The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-03-13
ODD ITEMS.

Liverpool has larger fleet of ner-
chant ships than any port in the
world.
Nearly all the winter resort hotels in
Florida are conducted by Northern
men.
Seventy.6ve newspapers have started
and died in New York city in thirty
years.
The total number of cigars produced
in the United States is 3,OO0,O0O,O00
annually.
In Ohio the standard light of
bushel of ear corn ,s 6S instead of 70
pounds as formerly.
The Maryland Representatives in
Congress reside at home, going in and
out daily.
Seven churches We're destroyed in
the city OF Antiqnera, Spain, by re-
cent earthquake.
1t is estimated that about fifteen
| thousand persons are out OF employ
ment in ST. Louis alone
|
The Spanish treat, will be greatly
modified and chiefly in behalf of our
tobacco interests.
Twenty years ago the Danes i'm
ported nearly all their sugar. Now
they raise il from beets.
There are twenty-five retired rear
admirals living in Washington and
| only two commodores.
A monument made of cement. has
just been built on the spot in Hawaii
where Captain Cook fell.
A society fcr the eradication ot pro-
family is the latest moral reform move
ment in New York.
1t il said that no town having pop
ulation of 5000 or more is now with
out roller skating rink.
Harper's Magazine is sold for eigh
teen cents and the Century at tweDty-
five cents in London.
About 1000 Scotch people are max ..
ing arrangements TO form colony in
Los Angeles county, Cal.
Among the curiosties collected by
the Alaska Fur Company is salmon
which in life weighed 1870 pounds.
Policemen who serve on the New
York police force for twenty years are
retired on pension of 5000 year.
1t is estimated that the average
daily consumption of eggs throughout
the United States amounts to 45.OOO,-
600.
The work of enlarging the Dismal
Swamp Canal in Virginia so as to
make it veritable ship canal will soon
begin.
The greater portion of the wheat
crop in California is stored, and will
not be sent to market until prices grow
better
A London paper says that dramat-
ic critic should have no friends connect
ed with the drama, live like hermit,
and pay for his stalls.
The Texas pecans bring 1925 a
bnshel. One farmer picked 70 bushels
from piece of land, on which he also
raised good corn crop
Upon good authority it is stated that
children who are very successful on the
stage rarely become good actors or ac-
tresses as they grow up.
The light OF an electric.lamp travels
at the rate OF 1875 miles a second {;
that of the sun lS6 500, and that of a
petroleum lamp 1S6,7OO.
Rev. D.. Furness, of Philadelphia,
recently married bride, for whose
mother and grandmother he had per-
formed the same ceremony.
London is now one of the quietest
cities in the world in consequence of
the prevalence of wood or asphalt pave
ment in all the chief tborous shfares.
A fte-insurance man calculates tina,
in 1888 there will be living l,233 sur
vivors of the war of the rebellion.
Nearly 10000 square miles of Uni
ted States territory are now owned by
foreign syndicates and capitalists.
a orgia newspaper is adorned
with the picture of the editor carrying
an immense pistol in each hand, a dag.
ger in his mouth and two dnggers and
sword in his belt