The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-04-24
BITS OF INFORMATION.


July 81, 1904
Date trees seldom bear until they are
| % or 30 years old.
Professor Mason SAYS our continent Ia
inferior to the eastern.
The salary of the Vice President of
the United States is 5000 n year.
dealer in artificial limbs saws that
100000 Americans have lost one or both
legs.
| The largest tonnage passenger steamer
on the Atlantic is the City of Paris
105 800
The central arch of the bridge across
the Mississippi at st. Louis, Mo-. has IL
clear span of 500 feet.
Easter Sunday in 1901 comes on March
20. 1t can never occur earlier than
March, % nor later than April 25.
There are 20 monarches and % repub-
lies in the civilized world to-day. Sixteen
republics are in South America
A full pardon by the Governor re.
stores the convict to citizenship as if he
had never been convicted or imprisoned.
The stone aqueduct in Queretaro, Mex.
leo, uilt in 1888, has "a arches, the
highest Of which is 94 feet from the
ground.
Census tables show that while in 1910
there were 40 cities with population of
10000 or over, in 1880 there were 2s6,
and the number has now increased to
| i40
There was stage Of civilization be.
fore the tinder box came in, and that
wns II time when fire had to be kept in,
and il it went out borrowed from II
neighbor.
The speech Of Claudius, engraved on
plates OF bronze. is yet preserved in the
town hall Of Lyons France 1t was dis.
covered in 1928 on the heights of st. Sc.
Iastian, above the town.
The last battle fought on the soil of
England was at Sedgmoor, July s, 1885,
between the followers of the Duke of
Monmouth. a natural son Of Charles ii,
and the forces of james H.
In every teaspoonful of human blood
there are about 10 600, 0O0, 600 red COR
puscles but only 30, 600, 900 white ones;
the blood Of CLANS, Holsters, and nearly
all other Invertebrates contains no red
cells, Lut only white.
BY aid of the polariscope DR.. Pineus,
of Berlin, claims to be able to detect cer-
tain traces of past emotions in the hairs;
lie explains that violent mental disturb
ances cause the hairs to become decolor.
lied just beneath the skin.
The center of population in 1880 was
80 degrees A minutes s seconds north
and e4 degrees 80 minutes 40 seconds
west-eight miles west by south Of Gin
cinnati 1t has moved so miles in a
generally westerly direction.
Nature produces the light given by
the iirefly ut about one e-four-hundredth
part of the cost of the energy expended
in the candle fame, and at an insignif-
cant fraction of the cost Of electric
devised.
A cold wave is a fall of temperature
in "a hours Of 20 degrees over an area OF
30, 900 square miles. the temperature in
some part of this area descending to 36
degrees; between 1880 and 1890 no less
than SOL cold waves were recorded in
tho United States
Electricity derives its name from the
Greek word amber, electron, because
Thales about 600 B. c. discovered that
amber, when rubbed, attracted light and
dry bodies, and in the twelfth century
the scientific priests of Etruria drew
lightning from the clouds with iron rods.
All watches are said to be compasses;
point the hour hand to the sun, and the
south is exactly half way between the
hour and the numeral XII on the watch;
for instance, suppose 1t is o'clock,
then point the hand indicating Nv to
the sun and ii ON the watch is exactly
south.
When Hadyn received from the Uni
versity of Oxford doctors degree,
which, since 400, had been conferred
OH four persons only, he sent in acknowl-
edgment IL piece Of music, exhibiting IA
perfect melody and accompaniment,
whether read from the top, the bottom.
or the sides.
The word "habit" is one of the most
peculiar in our language. II you take
off the first letter you still have ~ bit y
If you remove the second, the word
"Iit" is still on hand. Decapitate that
by removing 81" and it is still word.
Take of the 'f" and you find the old
''habit' not st" totally destroyed.
A railroad around the world is pos
sibilty of the future which eminent
European engineers are already talking
Of. Russia is building railroad t.
connect st. Petersburg and Kamschatka,
and when that is completed there is little
reason to doubt that in the course OF
time American enterprise will project
road to connect with it.
There are many quaint places in Nor
way The most northerly town in the
world is open to navigation the year
round, owing to the influence OF the
Gulf Stream. Hundreds of cataracts,
towering mountains and beautiful lakes
are sources of delightful surprises. BY
far the most fascinating is North Cape
and a view of the midnight sun.