The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-07-27
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wo barrels of apples and silver dol
ar.
There is not a cross eyed base ball
player In the country. 1t is general
that cross-eyed man
would irretrievably hoo-doo the game.
An Erie County, New York, physi-
nan issued a certificate stating that
,he cause of little girls death was
Of the lungs"
Justus Schwab, the notorious New
FORK Socialist, is one of the fugitives
from military service in Germany am
nestled by Emperor Frederick's pro-
clamation.
The North China Herald says that
agents of the Panama Canal made ar
to kidnap $4,000 Anname-
30 coolies to work at Panama, but the
enterprise failed.
Mrs. z. L. Collins who is employed
at the Dead Letter office at Washing
ton at a large salary to decipher
"blind" handwriting, can read every
known language except Russian and
Chinese.
Matthew Arnold drew a pension
from the British Civil List. The PEN
zion lapsed at his death, but it is
understood that Queen Victoria will
be asked to continae the pension to
Mr.. Arnold's widow.
The cornflower that was the favor
ite of Kaiser William-the blue "bach-
elor's button of this latitude--is said
to be the badge of the Liberal party in
Belgium, while the red poppy is that
of the Conservative or Clerical party.
As an evidence of the progress that
modern ideas are making in japan, it
is stated that that country is now
building thirty-four new railroads, at
a cost Of over $4,000, and it has hun
dreds of miles of railroads already
built.
The old Hohenzollern curse that no
king was to be succeeded by his Oldest
son, and the heir was always 10 have
some malformation or damaged limb,
has been broken, and even the most
superstitious have begun to doubt the
SPELL
John Hutchinson, the only brother
left of the once famous Hutchinson
family of singers, now lives at Lynn,
Mass, and is as earnest worker for
temperance and women suffrage as the
family were in the cause of the slave.
The two-year-old son of Bohemian
farmer living near Oakdale, Neb.. fell
into a dry we'll seventy feet deep, and
was there sixty hours before he was
rescued. When taken out the lad ap-
peared to be none the worse for the
adventure.
Out in Sydney, Australia, according
to report, if you want to use the tele-
phone, YOU must ring the person up
with whom you wish to communicate
and then take a cab and go and see
him. An answer by telephone Is
never expected.
Mrs. Lille M. Pavy, of London Eng
land, is a commercial traveller now vi
sitting the Western States in the inter-
est Of an English house. She travels
alone and finds that in this country q
woman does not need an escort to pro-
tect her from annoyance.
Senator Muruaga, the Spanish
Minister at Washington, sometime age
presented Mexican opals tot three young
ladies', two of whom have since been
married, and the third is engaged. Sc
it seems there is really something il
the ancient superstition concerning the
ill luck attached to the opal.
There rs said to be blind jewele
in Bradford, Pa, who is able to repair
iewelry and watches entirely through
his sense of touch. The blindnes
came upon him after he had become
proficient workman, and then, by cul
tivating the sensibility in his finge
ends, he oyercame in great measur
his lack of eye.sight. This is certainl
a most remarkable instance.
The pony ridden by the late Primo
y Imperial of France when he receives
& his "baptism of fire" at Ssarbrucl
during the Franco-Prussian war hs
Just come to sudden end, like its un
g fortunate master. After Sedan th
e pony was bought by German baro
. and was kept on his estate in Silesi
r for his children to ride. Recently
" fell down on slippery road and brok
e its leg and had to be shot.
4 The emancipation of slaves is pr
!: crossing rapidly in Brazil. There sti
n remain about $500 black bondmen
IL Rio Janeiro, but 1t is proposed to libe
J ate these on the Goth of June, in CO
u nection with the celebration OF II
Emperor's return from his protracte
a tour abroad. In other parts of tt
Brazilian Empire the planters are 81
10 ting free their slaves in large numbe
= and paying them wages for the VOL
% performed.
Herman Gottschalk, New Yo
a merchant, possesses one of the rare al
At valuable coins of King Solomon's tiI
known as a holy shekel. 1t is
ID bronze and gold, about the size of
ordinary copper cent, and derives
q name from the fast that it was on
an useu lubluS tuo oiu tcInpio ~ oOi u'
in lem on certain festival days, Got
If chalk is said to have been offered Is
al for it by the authorities of the An
ne quarian Depal tment of the Britt
an Museum.
" Roscoe Conkling was strongly aver
~ to being interviewed, but his freedt
W in general conversation often led
ot his being victimized without his kno
Nv ledge. When Sullivan and Ryan b
81 Ir their famous meeting in Madison G
~ ~ den the ex-senator occupied one of I
VI, press seats. While awaiting the /;
~ pearance of the pugalistic stars
~ ohatted freely with those around hi
ls' and the next day one of the afterno
III papers had a column interview W
en- HIM, in which the whole range of a
W 70 letic sports was discussed in peculi
oS %. ly happy manner.
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,nt AUTHOR OF 'PLAY BALL