The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-08-10

l was born an American, live an
American, shall die an American.
Webster.
The skeleton of peddler, murdered
20 years ago at Indianola, Neb., has
just been discovered.
During the month of June $l,sS2,-
600 in gold and silver were coined in
the mint In San Francisco.
Forty-f five gamblers, $3l ,692 in mon.
ey and great amount of gamblers
pharsphernalia were captured in a
raid at Tomoca, w. L.
During 22 weeks of this year SIG
patents were issued by the United
States Patent Office, but of this num-
Der only SO were issued to women,
After an expenditure Of three-quast-
ers of million of dollars for machine
ry and prospecting, Egypt has aband-
oned the search for petrolem.
Grand Island, Neb.. has citizen rs
years old, who is just now through
with his attack of whooping cough.
The yacht Corcnet met but single
vessel during its trip, occupying lO6
days, from New York to San Diego,
Cal.
Ventura, Cal, evidently wishes to
attract Boston immigrants. There are
just 5000 acres in one bean field out
there.
Sir. John Lubbock, of England has
studied the habit, If a Is for 22 years
to discover that their average life is
only 35 days.
A Chicago barber says he charged
delegates to the convention as high as
so cents piece for poor shave, and
all were so excited that none kicked.
Mount Kenia, in Zanzibar, is de-
clared by its first ascendant, Count
Teleka, TO be higher than the neigh.
boring mountain, Kilima Njavo, which
is rated at 1900 feet high.
| At Wolf Island, Lake Ontario, the
shore is covered with dead potato
bugs, which have Leen washed up by
the waves to the depth of two or three
inches.
| A Clinton, Iowa, baby has two
grandfathers and two granimothers,
two great. grandmothers and one great
grandfather, besides parents, to pet
| it to death.
BY the bursting of waterspout
near Hemstead, KY. the other day,
many fields were flooded six to eight
feet deep, and much damage done to
stock, crops and fences. -,s.l.5
"a sweet girl graduate in Heming.
ford Neb., lectured last season on
"The Bright Possibilities of the
Broom" She made grand hit.
Last week she was married to Mr..
Broome.
| Six hundred pounds of quicksilver
were shipped from the Gypsy mine,
San Benito county, California, last
week. The mines are now working
In ore that yields rs per cent of the
shining metal.
| Japan has 250 newspapers, 1000
miles of railway, and 1000 or 5000
| of telegraph line. A Japanese report
or collects news, but does not in any
case write it. He tells what he knows
to news writers.
| Lincoln Chestnut and Edwina Ar.
rowsmith were welded at Graft on,
Neb., last week. The brides reply to
the usual formula, 'Do you take this
Chestnut" was painful strain on the
solemnity of the occasion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Field, of Chel-
sea, Mass, aged respectively SS and
IS, after living in wedock &C years,
are both in fair health, the possession
of all faculties and comfortable com.
petence, and as a consequence, more
than fair spirits.
Mr.. Boyd, of Collinsville, La, must
be set down as fast man, however
exemplary he may be. Lately he
ha"led lumber, built house and NOV
ed into it all in the space of day and
night, which certainly beats the re.
cord up to date.
Il A Dodge county, Nebraska, farmer
has notified whom it may concern that
, "1f any mans cows or oxen gifts il
/ these oats, his or her tail will he cut
off, as the case may be. am good
Christian man, and pays my taxes
but dash man who lets his critters
run lose, say"
3 AT Brunswick, Ga, man NAMED
l Tilton had an alligator that was being
f fed on ice cream. Mr.. Tilton negletc
! ed to give his pet the usual amount o
r cream one hot day last week, and tn,
| neyt morning the reptile was dead.
i A Maine deacon on his return from
quarterly meeting, one Sunday no
long ago, saw a string of trout laying
sn bridge. He sprang from hi
: wagon, seized the trout and drove on
6tly furnishing the Sunday angler fo
. his wickedness.
Eighteen years ago Mr.. Cotton o
Norfolk, Va. paid $4,000 for so acres
of land there--and his neighbors quot
ed proverbs about fool and his mon
ey. Now he has Just sold the lot fol
, $50,000 and they are kicking them
selves because they did not go and Dc
likewise.
', Marungle, Pa, has case of witch
craft on hand, and the whole town sit
up O night to watch 'an animal like
. cat, only larger and without head
+ black and with an extra long tail,
\ which is said to have been expelle,
from bewitched patient by conjur
. or out that way,
A S. A. CHM, residing near Roystor
8 Ga, became frightened in his sleep
: few nights ago. Dreaming burgla
n was trying to break into his house, h
o jumped up, grabbed his pistol, fire
r, at the marauder and walked out of hi
u somnambulism in time to find he wa
it minus finger on one hand.
D. j. II. jerks claims to be the younl
y est grandfather for miles around. ii
'e lives in Montclair, N. J. lie ws
d born March 81, 1850. His son Aus
y ustus, was born January 6. 1871, an