The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-09-12
ODD ITEMS.

benJamln franKlln was one OF the
expert swimmers of his day.
Cat breeding is becoming an indus
try, as the skins can be used to line
cloaks.
II is now rendered-"Man proposes
and women accepts
General Longstreet keeps a hotel at
Gainesville, Fla
Senator Sherman is one of the best
whist players in the Senate.
A goblet placed over the head of
new baby in Georgia reached to the
midget's hips.
Intemperance among the negroes of
the South is said to be increasing at an
alarming rate.
When first caught sponges are Shiny,
ill-smelling things, looking like pieces
of raw liver.
Winter fashions for ladies are to be
eminently Russian and nothing if not
overwhelmingly.
The ''heathen Chnee' is Just pecu-
liar enough to imagine that he can
make the French walk Spanish.
The use of well water for drinking
purposes in New York city has been
forbidden by the health officers.
Small bonnets are to prevail. "They
are SO easy to trim and so very becom-
ing to the majority of ladies"
There is a town in Illinois so rigidly
temperate that they object to storms
brewing in the neighborhood
Black and white plaid fans are the
newest, and every other lady one
sees at Newport seems to possess
one.
Mr.. st. Johns friend says he dyes
his red moustache because he doesn't
want to possess anything the color of
wine.
In Japan the smallest piece of money
is called "cash,' and it takes about l.,
600 of them to make 81
-Four baggagemen who run on New
England road are named Loyeland,
Lowering, Lovejoy and Lovely.
An observer says most of the centen-
arians in America are from Ireland,
though there are many among the col
ored people.
One thousand shingls will cover one
hundred square feet of surface, laid
four inches to the weather for the
above five pounds of nails will be re-
quired.
Germany makes bricks of refuse and
cement They are said to be both light
and durable, and are not only used for
some kinds of building purposes, but
as covering for boilers in preventing
the radiation of heat.
The late John Cox, who was black
smith at Norwich, Conn, built the first
bicycle ever used in America, if not,
indeed, in the world. 1t consisted of
one large wheel in front and the little
wheel. Mr.. Cox rode the bicycle more
than sixty years ago.
In Alabama is China tree ten feet
in circumference, Its top was torn
away by storm but six feet up the
trunk two more trees have taken root
and grown up as high as the old tree
is. Half way up the trunk of the ori-
ginal tree a peach tree stands out.
A popular London comedian had in
her service short time since a servant
whom he had taken, out of charity,
from the workhouse One day she
was very insolent to her mistress,
whereupon the comedian told her that
if it occurred again he should certainly
send her back to the place whence she
came. 81 won't 60 there" she replied,
''on any account. If the worst comes
to the worst, I'll 60 on the stage
When an officer is dismissed from
the army he is said to be cashiered.
When cashier is dismissed from a
bank he is generally officered. Same
thing, only different
The latest campaign slander is that
Cleveland is fond of peanuts. 1t does
not necessarily follow, however, that
he goes to circuses
A woman aged S5 years recently as
tonished the natives of seaport town
in Rhode Island by appearing at the
breakfast table clad in a white Mother
Hubbard dress.