The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-01-06
BITS OF INFORMATION.

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Palestine is about one.fourth as large
as the State Of New York.
The Australian dog and the Egyptian
shepherd dog never bark.
Ten days per annum is the average
amount Of sickness in human life.
The Grand Army now has 1868
posts, and an aggregate membership
of 4O7, 7,781.
A ballot-box was first used in Eng.
land in the election OF Aldermen OF
London in 1926.
Chicago is o city Of high livers.
People reside in fourteen and fifteen
story flats there.
Man is pore creature at best. The
average human body is punctured with
1000, 900 of them.
The dorking fowl is the only living
bird that, in the adult condition, pos
sesses fve-toed foot.
The cup that cheers but not in
ebriates' was sung by the English poet
Cowper in his Task.
The Desert of Sahara has almost ex.
actly the same number Of square miles
that the United States has.
Calico is derived from Calicut, on the
Malabar coast, and muslin from Nous
soul, city of Asiatic Turkey.
In 1Si1 each individual consumed
thirteen ounces Of tobacco; in 1891 he
consumed twenty-six ounces.
Professor Huxley says that an oyster
10 for 11;nataI ,>,n,n g
chinery than the finest Swiss watch.
The Japanese community in San
Francisco, CAL, and neighborhood,
numbers about twenty-five hundred.
Customs differ widely. Some Of
the African tribes pull their fingers till
the joints crack as form of saluta-
ton.
In China wealthy people buy their
collins long before they need them, and
exhibit them as ornamental pieces Of
furniture.
There are said to be eleven hundred
and forty-two patent remedies for chol
era in the list at the United States Pa
tent Office.
Elevators were used 1000 years ago
in the Coliseum ut Rome to bring up to
the arena the wild beasts from the un.
derground dens.
The British Isles comprise no fewer
than 1000 separate islands and islets,
without counting mere jutting rocks or
isolated pinnacles.
The only city in the world on the line
OF the equator is Quito, and there the
sun rises and sets at the same hour all
the year round-6 o'clock.
Blankets. it is said, were named after
their first makers, three brothers of
Bristol, England, named Edward, Ed
mund and Thomas Blanket.
According to the new British postal
regulations, q foreign letter may be Of
any weight, but must not exceed two
feet III length, or one foot in breadth
or depth.
A medical authority states that the
voices of singers and actors can be
much better preserved if used in thea
ters lighted with electricity rather
than gas.
The sun is $4,000, 900 of miles from
the earth. How long would it take to go
to the sun. travelling thirty miles an
hour, night and day? Three hundred
and fifty years.
The greatest number Of deaths from
earthquake shock was at Yeddo. Japan,
in 1903, when 100000 people it is es-
timated, lost their lives in the terrible
seismic upheayal.
In South Greenland the color of the
hair ribbon which q woman ties around
her head denotes the social con ndition
OF the wearer-whether she be maid,
wife or widow.
As horse trainers can do a great
many wonderful things, why can they
not train fairly good horse to arch
his neck on the road without the use
of the barbarous check-rein p
The first Union flag was unfurled
January l, 1776, over the camp at
Cambridge, Mass. 1t had thirteen
stripes Of white and red and retained
the British cross in one corner.
The leading theologians of the world.
who have been figuring from scriptual
and other data for some time, have
come to the conclusion that Christ was
cruciied shortly after 9 o'clock on the
morning of Friday, April 10th, A. D.,
30.
Tie term "tabby cat" is derived from
Atab, famous street in Bagdad, in.
habited by the manufacturers of silken
stuff called atibi or taffety. The stuff
is woven with waved markings or
watered silk resembling a "tabby" cat IS
coat.
A cigar contains acetic, fomic, bu.
lyric, valerie and propionic acids, prus-
sic acid, creosote, carbolic acid, am
monia, sulphuretted hydrogen pyridine,
viridine, picoline and rubidine, to say
nothing of cabagine and burdockic
acid, says the Pittsburg DiSpatch