The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-04-06
RANDOM REMARKS.
Thoughts on Various Topics by a Casual
Observer.

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symptoms are identical though the dit.
ference is quite radical. In the evo-
lutions of time it may be found posi-
bic to vaccinate against measles and
other ailments. Who can tell q? The
scientific medical light of 20 day is by
no means the scientific medical light
, Of Il hundred years, or even fifty years
ago Sufficient unto the day is the
light thereof, and it would read well
in Scripture.
Doctors differ as to the efficacy of
vaccination, and also as TO its lasting
effects. While some hold that it
never loses its virtue, others claiming
that the whole human system under
goes change every seven years, con-
tend that vaccination should be COM
pulsory every seven years. Still another
class contend that mofe harm than
good results from indiscriminate vac
cination and therefore favor its prohi-
bition especially as they contend that
other diseases are thus frequently
transmitted which are even more in.
furious than the smallpox. The doc
tors differ, sure enough.
One of the best, if not the best,
equipped printing establishments Of
this section is The COLUMBIAN Of
Bloomsbury Upon inquiry and ex.
animation the writer has found that it
not only makes job-work a specially,
but it has the job-work to do, and the
artists to do it to the satisfaction of its
patrons and proprietor.
| Now, what's the matter with the
moose that hung Pat Hester some 10
years ago1 1t has been recently
resurrected, and brought to public
notice in the papers. Let the dead
rest.
That a place the size of Blooms.
burg should be without free delivery
Of mail is quite reflection upon the
land of the free. 1t is the more SO
when we consider that free delivery
is quite prevalent even in the rural
districts of the older countries. But
perhaps it requires the evolutions of
time as well as foreign precedent to
bring about free delivery in the land
Of the free. A little postal deficit OF
about six million dollars may also
have bearing upon the matter. AS
a resigned postmaster the writer firmly
believes that if it were possible to cut
| off and save the stealings of postal Of
hcials and the INSCRIPTIONS public
who do not hesitate to use postage
stamps that have already been used
to save postage, the free delivery Of
mail would be quite possible and the
the postal deficit would no longer
exist 1t could be relegated to the
shades of the past and thought Of as
among the unworthy things of our
worthy Republic. Free delivery is
thus possible not only to booming
towns like Bloomsburg, but even to
the rural districts, where the sovereign
is frequently obliged to wade mud for
miles to reach his post Office and get
his news. Some day there will be
curlailment of postal wastage through
false cancellations and re used postage
stamps. We verify believe the child
is born who will live to see it.
In the case of the crookedness of
banker Rockafellow of Wilkes Barre,
which terminated March 28th, Judge
Lynch charged the Jury to return
verdict in favor of the city for $751;
$1,000, the full amount of the claim,
and it was done, it being the amount
in the hands Of the banker when he
failed. 1t is to bad to thus interfere
with the nest egg of retired banker,
who no doubt is so tired that he needs
the little rest and comfort that might
with economy be squeezed out of $751;
$1,000. To bad.
Prohibitionists are loosing ground
in Lackawanna county. The judges
granted sixty six licenses to sell liquor
as against sixty refused.
If figures don't lie the old Church
of England is not yet liable to collapse
for want of funds. Her income is
given as about ST., I,ooo,o 900 per week.
Silence is getting it down hne when
it declares in dead earnest that you
can hear fly walk with the aid of the
microphone.
It is noticed among the observing
in society that the lady can keep in
the swim best who wears a duck of
bonnet.
The Galveston Ne,0s says every
man has his opinions but in many
instances he picks them up where
somebody else drops them. That's SO.
Way on in the history of the world
coal and its usefulness was unknown
to hum lie ahout avarytb;,o,