The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-03-06

convicted oil beating MS Wl1e.
Many physicians assert that the Sc
cret of long life after the three score
year and ten is to keep warm.
The United States Senate, after
March 4th, will have three gentlemen
named Jones, but not a single Smith.
Over 10000 residents of New York
city live at hotels, and there are l00,-
900 strangers in town every night.
A bill is before the Minnesota Legis-
lature requiring man to take out IL
cense before he can drink anything
stronger than water.
"A Dubuque woman swore to the
purchase, ownership, aud personal use
for medicinal purposes only of q
forty gallon barrel of whisky.
A forged decd of 500 acres of land
was the present an East Saginaw man
made to his intended bride few days
before marriage.
On several trans. Atlantic ships tele-
phones are now used between the
bridge and the wheel-house, instead Of
speaking-tubes as heretofore.
The Bible mentions 620 places in
Palestine west of Jordan, and 430
have been identified, 1872 by the staff
of the Palestine exploration fund.
Ex-Governor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania,
tells that when he was in college La
fayette) he and his classmates got
board for eighty-seven cents week.
Horseshoes are now made in two
parts. One remains stationary upon
the horses hoofs, while the other is
changed whenever it is worn out.
OF the seventy-six United States sen.
ators thir,y-two are professors of rell-
gion, of whom sixteen are Presbyter.
ians.
An ice.yacht costs from $500 to 81,
900, with runners of steel or phosphol
bronze and elegant cushions in the
| "box."
James Emmitt, q rich old democrat
of Waverly, Ohio, owns y cannon, ant
every morning since the election ha
fired salute OF three guns.
While filing water tank in pas
senger car at Altoona, Pa, the othe
DAY, workmen found trout eigh
inches long.
A Clearfeld county Pa.) man cou
siderately boards at hotel in orde
that his wife can have time to attend
skating rink.
Within the past fortnight the Eng
lish sparrows have entirely disappears
from Concord, Mass, where they ha
existed in great numbers.
a sentence containing every letter j
the En- 4lish alphabet, and favorit
with writing teachers, is: "a quicl
brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
A tract of land on the ocean from
near Cape May point has been pur
chased by religious society OF Penr
sylvania as a site for a national camp
meeting.
1t is SAID that George w. Gable, tn
famous novelist, is very unpopula
with the creoles of New Orleans. TIL
creoles form the principal characters i
his works.
Rev. DR. Crosby, Anthony Comstoc
and Henry Bergh, backed by religion
influence and philanthropic wealti
have combined to exterminate the ba
picture papers.
Yellow Hawk, formerly Dakot
Indian chief, but now pastor of a sel
supporting Indian church, is making
good impression among church peopl
in Danbury, Conn.
3 There is scarcely farm in Bucl
county to-day, says the DoylestowI
Pa,) lnteltigencer, that would Sc
r for more than the improvements i
J buildings and fences would cost
! The Gainesville (Ga.) Press max,
g the following astounding announc
ment Numerous diamonds ha,
been found in our county of prince
value, and are in existence to-day, o
b. namenting the bosom or fingers
American people. We know of on
= picked up on our streets few weel
p since, for which the owner has been q
fered $4,000"
The American NdchiniSt gives II
number of locomotives belonging
J. American railroads at 29,227. Rec
8 oning the life of locomotive at tive
ty-fve years, there should be 1,l69
them constructed annually in order
maintain the stock A car wheel las
about eight years we are using II
100000 of them, and produce l,25(
900 yearly.
In Hamilton, Ga, according to t
. Journal of that place, there lives
. gentleman who finds that one speci
: of meat for other men is poison to hiI
lie cannot tolerate hens eggs. s.
sip of coffee settled with egg unsettl
his stomach and makes him sick. ~
presence of egg in anything he ca
nauseates him, and less than twentie
=. part of one egg has made him sick {
DAYS. To handle broken eggs bliste
his fingers, and to eat a single egg
thinks would kill him
" As a result of contest exteudin
5 ; over several years, the San Francis,
% Board of Education has decided tn
q the position of any female school teac
q er who marries becomes vacant. Anot
% er rule adopted by the Board aboli III
% corporal punishment in grammar HI
{ primary schools except by the prime
pal, and he is forbidden to chastise p
= pills on the same day that the offer
is committed. The rule also pr
, vides that no cruel or unusual punis
e meut be allowed, aud that there be /
= corDoral Dunlshment in HIGH or eyeniI