The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-16
ODD ITEMS.

1866.
Blaine is the name Of new county
in the State of Nebraska.
Nine hundred and fifty-fvc farms in
Iowa are owned by women.
Hrrtford has l3-year. girl who
tips the beam at POS pounds.
A brand new kind of asparagus is
horticultural triumph in Boston.
Cold worth SS),sOO,OOo was dug
from Uncle Sans rich soil in 1884.
At Yakutsk. Siberia, the earth is al
ways frozen to a depth of over fifty
feet
IT. Montreal they talk of annexation
as though it were a thing of next
week
California is selling grapes by tho
wagon load at less than the cost of hay
wood. ....... .......
Seasickness caused the death of
yachtsman off the English coast re-
Gently.
In Boston the richest lawyer is Sgd
ney Bartlett, set down rs worth S12,-
100000.
San Diego, Cal, is to have water
works system at cost of some
SS00,00O.
1t is queer, but nevertheless true, that
toaSts are never intoxicated, though
they're always drunk.
A Voodoo woman in North Carolina
actually frightened four negroes to
death by putting the "evil eye" on
them.
'The custom of COMPRISING the
foreheads Of infants is fast dying OUT
writes corresl ondent among the Flat
heads.
The school teachers of the United
States draw wages tn the amount of
S6O,OOO,OO0 yearly - an average of
S400 each,
The skull of Douglass, the Ute In.
dian war chief, is used as a paper
weight by the editor of the Glen wood
(Col.) Echo. ,
A Cincinnati husband who threat.
ened to cut his wife's heart out and
carry it around on shingle got off
with fine of S5.
The number of immigrants landed
at Castle Garden so far this year is
25,0n0 less than during the correspond
ing period of 1884.
Near Canton City, Ore, the other
day, lightning melted an umbrella car
ried by a gentlemen without iniuring
the latter in the least.
A hindoo loom, complete, C costs about
sixty eight cents, and weaves shawls,
silks and muslins which our most ex-
pensive can hardly equal.
A fine ledge Of genuine marble has
been found in the Wallowa valley,
Oregon. The ledge is said to he from
ten to fifty rods in width.
A Cincinnati man has invented a
powder, which, sprinkled upon small
oysters, will cause them to swell up into
large and juicy bivalves.
A sweet potato weighing 274 poun DIS
and squash of 1861 pounds are
among the latest productions of San
Diego county, California.
The retail liquor license in Fulton
county, Ga, except in Atlanta, has
been increased to $4,000, Just five
times as much az heretofore.
The Car eats only one meal day,
and he doesn't eat that until it has
been examined under powerful mi
croscope and tried by the cat.
Bones of some gigantic animals
have been found lately in Colorado.
One tusk belonged to a monster a
quarter as large again as Jumbo.
E,cry stranger in Sulpher ell,Ky,
is taken TO see the curiosity there in
thu S!aI"' of healthy baby 0 months
old and weighing only 4 pounds.
IF ague or insanity is latent in a
person it will almost always develop
itself at sea. So DIR. Fourness. Brice
concludes, after studying the SUBJECT.
An English railway guard recently
refused promotion, and it was elected
that his tips amounted to about $500
per annum over and above his wages.
A consideration of the highest i'm
portance in artificial illumination is
that rooms should be lighted only by
means of indirect rays or dilfuse d
| light
The people of San Lnis Potosi, Mex
leo, make war on the grasshoppers by
shooting fireworks off. The method
succeeds admirably in driving off the
pests.
lie wished to impress feeling fol
neatness upon his olive branches, AMI
pointing to the surf, observed to them;
"You will perceive that even the sea is
tidey."
Europeans find the heat of Algeria
great obstacle to agricultural work,
and, to avoid much of il, they propose
making haryests at night by aid oi
electric light.
The total number of Towering
plants now known in British North
America may be estimated at abou,
! 5000 species against 10000 in the
United States.
The farmer is the most Independent
man in the world. If you don't be