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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-07
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III his book on Abyssinia Sir Samuel
Eaker gives the following account OF
'he capture of a hippopctamus. After
9 long chase the animal had left the
RIVER. and riuch to the disappointmen
of his pursuers had disappeared. But
one of the knowing attendants ex-
pressed his firm conviction that the
''hippo" would soon be seen again.
This prediction was fulfilled much
sooner than the most sanguine had ex-
pected. At a distance of nearly half q
mile. says the writer, we saw the ami
NAL emerge from the jungle, and
descend at fun trot to the bed of the
river, making directly for the first
rocky pool, in which we had previous
ly seen herd of hippopotami.
Accompanied by the old howarti
(hippo-hunter) we walked quickly
toward the spot; he explained to me
that must shoot the harpooned hippo,
as we should not be able to secure him
in the usual method by ropes-nearly
all our men being absent from camp
upon other duties.
Upon reaching certain pool, which
was about hundred and thirty yards
in diameter, we were Immediately
greeted by the hippo, who snorted and
roared as we approached, then he
dived, and the buoyant float, upon
which the man with the harpoon was
stationed, ran along the surface, mark
ing his course in the same manner as
the cork of trimmer with pike
upon the hook.
Several times he appeared, but as he
invariably faced us, could not obtain
q favorable shot. / therefore sent the
old hunter round the pool, and he,
swimming the river. advanced to the
opposite side. and attracted the atten-
tion of the hippo, who immediately
turned toward him.
This afforded me a good chance, and
fred steady shot behind the ear, at
about seventy yards, with single-bar-
relied rife.
As usual with hippopotami, whether
dead or alive, he disappeared beneath
the water at the shot. The crack of
the ball and the absence of any splash
from the bullet told me that he was
hit; the float remained perfectly sta
tionary upon the surface. I watched
it for some minutes--it never moved;
several heads Of hippopotami appeared
and vanished in different directions,
but the float was still; it marked the
spot where the grand old bull lay dead
beneath. =
When the men reappeared they swan
out, regardless Of crocodiles, to the
spot where the animal had gone down,
and securing the rope attached to the
harpoon dragged the body Of the
hippo to the shore.
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POLAR BEARS KEEP COOL.
Tropical Animals In Captivity Suffer Most
During the Heated Term.

Tropical Animals In Captivity Suffer Most
During the Heated Term.
"It will surprise most people" said
Superintendent A. E. Brown, of the
Philadelphia geological garden, to
Record man, ITO learn that the polar
bear stands the hot weather of the dog
days in this locality better than the
African lion. On hot days the lion will
get of his feed; the polar bear will not.
The tropical animals in the garden"
continued the superintendent, ARE the
ones mostly affected by the extreme
heat Of midsummer, strange as it may
appear. I suppose the reason of it is
that the heat here is more moist than
that Of the tropics, and, as it were, Of
a different character. Whatever NOR
tality occurs among our animals dur
ing heated term is mostly among the
tropical animals, especially the African.
In hot weather have watched tho
polar bear go into his tank, and then,
instead Of lying in the shade, extend
himself in the direct rays Of the sun,
where the water on his skin would
evaporate. He found out for himself,
suppose, that evaporation causes q
lower temperature. Again, II is SOME
what astonishing, at first, that our
polar bear should suffer sometimes as
he does from the severe cold Of win
ter. have seen him shivering on one
of those bitterly cold days, when the
sky was overladen and the air full of
moisture. The moisture was evidently
what affected him. In the Arctic re-
gions 1t is SO cold that the moisture is
frozen out of the air. Birds do not like
the heat. 1t makes them perch with
drooped wings Heat affects not only
the animals in the garden, but the
finances Of the garden itself. Adiffer-
euce Of ten degrees in the thermome-
ter, say If it is ninety-fve instead of
etghty-fve, means a loss of several hun
dreds Of dollars in our gate receipts
for the day"
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Good at Figures.

Teacher-You say, Jimmie, tha,
father bought a horse for 5000 and
sold him for $25o; now, how much
did he lose?.
Jimmie-About 5000.
"Why Jimmie, I'm surprised. There
isn't another scholar in the class who
would not have given a correct an
swcr." ..
"There amt one of them what
knows anything about it. The horse
kicked SIoo setter to death. He
smashed new buggy SO the maker
did't know it. He broke pap's leg
and cracked two ribs for our Jersey
COW. Now let the other boys figure
that out and see what they get. De-
tr0a Free Press. q, .r..
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An American Girls Joke.

A mischievious American girl was re-
Gently in Dresden, when the stolidity Of
ths sentinels pacing up and down like
automatons attracted her notice. She
was seized with sudden desire to test
this cast-iron rigidity, and, waiting
until the sentry had turned his back
she slipped into his box. When he
came back, she popped out her heac
and said: "Boo" The soldier dropped
his muslSet and bolted, while the proud
American girl, having routed a portion
of the German army, demurely re-
joined her friends. The emperor hear !
of the incident and expressed desii'~,
to see the young woman. but She d.
clined to enter into an amnesty VITA
q conquered power.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-07

Allow me to add my tribute to the
efficacy of Ely's Cream Balm. was
suffering from a severe attack of in
fluenza and catarrh and was induced
to try your remedy. The result was
marvellous. | could hardly articulate,
and IN less than twenty four hours the
catarrhal symptoms and my hoarse-
ness disappeared and l was able to
sing heavy role in Grand Opera with
voice unimpaired. strongly recon-
mend it to al, singers. VIM. H. Ham,
ilton, Leading Basso of the c. d. Hess
Grand Opera Co.
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give as faithfully in dues as in work.
Faithful service is faithful giving.
4th. That we emphasize the need
OF county organization and have county
conventions, thus preparing our bows
and girls for intelligent work whe n
they come to the State n'etings.
5th. That we ur,,e that Demorest
Contests be inserted in our plan of
work as the most effectual method of
creating public opinion.
9th. That the Legion be urged to
make more prominent the pernicious
influence Of tobacco, and that efforts
DC made to circulate the paper called
Init Tobacco Gem, and form "Anti-
Tobacco" clubs.
9TH. That all Legions take the
Young Crusader, and the graduates
the Adydnce Guard.
MRS. WALTER, !
J. M. EWING. Com.
M. r. CoNKLINc.
Committee on resolutions asked
that the vesper hour of prayer be
faithfully remembered by our workers
They also extended hearty thanks to
the citizens of Philipsburg for their
hospitality and to the committee on
decorations and arrangements.
Thursday evening the graduating
exercises were given and all who took
part acquitted themselves in credita-
BILE manner. The music by the Bloss-
burg Quartet and Epworth League
Quartet was excellent.
Diplomas and seals were presented
to sixty graduates. Philipsburg hav.
ing the largest number received the
diploma banner.
ANNIE &. TREsCoTT,
Supt. Millville Legion.
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Experiment Station Notes.

The results of some experiments up.
on the comparative digestibility of
green corn fodder, and Of the same
material field cured and ensilaged, are
presented in the Forthcoming report
of the Station. These results, when
compared with those of similar expert.
ments at this station AMI elsewhere,
modify some previous conclusions as
to the influence Of ersilage upon the
digestibility of corn. Contrary to the
generally accepted opinion, 1t was
found that in certain cases the process
Of ensilage increased the digestibllity
Of the woody fiber of the corn. 1t
was also found, however, that this re-
suit was only reached when the amount
OF fermentation and consequent loss
in the silo was excessive, and that
under more normal conditions, both
ensilage and field curing somewhat de-
crease the digestibility of corn. Evil
dence is constantly accumulating that
the undoubted great value of ensilage
IN progressive farming is not due to
any mysterious action of the silo
upon the fodder, but is an economic
advantage arising from the facts, first,
that the corn crop produces a very
large amount Of food per acre, and,
second, that the silo preserves this food
with comparatively little lost in pala
table and succulent condition, so that
it is eaten with little or no waste.
The last legislature passed an act,
which has been approved by the Gov
ernor, appropriating the sum of $1,000,
a year for two years to the Experiment
Station "For the purpose of conduct.
ing experiments and Investigations in
the culture, curing and preparation
of tobacco" These experiments,
which have already been initiated at
two points in Lancaster County are to
be under the management of the To
bacco Growers Society Of Lancaster
County and such other responsible as
sociations as may care to engage in
such work, but sub ect to the direction
and control of the Station. The ac
tual work of experimentation is to be
carried on by the respective associa
tions, but the analysis and investiga
tions connected Herewith are to be
made by the Station and the results o
the experiments published in its an
nual report. 1t is further provided
that no part of the appropriation shal
be used for the purchase of land, anc
that experiments shall be carried Or
under the act in not less than two, mol
more than five separate localities. Pro
vision is also made for the publication
of results in the form of bulletins, one
copy of each Of which is to be sent tc
every newspaper in the State.
The legislature also Included in th'
appropriations for the Pennsyl-
vania State College the sum of $4,000
per year for two years for the curren
expenses of the Agricultural Depart
ment of the College. This appropria
ton is for the teaching work of the
College, and not for the experimental
work in agriculture.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-07

In old times it seemed to be thought
that a medicine must be nauseating to
be effective. Now, all this is changed.
Ayers Sarsaparilla, one of the most
powerful slteratlves, is agreeable to
most palates, the flavor being by no
m cans medicinal.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-07
A Battle for Blood

Is what Hoods Sarsaparilla vigorously
fights, and it is always victorious in
expelling all the foul taints and giving
the vital fluid the quality and quantity
of perfect health. 1t cures scrofula,
salt rheum, boils and all other troubles
caused by impure blood.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-07

Hoods Pills cure all liver ills. 2sc.
Sent by mail on receipt Of price by
c. I. Hood & Co., Apothecaries, Low
ell, Mass. ....
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OUR WORLDS FAIR BEVERAGE.

The most healthful and popular drink or the
age.
THE proper drink for both table and firesde
now. within the reach OF all. Every thrifty
housewife can provide for her home, grape, or
ange, pear cherry, apple banana and pineapple
elders at the small expense OF fifteen cents per
gallon. Keep your husbands and sons at home
by preparing FOR them those delightful and
harmless drinks thereby saving the money
that might possibly find Its way into the sa-
looms. II only takes ten minutes to make any
one OF these delightful drinks. Enclose 10 cents
for one, or 80 cents for seven OF the "Frut cider
Recipes. Address MS NOVELTY CO.
3i53 Calimot Ave-, Chicago, III.
6-l6-tf.
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promise.
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Novl, ci Tie compromise, ifco.npcomisc
It IS ia bc, is regarded as satisfactory
by the silver .non. First IL does not
provide Tor bonds ~ providing FOR
tba rajemnti0r Of notes OF ali G,scriD-
ions q: denominations below SO, and
tho REISSUE Of denomination OF $40 and
over, and the prohibition Of the coiil-
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~ Ircil "a 1.ict.

An impossible gull yawnod between
thoir hearts. She sat in low wicker
chair b. ttio window while lie leaned
rooaily against tic lnantai. il WAS
rcJ large apartment tut The gulf be-
tween their hearts could cot have been
less than fourteen feet in width, as the
crow t,ies There we're tcars in his
voice as he spoke. Il can never by
Il supreme exercise of muscular activity
lie Swallowed q few sob3, love an
other. > Then her hands were twired
tightly together, iii yor speak truly,
l DONE see that You have any further
use for this large diamond ring After
toe interchange Of conventional civil
ties usual upon sucn occasions lie witt
Detroit Tribune.
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NEWS ITEMS.

Charles Magram waS arrested on d
charge CT having embezzlcd s2.:S0 %
from the Toledo co. Typographical
union
The famous Cra1docis murder case
has begun at parkersburg, !" Va.
Over Efty witnesses have been sum-
moned.
President sattley ana Cashier Oar
ragh have been indicted at Kansas City
for defrauding the Kansas City Safe
Deposit Co.
The Manchester cotton mills, about
three miles east Of TT Worth, lex
burned Thursday morning. The loss
viii reach 5000
Two boats OF The fishing feet we're
capsize1 by the heavy seas OF rns bar
1T Charleston. s G., nnd tirc OF The
crc,, drowned. all Negroes.
Tho Edgar Thomson steel works a:
ijraddocls, Pa, Will resume wori1 III all
DEPARTMENTS on the 10th. Some OF the
men viii receive ar increase and othcr3
slight reduction
Mrs Frank Moore told the officers at
TnIiarapoli5 that her son murdered
John Young there in April last. ne
mother kept her secret until her aoll
beat her shanelu!ly.
1T Marion, Ind. Abe stump and
Frank Stevens were discovered steal
irr potatoes and we're fred upon ~ IN
known parties. stump was killed.
Stavens has disappeared
r,l: - tc,, lot ,1,..tl ~, MS
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

gowns. She does not wait 20
ask Patti II she wants a new
gown, or inquire what she would
prefer. Worth makes them, but Car
line designs every one Of them to every
puff and fold. She buys every article
that Patti wears, and her wardrobe is
so extensive that dozen members of
the $50 could supply themselves with
extravagant trousseaux for q season,
and still have plenty for as many more.
Packed away in many trunks are all
the costumes that Patti has ever worn
in opera, each almost as fresh as the
day 1t was first put on. One Of the
fascinating groups of this collection
consists OF all the costumes she has
ever worn as Marguerite. The shoes,
caps and all the stockings are laid
carefully away between tissue paper
with each costume. II Patti desires TO
establish museum that should bear
her name, no greater attraction could
be found to start with than this stage
wardrobe of hers with the story of
each gown.
When you are at Craig you
know as quick as flash when Sunday
comes 1t Is not quite suspended ami
nation, but it Is as near it rs Nine.
Nicolini can secure. Not horse is
harnessed that day. "My horses need
a rest, and the coachmen do more than
they" she says. If she wants to get
the air, she puts. on her thick-soled,
low-heeled yellow shoes and walks
around her domain, which is extensive
enough TO furnish lengthy prone
made. Then she goes for her favorite
walk, which is across the Sl, 900 sus.
pension bridge she had built over the
river The bridge is elaborately orna-
mental, but the view from it and the
swift rush of water under IL seem to
have a fascination for Patti. She is
punctuGlity itself, and that is one of
the secrets of her health. When Patti
! drives or walks, she carries little bag
in which Is a tiny watch about the
size of ten-cent piece. Its value is,
in inverse ratio to its size, and is placed
Mt 81 600
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MARCEAU.
very recently designed and have been,

very recently designed and have been,
Or are about to be, laid down.
The Brennus is remarkable as show
ing q complete abandonment by the
French designers of those points that
have heretofore been characteristic of
French designs. The usual swan
breasted ram bow is replaced by
straight stem without even q project
Ing spur. The high, "tumbling home"
topsiders are done away with Two
Of the three "a guns are in one turret
On the middle line forward, instead
If separated on each side forward
Of the smokepipes. The details of
the ship are as follows: Displacement
10, 9s3 tons; length, 3Gl feet; beam, 81
feet; draught, 20 feet 3 inchesi battery,
1874 inch guns Of So tons, ten ca inch
guns Qour in small turvets, six in
armored citaGell, four 2,5 inch and
eight smaller rapid fire guns and eight
machine guns; expected horse power,
$4,000; corresponding speed, H. knots.
The armor on the belt and after turret
has thickness of l5A inches, on the
forward turret t7I inches, on the cit
adel 4& inches and on the small tur.
cets inches. The Brennus was
| launched in October, 1891.
France possesses few large unarmored
cruisers of recent type. aud there
seems to be no tendency toward
! changing the present ratio. The
strength of the French pavy has for q
century or more been second only to
that of the English. But its power
, during the past two decades, great
as it has undoubtedly been, was much
| less than il a reasonable constructive
speed had been maintained.
The navy of no other continental
power is making such strides as is
| that of Russia. The additions to her
lrmored fleet now under construction
are equaled only in England. During
the past year the armored cruiser
! Nicholas |, $40 tous) has been COM
pleted. The Gangoot (6,5 tons) the
Navarin (9,476 tons) and the Dvenad-
sat Apostolotof (3,O76 tons) will be
! finished within q year. There are
| building the MAMMOTH armored cruiser
Rurik IO,023 tons), the battle ships
Lizoi Velil<y $500 tons), Gheorghy
Bobyedonosets rs, $50 tons, of modi-
fed Sinope type; Tri Sviatiteli Us, $50
tons), Sevastopol 40, 900 tons), Poltava
10, 06O tons) and Petropaulovski co.
$50 tons), and one unnamed unarmor-
,lad of about ~, 600 tons.
The ambitious policy of Italy has,
brought her to point beyond which
Ger financial condition will not permit
DER to go. Though ranking for several
years next to France in sea power, she,
COW yields that proud position to Rus
sia and drops to fourth in the racer
Little new work has been definitely
planned, and the vessels in hand are
advancing very slowly. The Italians.
have been original thinkers in naval
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class battle ships of 10000 TO 1900
tons. Two--the Neptune and the
Magenta, similar to the Marceau, be-
gun ten years ago-are approaching
completion; one-the Brennus, which
was begun a few years later, but upon
which work was suspended-has been
redesigned and is again going for.
ward; three more--the Charles Martel
(which was laid down ut the same
time as the Brennus, but upon which
little work had been donc), the Jau-
ccguiberry and the Lazare Carnot--are
fairly started; lastly, three have been
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afternoon, that docs not worry Patti
She, however, is up promptly and it is
q rare occasion when she isn't one of
the earliest risers in the castle. Seven
o'clock finds her tucking her tiny feet
into her bath slippers, and by 0 o'clock
she has had her coffee and rolls and
another nap.
PATHS next duty is her correspond
ence, and no Cabinet officer or newly
elected Congressman has q mail that
surpasses the diva's in size and variety.
Talk about begging letters, why, even
the number that Vanderbilt is said to
have received when in Europe, could
not come up to it Patti does an
swer favorably many of these let
ters, but the requests of much larger
number are exorbitant or too strange
to receive any attention. One OF the
unique things about the mail is the
number of letters it contains from
people who want Patti to adopt chill
dren. There seems to prevail an idea
that Craig-y-Nos was intended for a
foundlings' home, and that Patti is
anxious to adopt every infant prodigy
that ever croaked a note of Home,
Sweet Home If she had taken ali the
blue-eyed, black-cyed, goldcn-haired,
red-haired and brown-haired infants
that have been thrown at her, Patti
would be officiating as matron in an
orphan asylum. The most surprising
feature of the whole business is that
every letter-writer wants the adoption
to take effect at once
PATHS evening toilet, even when no
one is expected to dinner, is an opera
ton in itself. She has a companion
and Mexican maid. The maid tends
to Patti herself aud the companion
looks after her wardrobe. The maid
brushes her hair for an hour every
morning and night, and coils and
braids it; but the dainty fingers of
Patti herself arrange those little curls
on the forehead that have always been
so bewitching to the public. Patti is
very deft with her fingers, and would
hardly trust those tiny rings to any
but her own arranging. She is
very clever about it. When it comes
to dressing, Patti herself hasn't the
slightest idea of the kind of picture
she is destined to make of herself