The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-09-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The river dolphin Of South America
has 222 teeth.
At one feast Nero is said to have
spent more than 100000 in roses.
Two young men were frozen to death
in Tyrol in the last weeks Of June.
A statistical authority asserts that
In 1880 there were 1852 cheese facto-
ries.
Russia will establish q permanent
diplomatic legation In Abyssinia next
fall.
J. e. Brewer. Of Abilene, Kan.
shipped more than 100000 eggs In
1895.
The flight Of a meteor over Kansas
City frightened to death an elk that
was kept. there. ...,-
Zena King, of Fairland. Mich, kick
ed at hog and missed 1t and broke
his leg against post.
Boys OF Flint, Mich, got s400 from
the County Treasurer during June in
bounties on sparrow heads.
An umbrella insurance company has
Just been organized in London. 1t will
insure canes as well as umbrellas.
England has the greatest number Of
lighthouses and lightships--one for ev-
cry fourteen miles Of it's coastline
Queen vistoria has twenty-five state
carriages, which are kept in the coach
house attached to Buckingham Pal
ace.
1t is estimated that the lumber of
the Miramichi and tributaries, Canada.
will this season amount to 12,O00, 900
feet.
The Mansfield (Pa.) Advertiser says
that a pure white sparrow has been
seen In Mansfield number OF times re-
Gently.
In England and Wales the death-rate
from typhoid fever has declined from
277 per million in 1S76-SO to 1856 in
1S9l-94.
Antwerp is going to have a great cell
ebration on the 300th anniversary or
Sir Anthony Van Dycks birth, March
~, 1899. .....
The Jubilee visit OF the colonial Pre-
miers has led to the discovery that the
Prince Of Wales pronounces premier as
in French, premi-ay., sis
Samony. the most powerful chief in
the French Soudan, is reported by
French authorities to be dead and to
have been succeeded by his son.
Admiral Makarof, of the Russian
navy, has invented a species OF ice
piow capable of breaking through Ice
from twelve to even twenty inches
thick. a-... ., ..r
Sarah Siddon's patchbox and tooth
pick brought in $40 at a recent auction
sale, her silver pocket nutmeg crater
$40 and a gold locket with lock OF her
hair $35.
The largest order for carpets ever
given for a single hotel. It is said. has
been given for the new Astor Hotel,
New York. adjoining the Waldorf. 1t
has thousand rooms.
Common salt that is used daily in
our food is needed in the body. 1t
aids digestion and the assimilation of
the, food, and helps In the composition
OF many of the tissues.
American iron and steel selling in
England, American tinplate in Wales,
and now American butter in Australia!
Truly coal may yet be carried to New
castle and sold at a profit.
1t is estimated that the daily supply
OF needles for the entire world am
cunts to 100000 OF varying shapes
and sizes, while the United States alone
calls for yearly supply Of 100000, 900.
When a man loses an ear, by paying
from 500 to $l25 he can procure anoth-
er made of specially prepared rubber
that can be crumpled without injury
and is carefully painted to resemble
the natural organ.
A dispatch from Odessa says that the
Russian authorities greatly fancy the
American rifles, and have ordered, or
are about to order, $4,000, following a
sample which has an unusually heavy
stock and a shorter barrel than the or
dinary.
In the course Of sermon a negro
preacher in Georgia, touching on the
subject of earthquakes, said: ''Oh,
my sinful hearers, yearthquake is
nothin mo- ner less den dis: He'll
done got tired waitin' fer you, en- gone
ter sleep, en- wake up yawnin'!"
The attempt to send the children
home early by ringing the curfew bell
Is represented to have been a failure
in most of the towns of Missouri in
which 1t was tried. The town of Law
son has recognized the fact and re-
pealed the law. In other towns 1t is a
dead letter.
Uncle Russell Sage has just been
beaten in a lawsuit, in which a woman
and 160-acre homestead farm were
concerned. The woman stays because
she proved she had complied with the
law even to plowing a furrow all
around her farm. And there is another
furrow in Mr.. Sage's cheek now.
At Mooresville, Ind, a carpenter
working on an old building once used
as the post Office found seventy-six let
ters and postal cards that had been
dropped down under tie letter box and
had failed to reach their destination.
Most OF them bore dates of 1874, 1875
and 1876, and some as far back as 1871.
Mrs. Allen Lemon Is an applicant for
divorce at Anderson, Ind. Her case
reveals something of new hereditary
mania Of which she is the victim. Her
great-grandmother was divorced once.