted for eleven years at first has been
renewed from time to time. In the large
building on Threadueede street eight hum
dred persons are now employed.
The sleigh in which Napoleon I. travelled
in Switzerland is still in existence. A::yet
more remarkable relic is the ship in which
Charles ii returned to England from Hol-
land at the restoration in 1860.
Lord Beaconsfeld, according to London
correspondent, lives principally on cham
pagne jelly, of which he consumes three
guineas' worth at a meal,
The experiment Of lighting mines by elec-
tricity has been tried at Marston salt mines,
near Manchester, and proved complete
| success.
Lord Chelmsford, commander of the Brit
ish forces who were whipped in South Afri-
ca, has one advantage that an American Of
| fcer never had when he was whipped, and
that is he has the confidence of his Govern
ment still.
| A native of Marseilles has purchased the
right Of extracting chlorate of potash from
the Dead Sea, which he expects to be able
to offer ia London at 70 shiilings a ton,
whereas the present price of that article is
l04 shillings.
A few small boats are said to have gath
cred some $4,000 worth of sponges in two
days, within half an hours sail of Flori-
ida wharf. A Key West paper says that the
article was supposed to be extinct years ago
but it is discovered that the bars in the bay
are teeming with sponge of a superior quail
ity.
A bride waited two hours after the time
appointed for wedding in Goshen, o., but
the bridegroom did not come. 1t was deci-
ded to send for him before dismissing the
guests He was found at home with one
side of bis face shaved, and so nervous that
he had not been able to WELD the razor any
longer.
:. Senator Bruce of Mississippi, was called
to the chair February IA, and presided over
the Senate portion of the afternoon, being
the first time in the history of. the govern
ment that a colored man has occupied the
chair.
In the apportionment of the Halifax fish
cries award, New Foundland is to receive
1915, ,009 and Canada $4,3S7 800 being re-
tanned until the expenses are settled. Prince
Edward Island claims nearly one-half of
Canadas share.
A French jeweller in 1870 sold lady q
5000 franc set of jewelry, giving written
promise to take the articles back if they
were not approved. She wore them six years
and then asked to have them exchanged for
, something of newer fashion. The courts
have finally decided that he must do SO, and
! London tribunal has rendered a similar
judgment where the customer wore dia'
mond ring three years before returning it.
Bismarck, d. T., February l2.-The first
Northern Pacific railroad train loaded with
visitors and railroad iron crossed over the
Missouri river to-day. The track is laid on
the ice with twelve feet ties. The train i,
the fist that ever went over the river on ic
q without some special bridging underneath
= The ice is three feet thick and the thermon
eter twenty degrees below zero. Nine hun
hundred cars of material will be crosse,