The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-09-18
ODD ITEMS.
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| Jay Gould did not participate in the
New York labor parade
| Twenty State municipal offices in
Boston are held by newspaper men.
The site of the city of Boston was
sold in 1865 by John Black for $50.
Sixty five melons brought recently
into Fresno CAL, weighed nearly two
tons.
| The guard of soldiers at Grants
tomb will be continued until January
!, 1885,. g.a W .-..'Hn
| The fresh oyster and the fresh
roller skater will begin to go down
this month. - .......
A rash man is liable to break out
any moment no matter how he may
feel about it.
The iceman's lot is not so very hard
after all He has his chops very early
in the morning.
A white ground dinner set, with sim
pie gold vines and Autumn-tinted
leaves is a novelty.
|. Very popular novel (among the Of
fee hunters just at present)-"Put
Yourself in his place.
Persons who interview Louis Riel
say he docs all the talking, and it is
hard to edge in a word.
Postage stamps are used commonly
as currency in parts of Oregon, owing
to scarcity of copper cents.
Oregon has just had completed a
memorial stone for the Washington
monument at cost of $4,000. ..u
Humming birds are reported to be
very numerous at the foot of the
mountains west of Edmonton, Ky.
Jay Gould has become so much af-
fected by his peculiar mania that he
even waters the flowers in his garden.
The cows at Key West go about
labeled with the names of the persons
for whom their milk is exclusively
kept.
Sixteen million cows, five million
horses and one hundred million sheep
Craze on the pampas of the Argentine
Republic.
The cheapest thing in life is COM
mon sense, but few people seem to
have a corner in it and are holding
Tor rlse' .nls lsl.U . .W..... .s.
[ A man who had stall in Cincin-
natl market lost both legs in the
army. What a splendid cashier he
would make.
Of the newspapers of the world
nearly one-half in number and two
thirds in point of circulation are
printed in English
| A woman can't be a good bank
cashier unless she is quick at figures,
but almost any woman makes good
teller. If this be chestnut make the
most of it.
A woman in Logan county, Ken
thcky, takes her rest in patches of
three days and nights sleep at time,
and then keeps awake for like Pc
riod. ,She is 80 years old.
/ The inhabitants of Burmah worship
idols made of brass. How thny would
get down on their knees if only an
American commercial traveller were to
get around that way.
| Colorado has $4,000 head of cattle,
valued at S22,0OO,OOO Only one
State west of the Mississippi has a
larger showing = Texas, which has
100000, valued at S92,OO0,OOO.
| Patent medicines are not an Ameri.
can notion, as one might suppose, but
an English idea Few fortunes are
made in the business. although one
concern clears $6OO,OOO annually.
The estimate that all the people liv-
ing in the world, about 1,400,OOO,OOO
could be comfortably seated in field
twenty miles square suggests fascinat-
ing possibilities of big audiences.
| It is asserted that crows have twen-
ty-six distinct cries, calls or utterances,
each readily distinguishable from the
others, and each having an unmistak-
| able connection with certain class of
action. Is, @
From 1881 to May 1884, inclusive,
the French Government has expende d
on the purchase of pictures and soulp-
lures by living artists 12, ,7O0,4 413 francs,
averaging more than 100000 francs
| per annum. vs.. f... .I
Careful estimates place the number
of deaf mutes at 100000. There are
397 institutions iD the world for their
education, of which Germany has 90,
France 67, Great Britain 46 and the
United States 3S.
A cane containing l,060 different
pieces of wood, all eemented upon a
musket ramrod found on a Southern
battlefield, and nicely polished, has
Just been finished by physician OF
Murfreesburg, Tenn
An Essex (Vt.) man recently paid
a debt it is said, of $4,000 with the
hard cash-all in silver--he had
boarded up. The box weighed $50
pounds, and the new owner stays
awake nights watching it.
The Portland (Me.) police have un-
earthed one of the most remarkable
liquor traps ever discovered since the
prohibitory law wont into force. A
lead pipe containing whiskey, and laid
| in cement, was followed 1873 feet over
a public way to the source of supply.
| Two illiterate beggars were seen the
other day near the Pare Monceau,
Paris, wearing on their necks two in,
scriptions. Upon the blind man
"Fell from the fifth storyw Upon
the cripple-"A woman's vengeance y
The .placards had been exchanged.
] The Hebrew new year commenced
| Wednesday evening of last week at
lsunset II is numbered 5,646 from
the creation. The day is one of the
most solemn in the Jewish calendar,
occupying place second only to the
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