The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-05
ODD ITEMS.


cracks in stoves and ovens.
Mixtures of two parts of glycerine,
one part ammonia, and little rose
water whiten and soften the hands.
Cover plants with newspapers before
sweeping. Also put little ammonia
on them once week.
Corn husks braided make servica-
BILE and handsome mat. The braids
to be sewed with sack needle and
twine.
Cabbage is made digestible by first
slicing, and then putting in boiling
water, with pinch of soda and some
salt, and boiling just fifteen minutes.
A porcelain-lined kettle that will no
longer serve for fruit is Just the thing
for corn loaf. A three or four quart
fruit can answers well the same pur-
pose.
Fourteen Mormon missionaries have
been working for three months in Min
nesuta and have secured ten converts,
four men, three women, two girls and a
boy.
An advertisements in West Virginia
paper calls for ga No. male teach er,
strict, stern, severe and of good morals,
to teach the st. George School this
winter
1t is said that ferrets are rapidly dy.
ing off in this country. They are a f.
flicted with mysterious disease sim l.
lar to that which was so fatal to horses
few years ago.
The first patent on record was taken
out by Samuel Hopkins, in 1890, for
making pearlashes. Then, in 179l,
Pollard got patent for spinning cot :
ton by power.
In 1927, Patrick Bell, in Scotland
invented the first successful harvesting
machine. 1t had the principal of the
shears cut, which Is in all modern ma
chimes.
Out west, the cellar is the place to
go to in time of cyclone, and when a
man has barrel of cider in the cellar,
it's surprising how many times day
he thinks there's cyclone.
A Buchanan (Mich.) bee-keeper has
forty stands of bees from which he will
get over 1900 pounds of honey this
season. He keeps both German and
Italian bees, but prefers the German.
We don't think that the Chinese
would ever be able to wallop France,
if the Chinese go to war the same rs
! they walk through the street-in sin gle
| file.
The man who boasts that dishonesty
is just as good as honesty and will pay
as well in the end is so green that the
cows would mistake him for grass
and eat him.
1t has been demonstrated that man
can exist without food from eight to
ten days, and yet he will growl like the
mischief if the dinner is only ten min
utes late.
A man was arrested in Detroit for
stealing the Grape off the door of a
house in which lay a corpse. It's q
pity that fellow didn't go into politics
He'd be just the chap to collect cam
paign assessments.
That Milwaukee girl who declares
that she married one brothrr supposine
him to be the other, has very pool
excuse. Suppose they did look exactly
| o1,lyn oha At,r,ht 70 haua nj a1 lam
enough to tell them apart by their
breaths.
| 1t is an undeniable fact that the wa
ter supply in Philadelphia is not sufti
cient in case of big fire, and yet som'
would blame people for not drinking
it.
All kinds of hats and bonnets ant
all kinds of cloaks will be worn thi
fall, says a New York paper. And i
might have added that so will al
kinds of umbrellas and all sorts o.
noises.
The buckwheat cake season will sool
be upon us, and therefore it is well t,
advise all housekeepers that the cake
this year should be made light and full
OF small holes. The nearer you &c
them to resemble porous plaster tn
, more fashionable they will be.
David Davis in Washington Away
; lived in a second-class hotel, and wa
the closest man ever in public life. l
) is said that he would dispute with tn
apple women in the Senate hall owe
! the price cf an apple.
Coffee taverns seem to pay in Englis
provincial towns, but not in Londor
4 One of the reasons for this, Londo
t Truth thinks, is the execrable charac
ter Of the coffee which Is generally sol
in London coffee taverns.
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