The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-01-19
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"When you SEQ them stacking up
snow shovels along with the brooms
and buckets and things outside of the
wholesale woodenwarc establish
mcnts," said n stroller, you can make
up your mind that winter Is beginning
to look our way"
Two young women, both under twen-
ty-one years of age, of Lincoln, Neb.,
took u course In optics ut the Ophthal-
mic College In Chicago two years ago,
and have since built up, unaided and
entirely on their own responsibility, a
large and profitable trade as opticians
In Bloomington, Ind
Two people, n man and woman,
opposed each other fiercely In the bid
ding for u bookcase In an auction store
in Cincinnati few days ago When
the man, triumphant came forward
from the edge OF the crowd to secure
his purchase he found he had been
bidding against his wife,
One art that seems to have vastly
improved within the past twenty-five
years Is that of annealing glass. The
lamp chimneys of to-day Withstand
sudden changes of temperature that
would instantly have shivered those of
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almost impossible to break one save
by Il blow.
The San Francisco Midwinter Fair
project Is booming right along. All
California is enthusiastic over the fair,
cash support is coming In literally, and
the promoters are confident of the COM
plete success of the undertaking. The
presence Of many Of the special at
fractions now at Chicago, on the Mid
way and elsewhere In the White City,
is assured, and the scope of the fair Is
widening.
"Thcy don't call me trunk juggler
any more" the baggagemaster said as
he laid his hand upon the handle Of
the topmost of the pile of trunks stack
cd up against the side Of the ear; they
I call me now Il professor Of trunk
ology;' and us he spoke he pulled the
trunk from the pile, swung 1t once
around his head like an Indian club,
and fired 1t through the open door of
the cara trunk expert, indeed.
Salve, the Latin In this case for wei
come, Is conspicuous on one of the
walls of the premises of the Wood
Mosaic Company, at Fifth avenue and
Thirty street, New York, In
which Rawlins Cottenet has his flower
shop. More than once a customer, sup
posing the word was English, has asked
what kind of salve was meant. On
one occasion n man who posed as a
lnguist told admirlng friends that salve
was German for good health!
The term boot leg applied to a
very tall beer glass commonly set out
TO regular customers In many saloons
may owe its origin to Il misapprehen-
sion, or pretended misrepresentation, of
the French touching an old English
drinking vessel The back Jack u
leather bottle sometimes lined with
silver, was common drinking vessel
In England two or three centuries ago,
and even earlier, and, indeed, 1t still
survives. According to curious old
book of the seventeenth century, when
Frenchmen first saw these vessels In
use at the English court they took
back to France the story that the Eng
lish drank out of their boots.
Roundups of contraband Chinese
arc affording exciting diversion for
American citizens along the British
Columbia border Gangs of ten or a
dozen coolies, conveyed by white men
attempting to smuggle them into this
country, have recently been the OBJ
JtCt VI tACltluS CHdScS ny CltlZellS OF
officers in the border counties of Wash
ington. a company of thirteen Chinese
and two white men was discovered
near Sumas recently. Citizens gave
chase, the two white men opened fire,
and in the melee that ensued one
Chnaman was badly wounded and six
were captured. Several captures of
parties of three or four Cinnamon from
such bands have been made.
The influx of great numbers of
tramps and unemployed workmen into
California continues, and the problem
of what to do with them Is yet un-
solved. Hundreds Of tramps gathering
from all parts OF the extreme North
west pass weekly from Oregon into
California. San Antonio and New Or
leans seem to be cities notably threat
encd with visitation from the inevi-
table California overflow. A party of
100 men left the Salvation Army camp
of unemployed at San Francisco last
week, secured free ferriage to Oak
land, and started south, declaring their
Intention to force their way over the
Sunset Railroad route to New Orleans,
where already the advance guard of
tramps has appeared.
II was reminded of my own youth
this morning" said middle-aged man,
'when IN II suburban town l saw
small boy getting drink at big
pump. The handle Of the pump was in
line with the spout, on the other side,
and when the boy was ut the handle
he couldn't see the spout. He made a
jump at the handle, caught it, and
pulled down on 1t, crooking his knees
ms he brought the handle down so that
he might get longer sweep on It,
Three times thus he worked the han
die and then he rushed around to the
spout, but he hadn't started the water
yet. Then he went back. Three times
more and tho water flows, and now
the small boy holds his hand across
the under side of the spout and gets
drink. Ever do that?"
Warburton Pike, hunter and ex-
plorer, who returned to Nanaimo, b.
c., recently from fifteen months
trip to the interior of Alaska, brought
n poor opinion and account of the
country he passed through. He fol-
lowed the Deane River to its junction