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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-02-23
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II you are sick HOP Bitters will
surely aid Nature IN making you
well when all else fails.
Ityou arc costivo or dyspeptio or
suffering from any Of the numer-
Gus diseases of thostomach or bow
els, it is your own fault if you re-
mainill, forHop Bitters lisa sover-
eign remedy i'll all -uch complaints.
II you ara wasting away with
any form Of Kidney disease, stop
tempting Death this moment, and
turn for chrc to IIop Bitters.
If you arc sick with that terrible
sickness Nervousness, you will find
"Bllm in G.lcad" in the use Of
IIop Bitter.
If you are q froquenter, or q
resident Of o miasmatic district,
barricado your sy5tem against the
scourgc Of all eolntI'ics---malarial,
epidemic, bilious and intermittent
fo2crs--5y the use cf hop Bitters.
If you have rough, pimply, or
sallow skin, bad breath, pains and
aches, and feel miserable gener-
ally Hop BitterJ VIII give you
foir skin, rich blood, tic sweetest
l.octh, health and comfort.
In short they euro all Diseases
C tAo Stomach, Bowels, Blood,
)ir--, Nerves, Kidneys, Bright's
-. eco VII DO paid for
co-o ny viii not cure or help.
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-02-23
RAILROAD TIME TABLE
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DENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Phil.
CENTRAL RAILWAY.
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WESTWARD,

CPS a. m.-Erle Man for Erie and all intermediate
stations with through Pullman Palace car and
through passenger coaches to Erie.
For Canandaigua and intermediate stations,
Rochester, Buffalo and Niagara Fals, with Pull.
man Palace car and passenger coaches through TO
Rochester.
1920 p. m.-Niagara Express for Kane and inter-
mediate stations with through passenger coaches
to Kane. For Canandaigua and principal inter
mediate stations, Rochester, buffalo and Niagara
rails with through parlor car to Watkins and
through passenger coaches TO Rochester
b.25 p. tE Fast line for Lock Haven and interme-
date stations and Elmira, Watkins and interme-
date stations with through passenger coaches TO
Lock Haven and Watkins.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-02-23

II you ara wasting away with
any form Of Kidney disease, stop
tempting Death this moment, and
turn for a circ to IIop Bitters.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-02-23
THROUGH TRAINS FOR sUNBURY FROM THE
EAST AND SOUTl.

Niagara Express leaves New York, 5l5 q. m;
PhladelDh a. '.1o a. M; Baltimore 7.8O a. m., ar
irving at Sunbury, l.2O p. m, with through Pull
man Parlor car from Philadelphia and through
passenger coaches from Philadelphia and Baltl-
more.
Fast Line leaves New York 90 a. M. ; Philadel-
phla, II O5 a. m; Washington $50 a. M Balt-
more, lO45 n. n, arriving at Sunbury, $50 p. M,
with through passenger coaches from philadel-
phia and Baltimore
Erie vail leaves New York 90 p. M: Phlladel-
phla, 1l,2O p. m; Washington, $50 p. M; Bati-
more, ll.l5 p m, arriving at Sunburv, o 20 q. m,
with through Pullman Palace sleeping cars from
Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore and
, through passenger coaches from Philadelphia.
SUNBuRY. hAlLEToN g. WILKEs-BARRE RAILRoAD
AND NORTH WEST BRANCH RAILWAY.
Mall East leaves Sunbury 64jsa. m., arriving at
Bloom Ferry 7.4l q. M. Wilkes-barre 90 a. IN.
Express East leaves Sunbury 5.35 p. m, arriving
at Bloom Ferry 6.B1 p. m, Wilkes barre 10 D. m.
Nal, West leaves Wilkes barre 1890 a. m, arriy-
ing at Bloom Ferry IL 0S p IN Sunbury Los p. m.
Express West leaves Wilkes-barre 80 D. m. ar
irving at Bloom Ferry 07 p. m Sunbury sos p.
m,
OHAs. T. PUGH, J.R. WOOD,
Gen. Manager. Gen. Passenger Agent.
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If you arc sick with that terrible
sickness Nervousness, you will find
q "Balm in G.lcad" in the use Of
IIop Bitter.
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TIME TABLE.
EASTWARD,

In effect January 18th, 1883. Trains leave Sun.
bury
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II you are sick HOP Bitters will
surely aid Nature IN making you
well when all else fails.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
Some Women's Shoes.

Ladies have been ever ready to pat
rOniZe ShOemakers prone to discard an
atomical laws and indulge in freaks OF
fancy. An exception was Catherine de
Medici. She was very active in looking
after gardens, walking, riding, and over
looking her architects. 1t is easy to I'M
derStand, in looking at the boots and
shoes of the seventeenth century, why
the coach became an article of necessity
to the grand seigneur and the court lady.
The heels were very high, and the boot
cumbersome.
Moliere kept to the square-toed shoes
fastened with a lace on the instep, which
the bourgeois of Paris had worn for
nearl Y century and half. He was
shOd pretty much as an English Puritan,
and was able to rove through France
without needing the assistance of a
chiropodist In the reign of Louis
Quinze, pedestrian exercise, except on
the flat, hard terraces of Versailles, be-
cam impossible. The extremity of the
heel was placed under the sole of the
foot, and the whole weight of the body
was thrown upon the great toe. Nine.
de Pompadour wore .Asiatic slippers in
the house, but she sacrificed herself to
fashion when she appeared at court.
Marie AntOinette's heels were lower,
but the toe of her shoe formed sharp
point She was glad at her rustic
Trianon parties to lean on the crooked
staff of a sheperdess or on the arm of a
courtier. Ii the shoe said to be worn by
her and the Princess de Lambelle were
only manufactured to be looked at they
would have been charming. The work
manship, SO far as stitching and en-
broidery goes is perfect. But the feet
must have been dreadfully squeezed in
them. Marie Antoinette, according to
tradition, had q superb gait. Chroniclers
of her time likened her to a goddess
borne along on clouds. AS she was
brought up in simple German way,
and taught early to dance ballets, she
may have been relatively to the danes
about her, graceful in her movements
when she walked. The ankles of the
Duchess de Berri went in and deformed
her shoes. Her Kinswoman, the En-
press Marie Louise, had the same de-
feet. The ladies of the Bonaparte
family had remarkably small and we'll
shapedfee and wore their shoes straight.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
Labor and Fond.

The human body never ceases to
work. Even in the most profound
slumber some of the functions of life are
going on. as, for instance, breathing,
the circulation of the blood, digestion,
when there is food in the stomach; and
it follows that some part of the nervous
system is therefore awake and attend
ing to business all the day and night
long. In the act of living, some of the
substance of the body is being con-
stantly consumed The amount of
work done by the heart in one day in
prOpelling the blood is now estimated
rs equal to the work of steam engine
in raising 125 tons one foot high, or one
ton 125 feet high. We lose in weight
by working. Weigh a man after sew
eral hours hard labor, and he will be
found two or three, and, in extreme
cases, several pounds lighter. If we do
not wish to become bankrupt, we must
replace by food the amount we have
lost by labor. Hunger and thirst are
the instincts which prompt us to do
this. They are like automatic alarm
clocks, which stop the engine at various
points to take on fuel and water In q
required to maintain the weight of the
body against loss. Nature keeps the
account On one side is so much food
spent in work; on the other, so much
received into the stomach for digestion.
They should balance like the accounts
of an honest book-keeper. In an I'M
healthy person the instinct of hunger
becomes disordered and does not sound
the alarm, and SO the person goes on
working without eating until he be-
comes pauperized; or the instinct works
too frequently, and he eats too much
and clogs the vital machinery. A cal
culatiOn of the business done in the
body reveals the fact that for q hard
working person about 81 pounds of food
and drink are used up daily; some bod
les use more ami some less, but this is
the average. The profit which the body
gets on the transaction has been calcu-
lated, and may interest our readers.
The energy stored up in the s! pounds
of food ought to raise 3,400 tons one
foot high. Most of this energy, how
ever, is expended in keeping the body
warm and its functions active. About
One-tenth can be spent in our bodily
movements or in work. The profit,
then, on the process Is about ten per
cent. This is enough to raise $40 tons
one foot high each day. \ profit which
is quite enough for earning 4 good liv-
ing if rightly expended, and it is prob,
ably more than most make; but all
ought to strive to reach this point if pos
sible. Scientific american.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
A Horsewoman's Narrow Escape.

Miss Mary Valentine was riding down
the road leading toward Cornwall from
Mountainville, n. Y. Half mile from
the Houghton farm, the horse became
unmanageable. Miss Valentine was I'M
able to check its career, and he dashed
down the road with headlong speed for
mile.
At Mountainville there is a bend in
the road where it is entered by another
that crosses creek over an iron bridge.
Miss Valentine tried to Keep the frantic
horse headed toward Cornwall, but
failed. The horse veered to the left to-
ward the bridge, and plunged off the
approach into the creek twenty feet be-
low, falling a distance of thirty-fve feet.
The water in the creek was six feet deep.
Miss Valentine held the bride tightly
grasped, and her head just grazed the
limb of tree that grew within five feet
of the iron truss of the bridge, between
which and the truss the horse had found
his way. She managed to extricate her.
self from the saddle, and two men who
were near at hand rescued her from the
water after she had sunk twice Her
only injuries were slight bruise of the
hip, but the horse, it is thought, receiv-
ed a fatal hurt " y Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
Summers Last Day in the Senate.

Il shall never forget" n Washington
letter reports Mr.. Hayden. late Chief
Engineer of the Senate. as saying. 1.-The
last time that Mr.. Sumner was in the
Senate. | was sitting in my usual place
when | saw Mr.. Sumner rise. take his
hat and cane both i'll his right hand. as
he was accustomed To do. and start TO
leave the chamber. As he rose from
his seat he put his left hand quickly to
his left breast rs if in pain, and seemed
to press 1t hard. Then he stood, l
should say for full minute. caStinghiS
eyes around the entire range of the gal
leries twice. rs if looking for familiar.
face. He then. standing there. deliber-
atelY surveyed the whole Senate. and
then started for the east door As he
started he dropped his left hand from
his left breast. As he reached the east
door he once more put his left hand to
his breast, with quicker motion. and
inclined his body slightly to the right.
Once more he turned and | can see the
wonderful expression upon his face now.
1t turned first pale, deadly pale then be-
came pearly gray. | should never
have known the face was that of Mr..
Sumner. There was upon it an express
sion of pain, but deeper expression of
agonizing sorrow. He stood few sec
OndS in this position, surveyed once
more the whole Senate floor, straighten-
ed himself a little from his partly in
Ginning position toward the right. and
darted through the eastern folding doors
as if shot from cannon. In two days
he was dead. | could not account for
Mr.. Summers strange conduct and that
terrible expression in his face 1t haunt
ed me. The next day | learned he was
sick. and the next that he was dead ard
it occurred to me in n moment that pos
sibly Mr.. Sumner, rs he stood there with
his hand upon his breast ami surveyed
the Senate Chamber, might have had
preSentiment that that look was the
last which he was ever to give upon
that BODY
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26

very valuable articles on Farm Econ
Omv."
Mrs. Enthuse: ''How l envy YOU and
your garden, Mrs. Smith. ANY one
would know these were fresh tomatoes. :"
Little Johnny (who has been in the
kitchen -''And right under Fresh To-
matoes' there's the biggest picture | ever
saw. 1t runs around the whole can
Can't get it, mammal"
'Why. where have you been so long,
my dear Mrs. Blank?" 'sOh! I've been
visitin' in the provinces-Boston. Phila-
delphia, and such places. Them peo-
pie in the provinces don't know nothin'.
Why, when told 'em about poor, dear
jim Elliott's big funeral. and what a
nice prize fight there was the other
night in saloon, and how the cops
got bamboozled, would You believe it.
them proyinciali9noramuses didn' tSeem
interested a bit
did you see anything that particu-
larly struck your fancy when Won were
looking around the furniture stores to-
day?" asked young SOmervile hus-
band OF his lately made wife on her re-
turn from tour of furniture inspection.
Yes" she replied, Il saw something
exceedingly pretty in looking glasses. .
Il have no doubt you did, - he observed.
''if you looked into Them The halo
of calm, sweet peace rests upon that
home.
Just given my boy Daniel a farm up
near Middletown," he remarked to Il
friend whom he met on the Erie train
the other day. is that so? Well, you
do the fair thing by Your boys" Yes,
| try to-" lis Daniel ambitious? No.
and that's his only failing. As an in
centive for him to buck in and make
the chips fly, | took mortgage back
on the farm for two thirds its value
Daniel has got to Git up and hump. or
III fOreclose on him"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
A Oouple Go their Diverse WAYS,

An amusing incident occurred the
other day south of the State line. A
Cecil county pair had not been living
very happily together for some time
past. and they agreed to remove to Tex
as, Lancaster county. Together their
worldly effects filled three wagons. She
possessed the most property and occr-
pied two vehicles. He seemed safe and
contented in one wagon with his effects.
Both received the fareweIls and best
wishes of crowd of amused spectators.
The horses were started and the trio of
conveyances disappeared in the west.
When few miles this side of Texas the
pair arrived at forked roads. There
they stopped, and after considerable
conversation of spicy character they
mutually agreed to part and separate
forever. They leaned from the fronts
of their wagons, each taking farewell
look at the other. and after some eXcla-
nations slowly drove down different
road and were seen no more. Vest
CehSteT pa Record.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
The Office Bow.
Is the office boy idle?

Is the office boy idle?
No; he is not idle; he is frantically in
duStrious; he is killing himself with hard
work.
VIII it take him long?
Unfortunately yes; he is very tough.
What is he doing now?
Rather ask what is he not doing? He
has the faculty of doing so many useful
things at the same time that it is i'm
possible TO guess what he may not be at
He is probably at this moment engaged
in sweeping out, busting, tidying up the
several rooms, going on few scores of
errands, and quietly awaiting opportu-
mites to be useful.
Does the office boy ever make any I'M
necessary noise?
Oh, dear, no; he never whistles or
plays the devils hornpipe on his desk
with his lily-white fingers; he was never
known to raise his voice in unseemiv
believing. No, my dear sir, YOU have
been misinformed.
Is the office uoy ever rude or dis
courteous?
Not bit of it. He is courtesy itseH
His bumps of veneratiOn and reverence
cover his entire head. He looks up to
his employer as a superior being. He
would sooner 90 without his meals for Il
week than once omit the sir after yes
or no, o. to return thanks for the small
est favor.
Then you think the office boy is not to
be improved?
Assuredly not. 1t would be like at
tempting to paint the lily gid refined
gold. No, sir; the office boy is the one
perfect thing in nature.
Do you love the office boy?
Consume lily. Without him life would
be unlivable. The thought of having tt
part with him is the only shadow tina
darkens the way to the silent tomb.
Do you know where he is now?
All, now you ask the something tha
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
Badness.

In an article recently contributed to
the GeSa1dheit-a paper, rs its name
imports, devoted to sanitary subjects
Professor Reclaim. a German Gelehrter,
makes some timely and useful obScrva-
tons on the subject of badness. After
describing, in vein of pleasantly, the
vast array of bare polls which may be
seen any evening in the pit of 4 theater
or the body of 4 lecture-roOm, he dis
cusses the causes of badness. He does
not think, as is sometimes said, that
loss of hair is the result either of i'm
paired health or of much study. The
strongest men are often barehtaded and
German professors, who are nothing if
not studious, are distinguished above all
men by the prOfusiOn of their locks. On
the other hand, soldiers and postillions
who wear heavy helmets and leather
caps, and wear them a good deal, are
frequently as bald is billiard balls
From these facts Herr Reclaim draws
the conclusion that badness comes
chiefly of the artificial determination of
blood to the head, and to the heat and
perspiration thence arising. The result
is a relaxed condition of the scalp and
loss of hair. Ii the skin of the head be
kept ina healthy state, contends the
professor, the hair will not fall off. To
keepit healthy, the head-covering should
be highland porous, the head kept clean
by washings with water, and the hair
cut short The nostrums vended AS hair
restorers, and on which fabulous
amount of money is wasted by the ignor-
ant for the benefit of quacks, he de-
nounced as worse than useless. In
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred they
are worse than useless. Cleanliness and
cold water are the sole trustworthy spe-
cities; but when once the hair-roots are
destroyed, not all the oil of Macassar,
the bears grease of Siberia, nor the
cantharides of Spain will WOO back the
vanished locks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
Napkin Fashions,

If man be known by the cut OF
his coat, and the company he keeps, so
it seems can his nativity be told by the
way he handles his napkin. A Boston
man uses his energetically, with sort
of rap-Saw motion across his mouth. A
New Yorker uses his with pistou-rod
plunge towards his lips. The western
er spreads it over his bosom like a
yachts mainsail. The southerner con,
ceals his in his lap like a jewel box. The
philosopher who discovered these things
failed to tell us of the Germans wind.
mill napkin flourish; the Frenchman's
serviette jerk; the Italian balloon nap.
kin act. We supply these, however
Ii Lilliput was divided into those who
broke their eggs at the big and those
who Clipped them at the little end, why
cannot the two great American parties,
for want of any actual political issue,
divide on those who favor the aristOc
ratio napkins and those who think the
corner of the tablecloth good enough for
the citizens of an untrammeled repub
lic?-N l. Morning Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
The Kremlin.

The ancient palaces of the Gar at
Moscow, known as the Kremlin, are
probably the most gorgeous example of
mans capacity to adorn and beautify
that exists on the face of the globe. A
New York Herald correspondent SAYS:
A walk through the halls of the Kremlin
as prepared for the imperial pageant
reveals splendors almost impossible to
describe. To talk of them as reception
rooms suggests nothing of the lavish
beauty of decoration and the imperial
splendor of the different halls and
saloons. Every fresco has been restor-
ed, every carving regilded. All the en-
broideries, brocades, and tapestries
have been especially made for the oc-
oasion. Baron Kohne had the direction
of all the heraldic decoration. His taste
in everything that concerns antiquity,
ceremonials, and the science of imperial
display is evident, from the great golden
throne and draperies, over which the
black eagle is seen in flight, down to
the tabards of the heralds and the
badges of the pursuivants.
In the Banquet Hall the embroidered
cloth. which surrounds the lower tier
and falls to the raised dais on which the
buffet stands, is of crimson velvet, and
is covered with the most elaborate en-
broidery of Byzantine design in colors
and three tones in gold. This table
cover and carpet, which covers the floor
of the halls, about seventy feet square,
are the work of nuns, whose signatures
are found in it, worked in Stay charac-
ters. In the right corner rises a throne
of carved black oak, its roof supported,
for it is almost building in itself, by
four pillars and raised on three steps
The whole is covered with crimson
plush, backed with draperies of cloth of
gold and ermine. A small table, which
is also covered with crimson plush,
stands before the imperial seats.
The floor of the Hall ST. Alexandra is
probably the finest piece of marqueterie
known. Every kind of colored wood is
used to produce the most intricate pat
terms of scroll and flower.
The Throne Room: so much magnifi-
cence is displayed in this floor, that on
is scarcely prepared for the rich display
which meets the spectator in the Throne
Room or Sale Saint Andre Architec-
ture and decoration combine the severi-
ty of Gothic abbey with the marvelS
of the Renaissance, a plendent shrine.
At the far end of the hall rises shrine
in gold, for indeed it is more like shrine
than a canopy. 1t has gold draperies
on a silver and gold background, on
which are the arms of the Emperor of
All the RusSias. The throne is support
ed by the gold griffins of the house of
Romanof, fringed with black, gold, and
silver, the colors of the imperial stand
ard. Enormous gilt chandeliers, each
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26

When Miss Whom Emma Neva-
da''-made her debut in Paris in The
Pearl of Brazil" that other brilliant
American prima donna, Marie Van
Zandt, occupied a prominent box. At
the close of one of Miss Wixom's most
brilliant passages, when the audience
was hushed with admiration, single
''Hurrah!' in clear soprano voice, but
with an unmistakable Yankee accent,
rang through the house. Every eye
was instantly turned to where Miss Van
Zandtsat, her face glowing with mingled
embarrassment and enthusiasm, and
then for five minutes the house rang
with a storm of Bravo! Van Zandti
Bravo! Nevadar'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
Coming a Ton of Silver a DaY.

eve have been turning out about
ton of silver day for some time past, "
said Supt. Snowden, of the mint. 1.-The
most of this is dollars, and some small
coin, notably dimes. The demand for
5-cent nickels is little ahead of us, and
although we turn out $4,000 worth
day, weighing some 10000 ounces, we
find that we are behind hand, but we
will catchup before the end of the week.
About three quarters of ton of pen
MES are manufactured daily, and they
are in demand as fast as made. 1t strikes
me that the south and west must be be-
ginning to use pennies again, more es-
pecially the former For some wears
pennies were an almost unknown suan-
tity south of Washington. but they are
gradually creeping into circulation.
We are not doing more now than for
months past, except that the annual
count is being made, and we are getting
ready to submit the annual report to the
director of the mint Our fiscal year
closes in few days. = Philadelphia
Record.