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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-09-17
CHURCH NOTES.

A number of Christian Chinese at Foochow
have volunteered to go as missionaries to
Corea.
Cardinal Lavigerie, of Algicrs, is arranging
with the pope and the congregation of the
Propaganda Eide the details of his plan for
the organization of Catholic missions in
Africa on n very comprehensive scale.
The Christian Advocate says that to close a
Methodist church during a minister's vaca-
ton is a contradiction to the whole history Of
Methodism. Only two in New York Of
Brooklyn, SO far as we have heard are closed,
Just two too many.
A home for disabled Baptist ministers from
Ohio, Indiana Illinois, Michigan and Mime
sofa has been established at Fulton, Mich,
where $4,000 seminary building was given
for the purpose. The Baptists of Now York,
New Jersey and Connecticut have a similar
home in New York city.
The southern Presbyterian church has 10
synods 90 presbyteries, Loss ministers, a gain
of 13; g, ,19s churches, a gain of 80; and 1+3,-
743 communicates, gain of S,542. The
number added on examination was $3.50.
The contributions were 81 1924 ,374, a consider
able decrease from the two previous years.
The following Presbyterian churches re-
ported additions last year of more than 100
each Third, Chicago, l03; First, Chicago, 157;
Connersville Ind, Ill; Liberty, Ind, l24;
Memorial Tabernacle, st. Louis 1iG; LAM
bertvlle, N. j., l04; Tabernacle, Brooklyn,
15S; East Buffalo, 106; Brick, Rochester,
1O6.
According to table published in London,
the numerical strength of the leading re-
hgious bodies among all English speaking
people throughout the world Is as follows:
Congregationalists, 5,750,OO0; Baptists of all
descriptions, s,105,OOO; Presbyterians of all
descriptions, 10,650,O0O Methodists of all de
scriptions, 16,oOo,0OO; Eplscopalians. u,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-09-17
ABOUT COLoRED PEOPLE.

A threatening storm cloud alarmed the
worshippers at colored camp meeting at
Green Camp, O., and in their hurry to get
away thirty-two buggies were totally wrecked.
There is negro boy near Hogansville,
Ga, whose head has attained an enormous
growth, measuring thirty-three inches around
above the ears and thirty-flve inches around
the chin and top of the head. He Is 10 years
old and In good health, and his body Is about
the size of 6-year-old child.
Henry McCary and May Bell Lloys, a col
ored couple, were married at the court house
in Frankfort the other day. When the Judge
asked McCary for his fee he handed him
quarter and said il he had nickel he would
"gin" him that, because judge, you said "gin"
you what I'm mind to-" The judge grace
fully accepted.-lexington (Kyl Gazette. 4.
young negro entertained an audience of
about thirty gentlemen In Buffalo lately with
novel xylophone music The mans skull was
the instrument, and with a ponderous beer
mallet the negro struck his Uranium, produc-
ing, in fairly clear style, yankee Doodle ~
The mouth was open all the time, and when
he struck high note it seemed as though his
jaws would fly apart.
Simon jefferson, a colored barber of Tama-
qua, who died recently at the age of 02,
claimed 10 have heard Wilkes Booth threaten
to kill President Lincoln. Booth stopped at
Tamaqua, he said, while on the way from
Canada TO Washington, and got shaved in
Jeffersons shop The conversation turned
ON politics, and In the course Of it, according
TO the barber the threat was made.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-09-17
FACTS WORTH KNOWING.

Red ante win never be found In closets or
drawers II small bag of sulphur Is kept IN
these places.
In northern California there Is In use the
frost bell, which consists Of wire running
from different parts Of the vineyard TO the
house. When the bell is let off the occ pants
of the house know that their vines are In
danger and Immediately repair to the vine
yard and light fires in different quarters and
thus prevent, through the agency of this in
genious electrical device, the loss of tons OF
the most luscious fruit grown on the Pacific
slope
A French physician advocates sleeping with
the head lower than the feet. He slept that
way for four years, and finds that his neck Is
nearly two inches larger, owing to the swell
ing of the thyroid gland. He says in this
way the brain receives more plentiful blood
supply, and is consequently better nourished,
while there is no danger of so much blood
passing TO the cerebral structure as to cause
congestion.
When soft eggs are laid by fowls they init
mate usually that the egg organs are in
famed This state is occasioned by the fowls
being overfed or too fat. Spare diet and
plenty of green food--especially lettuce In the
summer and cabbage in winter-is the best
treatment for fowls in this condition.
M. Manassein, AN eminent physician of st.
Petersburg, AYERS that cocaine is an une-
qualled preventive for seasckness, and claims
TO have proved it most successfully in a num-
Der of cases. He also finds it very effective
I'm the treatment of cholera morbus and
thinks IT will prove u great remedy for Asiatic
cholera
An experienced traveller says that in a sleep
ing car the upper berth is cooler in summer,
because there is more air stirring in the top
of the car, and warmer in winter than the
lower berth, because the warm air rises, and
there are not so many drafts
Valeran and tincture of opium are used in
the manufacture of popular brands of cigar
ettes. Havana navoring," so-called, is made
from the tonka bean, which contains a deadly
poison called millolotis, seven grains of which
are sufficient to kill dog.
Letters or envelopes which it Is desired to
protect against unauthorized opening (by
moistening the pasted portion), may be Sc
curely sealed by using a solution of oxide of
copper in ammonia as paste This liquid has
the faculty of dissolving cellulose. When ap-
piled to the paper it dissolves the cellulose on
the surface, and on drying the two partially
dissolved surfaces adhere indissolutelv to-
geuner.
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STRANGE HAPPENINGS.

A Bodega, Cal, COW performed great feat
in her fright She ran in the front door of a
house, upstairs, through hallway into a bed
room, thence out on the back roof, where she
stumbled or and broke her neck
An ingenious citizen of Ware Mass having
repaired n small alarm clock for friend, de-
cided to deliver it on Sunday when he went
to church; but he did not see his friend before
the services, and during the sermon the alarm
went oil and whirred away for more than a
minute despite the frantic efforts of the clock
tinker to stop it.
Tom Scott of Waco, Tex, recently went to
see his mother, who is 10 years old and resided
In neighboring town. On arriving at her
home he found that the old lady mad eloped
with u man half her age When Mr.. Scott
returned TO his own home he was paralyzed
by the information that his wife had gone
with handsomer man. Then there was
music in the air,
During a railroad excursion from Lafay-
ette Ind, to Dayton, o., the other day, the
train was stopped at the state line, and David
Clark, alighting, stood in Indiana, and Mrs.
Mary Hawkins stood in Ohio. minister
who was present straddied the line and mar
ried them. Then the 500 excuIsionists formed
circle around the pair and gave them three
cheers while the band played.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-09-17
MEN OF LETTERS.

President Eliot, Of Harvard, will remain
at Mount Desert island for several weeks yet.
Julian Hawthorne's latest story, "John
Parmelees Curse" is tale Of opium eating
and its consequences.
Governor Ireland, of Texas, Is said to be a
frequent contributor to the editorial columns
of The San Antonio Times.
Justin Mccarthy will sail for this country
on Sept. o. He hopes to complete novel on
which he is engaged before that time.
Mr.. Thomas Hardy, says The New York
World, is engaged upon new story of trag-
ical order, based upon an old legend in his
family
William Black has determined to write q
book upon the journey he is now making in
a houseboat among the canals of Great
Britain.
Professor Ebers, the Psychologist and
novelist, has SO greatly improved in health
that he will resume work at Leipsic in
October.
James Russell Lowell has purchased large
tract of land at Ashfleld, Mass, and will make
that city his summer home, along with George
William Curtis.
1t is reported that Gen. Lew Wallace has
exercised his artistic powers in making Illus
trations for "Ginevra," forthcoming story
written by Mrs. Wallace.
Edward Fuller, of The Boston Post, has
finished his third novel, entitled Theodore
Trent, which will be published simultaneous
ly in England and America.
Moukhtar Pasha, at Cairo, is composing an
elaborate work on mathematics which will,
it is said, surpass anything that has yet ap-
peared in the Turkish language
John Ruskiii is SO much better that his
friends are beginning to hope that he will
still be able to finish his autobiography, in
which many chapters are wanting.
Chancellor Vincent, of Chautauqua univer-
sity, the Sunday school archbishop, will spend
several month in Europe looking up educa-
tional matters and inspecting old world
systems
Eugene Field recently started the story that
Joel Chandler Harris was worth S2 600, 900.
For the past four days, says The Atlanta
Constitution, Uncle Remus has averaged
thirty begging letters a day.
Thomas W. Knox, the prolific writer of
travels for Juveniles, is 81 years of age, Of
commanding presence, and has been twice
>yound the world. His seventh volume Of
tnSBoy Travellers Series" is in press.
ueo w. Cable thought he would be
smart nrsnday school He told the class
tnat ne hadNSe children. and that half of
.hehl were gmiss Then, when the best boy in
the ciass pohoeiy~,led him a falsifier, he
said the other half wcAS girls, too.
1t is rumored that M Thomas NeIson
Page, the Richmond lawyerb.S writer has
novel in preparation-also Ns,yt stories
under the suggestive titles ofSspoIl,, y
distracted" and "A Story of Empire%wr
Page and his young bride are now in Eurol
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-09-17
THE STAGE.

Nym Cripkle says "there is a need Of now.
ness In dramatic themes"
Miss Pauline Markham will present YER
sion of ale Martyre" this season.
Miss Margaret Mather's engagement in San
Francisco has been extended two weeks
Mr. Dixey and "Adonis" will be seen again
at the Fifth Avenue theatre, New York, ON
Sept 20.
Col. McCaull says that he intends to have
theatre of his own in New York inside of
two years.
Mr.. NJ. B. Curtis, will open his season In
Now York on the 27th inst, in his new play,
"Caught in a Corner"
Kate Forsyth fresh from Europe and with
galaxy of Worth's most artistic creations,
opens in st. Louis as "Marcelle" on Oct. II.
The first failure Of til season has already
to he recorded. 1t 10 Sarah McVicker's
"Plasar" company, which stranded at Utica.
Ebcn Plympton is going to bring over his
latest London success, Jack" and Dorothy
Done, still another London stage beauty, will
be his Jill
The Madison Square Theatre company has
just closed successful engagement in San
Francisco. 1t will play on its return trip in
Salt Lake and Denver, and open at its house
in New York on Oct. II.
Minnie Maddern has engaged William Nor
ris on account of his strong resemblance to
Robert Mantell She intends that her COM
pany shall only he composed Of handsome
men and women.
Miss Mary Hilforde, young Detroit lady,
has been engaged as leading lady for the
"Whito Slave" company Miss Hlforde has
been but a few years in the profession, and
has made very rapid strides to the front.
Mr.. Bronson Towards new comedy, writ
ten for Miss Helen Dauvray, is not yet
named. The scene is laid chiefly in the Adj
rondacks, and the incidents of the first act
take place on the piazza of a summer hotel.
A graceful compliment was paid to Mar
garet Mather in San Francisco by the public
presentation Of a volume OF poems, COM
piled of verses dedicated to her by the au-
thors, all Of whom were united in the delicate
tribute of esteem.
A new "fake" in advertising Is the scheme
of Harold Fosberg, who starts on the road
soon with Robert Macare.n The star and
his manager, w. A. Teegarden, will be each
followed about by valet wearing livery OF
have lively time.
Emily Soldene, says The New York Sun, Is
the mother of seven or eight children. She
sl'~rulates. When the pilot boarded the in
conh.t Celtic week ago Miss Soldene hur-
riediy "eed him for newspaper. She
turned 10 e.a market reports and saw the
price OF wlea. "Good heavensp she ex-
claimed, wheat h. gone up like the mis-
chief and am short 6.;tn
1t cannot be denied tbat,ae dime m,saum
managers are enterprising Me-, c,ol.lI ,>
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-09-17

Richard Mansfield has bought the rights Of
"Fltznoodle," new comedy by Valentine
and Wilson
Marcus X. Mayer is going abroad to join
his principal Henry 4. Abbey, who is now
B. in Paris Mr.. Mayer reports that Sarah
Bernhardt's receipts in South Amerca are Of
phenomenal magnitude. They have aver
aged about $4,000 week.
Nine. Janauschek, the great tragedienne,
will make her farewell tour of this country
Ss season.
,,a X x, Pastor is singing with great success
Tonc, Tinsh comic song, II Haven't for a
~, e. at'2 SOW" and it is already byword
first sung his ows 'y' "I.' ~ is'oi
equal the popularity a q A .a W, c.. ~
the Ball this EVENING"" i0u 'oi's "
Marie Jansen arrived fro,, II -.
week, and after a short visit lt ~ 's,, la1S
join the vocal forces of the New Yorssv WI
Patti will sing in Philadelphia Nov. ~ 49,,
Dec 3; New York, Nov II, and a matinee on
Nov. 2O Boston, Nov. "a and "a; Chicago,
Dec. and TO- The programme Syh. include
an act from each of the operas of "Semil-
amide" martha" and Faust" and Scalchi
will appear with Patti in each opera The
enterprise is under the management OF Mar,
Gus Meyer.
The magnificent costumes to be worn by
Miss Lillian Lewis this season are said to be
insured for $4,000 and will require eight large
Saratoga trunks for transportation.
Nine, Minnie Hauk arrived in New York
Aug, 81. She will go TO San Francisco and
Portland, visiting Yellowstone park on the
way
"Maggie the Midget will be the principal
feature of Maggie Mitchels repertoire next
season. This piece scored an emphatic success
last season.
The manager for Mr.. and Mrs Florence
announces that he has determined to dispense
with the customary display of colored pic,
lures, and will place his reliance this season
entirely upon ordinary type posters and the
publicity to be gained by newspaper adver
tisements
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-09-17
ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has almost
fully regaincd her health.
Ida Lewis, the famous American Grace
Darling, is now past middle age, but ever in
teresting.
Miss Clara Barton, head Of the Order Of
the Red Cross, is broken down In health by
overwork.
Miss Mary A. Roe, sister Of Mr.. Il. p Roe,
will shortly publish her third novel, left in
the Wilderness"
30 many OF the servant girls and laun-
dresses wear diamonds now at Saratoga that
these jewels are ut a discount
Nine. Patti will come to America in No
vember, and will go as far south as Mexico,
and perhaps to South America.
One of Mrs. A. 7. Stewards unique orra-
ments at Saratoga Is a card case with small
watch in the center of the outside.
Mime. Patti has received a warm letter o
congratulation upon her marriage from
Queen Marie Christina, of Spain.
Miss Farrar, London spinster, recently
left 100000 to be applied in granting pen
sions to aged widows and spinsters.
OF the 100 persons who visit the condemned
Anarchists in their cells at Chicago every
day over one-half are said to be ladies'
Miss Mary N. Murfree is now busily en-
gagged In reading the proofs of her novel,
which will be published in few months
Lady Brassey, who is almost as we'll known
through her literary productions as her hus-
band, is coming to make visit in this
country.
American ladies are now popular IN
London that any party without Its American
the extreme
Little Mildred Howells, the 1l-year-old
daughter Of the novelist, is an artist. All
the illustrations In "A Little Girl Among the
Old Masters" are hers.
A rosy-cheeked maiden Of IS, Miss Minnie
Wilson by name, runs stage route between
Hamilton and Minor in Dakota, which is
said to be extremely popular
A young woman near Ashton, d. T., works
her farm herself and has seventy-five acres of
wheat and fifteen acres of oats. She owns
three horses and never hires help.
Misses Ward and Hoyden, two American
girls, are trying to keep cool by five weeks
tour in Labrador. They are the first Amer
lean ladies who have ever visited that region.
"The women appear to do all the work."
writes Col Watterson Of the Swiss. at is not
uncommon to see a girl and dog hitched to
a cart and trotting along together like pair
oeponies."
Princess Louise, one of the daughters Of the
queen, says that she is always out of money!
She is paid $4,000 year out Of the pockets
of the British people; but there are many
ways in which a princess can get rid of gold.
1t is reported that Mrs Thompson, the
widow who runs the Louisville postoffice, is
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-09-17
ABOUT EARTHQUAKES.

Earthquakes increase in number .oward
the middle and end Of a century.
Since the creation of the world 14,OOO OOJ
people have been killed by earthquakes.
One reason why Charleston suffered so
severely from the earthquake is because it is
on a low sandy soil.
There is an earthquake every day In the
year somewhere, although it may be so
slight as to be hardly noticeable.
One hundred earthquakes were recorded
last year, and during some recent years COO
were recorded. In 1880, 200 shocks occurred
in Japan.
Seismic troubles are often correctly pre-
dicted days ahead by that delicate instrument,
tho seismometer. The trouble is to tell just
where the shocks will take place.
1t was only the low-lying portion of Lis
bon which was destroyed in 1855. In San
Francisco the buildings on the "made lands"
near the bay suffer more from earthquakes
than those on the hill portion Of the city.
A most astonishing phenomenon OF the
Javanese earthquake was the splitting of the
Papandayang mountain In a fash of time
it was split into seven parts. Whore the lone
mountain had stood loomed up seven peaks,
each some 1000 feet high.
Earthquakes do not result from volcanoes.
frequently volcanoes are formed by earth
quales. The greatest number OF volcanic
eruptions are in the summer, while the great
est number of earthquakes occur in the win
ter The two are simply the different effects
OF a common cause.
Greece, Italy, Egypt, Asia Minor and North
Africa belong to one Of the three great earth
- .l..l..
u the Andes, western coast OF North
America, Kamschatka, Japan and New Zea-
land; (2) Arabia and India from the equator
TO twenty degrees north latitude,
The Pacific slope has long enjoyed an un-
desirable pre-eminence us the distinctvely
earthquake region Of the United States, yet,
according to the records kept at Washington,
there were li7 earthquakes ON the Atlantic
coast from 1872 to 1888 and only Isl during
the same time on the Pacific coast
Sir John f. w. Helschel, in a lecture On
earthquakes published about ten years ago,
calls attention to the enormous quantities OF
matter that are carried TO the ocean by
rivers, or ara washed from the coast, and
says that In order to counteract this earth
quakes arc constantly occurring in some lo-
cality. The key 10 the whole affair Is to be
found in tho central heat of the earth.
The late Commander Morrison, royal navy,
in 1884, published the following observations
on earthquakes Earthquakes generally fol-
low close ON the heels of eclipses. AT the
period of the earthquake many aspects will
be found between tho planets Ia the heavens"
In the present instance an eclipse Of the sun
occurred on Aug 20 Jupiter and Urancs
were in conjunction with the moon on Aug.
81. On the same day there were important
aspects between the sun and Jupiter and be-
twe>'.l Mas and Uranus. Boston Advertiser.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-09-17
VARIOUS PARAGRAPHS.

Paris is about to have another baby show.
1t is said that 5000 to 1900 horses are killed
in Spain yearly in bull fighting.
Castle Garden officers say that the Mormon
immigration has fallen off to 1900 or 500
year.
The St. Petersburg public library offers its
visitors unique privilege in the form of
room set apart for smokers.
A Kentucky court has rendered the i'm
portant decision that mans sweetheart must
return his presents il she doesn't marry him.
Farmer Taft Of Uxbridge, Mass, has
pair of steers which he drives to harness, and
which have trotted, with four in the carriage,
four miles in half an hour.
1t is estimated that the aggregate weight Of
the diamonds taken from the South African
fields up to the present time is six and one
half tons, of the total value of 500, 100000.
Lovers of imported fancy cheeses will find
food for thought in the statement that nearly
one-half of the oleomargarine exported from
this country returns again as foreign cheese.
The number of kilograms sent annually
over the English telegraph lines has increased
from 100000 in 1870 to "a ,000, 900 in 1856
pretty good showing for government con-
troll.
All the people now living in the world, say
1,400, ,0O0, 900, could find standing room within
the limits of a field ten miles square. In
field twenty miles square they could all he
comfortably seated
In England the population doubles in SO
years; in the United States, Canada and Aus
tralia in 25 years; in Germany in 105 years,
in France and in countries using the French
language, 14O years.
In Switzerland there are 207, ,373 colonies Of
bees kept. These figures were obtained by
the census which was taken April 81, 1880
The number varies in different cantons from
500 to 40, 900 colonies.
Six thousand and thirty-six of Dublin's in
habitaIits are in the workhouse, 4,2s1 receive
outdoor relief, 1882 are without visible
means Of support That is, there are about
10000 paupers in city OF a5O, 900 souls
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-09-17
CURIOUS FACTS.

Chan Sing, Oneidas Chinese laundrymaD,
keeps his small change in his ear. He can
carry 81 in dimes in his auricular organ
Harrison II. Oliver, of Bolton, Bell county,
Tex, has received no less than l0l wounds,
and sixty of the bullets, ranging in size from
buckshot TO an ounce ball. still remain in
his body,
An ingenious boy of Maplewood, Mass,
sent up some lanterns ON the tail Of his kite
recently, and many of the inhabitants turned
out to view what they supposed was u fine
meteorie display.
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Nature Versus Art.

.FHtuTb EtTbuB irts
The small boy takes his homely line,
A piece Of common linen twine.
Then bends a pin
And drops it in
The cool and gently babbling brook,
Catching as large n string of fish
AS almost any one could wish;
While there close by,
With fancy fly,
The city angler ne'er one can hook.
New Haven News
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-09-17

Doctor-Ahl looking badly yet, see. You
have evidently not been following my instruc-
tions about taking exercise.
Patrick-Yis; walked half mile yester-
day.
"Good You remember told you that you
must always have some object in view when
you walk so as to get your mind off your
troubles. l hope you made yesterdays out
ing matter of business of some kind"
"Yis; went and bought cemetery lot. -
Omaha World
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a.. Her pretty hands were slim and brown,
And tenderly she fingered
4 The frills upon the gingham gown
:. On which my glances fingered.
"a simple frockf" she cried, with mrth
That fashion grants her scholars
You stupid Jack, twas made by Worth,
And cost me ninety dollars"
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He Was Very Tired.

Maj. Gassaway, prominent San Antonio
lawyer, was engaged by a man accused of
horse stealing.
"Are you really guiltyf' asked the lawyer.
"Why, major, if l was innocent, what
earthly use would have for lawyerl I'm
so guilty that reckon you had better get an
other lawyer to help you. Texas Siftings.