The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-07-03
ODD ITEMS.

DaskcI WOrk laDleS are VTetty loI
Summer houses.
"Thc FIRST love that enters the heart
is the last to leave the memory
Washington expects to have a real
old.style fireworks Fourth of July.
Roscoe Conkling's law practice is
worth $4,000 year.
A Chicago preacher says the crimi-
nal lawyer is fit only to be his own
client.
There are said to be about a thou
sand bicycles in constant use in Wash
ington. ...
Warmers statue of William Lloyd
Garrison is nearly ready for unveilng
at Boston.
A l2-year-old girl at Fontanelle,
Nebraska, gave birth to child q few
days ago.
There are seven hundred Chinese
scholars in twenty.nineNew York Sun
day schools.
Senator Cockrcll, of Missouri, weighs
2O9 pounds, and Governor Marmaduke
176 pounds.
The United States are said TO con-
sumo more lemons than all other coun-
tries combined.
Love, whom it visits old men, is
like sunshine upon snow; it is more daz-
zling than warming"
In Union county, Dakota, about fifty
bachelors have combined TO secure
wives from New England.
A man named Pepper is suing for a
divorce in Detroit Court. Eis mar
ried life was too spicy for him,-
Gold turtles are the latest golden
fancy for hat and bonnet ornamental.
ton.
Victor Hugo always used quill pens
which he made and mended himself.
There is a steady tendency to re-
turn to the styles of dress of fifty years
ago.
A Mormon clderrecently held fam.
lily reunion. He died of lockjaw next
day.
Four dollars a week is the amount
earned by good mechanic in Hol
land.
Judge Foraker has, it is said, law
practice worth from S25, 900 to $50, ,O0C
year.
Protective incubation against yel
low fever is being tried extensively in
the Mexican army.
"What's in a name?" asked an ex-
change. Just call some larger man O
liar and you will find out.
"What is the deepest well in the
world?' asks a subscriber. The well
that truth is at the bottom of.
An exchange asks, "How shall 9
man be good-natured on house cleaning
day?' BY going a-fishing.
Hamlet was undoubtedly a base ball
player. He caught the conscience OF
the king by some very good playing.
1t is said that since the lands in Yer.
mont have been thoroughly drained
consumption has very much decreas
ed.
You have no idea of the number
of snakes annually killed by the NOW
ing machine, says an agricultural jour
nal.
Patti gets only S25OO night fol-
singing in England. Nicolini can af
ford to play billiards only when he is
in New York.
Illinois spent S4O,OOO,OOO for liquors
in 1884. That is n good deal of mon
ey when one considers the quality ol
the liquor.
Chickens near Paris are dying Of
consumption, which they are said tc
have caught from man who cared
for them.
There are several Bibles in the worlC
over 500 years old. There are very
few books that can be kept as long a.
Bibles.
The little drawn muslin hats, whicl
were formerly only worn by children
will be worn by ladies as garden hat
this season.
Monroe II. Corbin, census takcr il
Webster, Mass, has found one woman
40 years old, who is the mother o
nineteen children.
A man at Millbank has a chicken
with head at each end, ,one white an,
the other black, but no tail. 1t is at
trbuted to the climate.
1t was the summer concert cat VIII,
remarked: 'It | can sing the midnigh
songs for the people,I do not care wh'
gets the applause"
We would suggest tina. good nam
for rainy day race horse would b.
"Striped Stockings because they rul
so when damp ened.
The fools are not all dead yet. Tire
couples are waiting for the Barhold
statue to be set up to get married in
the torch gallery.