The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-30
ODD ITEMS.
Oysters II about retiring.

The minister's charge-The marriage
fee.
The worst thing about riches is not
having them.
A new English dictionary is coming
out with 100000 words.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is going
to travel in Europe this Summer.
Miss Genevieve Ward is sojourning
with friends in the Yosemite Valley.
1t is no sign that man is color
blind because he cannot name every
color.
The city of Los Angeles has set
apart a tract of $50 acres for public
park. ... .....
Spring lamb is now palatable. The
only thing against it is the price per
pound.
Strawberries are cheap enough now
to be served at some of the fashionable
hotels.
engagements for 2l0 performances
for next season have been made by
Edwin Booth.
The man who wouldn't pay his tailor
was on.suited. That is, the tailor took
the clothes back.
The eye of an insect contains from
so to 10000 small eyes. 1t is really
composed of eyes.
| There are 1900 youog men over Il
years of age in Beadle county, OAK,
who are unmarried.
The game of Lacrosse is to be the
racket at Yale this season, and fifty
men are in training.
Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, is
gong to try Summers vacation in
the Rocky Mountains.
1t is stated that 100000 orange
trees have been planted in Southern
California the past Winter.
Society is compared to pie There
is an upper and lower crust, but the
real strength and substance lie between
them.
There is no luck, but there is such n
thing as hard work and knowing how
to make it answer for what others call
''luck.'
Anna Russell, young singer from
Limerick, is reported to have captured
all London with her sweet voice and
pretty face.
1t can be mathematically demon
strated that the lower dress is cut IL
the neck and the shorter the sleeves the
more it costs. .....
The printers in the calico-makins
mills of Connecticut refuse TO impair
the secrets of their trade to any bu
their own sons.
Bowling alleys should be popula
with the Knights of Labor, as some
body has to "set EN- up wheneve
there is strike.
A man is in bad state when thu
only thing he can do to help on tn
temperance cause is to lend his breatl
as frlShttul example.
d General Dacres, of the British Roya
5. Artillery, who has been in the servic
e for nearly seventy years, has beel
e made Field Marshal
4 The application of pendulums t.
Is clocks dates from 1856. The balanc
Re spring was invented by DIR. Rober
e Hooke two years later.
r Niagara hotel keepers are to sub
: scribe to the fund to have the Fall
e illuminated by electricity, as was s.
successfully done three seasons ago.
A prisoner broke Jail at Geneva
Col, week ago and has not bee
seen since. A hickory stick hande'
him through the window enabled hin
to break open the door.
- paradise Island" is the name of a
) island near st. Paul, where there
n not single saloon, and never ha
BEEN 1t is net known how the plac
happened to get its name.
A clergyman who married fou
couples in one hour the other day, re
marked to friend that it was "prett
fast work" "Not very,' responde
q his friend ''only four knots an hour.
Il Senator Stanford is credited with tn
statement that he came very near be
ing a newspaper man instead OF
millionaire 1t is to be inferred from
this that the two terms are not synouy
nous
The innate modesty of newspape
!, men is shown by the fact that Texa
u editor killed three men the other day
: and in alluding to the incident after
: ward acknowledged that he only trie
to kill one.
2, According to Henry Ward Beeche
s Mr.. Conkling is spending the none
he makes in his law practice in payin
off endorsements made for friends
the amount of several hundred thoul
= and dollars.
4, Some genius, inspired by the loss {
q the Oregon, suggests that mailbag
10 for ocean service be made buoyant an
y water-tight. Ha, yes great schem
B, But why wouldn't i, answer the puI
IA IA pose just as well to have some ship
tn built that way, too?