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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-09
Nutritious Baking Powder.
By PRor. DoREMus, of Bellevue Med.
ical College. N. Y.

1t is q serious problem for the phys
biological chemist to discover the best
method of supplying the human sys-
tenn, especially an exhausted one, with
the requisite amount of phosphate
food for the organism to remain in
health. The phosphate salts are never
wanting in the most nourishing varie-
ties of food. whether vegetable or ami
NAL. They are closely allied to all the
vital functions, are constantly being
eliminated from the body, and must be
replaced by a fresh supply. The tes-
timony Of thousands goes to show that
under the prevalent conditions and
habits of American life, there are few
who are not greatly benefited when
they partake of these same phosphates
as restorative agents. The sales of
phosphate preparations for medicinal
use, or as mild tonic, have assumed
enormous proportions.
On April 22nd, 1856, Prof. E. N.
Horsford secured his letters patent for
the manufacture and use of an acid
phosphate of lime to be incorporated
with starch and bicarbonate of soda,
aud thus serve as a baking powder.
This ia the first instance in which, be-
sides acting as an aerating agent, q
baking powder was to add nutritive
elements to the bread. Phosphate
powders are to.dav the sole exemplifi-
cation of this important principle,
The natural phosphates removed from
the grain in the process OF boiling the
flour are by Horsford's method restored
through the baking powder. While
the residues which all baking powders
leave, except those which consist of
salts which volatilize completely under
the heat of the baking oven, are
Of nature which makes it a matter OF
doubt whether they should be intro
duced into the system. in case of the
phosphate powders the residue is OF
positive value and is not foreign to
the -four, but composed of the same
salts, practically which form the ash
Of cereal grains.--.Scientifc Anseri-
can.
The Old Reliable "Rumford Yeast
Powder" is made by Prof. Horstord's
process.
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The Kaleyala. the great

The Kalevala, the great national
epic poem of the Finlanders, which
Max Miller in his lectures "The Science
of Language places by the side of the
Iliad of Homer, is now for the first
time, in complete form, translated into
English, the translator being DR.. j. M.
Crawford, of Cincinnati. 1t h shortly
to be published in two octave volumes,
the poem being great in magnitude
(nearly $4,000 lines) as we'll Is in
character.
Apart from the literary merit of the
poem, which is pronounced by all
critics to he extraordinary, it has q
curious fascination for American stud
ents of poetry because it is seen, as in
mirror, the inspiration which enabl
ed Longfellow to produce his famous
Indian Edda "Hiawstha.' Indeed
because of the close resemblances in
many points, Longfellow was, by some
critics, upon the appearance of Hia
watha, charged with plagiarism, though
his friends claim that he made nc
more than legitimate use of the liter
ary material which the study of tn,
language and mythology of the Finn
gave him. The present edition viii
for the first time give curious reader
the opportunity of personal investiga
tion, and should the "points of simil
arity" extend 40 greatly as to compre
hend popularity also, the ranslato
will be able to reap small fortune
1t is to be published by John B. Al
den, New York and Chicago.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-09

SILKY rREssEs FROM DEAD MANS CHIN
AFTER THIRTEEN YEARS BURIED.

Carson (Mo) Special to frisco Examiner.
Old-timers will doubtless remember
the death Of Hal Clayton some thirteen
years ago. He was gambler by pro
fession, OF the better class of sports,
and when he died Of fever was buried
in vault In cemetery and his body
placed in o costly metallic oasket un.
der glass case.
His wife, who was frantic with grief
placed her diamonds on his shirt front.
These stones we're valued at $500.
Fearful lest the gems would be taken
from the vault, she placed watch
at the tomb, and II was maintained for
many weeks. Clayton was South
erner, and the body was disposed of
after Southern fashion, above ground.
A few days ago George Dobbs, who
has care of the cemetery, was possess
ed with curiosity to visit Hal Clay
tons tomb, and, securing the keys Of
the vault, took q look at the remains.
He was astonished to find that Clay
tons beard and mustache had grown
under the glass case to such an extent
that they reached below his knees.
The massive beard was rich brown
color, extending in wavy masses over
his body, and having perfectly fresh
healthy appearance, as it might have
had on living man The beard had
been growing in this way thirteen
yeare, and for aught anybody knows
will hold its strange post-mortem vital
ity.
Clayton had a romantic life. He
was engaged to the handsomest young
girl in the South, and left her to seek
his fortune in the West. She became
tired Of his abscence, and, setting ont
to lind him, drited homeless and
friendless from one mining camp to
another like leaf in storm. After
years of this life che met her former
lover, but was 90 changed by her wan
dering life that he refused to marry
her.
After his reputation of his old
sweetheart he became sick, aud when
lying at deaths door abe came to his
bedside and uursed him back to health.
Filled with gratitude at her devotion,
he renewed the affection of his youth
and married her. She proved devot-
ed wife, and when he died she built at
large expense the vault where his re-
mains now lie and in which his rich
brown beard has been growing all
these years. Whether the diamonds
are on his shirt front is not known as
the beard hides the body from the
knees up.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-09

THE CHARACTER GENERALLY DRAWN up
ON IT In uNMrsrAKABLE LINES.

Every one knows that mems passions,
propensities and peculiarities. as we'll
as their oallings, are reflected in their
faces, but it Is only the few who have
made the study Of physiognomy an es-
pecial pursuit who are gifted with the
power of reading those faces. Judges
who have served long terms on the
bench, lawyers in large practice and
doctors Of emineuce possess the power
of interpreting physiognomics more
largely than other people. But any
one can acquire the rudiments of the
art by dint of study.
II is as impossible to disguise face
as hand writing. When the expert
comes the disguise is torn off and the
face tells the true story Of the spirit
inside the body. One only needs to
visit. the penitentiary to realize how
undeniably vice writes its sign manual
on the features. 1t is not the drunk
ard only whose red nose, flabby cheeks
and rheumy eyes betray him; it is the
seusualist whose vice is read in his lips,
the knave whose propensity 10 reveal
ed by the shape of bis mouth, the man Of
violence who is surrendered by bis eyes.
An experienced detective or trained
iailo; seldom needs to ask the crime of
which his prisoner was guilty. He
can tell it by his face
It is quite evident that in the future
the study of phsiognomy is going to be
pursued more vigorously than it has
been. As means of preventing
crime, it may prove invaluable. How
constantly do we hear of men "falling
from grace" as the phrase goes Yet
these !, men must have carried their
crime in their face for a long time.
If any one had been able to read their
features the mischief might have been
sverted. How often are we assured
that this or that criminal enjoyed the
perfect confidence of bis employers and
the public till the very day of his de.
tection; an expert physiognomist
would probably have spotted him long
before. Again, face reading might be
turned to fine accounts in business. II
is we'll known that every mans face is
more or less stamped Ivy the pursuit he
follows. An experienced observer can
generally detect lawyer, or doctor,
or a merchant, or a clerk, or mechan-
io, or a clergyman, by merely studying
his face.
The study might be carried much
farther. The same rule which enables
an observer to distinguish lawyer
from a merchant will, when followed
out, enable keen eyes to separate able
lawyers from lawyers who are incom-
petept, merchants who are going to
make fortune from merchants who
are going to fail. Men often carry
their destinies as well as their character
in their faces. Indeed, the former
depends so largely upon the latter that
it would be singular if it were other
wise. Women, too, will be able to
discriminate among their lovers, and to
pick out the man who will make q
good husband from one who will have
to he dragged into a divorce court.
All the advantages which Fowler mis-
takeul7 told us we were going to de-
rive from the study of pLrenology we
NAV possibly gain from the older and
more MYSTERIOUS science of face read
ing.-,San Francisco Cal.
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Bill Nye Pathetic.
HE RELATES the STORY OF THE FARxrR's
RACE AGAINST TINE.

From the New York world.
"Ive put in fifty years farmin.'
never drank ticker in any form. I've
worked from ten to eighteen hours q
day; been economical in cloze and
never went to show more'n dozen
times in my life raised family and
learned upwards of 200 calves to drink
out of tin pail without blowing all
their vittles up my sleeves. My wife
worked alongside O. me sewin' new
seats on the boys pants skimmin milk
and even helpin' me to load hay. For
forty years we toiled along together
and hardly got time to look into each
others faces or dared to stop and get
acquainted with each other. Then her
health failed. Ketched cold in spring
house, prob'ly skimmin' milk and
washin' pans and scaldin' pals and
spanking butter. Anyhow, she took
10 long breath one day while the
doctor aud me were watchin' her, aud
she says to me, Henry, says she, I've
got a chance to rest, and she put one
tired woreout hand on the top of the
other tired, woreout hand, and I knew
she'd gone where they don't work all
day and do chores all night.
II took time to kiss her then. I'd
been too busy for good while pre-
vious to that, aod then ] called in the
boys. After the funeral it was too
much for them to stay around and eat
the kind of cookin' we had to put up
with, and nobody spoke up around the
house as we used 20. The boys quit
whistlin' around the barn and talked
kind of low to themselves about goin'
to town and gettin a job.
"They're all gone now, and the
snow is four feet deep on mothers
grave up there in the old berryin'
ground"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-09
Thirty Facts Worth Knowing.


The second largest state is Califor.
MIA.
Nebraska is more than twice ths
size of Indiana.
Michigan and Florida are the same
size.
Texas is four times as large as the
New England States.
Dakota is larger than England, Scot,
land and Ireland together.
The population of London, England
is equal to that of Canada, or that of
New York State, including its cities.
Kentucky and Portugal ale about
the same size.
California is nearly five times as
large as Ireland.
The Island of Cuba and the State Of
Tennessee are nearly equal in area.
Brazil is nearly as large as the Uni
ted States but the population of the
latter is sx times that of the former.
The population of Canada, New
York, Ireland and Belgium are abou,
the same.
If the people of Canada and of the
United States were placed in the State
of Texas, the number of persons to the
square mile would be fewer than al
present in China.
The population of Canads is double
that of Australia.
Colorado is as large as New York,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey togeth.
| er.
1t would take ten states as large as
Massachusetts to make state a. large
az Kansas.
There are more people in the cities
F, of New York and Brooklyn than ir
the State of Massachusetts, including
its cities.
There are more people in the City ot
Chicago than in the State of Connects
cut.
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Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Philadelphia & Erie R. R. Divis
ion, and Northern Central
Railway.
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TIME TABLE.

In effect FEB. {, ,sss; Trains leave sunoury
sunday, for Harrisburg and intermediate stations,
arriving at Philadelphia ais p. m. New York,
M Bns%G as soa s sss
shore points. Through passenger coach to
daily except Sunday, for Harrisburg and interme-
sisSe a sSatops s arriving az s.1lRmo Ia
rs rs m. Washington, Was a 's s4b p M. Paror car
sSrSush to and nf balti%ors ''A'As'
Ing S - NJ New sSOai york 7i6 sl' ny
Sleeping car accommodations can be secured at
Harrisburg for Philadelphia and New York On SUN
zs sep1
passengers can remainin sleeper undisturbed unit
$50 haTsdals Ms sz ssisp sssoS MSrSas
al i+ving at Philadelphia sa5 a. m. New York,
y ss M BaltlmOre si1 M Wsshngton $40
this train to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing
ton, and through passenger coaches to Philadel-
phia and Baltimore.
WESTWARD.
1.l0a. m.-Erie Mail daily except sunday, 10
qua srd d intermediate stations, Rochester, Buffa-
10 and Niagara Falls, with through Pullman Pal
ace cars and passenger coaches to Erie and Roch'
s.ss-Nevs Express daily except Sunday fol
lock Haven and intermediate stations
y fof Kane and intermediate stations and Can
g osigua and principal intermediste st stations Ions
| and Parlor car to Wiiliamsport.
$50 p. IN. Fast Line ldaiiysexcept Sunday)for Re
kins and intermsdiate stations with through pas
| senger coaches to Remove and watkins.
9e0 a. m:-sunday mail for Remove and interme
THROUGH TRAINS FOR sUNBlTRY FROM THI
EAST AND SOUTH.
Sunday mail leaves Philadelphia $50 q. n
Harrisburg LAO arriving at sunbury 920 q. m. with
through sieeping car from Philadelphia TO VII
News Express leaves Philadeiphia $50 a. IN.
Harrisburg, $40 a. m. daily except Sunday
arriving at sunoury s's N,ssa,. m r,nress leave,
Philadelphia T. 40 a. m Baltimore 7s0 a. m. dahl
except SiSns sunday as1ylps a. suhSary HSa m
and through passenger coaches from Philsdel.
piFs Fast a1J line ieaVss New York 400 A. M phlade,
phia, l.bO a. M; washington, so a. m. Balti.
more, i0.46 a. m daily except sunday arriving at
from S and ifsSaE
phia, ii.a5 p. m. washington, i6OO p. m. Balti.
Sleeping cars from Philadeiphia, washington and
Baltimore and through passenger coaches from
sUNBURY, HAZLETON 4 WII.KKsBARRR
RAILROAD AND NORTH AND WEST
BB ANCH RAILWAY.
(Daily except sunuay,)
Wilkesbarre Mall leaves Sunbury 9.65 O. m.
arriving al Bloom Ferry 1046 a. m, Wilkes barre
Ego p. IN.
Express East leaves sunbury 5s5 p. m, arriving
az Bloom Ferry 6e6 p M, Wilkes barre 7.bb p. m
sunbury Mail leaves WI lkesbarre 10 20 a. m. arriv-
Ing at Bloom Ferry iIsg a. m, Sunbury le.46 D. 10
Express West leaves Wilkes barre3.06 y. m, ar
a n Insattt tsxyE ~
SUNDAY ONLY.
sunday mall leaves Sunbury 9aN a. m. arriving
AT Bloom Ferry 1915 a. m. Wilkes Barre il:4b a M
Sunday accommodation leaves Wilkes Barre $40
1880 p. m.
cHks 4 PUGH. J.R. WOOD,
oen-hanageF Gen. Passenger ARenl
SITRSCRIRE EOR
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Royal Princes and Their Pipes.
GREAT SMOKERS AT THE GERMAN COURT
THE CROWN PRINCES LOSS.
From the London Referee, February Is.

From the London Referee, February Is.
One of the greatest deprivations
which the Crown Prince has had to
endure is the loss of his pipe. "Unser
Fritz" was always great smoker, and
he dearly loved to blow a cloud from
q big-bowled wooden pipe, which the
Princess Royal carried for him with
her own fair hands. The Crown
Princess unlike Mrs. Carlyle-has al
ways encouraged her husband 10 smoke
at home.
The man who smokes ut home and
whose wife does not object to the smell
of tobacco has the pathway of domes-
tic happin ss rolled and made smooth
for him. Half the misery of married
life has its origin in the lady turning
up her nose at the smell Of a cigar.
The Crown Princess has never made
this mistake, and 30 many pleasant
evenings has she spent with her hus
band at home, she doing her needle
work or reading aloud, and he smoking
his long pipe and feeling beautifully
comfortable and lazy and snug.
Of.late the poor Prince has had his
pipe taken out of his mouth, His all
ment has literally put his pipe out
Not only must he not smoke himself,
but he cannot breathe the air that is
impregnated with tobacco, and so his
SONS when they come to see him have
to smoke out of doors. 1t is to this
fact that San Reno at one time muster
ed among its attractions royal Prince
with briar-root pipe perpetually in
his mouth. Prince Henry, the Crown
Princes second son, smokes his pipe
in the English fashion, and smokes it
morning noon and night. You could
meet. him when he was at San Reno
strolhng shout after breakfast with a
we'll colored English short clay or Guilty
In the afternoon he made just this sac
rifice to fashion-he changed the clay
for briar-root.
It is related of him in San Reno
that, going to church one Sunday
afternoon, he started with his prayer
book under his arm and his briar root
we'll alight in his mouth. A young
English friend of his, who was staying
at San Reno, ventured on a mild re
mcnstrauce. ''My dear boy" said th'
English dandy, "you are not going t.
church with that thing in your mouth
Prince Henry took his pipe out of hi
mouth and looked at it. l beg You
pardon old fellow" he said 81 forgo
it was Sunday" He ran back hom
with the briar-root, and reappeare,
with a meerschaum.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-09
Our New York Letter.
NEW York. Thursday

NEW YORK, Thursday,---,
DEAR Mr.. EDITOR:
The brightest and quaintest idea il
the one the new publication 'Dress' is
advocating, "All ladies should wear
pantaloons." Do you agree with it
AT any rate, your male readers should
know of the N, Y. Standard Pants Co
of 66 University Place, New York
City, who are making to order fine,
woolen pants for So, and send them to
customers by mail. They send to any
address on receipt of 6 cents in stamps
rs samples of cloth TO choose from, q
full set OF mt asurement blanks, fine
linen 80 inch tape measure free aud q
lot of other valuable points. They al.
ways guarantee satisfaction or refund
the money. Tell every reader to try
them. All New York is wild ovel
these 50 pants. Everybody is wear.
ing them.
Yours truly,
A. RoosEvELT.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-09
Archie's SELF Denial" I"
From the Buffalo Express.

From the Buffalo Express
Il young woman teacher in one of
the Episcopal Sunday-sehools a few
Sundays ago had been seeking to con
vey TO the minds of her little charges
some idea of what constitutes proper
observance of the Lenten season.
among other things she told them that
they should give up some of their
pleasures, and to enforce this idea she
asked each what they would let go un-
til Easter. Freddie said he would stor
eating candy, Willie volunteered tc
lock up his checked game of life, Char
ley said he would not 60 to the theatre
and Louis decided to dispense with the
syrup on his pancakes. sand now
Archie" said the teacher, coming tc
the last lamb in her flock, "what pleas
ure are you going to give up!" "I'n
goin' to stop comm to Sunday school,
was the prompt and decided answer
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-09
Saved by a Woman's Bravery.

City Banker-Ruined, ruined /
am to-day worse than penniless!
Wife-On, husband, has the bank
brokenf -
@. B.-Worsel worse than that.
Wife-And has your Chicago in
vestment been swept away, tooi
y. B.-Yes, and more; all your for
tuoe ] was keeping in trust.
Wife-Has it come to that But
cheer up. husband, dear; all will b,
right. We will weather the disaster.
@. B.-No hope; all is lost.
Wife (heroically)-No; not all.
will countermand. the order fr tina
new dress at Madame De Polonaise'
G. B.-Tbank heaven, we are saved
(Tablean).
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An Imperative Necessary.

What pure air is to an unhealthy To-
cality, what spring cleaning is to the
neat houseSeeper, so is Hoods Sarsa-
parilla to everybody, at this season,
The body needs 10 be thoroughly ren.
ovated, the blood purified and vital,
zed, the germs of disease destroyed
Scrofula, Salt Rheum, and all other
blood disorders are cured by Hoods
Sarsaparilla, the most papnlar and sue
cessful spring medicine
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Consumption Surely Cured.

To The EDIToR:- Please inform
your readers that have positive
remedv for the above named disease.
By its timely use thousands of hopeless
cases have been permanently cured. !
shall be glad TO send two bottles OF
my remedy free to any of your readers
who have consumption, if they will
send me their express AMI postcfiice
address. Respectfully, T. A. Slooum,
n. G., isi Pearl St., N. Y..(ssnevem.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-09
Eggs as a Tribute to the KING.

Formerly at'the approach of Easte,
all the hen roosts of France were ian.
sacked for the largest eggs, which
were brought as tribute to the king.
At the conclusion Of the Easter high
mass in the chapel of the Louvre lack
eys brought into the royal cabinet
pyramids of gilded eggs, placed in
baskets adorned with verdure and the
chaplain, after having blessed them
distributed them in the presence of hi,
most Christian majesty to all the per
sons about the court.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-09

The Standard Authority in England
for druga and their uses, The British
Pharn,acopsia, speaks highly of the
value of Ponds Extract for diseases Of
the mucous membrane, for Piles and
for subduing Hemorrhages.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-09
STATIONS.

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Reading Railroad for Tamanend, Tamaqua, Will
Transport, Sunbury, Pottsville, etc. At Northum
berland with p. & K. Div. p. II. r. for Harrisburg
Lock Haven, Emporium Warren, CORY and Erie
". +. HALSTEAD, Gen. Man.,
Scranton, Pa
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CURES ALL HuMoRs.

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