The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21
THIS AND THAT.


In Germany the authorities tax
dog according to its size.
A Jewish rroverb, Commit sin
twice, and yea will think its perfectly
allowable"
All animals need plenty of good
shade and water as well as good feed
these hot days.
Why Is fashionable society like a
warming pan? Because 1t is highly
polished, but very hollow.
With no kissing games and no dane
ing at picnics. the cause of religion
seems likely to get bad setback.
1t is said that forty-two different
species of birds are represented in the
plumage that adorns women's hats.
Switzerland's National Council has
voted unanimously to make insurance
against accident and sickness compul-
sorry on all citizens.
The yak, or grunting OK of Thibet,
takes its name from the peculiar sound
1t emits whenever excited or irritated.
1t has tail like that of horse.
They used to say that the presence
of a dog in the family was sure sign
of poverty For dog" now read "bi-
cycle"
The shortness of life Is bound up
with it's fulness," said Phillips Brooks.
strip a life empty, and it will seem
! long enough"
In recent suit in Maine an item in
the offset account was FOR loafing in
defendants shop, at the rate Of fifty
dollars per annum."
| The depth of water has a consider
able influence on the speed of steam
ers, which are found to move more
slowly in shallow water.
There is more faith in trusting one
poor wretch that has come to grief,
than in counting upon all the honest
men in the world put together.-Truth.
The daughter of the oldfashioned
woman sometimes bore resemblance
to her mother. 1t is the aim of the up
to-date mother to resemble her daugh-
ter.
A colony of two hundred California
orange growers Is to be established in
Mexico where large tract of land Is
to be purchased and planted with Or
ange trees.
"Billy, don't think I'll stay at this
GUNNER hotel much longer" What's
up? Rates too high?" mo, l don't
mind the high rates, but the clerk is
always nagging me for money"
. You durn old plug" said the farmer
to his balky horse, you actually amt
, worth KILN unless" he added, after
second thought. unless / could man.
age TO git you killed by the railroad.
Shanghai is being rapidly changed
, into a manufacturing town. Cotton
| factories are springing up in every di-
, rection, and the Chinese have the nov
= oi experience of smoke and screaming
whistles.
The Bishop of London. in a recen
address on Reading" said "All hu
{ man knowledge has been gained by thu
impertinence and pig-headedness of {
Y 7 small number of people who were al
a ways asking 'Why?"
A humorist leaps galy upon the step
OF an omnibus, and cries cheerfully t,
! the conductor: "Is the ark full?" "No
SIR" replies the jovial conductor, w
It have kept a seat for you. What no
v within there! Room for the monkey
When Queen Victoria's state car
I riage was taken down to Windsor jus
y before the jubilee day for her approval
she remarked that it was "the mos
Ie uncomfortable carriage she had eve
2, known in her life" Forthwith it wa
c taken back to London, and the car
- riage- builders worked all night maxim
- alterations to the seat and back. an
le returned it. Then the Queen expresse
herself completely satisfied.