The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-05-16
ODD ITEMS.


Newspapers multiply more rapidly
than their profits divide.
= Over 100000 is paid annually in
salaries to base ball payers.
Only two women in the Washington
departments have reached an $500
clerkship.
A wide, rich heaven hangs above
you, but it hangs high wide, rough
world is around you, and it lies very
low.
About eighteen knots an hour is the
best speed of an ocean steamship, but
locomotive will go over 1000 ties an
hour.
"Boys these days. remarked street
urchin, as he picked up the stub of
cigar and puffed away at it, "begin
where grown people leave off,"
Selden: Wit must grow like fingers.
If it be taken from Others tits like plums
stuck upon black-thorns: there they are
for awhile, but they come to nothing.
A little child becoming wearied with
the quarrelling of two younger child
rem over a glass of milk, exclaimed
whats the use of fighting forever
over that milk There's whole cow
full out in the barn."
The curiosity of child of five had
been aroused by seeing magnifying
glass. "How many times does it mag
Nifty 2" asked gentleman, thinking
to puzzle him. GAS many times as
you look through it," was the quick
reply.
"Talk of the balance of power said
the grocer reading the estimates of the
probable vote at Chicago sits moth
ing compared with the power OF the
balance" And ne weighed out anoth-
er pound of sugar, two ounces short.
Boston Transcript
Reports from the Indian Industrial
School at Genoa, Nebraska indicate a
gratifying progress by the pupils un-
dergoing an agricultural training. The
Superintendent says that thirty me-
dium-slzed boys, from ten to fifteen
years of age, who had been under in
struction only three months with
spades, shovels, and hoes, prepared the
ground and set out 800 trees and did
it well.
PINEAPPLE IcE.-Pineapple ice to be
served with delicate cake can be made
of one lipe and juicy pineapple, or one
quart can of the fruit cut it in very
small pieces add the juice and grated
peel of one lemon or orange, as your
taste dictates one good full pint of
sugar and one of water, or possibly a
very little less if the fruit is juicy.
Scatter the sugar over the pineapple,
off all ju ce, then mash the fruit and
strain again until YOU are sure you
have S. cured all the juice, then add
water aud freeze.
The steamship Estate of Florida
which left New York Saturday, April
18th, bound for Glasgow, was sunk by
the steamer ''ritania," en- route from
Glasgow to Montreal, on Friday, April
18th, at about 10 o'clock in the even
ing, on clear night and a calm sea-
Out of 1876 persons A were saved. The
vessel "Tltania' crashed into the side
of the State of Florida" and both
sank within fifteen minutes. The A
persons saved were in one boat and
had been drifting two days before they
were picked up.
Easton was visited Wednesday
evening May 7th by a heavy rain
storm, accompanied by loud claps of
thunder, violent flashes of lightning,
and hailstones as large as peas. Be-
tween Fairview and Mauch Chunk.
railroaders say, the hailstones were as
large as shellbarks. A snow storm
that lasted nearly half an hour visited
Rockport, Penn Haven and Bridge
port, small towns along the Lehigh
Valley II. II. Rain fell nearly the
entire day in the Lehigh and Pocono
valleys, and extiDguished all the forest
fires.
Abraham Lincoln was six feet four
inches tall, and his son is about FIVE
feet eight. There is quite as much
difference in the intellectual capacity
of the two. The Secretary of War
has had the most book learning, but
the ex-President had the bigger and
broader mind. Had he lived he never
would have been with the 306, as his
son was. In fact there is much reason
for believing that time would have
made Abraham Lincoln Democrat, as
it made his favorite war Governor,
Andrew G. Curtin, one.
PERILs OF PRIZE FIGHTING Judge
Handley, at Scranton, Tuesday, in
structed District Attorney Connolly to
prepare indictments against all who
are known to have witnessed the prize
fight between Hogan and Johnson, the
light weights, on last Saturday morn
ing, May 3rd. Fifteen hundred per-
sons, including Deputy Sheriffs, law
yers, doctors, editors, hotel keepers and
merchants attended the fight. The
next Grand Jury will evidently have a
big weeks work. The District Attor
ney has employed detective to obtain
, the names of those who attended the
match. The prosecution will be con-
! Quoted under special law passed in
1866, imposing a years Imprisonment
and fine of $500 upon any person en-
gaging in a prize fight, either as prin-
cipal, second or bystander. There is
/, also general law on the subject which
! provides penalty of $1,000 and two
/. years imprisonment for participating
in or witnessing prize fight Most OF
, those who were present live in Scran
!, ton.
3 CoLoREp MEN PREPARING FOR
e CELEBRATION AT WILKES BARRE
!, tensive preparations for grand Gel
, ebration TO commemorate the ratifica
t tion of the 18th amendment to the con
: stitution, to be held June 18th, ar,
: going forward, prominent colored citi
e zens of Wilkes Barre being the lead
i ing spirits in what promises to be al