The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
CURIOUS THINGS OF LIFE.

Miss Frankie Raymond, an year old Chi
cago girl, has three lion cubs TO play with.
The Rev. p. s. Twitty, of Cuthbert, Ca,
is organizing an anti-kissfng society In that
town.
A jackson county, Ca, horse can take of
his own saddle and bride, open his stable
door and feed himself.
A 15-year-old boy Of Fitchville, Conn, has
trained six sheep TO harness and drives them
daily about the village.
After Southern Californians have scooped
out the insides of some of their Chill squashes
they successfully use the rind as rowboats.
II. c. Dodge, of Bar Harbor, Me-, called to
see President Harrison the other day, and
when the president refused to see him, he
tainted
The multiplication of 9s7,654, 1921 by AZ
gives a, ,444, Al, ,445. Reversing the order and
multiplying los, 400 TS0 by 45, result equally
odd is obtained, 5,555, ,555,50a
There is an old negro in Quitman county,
Ca, who has never owned a lock He has
been for years mailing bar Of wood across
the door Of his crib every night.
In u Charity fair recently held at Vienna,
In the Princess d'Aremberg's palace, an Eng
lish millionaire paid 10000 aorins for the
pleasure of kissing one cheek of the princess.
Only l5 per cent. of the inhabitants of Par
eguay can read and write. According to
Consul Hill the women do the work, and the
men do the smoking, gambling and cock
fighting,
Tho largest family in Arkansas is that of
W. D. Green and wife, Of Murfreesboro, Pike
county. They were married in 1885 and have
had twenty-three children, eighteen Of whom
are living
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bank, Chiba, Japan, is charged with secreting
the funds of the bank and been held for trial
He started for Canada, but was caught be-
fore he got out of Japan.
According to the Oxford county, Me-, Ad-
vertiser, two little girls, one and the other
12, belonging to Edwin Boynton, of Brown
field, plowed and narrowed an acre of land in
one day with yoke of oxen.
Demas Barnes, who is said to have left at
least $5,000,000, began his business life in
Brooklyn on salary of $50 year and his
board AT the age Of twenty he had saved
enough to go into business for himself
John d. Davis, farmer residing at New
Diggins, Ills, put his milk cans on the wood
| pile to dry and the reflection of the suns
rays from them set the wood on fire, doing
| considerable damage to his house and barn.
French fisherman who was reported lost,
and whose property was divided up, returned
all right after an absence Of two years. but
the French courts held that he Is dead, and
| he has got to take a new name and be some
body else
| Eliza Jane Starr, an Oakland, Cal, widow,
has petitioned the supreme court to increase
her allowance Of pin money. Her husband
used to give her 81 800 per month, and she Is
now only receiving 81 600, which she claims
Is not sufficient for her incidental expenses.
A Montgomery farmer has colt that has
learned to ring the farm bell by catching the
rope in his teeth and prancing back and forth.
He knows, too, when to ring it-at aybreak
10 awake the farm hands, and at noon, to cal
them to dinner, and is never five minutes late
or early.
| The story is told of South Carolina col
pred couple who were married under diff
culties. They walked twenty miles to get a
license and walked ten more to a minister
One was II and the other l6 They are
happily married now, and, despite theil
tender years, are getting along nicely.
| An American painter, living In Florence
has painted big picture Of Satan SO ''realis
ideally" that when a lot Of young people wh'
went TO see it began TO dance, the shaking o
the canvas made the figure have such a sem
blance of demoniac laughter that the dancer
would not continue until the picture was GOV
| cred.
An odd snake was discovered by o. F. vii
liams, of Patillo, Ga. The body of this snak
is no larger than very small knitting needle
yet it is fifteen inches long. 1t seems to be
very lively snake, and is coiled around som
plants in a jar of water. The movements c
the little fellow and the fact that it remain
most Of the time under water would indicat
that 1t is a variety of water serpent.