The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-06-25
ODD ITEMS.

thhe as ianguaye.
Mrs. Lamonts taste in dress is much
admired in Oakland.
Some parts of Arkansaw are so dry
that the water is dusty.
Contentment is better than money,
and just about as scarce.
Queen Victoria's recent visit to Liv-
erpool cost that city 100000.
Men who break bicycle records nev-
or seek TO have them repaired.
This is Boston Summer - Cold
with glasses. ~ Y. Journal.
A little splinter will sometimes di.
vert the greatest mind.-Puck.
Favors, like fevers, are slightly re.
garded when the crisis is passed.
Judgment, lumber and boiled eggs
need to be seasoned before using.
Country board that is much sought
after in the Summer-The gude-board.
When woman gets to be little
sulky her wagon tongue becomes 81
lent.
This is just the season of the year
to go fishing and catch the chlls and
fever.
All things come to him who waits
if only he can wait until all things
come to him.
Sararh Bernhard has gained one
ounce within year. She is getting
positively fat.
The Countess Ignaueff is said to
be the most ambitious and enerp etic
woman in Europe.
Hew those lovely Packer Institute
girls heads can carry so much Latin
worries the dudes.
A Watertown, N. Y, editor has
been bitten by dog. The latter will
be sent to Pasteur.
Mime. Patti Nicolini has favored a
few of her American friends with
dainty wedding cards.
Natural gas is so plentiful at Litch-
field, Ind, that it is used for fuel in
more than 100 houses.
Considerable success has already
been attained in introducing the Amer
ican brook trout in Norway.
In the sweet by-and-by Canada viii
get something bigger than an Ameri-
can fishing smack in the jaw.
Don't expect to make much out of
the pawnbroker. Everything that
gees there generally gets "left."
Detroit is going to have a museum
of art. Its citizens have already sub
scribed $l5O,OOO Cor the purT ose.
The prominent hotels and restau-
rants of Paris sell their broken meat to
contractors, who are called "jewelers."
Mr.. Blaine's cottage at Bar Harbor
is nearly completed. He will remove
there for the Summer in few We eks.
Sarah Bernhardt, in her new play, is |
said to have utilized many incidents in
her own life 10 give her work interest.
"We more than hold our own" saws
a boastful exchange. Why don't you
let go of that part that does not belong
you?
A man never appreciates how very
badly things can 60 wrong until the |
pill he is taking rolls into a hollow
tooth.
A bachelor editor who had pretty |
unmarried sister, lately wrote to one
similarly circumstanced, "Please ex-
change"
When an Icelander maries he is |
not allowed to see his mother.in-law.
It might make things warmer up there |
if he did.
The house once occupied by Luther
at Mansfield has been restored and is
to become the home of a charitable |
sisterhood.
Somebody calls the present style of |
arranging the hair Grecian. This is
rather hard on the good ladies of the
city of Athens.
High, standard lamps, with shade
almost the size of an umbrella, are
finding their way to many fashion.
able household
The widow of William IL Wander
hilt will spend the Summer at Bar
Harbor in the cottage belonging to her
youngest son, George.
The aquarium at Scarborough, an
English seaside resort, which cost over
$5OO,0O0 only few years ago, has
just been sold for $4,000.
Coming home at 2 a. m. he found
his wife dressed in deep black and in
quired the reason. "Mourning for my |
late husband, she replied
The most serious lockout is when a
man gets home at 2 o'clock in the
morning and finds that his wife has
bolted the door against him.
Public baths are SO numerous in To
kio, Japan, that there is one TO every
800 inhabitants. The japanese evi-
IDENTIFY believe in cleanliness.
The farmers of America equal the
entire territory of the United King
dom, France, Belgium, Germany, |
Austria, Hungary and Portugal
1t is said that there are 22,OOO, 900 |
widows in India We can scarcely be-
lieve IT, seeing that so many men ha, o |
courage TO remain in the country.
There is no love lost between the |
Canadian girls and the Maine fisher
men, Notwithstanding the presence of |
40 many smacks.-N y. Journal.
Mrs. Hicks Lord sent Miss Folsom
Chat @as) solid gold card case that,
in the language of friend of Miss
Folsom, "weighed nearly pound"
The Queen Regent of Spain will
maintain and educate at her private
expense the children of those who per-
ished in the recent tornado at Madrid
The people OF Kansas City are &C.
irg 10 put up Chamber of Commerce
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