The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-08-30
THE COLUMBIAN AND DEMOCRAT BLOOMsBURG. COLUMBIA
TOPICS UF THE DAY.

A number OF the Brooklyn capital
lists have decided to open hotel on the
New York plan in PARIS. They be.
lieve it will attract American customers
as well as the trade of English persons
who have visited the United States. II
it does there is money in it.
The latest use of photography is TO
make cannon ball take picture of its
own wabblngs. An arrangement
something like camera is to be placed
In the forward end of the proiectile,
aud when it is fred directly at the sun
the light traces lines upon the plate,
from the direction of which it can be
told whether the projectile has kept in
one position or has wavered to and fro
during its fight. D
Fifteen Presidents have visited New
England as Presidents, reckoning the
two Adamses and Pierce among tie
number, and tour went thither before
they became Presidents. These are the
facts as they are shown by the records.
New England and the Presidents have
become pretty well acquainted
The Austrian archbishops are prob
ably the most highly paid in the world.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna
has only about $4,000 year, but the
Cardinal Archbishop of Ulmutz has
100000, the Cardinal Archbishop of
Prague has S175,0OO, the Archbishop
of Eriru has 100000 aud the pri-
mate of Hungary, the Cardinal Arch
bishop of Grau, has 100000 year.
The total original cost of the British
war ships of all sorts at the last Spit
head review, paraded for the inspection
of the Emperor, wasfl6,S53, ,765. The
number of ships present was seventy
three; Of torpedo boats thirty-eight.
The weight OF metal contained In the
heavy guns was 5000 tons. The
tonnage was approximately 100000
tons. Five hundred aud sixty-nine
heavy guns, irrespective of quick 'firers
and machine guns, composed the arm
ament.
Spokane Falls is recovering rapidly
| from the effects of the great fire within
her borders The chief baker of the
city resumed business the day after the
| fire. Having no sign he hoisted
pitchfork above the ridge pole of the
''shack" he was living in, with a loaf
of bread stuck on each tine. A tea
merchant resumed business with similar
expedition, although his entire outfit
consisted only of two or three packages
of tea, two or three sacks of coffee, a
table, mill and pair of scales.
DIR. Brown-Sequard is an American.
His father, Capt Edward Brown, of
the American Navy, was a Philadel-
phian and married French woman on
the Island of Mauritius named Srquard.
He and his descendants took the name
Brown-Sequard. The distinguished
scientist, whose Elixir of Youth is
making sensation, was their eldest
child. He was educated in France
but was afterwards professor at Harv-
ard and practiced medicine in Phila-
delphia for some years subsequent to
1873. He was married twice, his first
wife being Miss Fletcher, of Boston,
relative of Daniel Webster.
The somewhat unsafe belief that our
fuel products are inexhaustible will be
strengthened by the news of the dis
covery of rich coal deposits in the
Rocky Mountains. Professor McGee,
of the United States Geological Survey,
says that calculation aa to the guam
tity of anthracite coal in the country
and the probable consumption leads to
the conclusion that such deposits will
be- exhausted within century, while,
judging from the known supply, btu
minous coal will not last longer than
three or four centuries. 1t is altogether
probable however, that great veins of
undiscovered bitumlnous coal may yet
be tapped
The Navy Department has ordered
that the work of getting the sloop-of-
war Galena ready for service in Hay
tian waters be pushed forward as rap
idly as possible. 1t is said that Rear
Admiral Gherardi, who is now at Port.
au Prince with the veteran Kearsarge.
in anticipation of General Hyppolite's
overthrow of President Legit me, ap
prehends that Port-a u-Prince will be- !
come scene of terrible slaughter and
riot, and that in order to protect the
lives and property of Americans there
a larger force than he has available on
the Kearsarge will need to be landed. |
International law would only sanction
the landing of men to protect the Uni
ted States Legation and Consulate, but
graver exigencies may arise, and it is
desirable to be ready 70 meet hem.
The Dramaits Pers,nae in the now
celebrated Terry - Broderick duel
numbered thirteen. The duel was
fought early on the morning of Sept
embsr 13, 1859, within ten miles of the
centre of San Francisco. David S
Terry, the challenger, was accompanied
to the field by Calhoun Bsuham, a law
yer, and Thomas Hayes, County Clerk
OF San Francisco, as seconds; Samuel |
IL. Brooks, then Comptroller of State
elect, now United s. Sub-Treasurer at
San Francisco, as field concselor and Dr. |
William Hammond and w. d. Aylette
as surgeons. ID. w. Perley, whose
busy intermeddlihg really precipitated
the fatal meeting, was also of the party.
With David 9. Broderck came David
ID. Cotton and Leonidas II iskel as SEC
onds, Ex-Congressman Joseph O. Nc |
Kibbin as field counselor and d.. Fred |
erick Won Loehr as surgeon. Bernard |
LagYarde, French gunsmith acted as
armorer to load the pistols. Every one
in attendance except the armor were
Democrats. OF Terry's retinue all ex-
cept "Tom Hayes" were "chivalry
wing Democrats as they were called
while Broderick's supporters were
known as Douglas or anti. LOGON