The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-02-22
ODD ITEMS.

Many farmers who secure for them
selves all the labor-saving improve
ments are slow in arranging similar
helps for their wives.
The New York Tribune suggests
that we know next to nothing yet of
milk, and wants some expert TO devote
his life to its investigation.
| Forty-three millions of dollars is the
sum required TO complete the improve
ments of the Mississippi.
st. Louis produce dealers estimate
that the supply of quails this season
will be the largest ever known.
1t is now said by competent authori-
ties that the horn of steer or heifer is
no indication of the age of the ami
NAL.
Hen manure is good for onions.
There is some dispute as to the value
of the addition of ashes to that fertii-
zer
A general national exhibition will be
held at Budapest, Hungary, in 1885,
opening in May and closing in Octo-
Der.
In herds of cattle where all are with
out horns, there is no more evidence of
fear than in focks of sheep or pigs.
Maine reports about fifty cheese fac.
tories, the number of cows to each
ranging from 60 to 800, about 100 be-
ing the average.
Florida growers aid the heading of
cabbages by sprinkling little salt into
the heart and tying up the leaves with
twine,
Mayor Cummings of Bangor, Me-,
has again vetoed standard time on the
ground that solar time is according to
zone of the inevitable laws of God"
Boston's elevated railroad will be
over houses and across lots. No rails
can be found with curve enough to fol-
low the crooked streets.-Picayune.
Milwaukee has more saloons in pro-
portion to population than any other
city in the Union. What better in
ducements could be offered to national
conventions
The Emperor of China devotes two
hours and half every day to the study
of Chinese. He is determined that no
almond-eyed laundryman shall over
charge him.
"Your husband always appears to be
in very high spirits" "Yes," returned
his wife, ''if they didn't come 80 high !
should have had new fur sacque this
winter"
The country is suffering from tre-
menduous over-stock of dog supply.
Five per cent. of the cannes in the Uni
ted States could do all the business.
The sheep returns for 1883 show an
increase more than sufficient to offset
the loss in 1882 in England and sat
isfactory gain in Scotland and Wales
also.
The rigor of the present winter in
New England is proving too severe for
the English sparrows, and large num-
bers of them have been frozen to
death.
, A matrimonial advertisement winds
: up as follows; "Fortune no object, but
t should require the girls relations to de-
{ posit $500 with me as security for her
, good behavior"
Oscar Wilde's mother is terribly
, down on Americans for treating her
! darling so shockingly. We suppose
! this means that she grows Wilde.
A health journal tells "How to Catch
a Cold" The cold my escape, for all
, we care. We shall not undertake to
} catch it. [Norristown Herald.
A mans brain weighs three and a
, half pounds. A woman's brain is
/. somewhat lighter, but of finer quality
i That is what enables her to taste lard
in her neighbor's pastry.-Rockland
+ Courier.
A badly-in-love Pittsburg young
man was the recipient of such con-
y temptuous smile from his adored one
the other evening that he shrank away,
feebly muttering "Thou art sneer and
yet so far. ."-PhiTa Times.
Contentment is the unfermented
wine of life, it feeds but does not ex-
e hilerate with that intense pleasure
whose crown is the pain of unstrung
nerves.
4 Morphine is becoming favorite poi
son with suicides. 1t is much more
If etiicacious than camphene or kero
# sene, but it isn't so elevating, so To
speak.
Old Mrs. Pinaphor hopes that NJ
more lives will be sacrificed in tn,
hunt for the North Pole until som,
persons 90 out there and ascertain
'e whether such pole really exists.
$. 1t is hoped that photographing sount
will yet be brought TO such perfection
III that writing will be superseded, au'
prepared paper will receive the impres
D. of spoken words.
- An Indian named "Man- Afraid nc
thing" married white woman in Mon
tana recently, aud in one week afte
the wedding applied to his tribe t
have his name changed.
Four hundred thousand bushels {
ny wheat were posted at the New Yor
uy Produce Exchange one day recent,
~ as unsound, The Inspector reported
al as wormy and weevily, 1t caused gres
ey excitement in the market.
ne.
;,h "Ah old man, how are you comm
" | on - said ona youpu man IN anotb,