The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17
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Sl3,430, 500.
The oyster industry of Mobile, Ala, is
l04020 bushels per year.
You can prove nothing to women.
They believe only with their hearts or
their imaginations.
a trout caught recently in Murray
county, Georgia, was found to contain
silver half dollar.
Theodore Tilton and Brigham Young's
nineteenth wife, Ann Eliza, are lecturing
through our State.
Senator Voorhees, declares that he has
cured himself of rheumatic gout by tax
ing lemon juice in warm water twice or
thrice day.
The peppermint crop Of the United
States reaches about 10000 pounds a
year, of which 10000 pounds is exported.
Two thirds of it is produced in New
York.
There is rumor that the Emperor of
Germany WILL on March 22d, when he
will be S5, proclaim the Prince Imperial
his Lieutenant for the ordinary affairs of
the empire.
More than half of the institutions in
the United States which profess to give
university education and confer degrees
now admit women on equal terms with
male students.
The number of post cards dispatched
in Germany during the year 1880 was
l23, 100000 In the Post-oflice Museum
at Berlin there are exhibited 419 differ
ent kinds of post cards.
Florida papers say that the brown or
rusty orange is much the sweetest, and
can be kept longer than the bright fruit,
but it will not sell at the North for
more than half the price of fair fruit.
An English esthete says marriage is
like bag of snakes, in which there is one
eel We suppose the idea is that even the
fellow who is so lucky as to escape the
snakes and get the eel will not be able to
hold on to it.
The tastes of the Pope are so simple
that IS day covers the expense of his
personal housekeeping. He dimes alone
attended by enc servant. His health
is failing, and he is troubled by insomnia
All the work done by the New Or
leans Criminal Court since 1879 is inval-
id, according to a decision of the Louis
lana Court of Appeals This will release
a large number of criminals, but car
scarcely help several hanged murderers.
A parallel occurred at Kingston, n.
Y, to the proposition to sell Guiteaus
body. Two young men recently sold
the body of their mother to medical stu
dents for dissection for 81. The woman
died in the hospital. One of the men is
, now a fugitive from justice.
People cannot be too careful about vac
cination. A Philadelphia girl who inoc-
ulated herself with piece of virus from
; the arm of her favorite young man found
that it gave her an almost uncomfortable
desire for whiskey.
Several medical journals have recently
published statements claiming that germs
of disease are often carried in ice formed
from impure water. Young men having
girls will be pleased to see this subject
further agitated. 1t will prevent all their
, spare cash from going for ice cream next
summer.
TO REFRESH A SICK PERSON.
: Add about twenty drops of Darbys
t Prophylactic Fluid to quart of water,
; in bathing. 1t will give the skin a soft,
e pleasant and refreshing feeling and dis
= pei the odor that fever and perspiration
t leaves on the body. A small quantity of
y the Fluid sprinkled over anything, place
y or vessel where there is putrescence de,
jstroys at once the germ of all animal or
e vegetable poison.
: An cid fellow whose daughter had
: failed to secure a position as teacher, in
=, consequence of not passing an eXamina-
!, ton, said; "They asked her lots of things
u she didn't know. Look at the history
:, questions? They asked her about things
: that happened before she was born! How
70 was she going to know about them ?
+! Why, they asked about old George
/, Washington and other men she never
- knew! That was a pretty sort of an eX
:, amiuation,-Philadelphia Times.
5 Since the result of the Sullivan-Ryan
le prize fight has been received, Richard
o Egan, of the Eleventh ward, Troy n, Y.
e comes forward and expresses confidence
is in his ability to whip Sullivan. a few
e months ago he wished to take up Sulli-
N vans offer of $50 in Troy to stand up
y before him for five minutes. Sullivan
t. declined to accept on the ground of its
m being the home of Ryan and he did not
ID wish to cause any i'll feeling in Troy
ID Egan is young man, AMI has never
1T been beaten in Il sporting match,
ID In Lumiere Electrigue desceibes Q
Il curious application of electricity to pre-
y vent military conscripts practising fraud
e as to there stature by bending theii
81 knees When the conscript stands erect
ie against the measuring post the hind parts
of his knees press on electric contacts
it causing two bells to ring; the ringing
IN ceases when there is tle least bending
II The sliding bar which furnishes tn
p, measure has also contact which il
81 pressed by the head, whereby thirC
III electric bell is affected. For a correc
ee measurements the three bells should rim,
simultaneously. This instrument is EN-
'h' ployed in the Spanish army.
NJ Two gentlemen of New Orleans, afte
he experimenting for several months, hav
,r. at last discovered or invented a metho
is of making excellent butter ont of cotto
Of seed oil. A sample was tested by sewers
in experts, who lavshed high encomiunl
ma upon the new discovery, Being of
ad purely vegetable nature, it will not hay
.ry the enemies to combat that so yigorousl
,ss and rancorously assail the oleomargarin
TO which is manufactured from animal oil
his The inventors proposeto make two grad