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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-30
Keeping Apples During the Winter.

A most important factor in the kee p.
ing qualities of apples-and one that
is frequently lost sight offs the con-
dilion of the fruit at the time of pick
ing. The more carefully fruit is handl-
ed the better it will keep the slightest
bruise or injury of any kind engenders
decay. ...-...
The best time for picking apples is
just before they are fully ripe; full ma
turity lessons their keeping quality 80
per cent. An apple that drops off the
tree by light touch is too ripe for
long keeping. 49,.
Il is one of natures immutabe laws
tnat fruit, as soon as it has become
fully matured, shall decay. This pro-
g'ess, although it may commence and
progress very slowly. i, sure to take
place it the fruit is left to natural con-
ditions, and every preserving method
aims to furnish means which shall
connlrract or protract this nat tural tend
cncy.
To accomplish this, expensive fruit
houses and other devices have been ia.
vented, the experience with all of
which goes to shpw that, other condi-
tions being equal, low temperature,
ranging from thirty degrees to thirty
six degrees, and never above forty de-
grees, is the primary and principal con
dition of success. Everything else is
of comparatively little Importance.
Whichever way such tempera-
ture can he provided most cheapy will
generally be found most suitable.
Extreme dryness of storage was for
merly considered of great Importance,
but later experience has proved the fal
lacy of this supposition, In fact, 1t has
been found that, if the temperature is
kept low enough, apples will keep bet
ter in damp than in dry atmos-
phere. We know of several instances
in which apples placed completely und
er water have kept in good condition
all winter and but few weeks ago we
have eaten apples that have stood und
er the drip OF an ice house for nearly a
year, and that were as fresh
and sound as when picked off the tree
last September, ......
Only when existing conditions do not
admit the lowering of the temperature
to the most desirable degree, dry stor-
age becomes more advantageous
Country Home.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-30
ODD ITEMS.
Nine monuments to Grant will bt
erected in this country, unless some Of
the present projects fail.

l
Nine monuments to Grant will be
erected in this country, unless some oi
the present projects fail.
The centre of population in this
country is rapidly moving westward
it being now little to the south OF
Cincinnati. ......
During last year there were posted
in England 26,OOO letters without any
address on them, and of these 1000
contained money.
A recent novelty in Partisan station
ary is termed "Pompeiia paper 1t is
curiously mottled AZ il with the damp
ness of eighteen centuri,s.
Daring the last year there were sent to
the Dead Letter Office 4,SlS,00O letters,
and among their contents were over
) 100000 in cash and drafts.
AT Live Oaks, Florida, an artesian
well is being sunk, but water has not
yet been found, though the drill has
penetrated over one thousand feet.
Boston has just appropriated five
thosand dollars towards statue of
William Lloyd Garrison, yet fifty years
ago he was mobbcd in that CITY and
barely escaped hanging.
Near the foot of Moosic Mountain,
some thirteen miles from Honesdale,
Wayne county, this State, copper ore
has been discovered, which yields
sixty.five per cent of the metal.
An exchange says that folded news
paper placed under the coat in the
snail of the back is an excellent sub
stltute for an overcoat. Now is the
time to subscribc.--EcansciUe Argus.
In rubber mandatory at South
Framingham, Mass, the employees have
lately been suffering from a peculiar
affection of the eyes supposed to be
caused by the naptha used in prepar-
ing the cloth.
The New York Morning Journal.
which on Friday assumed new and
handsome dress of type, opens its fall
campaign with regular circulation OF
over 100000, bving an increase of so
900 within the last eighteen months.
The country evidently has not a mo-
nopoly on patriotic politicians, witness
the following advertisement in a recent
London paper: advanced liberal con-
stituency required, paving expenses by
gentlemen devoting whole energies to
public good
In New Hampshire law has Just
gone into effect which inhicts fine of
S2O for the sale of cigarette to boy
or girl under sixteen years of age AT
Newark, n. j the public school au-
thorties have decreed that cigarette
smoking by pupils shall be punished by
expulsion.
The bill introduced in the Georgia
Legislature imposing tax on bache.
lors has been Withdrawn, and now ar
other bill has been submitted which
proposes a tax of 800 for every base
ball game played in the State. Real
legislative business must be scarce in
that section
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-30
AN AND DEMoCRAT BIooMsBURG CoLUMBA COUNTY. PA.
The Little Snakes.

A barelegged boy riding rake on
one of the divides near the Santa Fe
trail dragged into the windrow rattl-
er but instead Of coiling and giving
forth defiant buzz, the snake mani
tested every inclination to get off
peaceably. The average Kansas lad
would have taken strap from his har
ness, given the reptile two or three par
alyzing taps, counted the rattles, and
gone on his way before any one dis
covered the rake was idle. Not so did
Billy Woodward, who is only few
months from County Donegal and pos
sessed of the abundant natural curios
iiy of an Irish boy abroad He got
down from his high seat and began to
study natural history. The snake tried
to run away, but Billy "headed her off, "
as he said afterward. Once or twice
the fugitive coiled and threatened, to
the boys great delight. For fifteen
minutes the teasing went on, and then
the snake darted her head into hole
in the prairie sod. Perhaps third of
her length was concealed. while there
came from under ground a noise which
the boy said sounded like ga queer
kind of clucking.' BY the time he
had got trace chain loose the snake
was out of the hole and wriggling
slowly toward the uncut grass. Billy
followed her up, "fetched her couple
cracks and supposed the sport was
over
Later in the day party of hunters
came along and the boy exhibited his
trophy, and told what he had seen.
One of the hunters, ranchman OF va
ried experience, got out mis- pocket
knife, and with the remark that he
guessed he could show the others some
thing about rattlesnakes they never
knew before, stopped down and drew
the sharp blade across the thickest fold
of the dead snake. Out squirmed
eleven young rattlers, all of size, say
eight inches long and as large around
as lead pencil. They were very
lively family, and had to be LAID out
one at time. Billy's eyes grew big
as he saw the revelation which added
the best part to his snake story. The
ranchman said that when overtaken
with her young the maternal rattler
will, as last means of protection,
swallow the little ones She calls them
with a noise which il combination of
cluck and whistle. Very rarely does
it happen that the act is witnessed. In
all his experience the ranchman said
he had never seen this snake.swallow-
ing performance but once. Then he
had come upon the mother snake and
her young summing among the stones.
They had tried to get away, but, fail
ing, the young had glided into the
mouth of the old one in response to the
peculiar call, and had disappeared be.
fore his eyes.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-30
A New King on the Throne |!

"Malaria," as a popular ailment,"
has given place to a new potentate.
1T you have rheumatism now, the
medical wiseacres exclaim -" Uric
Acid y s..
II you have frequent headaches, they
sagely remark-"Uric Acid u
IL you have softening of the brain,
they insist that it is-"Uric Acid !"
If sciatica or neuralgia make life
miserable, it is--"Uric Acidl"
If your skin breaks out in boils and
pimples, it is-"Uric Acid y
1t you have assesses and piles,
"Urlc Acid" has set your blood on fire.
If you have dull, languid feelings,
backache, kidney or bladder troubles,
gout, gravel, poor blood; are i'll at ease,
threatened with paralysis or apoplexy,
vertigo; are bilious, dropsical, consti-
pated or dyspeptic-"Uric Acid is the
key to the situation, the cause of all
your difficulties
We do not know as madam malaria
will take kindly to this masculine
usurper, but he has evidently come to
stay.
"Uric Acid,"-this monster, is the
product of the decomposition--death
constantly taking place within us,
and unless he is every day routed from
the system, through the kidneys, by
means of some Great blood specific like
Warmers safe cure, which Senator B.
X. Bruce says snatched him from its
grasp, there is not the least doubt but
that it will utterly ruin the strongest
human constitution
1t is not young fellow by any
means. 1t has long and well known
line of ancestors. 1t is undoubtedly
the father of very great family of
diseases, and though it may be the
fashion to ascrbe progeny to it that
are not directly its own, there can be
little doubt that if it once gets thor
oughly seated in the human system, il
really does introduce into it most of
the ailments now, per force of fashion
attributed to its baleful influence.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-30
Beware of Smart Young Men.

Three panics have been caused by
three young men, two of whom were
less than thirty years of age; each was
the son of a minister, who had forgot.
ten the God of his father. One was a
banker, one was broker aud one
confidential clerk. Two died home
less and penniless, in self-exile and
one is now in Jail. At the age of %
he was a bank president The bank
was success. His personal specula-
tions brought him large returns. The
venerable directors encouraged him in
his career. He was esteemed won
der in the financial world; but his aged
father, the retired clergyman, trem-
bled for the future of his son. When
the young banker had accumulated
100000, he begged him to be content
and stop. But the son was sure
he could make a million. Temp
tations multiplied. Honesty was sus-
pended, the golden bubble burst, de-
lection followed, the young banker fled
from home and died a penniless stran.
ger in strange land. His life story,
with few circumstantial variations, is
the story of the confidential clerk.
The final story of the third is yet to
be told
Let us be wary of the smart youn g
man. How consummate are his per
sonal attractions. His address is
pleasant His imagination is his fac
ulty. He is most persuasive conver-
sationalist. Listen to him, and the
false seems true and the fiction real
Success attends his early ventures. He
is envied, petted, courted, feasted,
trusted. He handles millions.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-30
STONE IN KIDNEY.
EXPELLED AFTER USING DIR. DAVID KENNR.
DY'S "FAvoRITE REMEDY" ABOUT
TWO WEEKS.

one OF the most remarkable cases that has ever
been brought TO the notice Of the public is that OF
Mr.. j. s. Beach. OF stone Ridge, Ulster county, N.
Y. MIR. Beach had suffered since oct. IL, 1874 from
the presence OF calculus or stone in the right kid
ney. No less than seven physicians were EN-
ployed at different times to whom Mr. Beach paid
hunereds Of dollars for medical treatment with
only temporary relief from his agony.
by the urgent solicitations OF his friends he was
induced to try Or. David Kennedy's "Favorite
Remedy" and experienced marked Improvement
from the first day he began to use the medicine.
on the 18TH OF september he voided stone as
large as could be passed through the natural
channel.
Mr.. Beach concludes a long etterto to DR.. Dennedy
| by saying: at Will always AFFORD me pleasure to
recommend the 'Favorile Remedy to those who
may be suffering from difficulties OF the kidneys
and bladder, or any disorders arising from an i'm
ptre state OF the b,ood
| WILLIAM MCKNEW, t2i FAYETTE ST., BALTf-
| MORE, MD, says: ~ believe 'Favorlte Remedy Is
| good medicine. IL Is doing me more good than
| anything ever tried, and have tried almost ev-
| erything, for am a sufferer from dyspepsia. {"
| While "Favorlte Remedy Is specific In stomach
and bladder Diseases ltlsequally valuable In cases
| OF bilious disorders, constipation of the bowels
and oil the class OF Ills apparently inseperable
| from the constitutions OF women.
| Price 81; six bottles S.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-30
Special Delivery Problems.
WAsnNGToN, October %,

ASIIlNGToN, October 23.
The special delivery system so re
Gently inaugurated has not proved such
success as its originators expected of
it. Several problems have arisen which
puzzle the Department. In the first
place, the law authorizing the service
made no provision for its support in
cities where 1t did not support itself.
The Department found itself in many
cases powerless to carry out its own
advertised scheme. From many small
towns where the full delivery does not
obtain the reports come that nobody
could be found TO deliver the special
letters for the money there was in them.
As there were no regular carriers in
such towns no way out OF the difficulty
was found until it was suggested by an
Indiana postmaster that his assistant
in the office be allowed to deliver such
letters and collect the revenue there
from. The Postoftice Department
to-day has decided that where such
assistants were hired by the Postmaster
this might be done, but that no official
appointed by the government could be
allowed to add to his salary in this
way. Unless the Postmaster or his as
sistant will undertake to run about
town and deliver special letters in per-
son for nothing, there will be good
many officers where the blockade will
exist.
In the opinion of legal officers the
government is liable for any damage
which may arise from the non-deliyery
of letters prepaid at the special rates,
the same as telegraph company is liza
BILE for the non-delivery of dispatch.
The obligation on the part of the gov
ernment is stronger, owing to the fact
that it enters into a special contract for
the additional ten cents TO deliver the !
letter Immediately in certain specified
cities. The department understands
this and feels considerable embarrass-
ment tI .
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-30

j. Ii. Mercer wishes to make an
assertion, which he can back with a
positive guarantee. 1t is all about
Ackers Blood Elixir. He claims for
it superior merits over all other remed,
les of its kind, and guarantees for it a
positive and sure cure for rheumatism,
Syphilis, aud all blood disorders, il
frees the skin from spots and disease,
and leaves the complexion clear
Ask him about it. ...'......
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-30

THE ROYAL BAKER AND PASTRY
CooK.-A royal addition to the kitch-
en- library. 1t contains over seven
hundred receipts pertaining to the cul-
mary department, including baking,
roasting, preserving, soups, cakes, jel-
lies, pastry, and all kinds of sweet
meats, with receipts for the most de-
licious candies, cordials, beverages, and
all other necessary knowledge for the
chef de cuisine of the most exacting
epicure, as well az for the more modest
housewife, who desires to prepare for
her lord and master repast that shall
be both wholesome and economical
With each receipt is given full and ex-
plicit directions for putting together,
manipulating, shaping, baking, and
kind of utensils to be used, so that a
novice can go through the operation
with success; while special and i'm
portant feature is made of the mode of
preparing all kinds of food and deli
cacles for the sick. The book has been
prepared under the direction of Prof.
Rudmani, late chef of the New York
Cooking school, and is the most valua-
BILE of the recent editions upon the
subject of cookery that has come to
our notice. Iii is gotten up ir the high
est style of the printers art, on illumi-
mated covers, etc. We are assured
that every can of the "Royal Baking
Powder" contains an order for one of
these valuable books.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-30

J. H. Mercer wishes TO state that he
has at last found an article he can sell
on its merits. 1t is with pleasure he
guarantees to the public Acker's Eng
lish Remedy as a sure and never fail
ing cure for Asthma, Coughs, Whoop
ing Cough, Group, and all Lung Trou-
bles. 1t is the standard remedy for
Consumption. have never found its
eoual
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-30
AT Blunt, Dakota Territory, natural
gas has been found at depth of l42
foot

J.H. Mercer would especially recon-
mend to the ladies Acker's Dyspepsia
Tablets. As laxative they have no
equal. They are guaranteed to cure
Chronic Constipation, Dyspepsia, and
all diseases arising from deranged
stomach. With free use of the Tab.
let's, Sick Headache is impossible.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-30
:ennsylvania Railroad.
Philadelphia & Erie R. R. Divis
ion, and Northern Central
Railway.
rIME" fable.


In effect Aug. 3Oth 1885. Trains leave sun
bury. -
a40a. m. Sea Shore EXPRESS daily eycept
sunday, for Harrisburg and intermediate stations,
arriving at Philadelphia 3.l5 p. IN. New York
ss0p. M; ,dni, baltimore, ~ P: m Washington,
Shore points. Through passenger coach to
Philadelphia.
daily except sunday for Harrisburg and interme-
diate stations, arriving ut delphia
go p. m; New York, o.s5 P, m; Baltimore
through to Philadelphia and passenger coaches
through to Philadelphia and Baltimore.
for Harrisburg and all Intermediate stations, arrv
Ing at Philadelphia % u. m. New York 100 a. IN.
Baltimore, 5,55 =. M. Washington $50 a. IN.
Harrisburg for Philadelphia and New York. on sun
days a through sleeping car win be run; on this
train from Wilamspt to Philadelphia. Philadelphia
passengers can remain in sleeper undisturbed until
a. m. ..
arriving at Philadelphia s.25 a. III. New York,
Il.3O a. m Baltimore s. Is a. IN. Washington, 9.a5
q. IN. Through Pullman sleeping cars are ruin on
this train to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing
ton, and through passenger coaches TO Philadel-
phia and Baltimore.
WESTWARD.
b2Oa. m.-Erie Mail daily except Sunday, fol
Erie and all intermediate stations and Canandai-
qua and intermediate stations Rochester, Bun a
10 and Niagara Fails, with thu iough Pullman Pal-
ace cars and passenger coaches 10 Erie and Roch-
ester
Lock Haven and Intermediate stations.
1.05 p. m.-Nlagara Express daily except Sun
day for Kane and intermediate stations and Can
andaigua and principal intermediate stations,
Rochester, Buffalo and Niagara Fails with
through passenger coaches TO Kane and Rochester
and ParlGr car 70 Watkins
$50 D. M Fast Line daily except sunday)for Re-
noyo and Intermediate stations, ana Eimlra Wat
San nulF pDn Rl N IA
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-30

A Partisan manufacturer has produc.
ed paper piano, the compressed ma
teriai for the ease taking a perfect pol
ish. The tone of the instrument, though
not loud, is said to be very sweet, a
soft, full, quasi continuous sound, some
what resembling that of an organ.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-30

- W. F. IIALSTEAD, Supt.
Superlntendents onice, Scranton. Feb. lst.ls'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-08
nUNCANsoN BROS. Auctioneera
SUBURBAN PROPERTY. NEAR
GLENWOOD ROAD AND METROPOLITAN r. R.

sosSa asb a
sR or FFRR1 pa THE 5 ELEyEMIH H PA PAY oF
sss part e IF shisySTe !ss1 q he su6visien Of
Bsginnhng at stone in the center Of south avenue
bounding on the center of said avenue south
~ degrees west perches 70 the center ct spring
south y degrees east. 2s. perches thence SOUTH 20
Is perches 70 the road tSence on
railroad. enthusiastically, to intersect line drawn
81 s S nonh 20 ne
vest 81 perehes to the eesnnng containing IL acres,
en sale one saf IF money in
and the balance in two equal payments at six and
mum rom the day Of sale, or all the purchase money
may 5e paid IN cash deposit of 500 will be re,
with within ten days from day Of sale otherwise the
property will be sold at the risk and Of the
sale in some newspaper published in washington,
co o ya1cng. &c. q; cost Of purchaser;
HHANGERY SALE S.FWs HF FRAME Tns H2EsE IN
AND SIX TIL STREETS SOUTHWEST
II Equity cause So, $50, wherein Catherine :&
viii sell at pubic auction IN sons
ofths P5smlses % MONDAY FoURTEENTH DAY
NJ the following described real estate situate in the
city Of Washington District of Columbia to wit: All
known and distinguished as the eastern eleven III
feet and two 90 inches front by depth thereof Of
hundred 300 together With the nVe
Terms; One-half of the purchase money to be in
payments to be secured by deed Of trust on the prop
cry sold or al cash! at the COTTON ofthe purchaser
49, - '''| '''' - 'A BAiNBRiDGE II. WEBB.
DUNCANSON BROS, Aucts. au3l -d&ds
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FRENCH B0UCLE SUITINGS. BISON CLOTHS.
SCOTCH CHEVIO.IS. PARIS DRESS FABRICS.
LUPlN'S CASHMERES. SCOTCH CLAN PLAIDS
NOVELTIES N GENERATION SUITS, IN
BOXES. FROM $50 TO $50.
SUPERB STOCK OF LYONS SILKS, SATIN
DUCHESSE, FAILLE FRANCAISE, RIA
DANES AND BROCADfcS. IN BLACK AMI
AL IOLORS. FOR STREET. RECEPTION
LYONS PURE SILK VELVETS. FROM 90 TO 2s
INCHES WIDE, IN BLACK AND ALL THE
NEW COLORS. FOR FALL AND WINTER
RANGING FROM So To S. PER YARD.
NEEDING OUTFITS A SPECIALITY.
FRENCH BROADCLOTHS L ICOTS A n Z
TWILLED CLOTHS FOR LADIES HABITS
NEW IMPORTED JERSEYS AND MEDIu NJ
WEIGHT JACKETS AND WRAPS.
AMERICAN HOSIERY CO.'S MEDIUM AMI
HEAVY WEIGHT MERlNO UNDERWEAR
FOR LADIES GESTLEM EN- AND CHILDREN
GENUINE ENFIELD SHA EK FLANNELS.
NOVELTIES IN HANDkERCHIEFS AMI
NEW IRISH AND GERMAN TABLE LINENS
NAPKINS, TOWELS, CRASHES. &c.
BELGIAN BED LINENS, ALL WIDTHS AND
ALl.WooL Bi.ANK!rIS: MARSEILLES QUILTS
Madras ANTIQUE AND NOTTINGHAM LACE
CUKrAINS IN GREAT VARIETY.
81 PLAIN FIGURES AND CORRECT PRICES
SEATON PERRY.
Perry building.
Pennsylvania ave. cor. 9th St
Established 1S4O. se5
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ANOTHER RHPoRf FROM LfEUr. sroNKY,
Lieut. Stoney. commanding the Alaska expaor.
ing expedition, has made another report 20 the
Secretary q the Navy, announcing his arrival
In the steam launch Explorer at Hotham inlet,
and his intended immediate departure
for the headwarte1 OF the Putnam
river. Amer proceeding - mr. ~ pn.
able in the boats the party and the stores VIII
be landed with Paased Assistant Engineer
Zane In command 10 build winter anartsn.
Lieut. St0uey will return for the stores and
party 70 b len behind at H0eham inlet, with
Ensign Read In command. EnstGn Howard
Wall continue 70 ascend the Putnam river.
Lieut. Stoney recommends that his ~
lief expedition shouid reech Haitian
inlet not later than August 26th, 1855. and
says that u Il hes not aSfivel by that date he
VIII begin his retreat 10 B. 4ichaels. which he
will have no AifAcuIty In roachtng b eoot IL
q chartered vessel 10 ssnt Sor hta relief he asks
that an ofncsr Of the line be plaoed IN CON-
ignorant q navigation, and would probably be
unable to reach him. He recommends that En-
sign Purcell be given command, n bis health
Min permit, on account Of his familiarity with
Ing party were In good spirits and health.
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I'd EDITION,
--latest q6leglanS to The Star.


Orders - that Enect Said u u.ve
Been Sent the German COmmandeP.
PARIS, Sept. s.-Fhe Figure and the Goa,oss
state that the COMMANDER Of the German gun
boat who recently occupied zap has been
ordered by his government to evacuate
it. The settlement Of the dinicuity
both newspapers say, Is due TO Emperor Will
liam's having taken the Initiative step towards
bringing about . peaceful solution Of the af.
fair.