The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-23
Y YEOpLN ARP EVENTS.

r. I'd IN Sean l.n1via than either lDSen or
DJornsen.
..ucen Victoria Is supplied with four
dozen pairs Of kid gloves per month
from a cersain fund, and she insists on
having tAam. 4
ONE-PARAGRAPu .... ...... ........
The Princess Of wales. all her three
daughters. and the Princess May are
good swimmers.
william Lesser. a Philadelphia editor,
| can write two different paragraphs on
| different subjects at once, using PEN
| ell in cash hand.
The Duke Of Richmond dsapproves OF
| bss.lng as an Institution. He Keeps
| private race course (GoodwooD, and be-
| longs also to the Jockey Club. consider
ing 1t due 20 his position.
a man named DuranG has won bet
| az Marss.lss by standing on pedestal
| in a public place for four consecutive
| weeks. He vtas utterly exhausted after
the performance and may not recover.
Major Henry Stanton, ''the Sweet Poet
| OF the Ellahorn." in Kentucky. had the
| singular distinction for a poet Of being
a practical Inventor. He devised the
iron tie for binding cotton bales. and IL
was a success.
When s. Il. Crockett was poor young
college student he became the private
tutor OF a r!ch American youth and
| Travelled with his charge all over Eng
land and as far away As Siberia and
Nova ZcmS,a He made cop.ous notes
of the trip and expects to use them in
forthcoming book
Ike Wills, OF Fayet.e County, Ohio.
has horse ne won't sell. The other day
his baby crawle1 into the pig pasture.
Just as the pigs were about to make
meal Of him the horse ran up. Kicked the
pigs to second base and made a home
run with the baby by gripping Its frock
IN his teeth.
The administration OF the late Mr.. Par
nelrs estate will 1t is sad, yield abou.
10 shllllngs In the pound. His home and
small estate In Ireland were mortgaged
| 10 an IRISH banker before his death for
10000 and his quarrles he sold to his
brother. There are certain securities In
America which, it Is hoped, will yield
more than at first was expected.
The rooms in which the sessions Of the
Harvard summer school are held are
lettered instead Of numbered-a circum-
stance which led TO an interesting cpl
sode. One Of the professors, bes!eged by
| q swarm l1ulSS with QutSllOUS, Stlu "
one Of them: Miss Blank, will see you
In H" The fair petitioner almost faint
ed before she realized just what the re-
mark meant.
Sweden's state telephone is soon to be
| connected with the state telegraph. In
stead OF addresses the telephone num-
bers will be used. the telegraph clerks
looking up the address. Messages may
be telephoned to The telegraph Office and
telephoned back. thus dispensing with
the greater number Of the messenger
boys, as in Sweden nearly every one
uses the telephone.
Beatrice Harudon, who still fingers
In California, was entertained in South
Pasadena tne other day by Mrs. Mar
garet Graham, whose Stories of the
Foothills Of California" have led enthu-
slastlc admirers to term her feminine
klrllng." The entertainment; was bril-
| liant reception, but IL Is painful to read
, in Los Angeles paper thD; the lloness
, of the occasion looked and acted very
much bored"
! Francs Schlljer. who was a shoe
g maker in Denver TWO years ago, Is now
3 worshped as Christ in New Mexico. He
travels about the country healing the
MANNED, the hllt, and the blind, and
Will take no money for his cures AT
, Peralia the other day he restored the
, sight of Jesus Ma Volusqucz, who had
: | been blind for three years Jullana So
, clio, who had nos moved her arms for
=. sixteen years, was cured by him and Is
now working in the fields. Recently a
watch was put on him day and night
for eight days, and 1t was found that
during that time ne had eaten no food.
IT ~.
hum!l!D;ed by V!scount Brldport, the
, Srlnd-nephew Of the two great admlrals
q and the bearer Of Nelson's Siclllan title
of Duke of Bronte, offering for sale at
/, public auction the medals and other
: relies of England's naval hero. They
!, include the ten medals and orders he
: wore when shot down on the deck of the
Victory, the gold sword hll presented
:, to him by his captains after the battle
:, of the Nile, the diamond aigret;e given
: to him by the Sultan, the jewels from
:, the sword of honor given him by the
. King of Naples, his lnkstand, and the
;, gold casket presented with the freedom
! of the city of London.
o Three half-breed Cherokee Indians
man and wife and a little girl, walked
g into Kansas City recently-the woman
q barefooted dragging a small huckster'S
v cart, on which was piled a curious as
e sortment of household effects. The mar
IL said ne was Bill Smith and that they
e We're making their way 10 the Indlar
Il Territory to take up their abode in the
@ Cherokee Nation. They had walked al
d the way from Abbyville, Va, through
It West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois ant
). Missouri, distance Of LOO miles, ant
n Were going to enter the Nation by way
" of Coffeyvllle, Kan, a distance of S5C
miles more. The woman, her HUSBAND
q said, had hauled the cart the entire dis
II tance.
l. A sealed tin case, which. on being op
$, ened, was found 10 contain a copy O.
a Mltons paradise Lost" was picked vi
t. IN the lower part Of tht Penobscot River
l. Maine, few days ago. Inquiry dlsclos
" ed the fact that in a small town up th'
W river lives an old tinSmlth of literar!
g tastes and some cdd Ideas and that 1t Il
d his custom to inclose all sorts of excel
e. lent books in tin cans, tightly soldered
and SD CDnstpupta1 aS IN 0Nat a SilV M