The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-11-12
ODD ITEMS.
Beauty is often sin deep.

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Church. going people often meet by
chants.
White blackbcrries grow near Bron-
son, Mich.
Fresh toe martyrs-Tho youths who
buy tight boots.
A recent comic song is called Soap"
IL comes in bars.
Capital punishment-Being obliged
to sit with the girls.
The old chaps who wore armor were
the first mail carriers.
To hit man in the eye with chest
nut is binding joke.
The blacksmith is no politician, but
he is always making bolts.
Girls who marry coachmen ought to
be stable in their affections.
Fools make feasts and wise men
know better than to eat them.
The cool wave-When the girls
father waves you to the front door.
There are four Turkish ladies at Con-
stantinope who are publishing poetry.
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but
a rolling.pin will gather considerable
hair.
Frog legs are said to be unusually
high this year. They always were on
the jump.
1t is said that from 5000 to 1000
horses are killed in Spain yearly by
bull fighting.
The ages of spring chickens and
women are most doubtful subjects on
this little earth.
In The whole world there are 291,-
522 miles of railroad in the United
States, 123, 10.
The man who slips up on an apple
pairing at this season of the year shows
the correct fall styles.
An Indian idol has been discovered
in the West. 1t is a petrifed whiskey
bottle with the cork out.
Instead of these beng the piping
times of peace they are the piecing
times of pipe-stovepipe.
Duke Ernest of Coburg has killed
his lO0Oth stag, and now they want to
give him the Nimrod's medal.
1t is becoming fashionable to cable
proposals of marriage. This will save
the knees of fellows trousers.
Thomas Garrett, of Alabama, takes
the demijohn. He has been voting
the Democratic ticket for 119 years.
There is more Liberty on Bedloe's
Island than anywhere else in the
known world Washington Critic.
"Colossa' is said to be too small a
word to use in description of the big
goddess. "Bartholdlan" is suggested.
John E. Owens, the comedian, is al
most himself again. He is able to en-
| joy his apple sass as well as ever he
| was.
One irreverent editor calls them
Psalms Jones and Small Seems to us
Hymns would be a better name for
them.
The Empress of Japan has ordered
the ladies of her court to array them
selves in European garb, and the Yum
Yums Seep.
The nose of Bartholdi's statue is over
three feet in length. What terrible
thing it would be for her to have a
cold in the head.
A harness consisting entirely of
brass and steel has been invented by
Judge Albion Tourgee, who has OBJ
tanned patent upon it.
"Bah," he said, bitterly, "all this
that we call love is scGnt.' "Say
won't rather she answered softly,
and he left her forever.
ga Canadian farmer loses his life.
Some men are excessively absent mind
ed. We presume it never occurred to
him to advertise for it.
A Canada woman proposes to start
a society for the prevention of kissing.
She Is probably homely enough to warp
the bottom of tin pan.
No wonder the interior of the earth
is disturbed. Every pie-eating New
Englander knows that the crust is
often very hard to digest.
"Miss Madge," of the London TRUTH
has come to the conclusion that it Is
the duty of women to buy as many
bonnets as they can afford.
The Chinese notion of England is
said to be that of "a tribute-bear
nation of men without pig-tails, govern
ed by lady with large feet"
Lucy Larcom, the poetess, asks
"How will it be when the woods turr
brown?" 1t will be extremely colo
,, for poets, Lucy, extremely cold.
A pen-wiper is not to be despised
! The pen-marks which it receives ar,
oftentimes more lasting than thos
! which are made upon the paper,-Bos
ton Transcript
A 13year,old girl in Michigan ha
4 been sent to prison for horse stealing
1 There are very few occupations i
l. which women even of tender year
cannot compete with men nowadayl
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