The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-02-25
General News.

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When man goes West to grow mp
with the country he need not take his
neighbor's wife. That appears to be the
trouble in two or three Ohio towns
The late lamented Carlyle once called
us "1S,O00000 of bores," gaucing the
entire country by the few cheeky Ameri-
can tourists who used to invade his
workroom.
A London paper says Lord Beacons-
field has another novel which, it is posi-.
BILE, may see the light ere many months
have elapsed
The couple that wrangled necessarily at
home are as loving as turtle doves in the
rail car. Advertised affection is gener.
ally bogous.
From Sassafras, Kent Co., Md
find that / sell as much of DIR. Bulls
cough syrup as of all other cough RENE
dies combined. j. +. Hartley. druggist.
a black walnut tree of average size,
cut in Wisconsin, shipped to England and
reduced to gun stalks, is worth from
$1,000 to $500.
An ancient sage once said: "Thc
goodness of gold is tried by fire, the
goodness of woman by gold, and the
goodness of men by women"
"a car wheels on an average were used
at the Bonaventure (Canada) station per
week of the cold weather in replacing
broken wheels. Impatient travellers can
appreciate from this statement the risks
they ran.
A gentleman in Portland, Me, has
Just received letter from brother
that he had not heard from before for
40 years. He had gone to South Amer
ica and married there.
John Randolph used to wear blue
riding coat and buckskin breeches in
the Senate Chamber. He nearly alwavs
rode to the Capital, attended by black
servant, who was as well mounted IA
himself
a celebrated preacher makes the rec.
ommendation of Ayers Pills a matter OF
religious duty. When people are bilious
and dyspeptic. what they need is gorpel
of health. In such cases, the best creed
to swallow consists of the thirty sugac-
coated pills in pill box.
A town in New Jersey was sold out
recently upon mortgage the oi2insl
owner reserved as security at the time
hn old fha 1nyI 70 ffv x,,h, 80
it up into town lots, and they built upon
and oftentimes improved it. The peni-
tentiary is too comfortable place for
such speculators to reside in.
Mrs. Barnhofft, cor. Pratt and Broad
way, has been a sufferer for II years
through rheumatism, and has tried every
remedy she could hear of, but received
no benefit, until recommended to try the
Eclectric Oil, she says she cannot ex-
press the satisfaction she feels at having
her pain entirely removed and he rheu-
matism cured.
A young Chicagoan gave an elab-
crate dinner to nine friends at the Union
Club in that city. The entertainment
was well advanced when the steward en-.
tered the room and whispered TO the
host that his mother was at the door de-
manding his retirement from the festivi-
ty He went out to plead his cause, but
she resolutely laid hold of him, led him
to the family carriage, and took him
home. The guests finished the dinner
with one vacant chair.
Mr.. Froude writes of his first term at
Oxford "We did pretty much what we
liked. There was such dissipation, and
the whole manner of life was needessly
extravagant We were turned loose at
eighteen, pleasures tempting us on all
sides. No dean or tutor ever volunteer
ed to help our inexperience. The prices
which we paid for everything were pre-
posterous The college authorities would
take no trouble, and their own charges
were on the same eXtravagant scale. The
| wretched novice was an object of general
plunder till he had learned how to take
care of himself remember calculating
that could have lived at a boarding
house on contract, with every luxury
which had in college, at a reduction Of
so per cent.
| The extreme frost of Dec 80 played
sad havoc with the orange orchards of
Florida, that of Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe being denued of all its luscious
fruit The orchards of greatest value
are along the st. Johns River from
Jacksonville down, Mrs. Stoves being
twelve miles south of the city. The Du-
init grove, which last year yielded so, 600
oranges, which the owner sold for SI3,.
600 cash, situated in the eastern part OF
the State, has just been purchased by
extensive groves in Sicily. The grove
comprises about 100 acres, and has $500
bearing trees. The Sicily oranges WELD
fruit in fourteen years from the time tn,
seed sprouts, and will bear for fifty ol
sixty years, while the Florida oranges
will produce fruit in eight years, and sur
J vive about half n century In the pas
5 ten years there have been 100000 new
orange trees set out, or wild trees re-
e claimed, in Florida, and planting is nov
= going at the rate of 10000 per year
t There are millions of wild or sour tree
' in the State, which are being rapid,
transformed into sweet ones by en-
l grating sweet buds in the body o
= sour trunks.
f a curious petition was that which wa
addressed in 1893 to the Governor o
t South Carolina by sixteen maidens o
IS Charleston. 1t ran thus The. humbl
: petition of all the maids whose names ar
e underwritten. Whereas, we, the humbl
J. petitioners are at present in very me
e ancholy disposition of mind, considering
t how all the bachelors are blindly capt
e waited by widows, and we are thereby n,
/ elected; in consequence of this, our r,
quest is, that your Excellency will fc
the future order that no widow presun
to marry any young man until the mait
b are provided for; or else to nav each .