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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24

Soon after Mr.. Jefferson completed the
Notes ON Virgins" he was sent abroad on
diplomatic service. The years that he
spent as American Minister at the
French Court were busy years in many
ways, but his official duties were OF such
character that he had more time than
ever before for the prosecution of scien-
tific study and investigation. He was
now introduced into a society where the
work of scientist was looked upon
with much warmer sympathy than was
common in America, and he lost no
opportunity of making the personal
acquaintance of the ablest men in the
various branches in which he was
interested. Among them was Button.
The presentation of a copy of the Notes
on Virginia had failed to convince him
that animals do not degenerate in
America. In fact. Jefferson found
very general disposition in Paris circles
to look contemptuously on everything
in the New World except political free
dom; the Able Raynal went even so far
as to assert that the Caucasian had
deteriorated in mind and body when
transplanted to American soil How
wittily DR.. Franklin answered this
charge, at one of his dinner parties at
Passy, is known to every reader Of
Franklin's or Jefferson's biographies.
That such opinions of American animal
1tfa cho,l1 cft11 ha hall T. la. D..
love of semitic truth, and perhaps even
more, his love of country, would not
permit. Steps We're at once taken to
secure a practical illustration of the
falsity of the French view He wrote
to several friends in different parts of
America-more especially President
Sullivan, of New Hampshire request
ing them to send him the bones and
skin OF the largest moose obtainable the
horns OF the caribou, elk, deer, spike
horned buck, and other large animals
which by their size might give ocular
proof of the point he wished to estab-
lish. After many vicissitudes the moose
reached Paris in safety, but was accom-
panied by such bill of expense as made
Jefferson think, for q moment, that
scientific controversy was indeed a very
costly recreation. However he felt
amply repaid when Bnffon, after an
examination of the specimens and con.
sideration of other demonstrated facts,
receded from his former position and
said to Mr.. Jefferson, in his stately way
II should have consulted you, sir, be-
fore publishing my Natural History
and then should have been sure OF my
facts" In "a similar way he obtained
and added to the Royal Cabinet of
Natural History many other American
specimens with which he had found the
men of science unacauainted
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24

The bed of dweller in East India is
spread upon the floor, and for pillow
is. used sort of blanket, which is
utilized at the same time for containing
the valuables of the house. The cover
ing for the sleeper is made of cotton,
woven by hand. There are no chairs,
and the occupants sit on the floor with
crossed legs, or in a reclining posture
with one leg over the other. There are
no musical instruments, no notes, no
set music The East Indians lie down
without undressing, and on rising roll
mp the bed and stow it away. Their
principal food is rice, which those who
are at the table eat with the same spoon.
There are no puddings, no desserts and
whoever is the last TO rise from the
table is compelled to wash the dishes.
Woman has scarcely any place in society,
literature or art. Man is the master,
and rules. The language is simple,
consists of twenty-five letters for an
alphabet, and can be learned in a year
and half by one associating with the
nannla
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THE AFRICAN INLAND srA.


A party Of French engineers ant
photographers has left for Tunis
charged with making the necessary
studies on the spot for the construction
Of the harbor in the Bay of Nabes, al
the mouth Of the Oued Mallah, in
connection with the canal which is tc
establish navigable communication
between the Mediterranean and the
Chotts. It will be remembered that, in
the early spring Of 1888 NJ. de Lesseps
made a trip to those great marsh lakes
in Southern Tunis, which it is the in
tention to convert into vast inland
sea, with the view Of testing the results
OF the late Col. Roudaire's survey, and
that he has came back convinced that
the scheme was practicable The ex-
pedition which h as now started will
also make Investigations as TO the
feasibility Of sinking artesian wells
along the route, and survey for o
railway which it might hereafter be
thought necessary to construct. The
head of the expedition is Commandant
Landas, professor of topography at the
school of Saint Cyr. He is accompanied
by M. Bar onnet, who assisted Col.
Roudaire in making the preliminary
surveys, and several others engineers.
1t may be advisable to recall to mind
the chief features of the report on the
undertaking which M de Lesseps pub
lished after his return from Tunis in
1888 1t states that the estuary of the
Oued Mellah, which is to be the begin
ming of the canal leading to the Chotts
to be inundant, offers part, covered
at high water, of sufficient breadth
which might easily be excavated, and
would form a port sheltered by nature
from all the winds from northwest to
such passing by the west. The winds
from northeast to south passing by the
east would not be dangerous to the
breakwaters The roads in front of the
entrance are, moreover, in exactly the
same situation as those of Gabes. The
navigation in the canal, according to
the report, would offer no difficulty, as
the canal would form almost straight
line. The calcareous rocks found by
Col Roudaire's soundings in 1879 at the
base Of the Gabes bar. but of COM
paratively unimportant extent are an
advantage rather than an inconvenience
at the mouth of the canal. They will
furnish the requisite material for the
construction of the pier and port build
ings NJ. de Lesseps thinks that, con-
sidering the nature Of the soil traversed,
it will be sufficient to cut, in the alluvial
part, canal. on the average so to 100
feet wide, which will be further widened
by the action of the current. This
cutting could be executed in the maxi
mum periodof five years, at an estimated
cost of e6,OOO,0OO The proposed in
land sea would be fifteen times as large
as the lake Of Geneva 1t has an
elevation much lower than the level of
the Mediterranean, the depression
being in some places as low as 1856 feet
below the level.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24
ANTIQUITY OF GLASS.

The Oldest specimen of pure glass
bearing anything like date is a little
nodded lions head, bearing the name
of Al Egyptian King of the eleventh
dynasty, in the Slade collection at the
British Museum. That is to say, at the
period which may be moderately placed
at more than 1000 years b. c.. glass
was not only made, but made with a
skill which shows that the art was
nothing new even at that time.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24
Woman's Suffering and Relief.

1hose languid tiresome sensations, causing you
10 feel scarcely able IT, be on your feet, tn con-
stant drain that is taking from your system all its
FORMER elasticity, irving the bloom from your
cheeks; that continual strain upon your vital
forces, rendering you irritable and fretful, can
easily be removed by the use of that marvellous
remedy, Hop Bitters. Irregularities and obstruc-
lions OF your system are relieved at once while the
special cause OF periodical pain are permanently
removed. None receive 30 much benent, and none
are so profoundly grateful, and show such an In
terest In recommending Hop Bitters as women.
POSTAL CARD STORY.
was affected with kidney and urinary
Trouble
"For twelve years !"
Alter trying all the doctors and patent
medicines l could hear Of, used two bot
Ties of Hop
"Bitters !"
And am perfectly cured. keep it
IAN the time !" respectfully, b. f.
Booth, salisbury, Tenn. May 4, 1888
BRADFORD, Pa, May s. 1878.
II has cured me OF several diseases, such as ner.
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ince l took Hop Bitters. All my neighbors use
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5000 LOST.
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also cured my wife OF ffteen years nervous
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X M, Auburn N Y.
So. bLooAIsGyIILB, o., May 1, 70.
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The Parents, Rochester, N. Y.
~ None genuine without bunch OF green
Hops on the white label Shun all the Vile pot
sonolis stun with "Hopn or "Hops' In their maine.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24

speaking lately in favor of cremation
in infectious cases, Sir Spencer Wells
mentioned that an epidemic of scarlet
fever had been caused in a country
town by the opening of the graves OF
persons who died with the disease
thirty years previously, the germs of
infection having retained their vitality
for nearly third OF century.
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$500, 900 A YEAR.
STATEMENT OF THE AMERICAN, NATIONAL
AND uNIhD STATES AND CANADA
EXPRESS COMPANIES
THOY. NJ Y -

The strength Of Rome lay not in her multitude.
nor IN her grain laden fleets These were elements
oi her strength, but her falling resource lay
IN tle self-control and discipline OF Roman soldiers
lsclpline-lt Is the very soul to all the wonderful
neaning possessed by the word veteran MIR
benedlcl, nf Troy, Is veteran In the press bus.
mess "Ihirty.three years. he said to your repor.
ter, ''Ive SO at this desk" II Is the discipline
oi years OF experience which gives him the posi-
lOn ne h0lds ~ the trust and esteem OF these three
great corporations. 1--WE have business OF $780,
900 year, and have been absent from this ONCE
hardly month all that time, although must
confess tha many times worked here VIII n suf-
iering gre pain, for have been troubled all NV
ilIe Win blliousness and dyspepsia. My system
nad become so reduced and weak that had no np-
petlte, and and my digestion wholly disordered
I've tried various remedies but almost two wears
ago ago happened to hit upon Dr. Kenn dys FAVOR
lie REMEDY. After using only one bottle or so
began TO feel stronger In every way. TIE gre
dll1culty has been with my digestion, but this
seems TO regulate II perfec ~. / have sir great
iaith In DR.. Kennedy's FAvORITE X MEDY. /
nave bought and given great deal OF IL to the
poor around here those, you know who have no
money TO buy medicine of any kind for there are n
great many troubled with bilious diseases and sui
Ier on without aid | always keen FAVORITE
kennedy In the house. consider It the bes med
lclne Tor the blood In the market. Well I must
attend to this after for the western part of the
Guy say, you tell the Doctor am coming down
20 Rondout TO see him In August. want 10 know
MN" lelt TIE veteran still at his post reioc-
ing In health and grateful to DR.. Kennedy.
Mar gel mo
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24
WANTED IMMF FDIATELY !

FEW GOOD MEN TO canvass for the sale OF
Fruit and Ornamental Trees, shrubs, Vines, Roses,
6c. No Experience Required. Liberal Wages.
Address II. J. BowDEN q CO., Brighton, n. Y.
apr 17.4w 4
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NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.

The annual meeting OF the stockholders OF the
North West Branch Railway Company Is called
for Tuesday, April 2S 1885 at II O'Clock a. m, at
233 South Fourth street, Philadelphia.
Election for President and Directors same day
and place ALBERT HEWsON
Aprl7 Secretary
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24

Be courteous with all, but intimate
with few and let those few be well
tried before you give them your conf
dence
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24
Read and Save Money,
Now is the time to Build.

l keep a full stock Of the
above kinds of Lumber always
on hand, and will sell at these
prices during year Of 1885.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24

None genuine without a bunch OF green
Hops on the white label Shun ali the Vile poi-
sonous stun with "Hop" or ''Hopsp In their maine.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24

In effect April Gth 1885. Trains leave sur
bury.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24

Notice is hereby given to all legatees, creditors,
and other persons Interested In the estates OF the
respective decedents a minors that the fol-
lowing administ alton and guardian accounts
have been fled In the office OF the Register of COL
umbia county, and will be presented for coniirma-
tion and allowance In the Orphans Court TO be
held In Bloomsbury on Monday, May 4th 1885,
at O'Clock p. IN. on said day
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W. +, IIALSTEAD, supt.
superlntendent's onIce. Scranton, Feb. Ist, 1909
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Spurgeon's Popularity:

Mr.. Spurgeon, the great London
preacher, will attain his jubileein June
next, having been born at Kelvedon,
Essex, on June 10, 1884. He was set.
tied at Waterbeach when only IT, an0
i'll London, oven the church now meet.
ing in the Metropolitan tabernacle, q,
the early age of 10. Ills jubilee has
already begun to excite considerable
interest. 1t is an event in which most
of the Nonconformist churches are likely
in some way to take some part in com.
memorating. The silver wedding Of
his passionate was celebrated a year OF
two since by the collection of &C, 900,
which was presented to Mr.. Spurgeon,
and which he forthwith handed owe,
for the benefit of institutions connected
with his Ministerial work. A second
fund, in recognition of his jubilee, is
nowin contemplation, through the exac,
object toward which it will be devoted is
not yet announced. A building, to be
called Jubilee House," has just been
commenced at the rearof the tabernacle.
It is to form a residence for the chapel
keeper, and a suite of offices for the
church officers. The church at present
under Mr.. Surgeons pastoral charg,
numbers $500 persons, and overtaxes
the sitting accommodations Of the
tabernacle.
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A Japanese Wedding.

AJapanese wedding must be q very
melancholy affair. In Japan it is not
good form for tile bride to admit that
she enjoys the prospect of getting mar
ried, and therefore when she is told
about it three or four days before the
event she is expected to set up !, loud
believing and keep it up day and night
as nearly as she can until the
comes on. After she has been richly
dressed for the occasion she is expected
to hang back and shrek and make q
show of resisting her attendants efforts
to lead her to the bridegroom. This hol-
low farce is kept up Icy one of the brides
maids finally throwing a veil over the
brides face, while an old bag takes her
on her back and carries her to a sedan
chair waiting at the door to take her to
the bridegroom's mansion. When she
arrives there she is a wife. the simple
ride in q flowery chair having the mys
tic power of Transforming her into o
married woman. From hat time for
ward she begins to brighten up, and in
a few days may be caught smiling. In
modern civilization this order of things
is simply reversed.
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A Satisfied Oregonian.
the Portland Oregonian.

From the Portland Oregonian.
Hon. A. j. Dufur and wife, who have
just returned from a visit to their old
home in Orange county, VT, after an
absence of thirty years, report having
had a very pleasant trip. They travel
ed extensively in Wisconsin and South.
ern illinois, but saw no place which
suited them as we'll rs Oregon. Mr..
Dufur gives rather a ~discouraging ac-
count of the agricultural prospects of
Vermont. He says that he thought he
was getting to be quite an old man till
he went back there and saw men Of
from so to 80 years toddling around
and running farms. The land is
worn out and the young men are
all "geing West" The old farm
ers there would not allow Mr.. Dufur to
give their boys any favorable account
of the West, saying that they were all
going off, and the land was passing into.
the hands of their hired help of foreign
birth. Some one said of Vermont q
long time ago, that ut was a good place
to emigrate FROM" and Mr.. Dufur ap.
pears to have thought SO thirty years
ago, and now thinks so more than ever
The farm that he sold for $1,000 has
since been sold for 81, 900, and would
not bring that amount now. In one
night passed in Wisconsin Mr.. Duff,
saws he heard more thunder and saw
more lightning than during his twenty
five 7"srs residence in Oregon.
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Franklin and Adams.

Some time during the revolutionary
period, or o little after, John Adams and
Benjamin Franklin were dispatched
from Philadelphia, I believe, to Mass
achusetts, on d public errand. Adams
had a mortal antipathy, shared by him
along with the majority of mankind at
that day, against the night air. He be-
lieved that if he kept his bedroom win
dow open even a crack at night he would
surely die. Franklin, on the other
hand, was a disbeliever in the theory of
danger in the night air, and he had
many arguments with Adams thereon.
Circumstances and the crowded con-
dition Of many of the taverns they
stopped at on their journey eastward
compelled them frequently to occupy
the same ROOM, and often the same bed.
Adams always opposed raising the win
dow, and poor Ben nearly suffocated
and reviled Adams on waking for his
wretched theory of the deadly effects o!
natures universal medium Of breath.
One night Ben slyly raised q window in
the alert for his friends little games,
insisted that it should be closed at once.
Said crafty Ben: "Now, Mr.. Adams
we'll go to bed with the window up, AND
I will show you why it will not be harm.
full to us to permit it to stay open. Il
1 cannot convince you of the reasonable.
ness OF my theory, 1 will myself get ur
and close the window" Adams weakly
consented and Ben began to reason
with him. Finally poor Adams was
talked to sleep, and Ben TRANQUILITY re-
signed himselfto slumber. Next morn
ing great was Adams horror at finding
the window, up, but not having died
through the night, and feeling no i'll eff
fects from having breathed the night
air, he became q convert to sly Benja-
MINIS night-air theory. The author of a
history of America during the colonial
| epoch told me this anecdote rs some
thing amusing, which had hitherto es-
/, capped tvpe.
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Story of Buffers Nerve,

By the way, speaking of duels reminds
me that Ben Butler, who is here now,
is descended in part from the old Cilley
stock, and was hence related to the
Donation Cilley who fell in the noted
Graves-Cilley duel. Butler would have
made a duelist himself had he been born
in a state and at q time when the code of
h%onorheld good. But ~bean-eating Massa-
chusetts never fights duels, and Buffers
nerve had to be expended in other ways.
A notable instance Of this occurred in
1856, when Ben Butler was a young
practitioner at Lowell. The Buchanan
campaign was in full progress and a
great meeting was being held in the
largest hall of the city. Rufus Choate,
the great lawyer, was addressing the
meeting and his %eloquence had thrown
them into the widest enthusiasm, when
o jar was felt and q crash WAS heard.
The cry went forth, '"The floor is sink
ing" Every one turned pale and the
audience rose for a stampede, when
Ben Butler came to the front
of the platform beside Mr.. Choate, and
calling the audience to halt, said there
was no danger; that the architect Of the
building was present and that he would
go with him and examine the building
and report to allay their fears. This
quieted the audience. Butler and the
architect made an immediate examine
ton of the hall and found the
danger very great. Butler at once re-
turned and smilingly assured the audi
ence there was no present danger, but
as the hall was overcrowded he advised
them to quietly adjourn to the public
square and there Mr.. Choate would fin
ish his speech. The crowd went quiet
ly out anu the catastrophe was averted.
As Butler stepped on the platform he
had whispered to Mr.. Choate with a
half laugh in order to deceive the audi
ence. "This what he said, ''Mr. Choato
l must clear this house or we shall all
be in hell in five minutes.
ton Letter"
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A Valuable Discovery.

A graduate of Yale College, DR.. Samuel K.
Cox, D. D., Practical and Analytical Chemist,
Washington, Z. G., makes the following off
clal statement: ITO the thousands whose sys-
tens instincuyely shrink from the use of Nor
phia and Opium, and especially to mothers, who
justly dread the evil, and at times, fatal effects
Of these dangerous drugs, the Red Star Cough
Cure must provo a boon. 1t is not only entire
ly free from all opiates, poisons. and emetlcs
Ia thing which hot one cough preparation in ten
can boast, but it is altogether an original and
most happy combination of the best remedial
agents. and Is as harmless as it is effective. ]
base This assertion on careful analyses and nu-
merous practical tests-the latter in every case
resulting in a speedy cnre."
The Charles A. vogeler Company, Baltimore,
Maryland, are the Sole Owners and Manufact-
urers of this valuable remedy. The Head of
baltimore Health Department, DR.. James A.
Steuart, one of the most eminent physicians in
America, says: ut supplants the objectiona-
BILE and harmful features of other cough mix
turcs."
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Herr Most,s Prescriptions.
he Philadelphia Press.

from tne fnllaQelpnla fress. I
About 100 men wearing red ribbon
streamers from q button-hole in their
coats, assembled at Dramatic hall, 9th
and Gaskill streets, on Sunday after
noon, and listened to a bloodthirsty
speech from Johann Most, the anarchist.
He eulogized Reinsdorf, now condem-
ned to death for the attempt to blow up
the Emperor Wilhelm and his royal
companions, and characterized his work
as a grand example of heroism. Inthis
connection he prescribes "a rope for
traitors, the knife for the police, poison
for the ministers, cold lead for the rich
and a bomb for princes" Herr Most
recommended that riots be started from
time to time in different places, as he
considered them very beneficial, and
said that dynamite was a very good
weapon with which to meet the militia.
He further gave a recipe for an Indian
poison by which the militia could be de-
stroyed at long or short range. Petro-
leum was considered a good thing to be
used in firing the houses of landlords.
The mar of blood concluded with the
prediction that it would be but . short
time before the red flag would wave
from the tower of Independence hall.