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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-10
GEN ERAL NEWS.

A fire at Glen Hazel, Mex can
county, on Sunday destroyed $500, 900
worth of property.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-10

yoke front and Vatican plat backs
extra wide skirt and they go at $I.oo,
$I.25, $3.50, $2.oo.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-10
DlMlTIES.

Pretty name isn't iii But not one
whit priettier than the SO pieces of
smooth summer stuffs that are proper
ly called by it Green striped with
white grounds is one of them. Can
you picture it and the tiny twill that
all the dimities own ? Dashes, dots
and dainties until there isn't room
enough here to tell you properly Of
them. I24c. yard finishes the story
here.
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NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL COURIER SATURDAY

Collinson, Lord Petrie and the Duke of Richmond fruit and shade trees and flowers, It may interest plant-lovers tt know that among the products ol America sent to England by Bartran were magnolia, tulip, and locust trees hornbeam and witch hazel, cones of the spruce and hemlock, red and White cedar, seeds of the sugar maple, con corning which there was much curl osity bush honeysuckles, mountain laurel, wild asters, dog-tooth Violets gentians, ginseng and sweet fern That American horticultural products were in great demand in England IS shown by the fact that as early as 1742 Lord Petrie had imported 10000 American shrubs and trees.
 The first botanical garden in this country was established by John Bar tram. He purchased q piece of ground near Philadelphia and stocked it with eXotics and rare native plants. This garden is now incorporated in one of the city's parks. On 1t is still standing the quaint old house built by Bartram, he being an ingenious mechanic, and an ancient cypress tree grown from a cutting which he brought in his sad- dle bags from. Delaware and planted with his own hands.
 The position of botanist to the King was held by Bartram until his death in 1777 He was also Q member of several learned societies of Europe, and the records of his journeys of observation were published in London. His love or natural history was inherited by his son William, also botanist of some note, and the author of a list of Ameri- can birds, which was the most com plete that appeared before the work of Wilson. And this same Alexander Wilson, by the way, whose admirable work marks an era in ornithological science, acquired his first knowledge of birds from William Bartram.
 Does not the knowledge of such facts as these attest the dignity and the beauty of earth's commonest smallest things? Are they not all full of inspir- alton and meaning to the awakened, responsive soul? Tiny snow-stars, passing at a breath; a shell, frail and minute, tossed upon the beach; a flow CT in a crevice of tbe wall; a grain of sparkling sand-are any of these tri- .fes, save to the sordid and dull of spir- it? "The meanest flower that blows can give" not only to the poet, but to the lover of nature, and to the Chris tian believer, thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears"
 HILARY.
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1 heart bursting with gratitude, do not
 reproach me. The Independent has sent
 me to many far-away and many fair ports this past quarter of 0 century
 but all of them put together, 1t seems to | me, would not nearly match this land
 ing here under the rainbow in this New
 England city of the great seas.
 | Such boundless good nature! No
 noise, no friction, although as the land- | ing of a steamer is the one event of the
 week, the wharf was packed with peo- pie of every color, class or nation, yet not one loud or the least uncivll word was heard. It was exactly like Sunday, even like a crowded church service amid the Christmas evergreens.
 Nearly everybody barefooted. The native women were mostly clad in loose silk gowns, of the Mother Hubbard pat tern, little sailor straw hats with broad and gaudy cords and bands of silk, but one and all barefooted, The custom house officers barefooted the police, the soldiers also. Of course I do not mean all the officers and leading men in any department, the most of whom are white people. But as a rule you, can set it down here as "the land of everlasting barefoot"
 I opened my bag as came along in the line of passengers to the big iron gate that opens out into the city, and handed it to a barefooted official in gor- geous uniform. His inqulring hand un- earthed a flask of whiskey. I had a pride in that flask, for it was the gift of a friend, a parting gift and, credit me for 1t, had preserved it for seven days and nights, and wished still to preserve it. So leaning over to the gorgeous uni form, whispered, with George Wash ington simplicity, Snake medicine" The uniform whispered back: "He no snake in all Hawaiir
 Then he took out the cork, smelled of 1t, tasted it, handed it to the next gor- geous uniform; and this one also said, in a low, solemn whisper: He no snake in all Hawaii" The other pas sengers began to laugh, then they roared; but the officers never cracked a smile, and in less than minute the flask was empty, returned to the bag the bag chalked and I passed on through the gate into Eden, glad enough at the price paid to know that The no snake in all Hawaii"
 The prettiest little one-horse, two- seated vietorlas are seen standing all around under the broad banana trees, by the red brick houses and by the green squares up and down the town. These are the "cabs" of Honolulu; the only decent cabs ever saw in my life; and the only decent cabmen. They are all natives! clad in white, and like their little carriages, most scrupulousl= clean. There Is no city in the world where there are so many carriages, comparatively, as in Honolulu. Proba- bly, the basis of 1t lies in the fact that there Is no land on the globe nearly so rich as these islands: other lands pro-
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when alarmed or disturbed, they in-
 mediately dive, The leaders set the
 example and the other birds follow
 them Seldom does a duck make its reappearance. The canvasback is a great diver and swift swimmer. Once entangled in the net its struggles are unavailing. The fishermen watch the movements of the birds from the hills, and when a good haul is assured they start off in their boats and gather up the drowned birds, which are shipped to market. It is said that as many as two hundred birds have been taken at one haul of the nets. Tt is to the slaughter of the ducks by this method" says San Francisco gunner, that I attribute the growing scarcity of can vasback on our marshes. Unless the State sportsmen insert a clause in their bill now pending in the legislature that will help to check this method of game butchery, there will be no canvasback- shooting left in few years. The law should make this style of duck-hunting, if I can call it by such name, mis- demeanor
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----- 4 POET ON HIS TRAYELS.
His First Impressions of the Gem of the
 Pacific. rJoanuin Miller In tbe NovO Vorlr Indnna,,

His First Impressions of the Gem of the
 Pacific.
 [Joaquin Miller in the New York Indepen
 dent.l
 "And the morning and the evening were the sixth day" At dawn on the seventh day out from San Francisco, a low, dark line lifted from the dense blue sea to the left, the Leper settlement and soon a huge, black crater hung in the clouds almost over our heads to the right; and so, as the sun burst over the mighty black wall of torn and ragged and serrated lava which looms above Honolulu to the north, we sailed into the loveliest harbor I ever saw Naples is nothing in comparison. The dense, deep blue of Copra bay is not nearly so beautifully blue as is this bay of Honolulu. The broken, lazy, little clouds that hung above the wooded town on the hillside were white as cot ton; and this, maybe, made the intense blue of the bay still more emphatic.
 As we slowly rounded in towards the town we sailed under a rainbow of such indescribable breadth and brilliancy that I hesitated to describe it. This beautiful witness of His covenant had, up to this time, and in all lands, seemed only a narrow half loop to me. But this Hawaiian rainbow, or maybe a succession of rainbows, was so broad that it reached from far out in the bay not only to the town, but on over the town and up the wooded steeps of the mountains to where the white clouds were torn and pierced by the thousand volcanic crags and peaks on their in- accessible summits. Conceive a. rain- bow that takes in half the heavens, cot ton white clouds, sapphire seas and sapphire skies. the fervid green of ba- mana groves, tamarind, mango, cocoa palms mantling a town of red brick, and you have some idea of at least the color of Honolulu as hrst saw the mis- sionary city
 The Moslem prophet refused to de- scend into Damascus, saying that it is permitted man to enter heaven but once; and if I confess that I descended to the wharf hat in hand, and with
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4 CHICAGO NOTION.

All the good notions are not born in Boston. Chicago occasionally has one. For instance, some of the children in the public schools of that city have taken steps to organize a junior Ameri- cam republic. The plan is to have a junior city council made up of two junior aldermen from each school in the city, one young gentleman and one young lady. AIT city, county and township offices and officers will be duplicated. There will be in the State and finally in all the States, a junior legislature and duplication of all State offices and officers. As soon as it cam be brought about there will be the genuine junior American republic, with a junior congress of both houses, a junior cabinet, diplomatic corps, junior president, secretary, treasurer, etc, a full-rigged junior ship of State.
 This is as good am idea as it is to have all the children interested in military affairs, In this way they could learn how to govern. And it should not be forgotten that the chill dren of the cities could also take part in junior charter hearings.
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A deaf and dumb barber was voted ethe most popular man in Topeka at a recent contest.-Kansas City Star.
 Sympathlzlng Friend-It must give one a queer feeling to have ones pocket picked Victim-You don't feel it at all. That's the misery of it.-Chicago Trib- une.
 Artists Wife-Claude, dear the butcher is here and says he won't leave the house unless his bill is paid.
 Artist-Well let him take 1t with him, then.-Boston Budget
 What are you doing now, old fel- low?" I'm a stenographer." "Steno- grapher? I didn't know you understood the business" q don't. but I've got q job with a man who shutters" ."-Clncin- natl Tribune.
 And you proposed to her twice before she accepted you?" "Yes." Its strange that she changed her mind.r Not at all. When she refused me the first time it made me feel so cheap that she couldn't resist the chance for a bargain. Washington Star.
 Bridegroom tabout to marry the  youngest of three sisters)-My friend, l want you to stand right behind me during the ceremony and keep your eyes open am very near sighted, and I am afraid they might substitute the oldest sister at the critical moment, -.Fliegende Blatter,
 Figg-Its all nonsense for girls to spend so much time and money learning to play the piano. Before we were mar ried my wife used to be eternally prac- tising, but she hasn't touched the piano half dozen times since. Fogg-And yet they say that marriage Is failure. Boston Transcript.
 Professional enthusiastically Gentle man Qrom True Blue club)-And what has brought you to this deplorable con- dition? Drink?-Gambling? Gentle man of the pavement (spotting his man) No, indeed sir; my misfortunes are entirely attributable to free trade, mo- nometallism, and the death duties. Im- mediate relief on a generous scale.- Punch
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THE bLEETING SHOW.
Some of It's Facts and Fancies.

l
 1 Written for the JOURNAL AND CouRIERJ
 AMER1CA'S FIRST BoTANIsT.
 Scotland's peasant bard one April
 morning, 16S6 with his ploughshare | turned the roots of mountain daisy
 to the sun, and thereupon fell to moral izing upon the sorrows of life and the re-
 nnorselessness of fate. Still holding the plough he let his fancies mold them selves into metrical form, his
 thoughts growing more and more
 sombre until they eliminated in the
 prophecy of his own early doom. So trifling and common an incident as the
 uprooting Of flower gave to use one
 of Burns finest poems, ITO a Mountain
 Daisy" 8 poem that reveals his tender
 ness, his melancholy, his ever-ready
 sympathy with nature and humanity
 But years before this, more than half a century, a Quaker lad of Marble, near Philadelphia, a boy bred to farm work, was ploughing in the field when his eyes
 were suddenly opened to the beauty and symmetry of daisy. Probably not the "wee, crimson tipped flower'
 that aroused the poets compassion, but it's cousin, the common ox-eye daisy with it's yellow disk and rays of almost dazzling whiteness, plant little likely to excite any sympathy in the breast of a farmer. But it carried it's message straight to the hear of this youth and he reproached himself that he had never before observed the wonderful structure of a flower. The thoughts of John Bartram took a more practical turn than did those of Robert Burns. To satisfy his newly awakened curi- osity and admiration he hastened forth with to the city and there obtained the botany of Linnaeus. But this was writ ten in Latin, consequently grammar of that language was also purchased, and from it, with the aid of the village schoolmaster, he learned enough to be able to translate the descriptions of Linnaeus.
 There was developed our first native American botanst, a, man whose at tainments caused him to be acknowl- | edged by Linnaeus as 'Hhe greatest natural botanist in the world" There was already much exchanging of seeds dUu CulllllSS bClWGGin flilG NOlOilIolS etllh | their friends in their far away native land. Bartram entered into correspond ence with another flower-loving Quaker, | Peter Collinson of London, merchant who availed himself of his mercantile connections to procure seeds and plants | from foreign countries. and who was distinguished as naturalist and an- tiquary. The two kept up an exchange of plants, Collinson having taught the young American how to prepare and transmit his specimens across the At lantic It was through Collinson's | agency that Bartram was appointed . American botanist to King George III, and in that capacity he travelled from Lake Ontario to Florida, sending many curious specimens of the natural pro- auctions of America to England. a system of exchanges with Linnaeus and Sir Hans Sloane he re- ceived books and apparatus, and from
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FASHION NOTES.
A Skirt to stand In.

So great is the present favor of the velvet bodice that the silk fancy waist hangs a diminished head. These velvet bodices are very plain and are worn with dark skirts. The change from the befrilled fancy silk is a sudden one. The only comfort is that the fashion has. come late in the season and can't last through summer. Before next winter there will be @ good chance to save enough to have one or two of them. To accomplish the dress of the picture might take several seasons of self-de- nial on the part of most women, but 1t is so exquisltely contrived that consid- era ton of 1t is a pleasure, even if it be Then the sharp wltted economist will find ways of avoiding its if she be attracted to it as a whole, or to any of its features. As the artist found it, it was made of ye- lontin and garnished with white ve-
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ducing for export from ten to fifty dol
 lars while Hawaii easily has far above
 one hundred annually to export to each | inhabitant, and yet sits half her time
 in & carriage!
 And such pretty little horses, fat and
 sleek as mules! every one a mute but
 unimpeachable witness to the good, gentle heart of the Hawaiian cabman
 The horses are all, as a rule, imported from California;: also their feed
 Thank you, sir said the dusky little driver as set my bag in his victoria. Where to?" Down the bay, through your public gardens"
 The roads along the sea are level as floor; long, narrow artificial fish ponds right and left. The long. narrow islands that stretch between the ponds are set with banana trees that bend to the water's edge with their golden loads. These artificial fish ponds are older, many centuries older, than the English discovery: but these perfect roads are surely of Saxon make. Great, portable stone crushers grind the brittle and porous lava, found right at hand everywhere, to fit fineness; and this, distributed generously over all the streets and highways, gives such perfect carriage driveways to the Sand Wich Islands as are seen nowhere else on the globe
 drove more than dozen miles down the warm sea bank with it's white rip pie of sand only here and there visible through the palm. the cocoa, the tama- rind, the mango groves; and all these groves changing and ringing with the songs of birds. Mark Twain had lived here, Robert Louis Stevenson there; great captains of the land and great captains of the sea, travellers, men of science, famous men of all sorts. I spent the day in a. carriage, at less cost than an hour would be in New York, and had more civility from my driver, stranger to stranger, than you could find in any city in theUnited States or Europe under Nike circumstances, though you should comb 1t from end to end with fine-tooth comb.
 drove ito the Royal Hotel spent my first week there: three dollars a day;I beautiful grounds, the Government band playlng-all things bright, joyous, flowery, well beftting the approach of the New Year in a tropic Christian land. I walked through the town under the electric lights as night fell to see the hundreds of flower women wearing wreaths. This boundless good nature must be climatic. It has spread to all people of all nations here. A flower girl with her basket of wreaths and roses, from valley or mountain, wild or tame, comes along looking for a cool place to spread her mat. Likely enough she, with dozen others gathered about her, will locate right under a big bay win dow all tricked out with toys. It may be Jew merchant, German, Greek, or Turk who sees his goods cut off from the passer by on the narrow sidewalk; but he is good naturedly indifferent, and God bless him and prosper him for 1t!
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lours to which velvet of the same shade as the dress was appliqued A panel of white velours bordered with narrow bands of fur showed on the skirt, and the belt, square yoke and sleeve puffs were similarly composed. The bodice had fitted lining, but the stuff itself was pleated at the waist, and the sleeves have long velontin cuffs. A tiny toque of white velours trimmed with Parma violets, white ribbon and aig- rettes completed the costume.
 Delicate organdies are found in the stores with brilliant flowers stamped on a smoke-colored ground, the effect being beautifully cloud-lilSe Such ma terial is to be used uniined for the puff sleeves of summer dresses, and for the draping of bodices in the same way chiffon has been used. A few dresses are shown with skirts of the organdy made over a silk foundation skirt which is attached to the organdy only at the belt. The foundation skirt is made wide at the foot, but does not hang in godets. The organdy however, is in enormous organ-pipe folds at the back and swirls into godets at the sides. It is needless to say that such a skirt per mits no sitting down, and that 1t is pretty only for very limited number of wearings, but it is as lovely as it is FLORETTE.
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THECARRlNGToN PUBLISHING co.
Advertising Kares.

Situations, Wants, Rents and other small ad- vertisements, One Cent Word each inser- ton. Five cents word for full week (seven times)
 Display Advertisements-Per inch, ono in- Rertion, SI.20; each subsequent insertion, 70 cents; one week, S3.20; one month, SlO; one year, $40.
 Obituary notices, in prose or verse, 1b cents per line, Notices of Births, Marriages, Deaths and Funerals, 50 cents each. Local notices, l5 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business (all matter to be unoojeo- tionable), and their contracts do not include Wants. To Let For Sale, etc.
 Discounts--On two inches or more ono month and over, Upper cent; on four inches or more, one month and over, Upper cent.
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ciency in the doughnut supply If the needed Reform cannot be brought about in any other way there must be a hear ing by the legislature and special act must be passed to fit the need.
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NoTIoR To ooNTRAoroRs.


 GEALED proposals will be received at tho D office of William H. Allen architect, No. s2 Church street, until 12 o'clock, m, on the 18th day of March, 1885, for the carpenter work mason work, plumbing, heating and ventilating for school building to be built for the New Haven City School District, on land belonging to the said district, situated on Grand avenue, in the City of New Haven, Conn.,, in accordance with the drawings and specifications copies of which may be had at the office of the architect.
 Bids will be received for each part of the work as above enumerated, separately The right is reserved to reject any and all bids, and to waive any defect or informality Tn any bid, should it be deemed in the interest of the said school district to do so.
 Bids will be opened at She office of the Board of Education, Friday evening, March 10th, at 8 o'clock.
 By order of the Board of Education.
 FRED A. BETTS, Chairman Committee on School Buildings. f2T eod3t
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Opposition to the use of the antitoxin treatment for diphtheria has already taken an organized form in England. "A deputation, headed by Lord Cole ridge, has protested to the authorities against it's use in the hospitals on the ground that public money ought not to be devoted to experiments in psy- chology"
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A Paris editor has been killed in a French duel His death was perhaps an accident, but 1t will tend to show the Frenchmen that there is danger in duelling.
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Miss Anna Shaw says the best way to address an audience is to talk as if you were scolding your husband
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Nntioe.

We cannot accept anonymous or return re- jected communications. In all cases the name ot the writer will be required, not for puDlca- ton. but as guarante good faith.
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Abyssinia is about to have for the first time a coinage of its own. Hith- erto the only coin current has been the Maria Theresa thaler. The new silver coin is of the same value, and bears on one side the head of King MenelilS crowned with the tiara, with the legend 'Menelil1 IT., King of Kings of Ethio- pia" on the other side is the figure of a crowned lion holding a. cross in his paw with the inscription, "Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah" as Menelik asserts that Abyssinia is the Sheba of the Bible, and that he himself is de- scended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. On the rim of the coin is inscribed, "Ethiopia lifts her hand to God alone" The design was made by Lagrange of the Paris mint. There are also two other coins for small change.
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Typographical unions have not been celebrated for sensible treatment of labor problems, but the Chicago Typo graphical union has outdone them all. It is to start daily paper where type setting machines will have no place the object being to give employment to those local printers who have been thrown out of work by the machines.