The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-09-04
Gleanings.

work.
New York is the wealthiest state in
the Union; Pennsylvania comes next,
followed by Illinois, third
The young volcano discovered about
one year ago ten miles south of Santa
Maria, Cal, is still burning.
Walt Whitman expects to issue a
new volume Of poems the coming year,
under the title of "Sands ut Sixty sew.
en-"
A piece of platinum wire only .O0075
of an inch in thickness was lately ex-
hibited by the Royal Society of Lon
don.
In the height of the season 800
bushels day of huckleberries are ship
ped from the little Erie railway station,
Shohola, N. Y.
1t is not generally known that Wash.
ington was the inventor of a plow
which was considered a marval of in
genuity at the time.
More than 100000 Germans have
immigrated to this country during the
last sixty years. Of this number L.
100000 have immigrated during the
last decade.
The exhibit made by California at
the New Orleans Fair has induced a
good many people TO go to that state
and looked around for homes, while il
has prompted thousands of others to
make inquiries.
Nilsson recently astonished Paris
audience by appearing in silks of the
Swedish national colpr-blue and vel.
low-"while on her neck, from shoul.
der to shoulder, blazed Swedish, Span.
ish, Australia, and Russian orders sci
in diamonds.
The first grist mill run by water
power in the Canadian Northwest
stood on the Seine river at St. Boni-
face, Man., and was built in 1850 by
Louis Riel, father of the rebel leader.
He ran a channel nine miles long from
Grass creek into the Seine river to in.
crease his water power.
Some persons think that Queen Vic
toria would lose her crown if she should
marry again. This is a mistake. There
is no law OF the British realm prevent
ing the sovereign from marrying as Of
ten as he or she pleases. Henry VIII.
was married five timps.
A pretty Scotch girl in Lewiston,
Me-, joined the salvation army, and
was 30 imbued with the spirit OF sacri.
flee and humility that she gave away
all her personal property, including her
jewelry, and all her clothing but the
cheapest. She has now come to her
senses, but she can not get her goods
back.
ANorthern visitor illustrating South.
ern life from experience in Memphis,
Tenn, says that the refrigerator, dear
to Northern hearts as the basis OF sup.
plies, is not used through the south
commonly. The maid goes to market
and buys just enough for the meal, and
the character of the purchases does
not usually please the Northern taste.
A mound builders idol was found on
a farm east of Tifiin, Ohio, one day
last week. 1t is in the form of the
rude resemblance of some animal,
about four inches in length, made of q
-colored, fine-grained stone, and
very highly polished. No one knows
how many thousands of years ago the
little image may have been worshiped
by some devout native.
The ten finest buildings in this coun-
try, according to the majority vote
given in the Boston American Archi-
tect, are Trinity Church, Boston; the
Capitol at Washington; w. X. Van
derbilt's house, Trinity Church, and
the Jefferson Market Court House,
New York; the City Hall, Hartford ;
City Hall and State Capitol, Albany ;
Sever Hall, Cambridge, Mass, and
Town Hall, North Easton, Mass.
The transition from the arm chair to
the easy-char was not made all at
once. When men and women wanted
real repose they formerly found it in
dlvans, couches, sofas, and what in
Shakspeare's time were somewhat re
proachfully called "day beds" A
loose cushion was made for wooden
chairs, and it was sometimes placed
upon at other times underneath, a rich
ly embroidered cloth or animals skin.
The virtues of the hardy mountain.
eers of Switzerland are being sapped
by drink. In the matter Of brandy
alone the population-which, all told,
including women and children, num-
bers but $500, ,000-consume 27,OOO,.
900 litres per annum, a litre being
pretty well equivalent to an ordinary
wine bottle. This is an average Of
thirty bottles of brandy to each adult
male. Large quantities of wine and
beer are also consumed.
A man in Brooklyn dropped his
watch into his pocket, when he was
startled by hearing an explosion, which
was followed by many others in rapid
succession. Before he could remove
his clothing 1t had been burned through
to the flesh and a terrible wound in.
Aictcd- The hand in which he held
the watch was also severely burned.
An examination proved the explosion
TO have been caused by chlorate of
potash tablets, which he was in the
habit of carrying loose in his pocket,
and which were ignited by tho watch
being dropped quickly upon them.