The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-05-21
THE COLUMBIAN AND DEMOCRAT. B
ODD ITEMS.

The pet dog is to be boycotted at
summer hotels.
Langtry is TO come, and rumors of
her marriage are started.
Some of our society leaders murder
the Kings English in their letters.
Hiring flowers for private and pub
lie entertainments is a big business.
Wonder if Job was a paragrapher
They say that he was full of humor.
Cucumbers have arrived on schedule
time. Now look out for music in the
heir.
Oleomargarine must be strong 10
keep up a reputation, and to taste nat
ural like butter.
II is said that Of the 10000 Hebrews
in New York city not one is the keeper
of a grog shop.
II the BARRIERS strike there will he
revival of the old question-what shall
we do to be shaved ?
The American boys first bawl gen
orally hits the happy father stla light on
the left ear.
Spring openings are still being held
but the thing that does the most open
ing is the old mans pocketbook.
There's new cemetery out West that
is rushing up trade in lots by adver-
tising bargains in mistit graves.
mamma" cried a 5-year.ol girl,
81 started to make my doll bonnet
and it's come out a pair Of pants
The number of paupers in London
exclusive of lunalics in asylums aud
vagrants-is reported at 1O3,30O.
Portland, Oregon, has an alleged
white laundry, but Chinese are employ
ed up stairs, out of sight from the
street.
A library of 2OOO volumes has been
established by the Boston and Albany
Railroad for the Benefit of Its employ
ees.
The Princess Bismark finds Bis
terribly stubborn regarding his diet
He will eat cabbage when he should
chew pepsin.
Why is young man closeted with
his wife's mother like an angry bear at
a circus? Because there is trouble
Bruin.
The average annual yield of the
Kimberly diamond mines in South
Africa during the past three years hos
been Sl2,5O0,000
Colonel Folsom, Frankies grandpapa
is dear old man, and he can write his
name upon a piece of..paper represent
ing 100000.
| Kentucky has $4,000 square miles of
coal fields; Pennsylvania, 10000; Great
Britain, 1889, and England, alone,
6039 square miles.
A cave large enough to accommo-
date all the citizens of the town is to
be dug In Clifton, Oak. 1t is design
ed as safeguard against cyclones.
Evangelist Moody objects to church
fairs where ''any girl can be kissed for
25 cents" He is right to object.
Twenty-Five cents is too confounded
cheap.
Ben Butler is suing his son-in-law in
a Minnesota law Court. The General
is shrewd in beginning personal law
suits as far away from home as posi-
BILE.
The Bank of Montreal appears to be
in prosperous condition, for its en-
ployees have received a bonus of 10
per cent on their salaries during the
past year.
"WAen is a man dead7" asks an ex-
change. When he can gaze calmly
for five minutes at show case full of
fishing tackle and not want to HE
away to trout stream.
There are l24 button factories in
this country and yet many a man has
to let the church collection plate pass
with only nod because he has not
even one button to throw in.
A dude has sued skating rink
ow0er for lost cane. Such an exhi-
bition of courage leads to the dark
suspicion that the dude swallowed it
and so acquired temporary spine.
| Nv ioi SCSV tucdtlc III IUc WOTlu is
the new opera house in Paris. 1t
covers nearly three acres of ground; its
cubic mass is 4,2S7, 900 feet; it cost
about l00,000,000 francs.
In the Owl Mountains, Wyoming, is
seen al long intervals a snow or white
ibex. One of these rare animals was
recently killed by an old trapper and
hunter known as Shoshone Jack
Somebody has written n book enti
tied "What Shall My Son Be ?" Upon
which some one frankly replies IF
the boy is as bad as the book the
chances are that they will be banged"
7eras SytingS
During the month of April S25, 1888
pounds of manufactured tobacco were
exported from the Second district of
Virginia, against an export in the cor
responding month cf 1885 of 735,673
pounds.
Miss Florence Nightingale has fre-
quently EXPIRE ssed a desire to visit
America. 1t would afford Americans
very much pleasure to see and show
her what they are doing in the way of
hospitals.
A Michigan man, by feeding a
tramp, found long lost brother of bis
wife. We suppose this ought to be
taken as a solemn warning against
something or other, because he has had
to keep on feeding him ever since.
Hans Won Dam smiled all over his
face yesterday. ii haf poycott,"
he remarked, mine wife she gif it TO
me. And now we suppose the pic
ture papers will give portraits of Mr.
and Mrs. Won Dam, too. -Judge.