The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-11-05
FROM ALL SOURCES.

Vienna, with its 10000 souls, hasn't Q
single free public library.
In St Louis 1000 pounds of copper have
been used in making just one steam kettle for
a brewery.
There are 1000 hawkers of newspapers in
London-big men, little boys, old women and
young girls
No arrest has been made in Matamora, Ills,
in two years, so the police force has been dis
pensed with
The streets and squares of Berlin contain
upward of 1900 trees, and the number is
constantly increasing.
OF 27,000 Jews who immigrated to this
country last years only twenty y-seven. were
dependents and had to be sent back.
On "prairie schooner that lately passed
through Ogallala, Neb., was this inscription:
T came from Nemah county, Kan, and
don't know where am going"
A plasterer in Dickinson county, Ia, who
recently lost his wife, remarked tearfully toa
friend "Py golly, that vos u bat loss. /
raider plaster dwo houses for nothings dan
lose him."
The children of Madagascar have no songs.
An American who translated "Old Mother
Hubbard" for them was threatened with i'm
prisonment, on the grounds that no such per-
son ever existed.
The White island volcano, in the Bay of
Plenty, off the North island coast, New Zea-
land, is in active eruption, and sending forth
a vast column of flame and smoke rising to
an immense height
The Fresh Pond crematory, near New
York, is no longer anovelty Since the first
body was burned last December sixty-eight
incinerations have taken place. Business" Is
constantly looking up.
France and Great Britain have one physi-
clan to every 400 inhabitants; Switzerland,
one to 1900; Austria, Germany and Norway,
one to 800. The United States require
doctor for every 600 people.
The strength of hand and wrist developed
by the professional prestidigitator was illus
trated by Hermann the other day He took
a new pack of ordinary linen back cards and
broke it in two, then broke one of the halves
into quarters.
Railroad trains running through woods are
more or less delayed at this season of the year
by leaves that are drawn to the track by the
suction of the trains. They are ground under
the wheels, and the moisture thus pressed out
makes the rails slippery.
A st. Louis bank cashier who went on his
vacation was followed for two weeks by de-
tective, and when he finally caught ON he re-
turned home and tried to lick the president.
They found the books all right, and Modified
him with diamond pin.
As returned by the census of 1880, our
population in that year was so, 1888 Ac-
cording to the official estimate now published
the population on the S0th of last June was
5S,420,00O, an increase in six years of over
s,2500OO, or about II per cent.
Sumac gathering is becoming recognized
industry in portions of Virginia. This year
the quantity gathered is unusually large,
some gatherers having made $500 each by
collecting the leaves and branches of the
shrub, which they call " "shoomake."
Scarcely colored man can be found in
Washington who is not member Of burial
society, organizations for the exclusive
purpose of making a display at funerals.
All funerals are held on Sunday, and brass
band is the invariable accompaniment.
Amsterdam has great palace which the
king occupies only six days in the year. 1t is
built upon piles, and has cost all told, $5, ,000,-
600. This palace the king shows to visitors
for consideration. Pay two cents and you
are taken through'by guide in livery.
Mr. w. P. Miner, of Butte, NJ r., went
away from home and arranged a heavy
charge OF dynamite so that anybody entering
would set it off. When he returned he found
his cabin blown to atoms, and few remnants
of the rash burglar who interfered with his
device.
An electric whipping apparatus has been
flIOupsaI nv an inpanious Syyiss ubn claims
for his invention that it will inflict the neces-
sary pain without leaving those unpleasant
marks which are wont to prove such lasting
and unpleasant souvenirs to the castigated
school boys.
On the four sides of a handsome tombstone,
erected by man in Niles, Mich, over the
grave of his wife, are these inscriptions:
"The more Saints the more Hypocrites," /" "The
more Peace the more Plenty" "The more
Priests the more Poverty" "The more Religion
the more Lying"
Willie Frankland, 3-year-old Geor-
gian, playing in pile of cotton, scosped out
hole and craWled into it, After a time some
ore saw his feet sticking from the hole and
pulled the little fellow out. He was dead
His hands We're by his side, and the hole was
20 s.al that he had been unable to put them
down and push himself out
When George II. Potts OF Philadelphia was
in California some years ago friend offered
him 5000 worth of stock in an Alaska gold
mine Potts refused to buy, because he knew
nothing about the mine, although the friend
said it was a good thing. A few days age
the friend wrote that the 5000 investment
was paying 50, 900 cash each month.
During recent storm AN empty freigh
car was blown by the wind along o side tract
at tho rate of 10 miles an our. 1t ran out o.
the switch and started for Aux Sable like al
express train. At the latter town an engin,
started in pursuit Of the runaway car. Aftel
Il sharp chase brakeman succeeded in jump
ing from the engine TO the car. He theI
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