The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-06-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"h eAcecullS neaNy Wneat crop.
The city of Elizabeth, once the capi
tai of New Jersey, owes S7,OOO,000,
and is bankrupt
The estate of the late exChief Jus
tce Sharswood foots up Sl36,000 only
S10,300 of which is real estate.
Tainted salt meat is the result of
sailing carcasses while in frozen con
dtion.
Nails may be driven into hard wood
if the points are first dipped in lard oil
or tallow.
A teas-poonful of charcoal taken in
half glass of water is often effectual
in curing sick headache.
Liver should be placed in hot water
before cooking, after being sliced thin
and then broiled or fried.
A dubious assertion via Kansas Is
that Mrs. A. 7. Stalwart has given S4,-
100000 for an entirely free college in
New York.
1t is well to brush the under crust of
pies with the white of an egg before
filling with fruit, to prevent soggi-
ness.
Half an ounce of Peruvian bark,
half an ounce of powdered myr,h, and
one ounce of powdered charcoal make
a most refreshing tooth powt.er
If washerwomen would rub their
hands and arms with dry salt immedi.
ately after finishing work it will take
out the soda aud prevent bad effects
from cold
How sadly true it is that in nine
cases out of ten mans domestic re-
lations would be all right if his wife's
relations didn't make them all wrong.
'I'm saddest when l sing" lamented
the poet, but If he could have sung for
$4,000 night he would probably be
the saddest when he couldn't sing.
In the Iowa town of Traer, the City
Council posts list of drundards in
every saloon, and orders the keeper
thereof to sell no drink to any of
them.
Logic sometimes halts 1t does not
always follow that the man who eats
figs is therefore seedy, nor that the boy
who eats dates will grow up an alma
nae.
When drummer loses the sack in
which he carries his samples you may
very properly say that he has lost his
grip.
Arrow root is recommended as the
thickening for custards and sauces of
all kinds, both for puddngs and for
meats. 1t is preferre tod corn starch
by many, on account of the flavor.
The prospects for an abundant fruit
crop along the cas-. shore of Lake
Michigan, in the noted fruit belt" are
are said to be unusually fattering. A
large yield of peaches is expected.
Prof. Sanborn has conducted series
ef experiments which prove conclusive
ly that it takes more corn to make a
pound of pork when the hogs were al
lowed to run at large than when they
were confined in the pen.
Skinned milk is one of the very best
articles of diet for laying hens, and, so
far as they can use it, it can be put to
no more profitable use. Mixed with
wheat bran ii makes an excellent feed
for growing chicks.
There does not seem to be any feast
BILE way of getting rid of the rose bug
except by hand picking. The rose
slug is another depredator which should
be kept under by dusting the plants
with powdered hellebore.
George H. Corlss, at whose works
in Rhode Island the big Centennial en-
gine was built is building the engines
for the first cotton mills to be erected
in China.
1t may be known but Santa Fe. New
Mexico, is twelve years older than st.
Augustine, Florida, settled in 1865.
Sante Fa is about to celebrate It's three
hundred and thirty-third anniversary
and has l0,867 inhabitants.
Gen. Phil. Sheriden will find q
house waiting for him, when, next fall
he goes to Washington to succeed
Gen. Sherman as head of the army.
Some of his admirers have bought him
$4,000 house on Rhode Island ave-
nue., and will present 1t to him.
A figure gatherer states that the
Me!hodists of all branches in the Unit
ed States number about 4,OOO,OOO
while the Presbyterians of all kinds
pumber about 100000 and the Bap
lists of all kinds about 100000. The
Rorhan Catholics are estimated at about
100000, being the most numerous
sect in the country, and about equal t.
the Methodists and Baptists in point O
numbers are the Lutherans, who il
Pennsylvania led all other churches.
A dispatch from the city of Mexico
says
The government has ordered troop
to be sent to the new gold dig
gins in Lower California for the preeer
walton of order. The prefect of tn
territory has been ordered not to admi
locations until he receives instruction
from the federal government Tn
richness of the diggings is officiall,
confirmed
The eastern iron manufacturers hav
called a meeting of all manufacturer
of bars, rods, bands, hoops, ovals
plates, sheets and other shapes of extr
iron and steel association at Philadcl
phia, the thiLd Thursday of June, TO
the purpose of arranging, if possible,
new schedule of prices to conform wit
the changes made by the new tart
law
The state Prohibition convention o
Thursday of last week nominated tn
following ticket For Governor, Fel
dinand Schumacher lieutenant govel
nor, II. Il. Ogden; supreme judge
short term, Q. Q. Payne; supreme judg
long term, d. @. Montgomery clerk {