The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-05-18
RANDOM REMARKS.
Thoughts on Various Topics by Casual
Observer.

Thoughts on Various Topics by Casual
Observer.
Mr.. Springer is still springing to the
rescue. Having contributed $Ioo to
Miss Pollard during the progress Of
her trial against Breckinridge, this un-
known philanthropist is now up in
ballon on his way to Coxey. lie says
he has ST., 900 for Coxey when he gets
to Washington by navigating the air.
He is up in the clouds somewhere
with six days iations. Stand from in
under
Just when political prophets Of all
parties were beginning to feel sure
that Democracy had run its course
and was only waiting for an election
to be turned out OF Office, along comes
the sad news from the home of Nc
Kinney that tariff reform and income
tax and Democracy back of them, are
all indorsed, even in Ohio, where the
Republican is left and Democrat is
elected to Congress while Coxey goes
marching on.
The mint-sight in Philadelphia can
be bought for $4,000. Something
less than a half million, it is true
but if this is dirt cheap, Philadelphia
dirt seen,c httle jeor
Report reaches us from Birming-
ham, Ala, of a mine being blown up
by strikers and of their terrorizng all
with whom they came in contact.
Dynamite was exploded under the
boilers and machinery as well as at
the headings Of the slopes.
The following extract shows how it
goes when a newspaper man attempts
to get an office:
ga bitter fight has begun between
NJ. H. De Young, OF the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, and Senator Perkins
for the latter's seat"
But for the quarrel over the we'll
paid privilege Of selling land 10 the
government, no doubt the frequently
condemned Government Printing Of.
flee would be vacated for fear of a
collapse of the old structure. But
whenever Uncle Sam wants to buy
anything, there are always so many
who want to sell that he has to move
slow, very slow, in all his business
affairs. The same trouble exists about
locating mint in Philadelphia.
In eastern Africa there is said to
be much land of extraordinary fertil.
ity which is only waiting Berks county
farming to make it yield enormous
returns. Minerals are also there in
vast quantities, and among them gold
and silver unalloyed. The forests will
furnish lumber enough to supply the
world for two centuries, it is said.
Mrs. French Sheldon seems to have
an eye on eastern Africa She wants
white folks to go there and teach the
negroes how to do things especially
how to make banana flour and bread,
and how to trade and barter like white
folks. She wants all this and more
considerably towards getting some
clothes on the natives, and right in
the face of the fact that ''where ignor-
ance is bliss it is folly to be wise
While reading Of destructive bomb
throwing BY anarchists abroad, we
almost listen for it these days at home.
But poverty is not so apt to incite it
in the land of the free as is the
wounded plutocrat frenzied by legal
enactments that he is no longer per.
mitted to control.
Notwithstanding their handsome
pay for the little they do, our Con.
gressmen can't bear the idea of being
docked for being absent when wanted
TO make upa quorum. A minority re-
port recently came from the Judiciary
Committee touching upon the matter
and begging the question, so to speak.
The minority contends that tor twenty
eight years Congress has regarded the
docking section as having been re-
pealed, and that the Sergeant-at- Arms
mas no legal right now to enforce it.
On the other hand the majority claim
his legal right to enforce it, and not
to shirk this duty because his pre-
decessors for twenly-eight years failed
to dock absenties when wanted tc
make up quorum.