The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-09-03
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.

The government ~ soon 10 publish nst ok
unclaimed moneys due TO individuals Al
though the amounts due to particular persons
are small, the sum total aggregates about
sl,00O,000.
Maine contains 12,500 pensioners, receiving
$4,000, 900 yearly, exclusive of naval pensions.
One person in every thirty-five in England
and Wales is pauper.
Probably the largest watermelon ever seen
IN Baltimore arrived in the city from
Augusta, Ga. 1t was twenty and one
half inches long, and twelve inches in di-
Observation-Disclosures American.
A profitable use has at last been found for
the steamship Great Eastern. She has been
turned into a floating temple of amusement
at Liverpool with profitable results to the
lessees 1t is now proposed to take her from
one place to another as sort of peripatetic
variety show
The longest clock pendulum in the world is
at Avignon, France. II is sixty-seven feet
long, and requires four and half seconds TO
swing through an area of nine and half
feet.
The number of Jews in the world at present
Is but q, 100000, of whom 8, 100000 are in Eu-
rope. There are $50 900 Jews in the United
States, 2,552,000 in Russia, 1,Gi4,0O0 in Aus
trian Hungary, 66s, 600 in Gallicia, 63s 600 in
Hungary j62, 900 in Germany and 63,OOO
in France.
George Phillips, of Bnghamton Solano
county, Cal, has just completed an organ
containing 400 pipes, the longest being sixteen
feet All the pipes are made of old news
papers rolled and fastened with a paste made
of glue and alum The woodwork was made
entirely of old fence boards, posts, dry goods
boxes and the like. He was two years in
building this instrument, which is said to have
an excellent tone
A year ago lockwood found ready market
for 500 ton Now the market is dull at
500 The bursting up of the skating rink
bubble did the business
There is said to be nearly 800 opium
smokers in Boston, and the number is increas-
ing every da).
A worlds fair will be held at Adelaide,
Australia, next June.
The news from the whaling fleet in the
Arctic ocean is dscouraging, the catch at
latest reports being very small. This has had
the effect to advance the price of whalebone
twenty five cents pound to 50.
Pie factories are among the miscellaneous
industries of New Haven, Conn, employing
many hands. The pie factory of one man
alone turns out many thousand pies daily.
These factories ship pies all over New Eng
land, to New York, and to many other points.
New Haven is pie CENTER as well as q local
point of learning, refinement and aristocratic
exclusiveness.
At Cannes, In France, one distillery alone
uses in season in the making of perfumes
10000 pounds of orange flowers, the same
of rose leaves, 20, 900 pounds of acacia blooms
$1,000 pounds of jasmine flowers, 10000 Of
tuberoses and an unmeasured amount of
Parma violets.
Colored men propose to raise 81 100000 to
erect monuments at Washington to the bene-
factors of their race.
An Iowa gentleman has increased the cir
culation of his paper by periodically present.
ing each subscriber with check, good at any
local drug store, for glass of soda water.
England buys s19, ,252, ,ss4 out of the S20,-
sos, ,S4 worth of bacon we export; of hams,
S2454,9S0 worth out of the SO, ,23l 500; nearly
half of the 50, ,462, ,53S of pork, and about one
third of our surplus lard.
A Brockton, Mass. shoemaker has spent a
deal of valuable time in making a pair of
shoes out Of S52 different pieces of leather
Each tip contains 100 small diamond-shaped
pieces. Fourteen different kinds of leather
were used, and various colored silks were
used i'll doing the stitching.
Military ballooning has now reached such
u stage in Germany that under officers are
being trained in balloon steering. Two SER
geants have just been awarded certificates
attesting their efficiency in this art.
The school census gives Chicago popula-
tion Of 703,S17, an increase during the last
year of almost 5000
The human family living to-day on earth
consists of about ,45O, ,OO0, 900 individuals.
A Magnolia Qa.) canary bird died recently
aged % years
Twenty-Five years ago there was not u
newspaper in Japan, now there are 1000, a
large majority of them using the Roman
characters.
The Russian National academy will give in
1925 the cash prize of $1,000, 900 for the best
literary work on the Life and Reign Of
Alexander IL
The largest barn in the world is probably
that of the Union Cattle company, Of
Cheyenne, near Omaha. 1t covers five acres,
cost Sl25,0OO, and accommodates 3, ,150 head
of cattle.
A recent visitor to Paris was much struck
with the fact that no house in any street he
went through was numbered thirteen He
says this is owing to the superstition of the
French people concerning the number thir-
teen. 1t is the strongest of all their super
stitions.
A Pittsburg man has invented a cloc ck that
runs for one year without winding.