The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-10-03
aLBAMINGs.

Joseph Cook has Just returned from
long lecture in the Summer schools,
extending "a far west as Minnesota.
and is reported to have had great aud
brilliant audiences. Mr.. Cook has had
5000 miles to travel in the severest
heat of Summer, and is now at Cliff
Seat, Lake George, engaged in editor
isl work. He is under contract to
give thirty lectures on the Pacific
Coast in the early Autumn.
People who have been abroad on
Hamburg steamers are full of praises
of a new water, Saarbrunner il is call.
ed, something like Apollinaris, but
much more delightful. 1t came f. ON
the Hartz Mountains. A number of
Philadelphians have brought large
quantities of it home with them.
A new idea in decorative shades for
lamps is to take the crown out of a
straw hat and decorate the brim and
sides with flowers or paste figures on
them, so that the light will throw
them in silhoutte. Clever fingers cut
out the Japanese dancers from adver-
tising bills and group them on strip
of bunting with musical instruments
and odd leaves and flowers. The out
lines are buttonholed with yellow wool
and common lace is sewed to the
edge all round
1t is on record that the Vanderbilts
once gave check for 100000 in a
tremendous railway transaction, but
that record is now beaten by the check
for fl,250,000 said to be drawn in
London by the Indian and Peninsula
Railway Company.
The New York Tribune tells of 8
fastidious lady who drove to her
butchers and told that individual that
whenever he or his assistants spoke tc
her through the telephone they must
wash their hands and put on a coat
SIT is highly indelicate," she said, "for
you to speak to lady with uuclear
hands and in your shirt sleeves, and
unless you cease doing so l shall have
to trade with the other butcher per
SON.
The rate of mortality in England
for the year 1888 was one passengel
killed in 6,942 ,335 and one passenger
injured for every 220.024 carried.
A family by the name of Moore
living six miles west of Columbus
Ind, has peculiar and Distinguishing
family mark running through three
generations. AT reunion held re
Gently it was learned that of twenty
seven persons, which represented tn,
three generations, nineteen had 81,
toes on each foot.
A remarkable occurrence happene,
in Lewistown, Me. A little 15 year
old boy was in swimming near tn,
falls while the Cowan mill was shu
down He started for shore just as
started up. The extra flow of wate
threw him over and carried him tow
ard the falls Before he could recove
he was swept over. He was not
strange to say, injured to any exten
He swan to the bar and was rescue
by boy.
There is birds home and hospit,
in Oxford street, London, where peopl
can take their pets to be nursed an
cared for. The proprietor says bird
suffer chiefly from consumption an
asthma-diseases brought on by th
birds being placed in draughty wine
ows. Consumption is helped on b
the birds being Unfortunately fed o
all sorts of things that are unsuitabl
as food. Birds are very fond of lux
uries, and the more you give them tn
more they will eat. When bird
going off into a consumption it is a
ways eating. He pointed to one an
said ale is in a consumption, an
he will be like ball of down to-mo
row-all puffed out. Physio wi
sometimes arrest the disease"
Newstead Abbey, which Washin,
ton Irving so lovingly and perfect
described, has been for many years
private residence. At one time IL
estate of Lord Byron, it was sold
Colonel Wildman, who is said to ha,
spent more than a million dollars
restoring the buildings and beautif
ing the grounds. 1t is now the hon
of Colonel Webb, the friend and cor
panion of DR.. Livingstone, aud it w
here that the great missionary wrote h
books. VI course many lnterestlr
memories cluster around the histor
old abbey. 1t was here that Lo
Byron used to see ghosts at night
his looking glass, and his bedroom
the old haunted tower is still pointC
out to visitors. Not long ago, Jo
quin Miller, being guest of Colon
and Mrs. Webb, in spirit of roma
tic adventure spent few nights
this chamber, declaring that if Il
ghost of Byron did not appear h
faith IN the temperance of the de'
would be greatly shaken. An accou
of what really did appear, togeth
with much interesting informrtiC
about the abbey, is contained in an a
ticle entitled "Nights at Newstead A
bey," which Mr.. Miller will contribu
to HARPER's MAGAZINE for Octobt
The article will be illustrated fro
photographs, and drawings by Anne