The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-11-23

adrirers of blooded stock Shetland
mics and hackney stations thronged Mad.
~, SQUARE Garden, New York, on the I4th
;os,ant. at being the third day Of the great
horse show. he tritling matter Of rain
.os not allowed to interfere with the show.
The healthy horsey girl rather prcdominatcd,
and the dock.tailed horse was also there.
The Chinese government sent a recent
.noocy to the English for outrages perpe.
rated on a British ship in August last.
At noon on the I4lh, inst, Moses Chris
,onher, a negro Of Fredericksburg, Va, paid
,Se penalty of his life for indecently as.
saulting a little 7.yeor old girl.
The new United States loan of $50, 600,
600 at per cent. for ten years, with interest
payable in coin, is creating quite q hustle
.monr monied men both at home and
nbroad. A loan Of twice this amount issued
IN small denominations within the reach Of
small investors would no doubt he taken
quite as eagerly
Chancellor Allison, of Nashville, Tenn,
was shot by George X. Whtworth, clerk of
The court. On the i4th instant. The offence
of the Chancellor being the removal of
Whitworth from office and the appointment
NJ his son Granville. After killing his vic.
tim the murderer then shot himself.
A number Of Chicago police are now idle
II is said. They are an unsafe crowd to
turn loose in winter If rumors are correct
about them.
The ladies Of Colorado are credited with
enough strength to defeat Objectionable men
at the polls.
Under the franking privilege to Congress.
men they actually sent their soicd clothes
home to wash by mail. 1t being discovered
and denounced, an effort vas then made to
limit the franking privilege TO actual cores
pondence and news bu, it is said that this
prohibition does not prohibit because there
was no penalty mentioned in the prohibiory
law, and consequently the Congressional
wash is still liable to find its way home
under the franking privilege.
There is considerable strength Of pub
lie opinion that the new Gar will not make
bad ruler. He is pleasant. good tempered
and forgiving, and his strongest disposition
seems to he to win a name as a speedy
bicyclist.
That Turin millionaire who paid Professor
Kussmaul, of Strasburg, So 900 for a con.
sultation, must have Leen terribly afraid OF
dying.
Zimmerman, the American cyclst, won
some $4,000 in his European races. and is
perfectly satisfied wi tn the way in which the
wheel of fortune has turned for him.
Flammarion, the Frenco astronomer, has
been getting up bit of scare of claiming
that If the earth were as near the sun as il
is TO the moon, it would melt like wax under
the heat of the solar surface. Fortunately
The Anarchists cannot put it there.
There is no limit to the number of musi.
cal instruments which the King of Greece
can play, and he is as ready to ia ckle a
church organ as he is to tickle a banjo.
And his subjects show no signs of revolt.
Madame De Martie, better known to
readers Of sensational novels as d" Gyp," is
a years old.
Lolita, the actress, has turned her atten-
ton TO painting, and has gone to Europe
ANi NcuPiC VI lGdiS SbuAll lU lUC atl
schools. II successful the stage will see her
no more.
The Grand Duke Paul, Of Russia, is the
tallest man in Europe, touching the standard
at feet 9 inches. lie is not, however, a
pleasant giant, seeing that his hands are
covered with hair and that he grinds his
teeth in his sleep.
Willie Kurby spent an hour in the effort
to get black kitten out from under board
pile recently. ust as he got the cat heavy
plank fell on him and fractured his leg
Boys do we'll who leave cats alone when
under lumber piles,
Governor Pattison has appointed ex- Judge
Augustus S. Lands, of Holiday sbuIg, a
member of the board of managers of the
Huntingdon Reformatory, vice Senator-elect
}, Henry Cochran, of WilliamsDort, resign
ed.
Governor. elect and Mrs. Hastings, have
accepted the invitation of Governor and Mrs.
fatIison to be their guests al the executive
mansion on inauguration day. The incom-
ins Governor may return the compliment by
entertaining Cow Patiison at his home
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that place with his staff to attend the ded-
cation of the aimory of company p, National
Guard of Pennsylvania, December ID.
General Clay of Kentucky, who recently
married I5-year old bride, being apprehen-
sye that she may be kidnapped will not
allow her to leave the house. The inference
IS that the aged General is somewhat be.
side himself.
clear and concise treatise upon the
cause of )apan's war agains, China and the
characteristics Of both nations as TO politics,
religion and commerce, would sell well to-
day' Something cheap but reliable in
pamphlet form would take well no doubt,
while an expensive and prosey history would
Japan don't ask for all the soil that China
sui occupies and thinks is her own, but she
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