The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-07-29
,,rs OF IMPORTATION.

Clocks are rcRaioeu Us Suiioo't'cS uy
the IIindus.
" Tl,ere are nearly $1,000 Germous in
Kansas.
From 90 900 to 100000 hairs grow in
human scalp.
A silh.worm's thread is one-thousandth
mart of an inch.
The number Of Jews in Russia to-day
fs about 5,25o,O ,O00.
The Australian dog and the Egyptian
.hepherd dog never bark.
A child Of three years old is half the
height 1t will ever reach.
A good sewing machine is supposed tc
do the work OF twelve women.
An ornithologist says that birds frc.
ouently commit suicide.
The earth is the greatest distance from
the sun on the morning Of July 8.
The average age at which women
marry in civilized countries is set down
at 25.5 years.
The combined debt of all the nations in
The world amount to more than $50, ,000,.
100000
Kansas is one of five States in which
the mother has absolute control of her
children.
Lake Erie produces more fish to the
square mile than any body Of water in
tue world.
The hottest place in the United States
is in Arizona, along the line of the South
ern Pacific.
Two.thirds of the Chiefs Of Police of
American cities are Irishmen by birth or
extraction.
During the last ten years there have
been $50 negroes and 378 whites lynched
in the South
The Jerusalem artichoke, native of
Brazil, was introduced into this country
in the Seventeenth century.
:. London existed long before tho Ro.
mans visited England. Its name is de-
rived from Llyn-Din. THE Town on the
Lake"
In the Chinese language the same word
may be either noun, adjective, verb or
adverb. The language is monosyllabic.
A Photographic chart of the heavens
is in preparation. Within four years it
is thought that $4,000, 900 stars will be
mapped,
1t is estimated that over 100, ,000,0 900 of
people now speak the English language;
owe 90, 900, 900 German, and over Al ,000,-
600 French.
Professor Marshall tells US that the oak
in general way requires to grow from
100 to 200 years before it is fit to cut for
large timber.
The earth at the equator moves at the
rate of a mile in 3.6 seconds, four-tenths
of a second slower than the velocity OF
cannon ball.
The frog, owing to its peculiar struc.
open; and if it were forcibly kept open
the creature would die of suffocation.
The editor of this department owns
copy Of a geography which was pub
iished in 1549 One of the main plates
is mermaid with double tail.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Red Sea is for the most part blue.
II gets its name from the fact that por.
tions of it are covered by minute animal
cua which dye the surface of the water
red where they float.
Mount st. Elias, in Alaska, was put
down ten years ago as being something
over $4,000 feet high. The very latest
reports show it to be between $4,000 and
10000 feet in height.
The Steinways are making asounding-
board for o piano of aluminium as an
experiment. If successful, this will
greatly reduce the weight OF the pom
derous household articles.
The custom of kissing hands as mark
of respect is said to be the most ancient
and the most universal. From the re-
motest times, through the ages of Greece
and Rome to the present day, it has ex.
isted.
Forks were not introduced into Eng
land before tile reign of James l.. The
English derived this piece of refinement
from the Italians The use of forks
was at first much ridiculed in England
as an efemiuate piece of luxury.
gentleman in Ireland recently, on
cutting open a potato at dinner, found
in the center half sovereign, around
which the vegetable had grown. Though
discolored, it was in good state of pres
ervation, and is now pretty ornament
to watch chain.
Nearly all the royal personages of Eu-
rope are cousins, and not very far re-
moved, as it has been laid down by
German genealogist that every crowned
head of Europe, barring Turkey, is de-
Scended from Que of two sisters who
lived about $50 years ago.
There are many people now living who
will have only one birthday TO celebrate
for nearly twelve years to come. This
strange circumstance is due to the fact
that they were born on February 29th,
aud to the further fact that the year
1900 will not be leap year.-New York
Tribune.
1t now turns out that the Atlantic, and
not the Pacific, is the higher of the two
oceans, and that in place Of the differ