The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-02-12
ODD ITEMS.

said to have daily income of $500.
Next to nothing-A fashionable
young lady out in promenade with a
society dude.
A coal dealer lays up treasures in
heaven when he goes out of bis weigh
to obhge poor widow.
The smallpox scare ir Montreal had
the effect of temporarily stopping de-
falcations in this country.
Somebody says that the more out of
shape woman gets herself the more
fashionable she thinks she looks.
Every bride is beautiful, and it is a
mystery to many a bachelor where all
the plain married women come from.
Egypt as well as Japan shows its in
t1ueuce in ornaments-cats AID ser
pents being the latest capric,s in
jewellery.
During the last season, the best ever
known, 5000 salmon were taken in the
Yorkshire fisheries district, averagin g
ten and one-half pounds each
President Cleveland is said to prefer
minstrel show to other theatrical per
formances. 1t is strange he seldom
attends the sessions of Congress.
A new fashionable dance is called
the ''button dance" Yes, we've seen
it. The wife neglects to do the but
tons, and the husband does the dane
ing.
a New York woman paid 1865 for
a wing for her hat. Instead of money
taking to itself wings it is a case of
wing taking TO itself money Boston
transcript
My son, when you run for office
remember that lump of sugar will
attract more flies than can light on it.
This is the first great lesson in Ameri-
can politics.
Mrs. Speaker Carlisle's robe worn
by her at recent reception was a
Partisan creation, and was made of
electric embossed velvet, with breast
knot of lovely roses.
A Fon du Lac paper, in noticing a
wedding which recently occurred in
that place, says that each Of the par
ties is under IS years of age, and both
are growing nicely.
81 would like to have my husband
bailed out, the wife of 6runkard
said TO Police Judge, "All right, /"
said His Honor. "Send for doctor
and stomach pump -
Miss Love, who was heralded not
long ago as the fiancee Of President
Cleveland, is now in Washington. She
is fair, tall and past 40, and has no
idea of marrying any man,
No Ethel when you hear of a
young girl having made good
match it doesn't signify that she has
got something that will get up every
morning and light the fire.
Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, is
described as having small head sur
rounded by "sandy.bro cyclone
tossed hair" He has "a moasses- col
ored dab of moustache."
John Sherman is said to be growing
old fast. He is thin of flesh. the lines
on his face have grown perceptibly
deeper, and there seems TO be GER
tam contraction of his features.
A pound Of bananas, it is said, con
talns more nutliment than three
pounds of meat. The amount of pro-
ianity they contain when smeared on
the sidewalk has not been calculated.
The Washington correspondent of
Cleveland paper asserts that there is
now IN Washington an ex-member of
the Pennsylvania Legislature who is
noted for having sold his railroad pass
Tor an oyercoat.
a woman in Bradford. Pa, uEder-
took TO sew button on mans vest
and was instantly killed by lamp ex,
plosion. IL is suggested that married
women should paste this item on their
looking glasses.
A close observer says that one reason
why woman has not reached eminence
in the mechanic arts is because she has
never been able to rise superior to the
idea that the right way 20 drive mai
is to do it with both eyes shut.
A phllanihro pist asked the daughter
OF a rich man ufacturer, who employs
of men, if she ever did any
thing for her fathers hands ? NO"
was the reply, "but | rub mine with
glycerine and oatmeal every night"