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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18
wHEELw0MEN RIDE TOO FAR.
for Those who Are Beginning There is Q
Great Danger In OVERRIDING.

women who ride bicycles should
make 1t a law with themselves never to
ride after feeling Of WEAKNESS comes
over them" said well-known physi-
clan recently. For those who are pe-
ginning, especially, and In measure
for all women, there Is great DANGER
in OVERRIDING. Some women ride centu-
ries. it is true, but they are men In
strength. No ordinary woman should
start out before knowing how far she
is going. Ordinarily. though, they
ride twice as far as they ought. They
start out and ride away from home un-
til they get tired. Then they have to
ride back, getting more and more ex-
hausted with every turn OF the wheels.
No ordinary woman who rides once
or twice week should go more than
ten miles at trip. That Is perhaps an
hours ride, that may be easily extend
ed to an hour and a quarter before that
| distance is covered and II she does
| not feel fresh and in a glow when she
stops, she may be certain that she has
ridden too long. Naturally there Is
healthy tired feeling which anyone
recognizes after athletic exercise, but II
| Is quite different from and never to be
mistaken for the WEAKNESS which
| comes of too much exertion and strain
| ing of the nerves and muscles. very
! few women have ever been injured on
| a bicycle who kept to this rule and
| limited their riding to normal dis
tances.
1.-THE limit of distance which is sug.
gested by the first feeling of WEAKNESS
Is only a little more important than
the limit Of speed which the female is
capable of undergoing under health,
exercising rules. Whether a man car
ride at full speed for long distance
and still retain his good health is
doubtful question. 1t Is certain, how
ever, that no woman can keep up
high rate of speed for even a generous
portion of a mile and not create the
beginnings of injuries. The added
strength required to increase speed
even a little after a certain amount o
power has been expended is out of al
proportion to the results. There Is NJ
relaxation of the muscles between th'
revolution of the pedals, nor any lie
up on the nervous and muscular strait
while the speed lasts. The heart II
far more taxed than one realizes a
the moment, and that species Of ting
ling or numbness in the nerves ant
muscles which often results is only
sign that they have both been over
taxed"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18
Epicurean Elephants.

An elephants digestive functions are
very rapid, and the animal, therefore,
REQUIRES daily large amount OF 1od-
der-six hundred pounds at least. In
its wild state, the elephant feeds heart
lily, but wastefully. 1t Is careful III
selecting the few forest trees which IL
likes for their bark or foliage But II
will tear down branches and leave hair
of them untouched. 1t will strip OH the
bark from other trees and throw away
q large portion.
AS il Is a nocturnal animal, 1t selects
its trees by the sense of touch and
smell. Its sense of smell is so delicate
that a wild elephant can wind an enemy
at a distance Of one thousand yards,
and the nerves of it's trunk are so SEN
sitive the smallest substance can be DIS
covered and picked up by its proboscis.
An elephants palate is very delicate,
and the animal is whimsical in select
ing or rejecting morsels of food.
Sir Samuel Baker, in his wild
Beasts and Thier Ways" tells an an
ecdote illustrative of the whims OF
tame elephant belonging to the police
of Dhubri:
"This elephant was fed with rice and
plantains. The stems of the plantains
were split and cut into transverse sec
tions two feet in length. Three-quart-
ers of pound Of rice was placed with
in each tube of plantaln stem.
zone day, while the elephant was be
ing fed, a lady offered the animal q
small, sweet biscuit. 1t was taken IN
the trunk and almost Immediately
thrown ON the ground.
The mahout, or driver, thinking thai
! the elephant had behaved rudely, pick
ed up the biscuit and inserted 1t In
parcel of rice within plantain stem
This was placed in the elephant
mouth, and at the very first crunch 1
showed its dislike by spiting out tn
whole mess. The small biscuit hat
disgusted the animal, and for severa
minutes it tried by its inserted trunl
to rake out every atom from its tongu'
and throat"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18
SHE GAME OUT AHEAD.
A Man should be Careful When lie 10
gins to Argue with His wife.

gins to Argue WIN Ills WHO
Griggon has q habit of waiting unth
they go to bed to tell his wife the gos-
sip he has picked up during the day
He reads four or five papers, ads. ana
all, between supper and bed time, and
his wife knows the fruitlessness and
danger of attempting to pick any talh
out of him while this news-absorDlna
process Is going on. BY the time Orig.
son. with his hand on the gas key, has
made a survey of the room between
the light and the bed and pulls the
coverings over him, he appears to his
wife to be just getting livened up foi
the day, and wants to talk, while she Is
sleepy and wants to slumber. She al.
ways makes brave effort to keer
awake. however. and to humble an oc-
casional "M-mh." and "Yes?" and
"Well?" at the proper times. When
the story is especially long and drawn
out, however, she cannot help, for the
life of her, dropping off completely tc
sleep. When she does this she unvary-
ingly rouses herself when she hears
her husband mutter, Blamed II don't
believe that woman Is sound asleep,
and says: Go on am listening.
I'll bet tthirty cents that you don
remember a word l said to you in bee
last night" said Grigson to his wife th'
other morning at breakfast.
Indeed, | do remember everything
you said" she replied, but it could b'
seen that she was doing some marc
thinking as she said 1t.
For instance" went on Grigson, >"
suppose you recall that | said Thomp
son is drinking hard, and"
YES" chimed in Mrs. Grigson. AM
that he is liable to lose his position !
he don't stop, and"
Now I've got you" exclaimed Orig
son, triumphantly, throwing down nj
napkin-for Grigson is notoriou
/ among his wife's women friends as
mean old thing-"Tve got you pat.
| didn't mention Thompson's name las
! night, and | don't suppose he ever too
half a dozen drinks in his life. So yo
were clearly asleep all the time, an
I that's all there is about it,
But Mrs. Grigson didn't bat an eye
brow.
Tom, she said, after a minute
don't you think some good docto
could cure you OF your habit OF sayin
such strange things when you ar
asleep and dreaming"
Grigson looked at his wife in ST
ence. Minnie" he said, solemnly,
give you up. What's the use OF you
belonging to all these church societies
anyhow?'-Washington Star
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18
DRIED UP ON AN ISLAND.
-four Sailors Actually Cremated by Solar
Heat.

Uncle Robert William Quimby OF
Lewiston says that he has Travelled in
all the warm countries of the globe ard
that he has been in the coolest lati-
tudles. He does not think that we
have such very hot weather. If people
would make provision for the hot days
as they do in India, he thinks we
should not notice 1t so much.
But" says he, 1.-The warmest wealth.
er that I ever experienced was on a
small island called Johns Biscuit. OH
Cape Gracias, on the coast OF Hon
duras. The Elizabeth Jennings, on
which / sailed in 1870 from Portland,
stopped there for water, and boats
crew went ashore for 1t. 1t was lit
tie volcanic island and awful Dry and
hot. We didn't know whether there
would be any water there or not, but
we did find a spring with stream as
large as a broomhandle pouring OUT
all the time. And, do you believe me,
the water was dried up and 'oaked UP
before 1t had run four feet in the sand
The place was covered with dried trees
and little distance away was what
looked like a hut-a habitation tor
man. We went in and found the shrun'
ken remains of four men, sailors prob
ably, who had died in one night, tc
| Judge from appearances. One was
| leaning against the wall in a sitting
| position. There was dry food on The
| table, dry meat in box and everything
was burning dry.
"A letter in the pocket OF one mar
was dated Liverpool, 1846, and on tht
| table was bottle with a note in 1t
evidently Intended to be cast adrift. L
said they were four English seamen
marooned by the captain, left to die
The note was dated 1846, and / suppos'
they had been there dead in that hu
for over thirty years, and they mus
have died OF heat one day and driet
right up. We left them where We foun'
them"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18
A Freak.

Dime Museum Proprietor-What is
your line?
Applicant for Engagement-I am a
lightning calculator and
Cant use you! Lightning calcula-
tors are so common that they have
ceased to have any attraction whatever
for the public"
"But l am able to instantly tell how
many days there are in any month
without repeating the doggerel, Thirty
days hath September, and SO on.
/"
Name your price. my dear fellow
Name your price. New York Truth.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18
The liICYcle Lnmp.

A German manufacturer Of bicycle
lamps has adapted the latest models OF
these lamps for use within doors, and
has produced lamp for pianos or tor
students which is superior to anything
known. The light is concentrated upon
the music or book, and since the lens
can be moved around horizontal
axis to throw the light up or down on
any particularly point, it will be ex-
ceedingly serviceable for many trades
where a strong light is required upon q
certain point, as for engravers, watch
makers and kindred occupations.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18

Sunday-School Superintendent - Can
any of you tell me why Sunday Is CALL
ed the day of rest?
Little Dick (holding up his hand)-l
kin. It's cause we get up early and
hurry through breakfast fas' sos to
dress in time for Sunday school, and
then hurry to Sunday-school so we
won't be late. and then skip inter
church fore the bell stops ringin', and
then go home to dinner and get fixed
up fur afternoon servive, an then get
supper an go to bed so pa and ma can
get ready for evening service. That's
all we do.-New York Weekly.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18
Easing His Conscience.

"Well," said the deacon, Il sold old
Bill to-day"
who to?" asked his wife.
"Jim Allenbaugh. Got $50 fer i'm"
"Fifty dollars! 1 don't see how your
conscience ever let you let anybody pay
that much for balky horse that amt
worth more'n $15."
We'll" said the deacon, thoughtful
ly, Il don't believe I could have done
it only l know that jim will take him
out on one of his Sunday flshin' trips,
an old Bill will balk, and Jim will hev
a chance to set fer three or four hours
meditatin' on the sin Of Sabbath
breakin'. '."-Cincinnat Enquirer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18

"What do you intend to do with that
picture?" asked the artists friend.
That's one of my disappointments,"
was the reply. IT'S a ched d'oeuvre."
why, you ought to be proud OF 1t,
then"
mo. I started 1t as q pot-boiler.
But the man who ordered 1t changed
his mind and refused to pay for 1t,
There's nothing now for me to do but
add it to my collection OF master
pieces. s."-Washington Star.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18
Frog Hunting In Holland.

Frog-hunting is now prohibited by
Jaw in Belgium. The Belgian hunters,
however, continue their amphibious oc.
cupation in Holland, and from Sas.
van-Gent have recently sent in one
one-half day as many as 10000 frogs
legs on ice to Paris. These delicacies
fetch between twopence and threepence
apiece, and some of the hunters fine
the calling very remunerative.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18

Chop bits of boiled ham very fine
(those unfit for slicing). To this add
for one pint of meat, one cup OF bread
crumbs, one teaspoonful white pepper
one saltspoonful celery. one-half cup
milk. Mix, fill patty pans and bake
twenty minutes.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18
Don't Approve of 1t.

Say, Weary, they's a-tallkin' of in.
creasin the stamp taxes"
That's dead wrong, me boy. When
they begins ON that sort o taxatin'
there's no tellin' where 1t II end. Fust
thing you know they'll be maxim tn
boys put rush stamps on tn beeI
pailsv'--Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18
Lemon FlavorinR.

II you need only to use the juice OF
lemons, cut off as thinly as possible
their yellow rind, put it into wide
mouthed bottle, covered with gin OF
brandy, fill up from time to time; this
will give as good flavor as essence OF
lemon.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18
The First Gas Engine.

The first practical gas engine was
that OF Lenoir and was made In 1860
whilst the forerunner OF the present
type of gas and gasoline engine only
dates from 1876, when the Otto pr1ucl'
ple was Arst applied.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18
ANNUAL STATEMENT
BLOOM POOR DISTRICT

for the year ending January T. 1897
JOHN X. GROTZ, Treasurer
DIR.
To balance on hand at last
settlement. SlS 81 1900. -.
Cash from ali sources. ......... 1856 % S65C4 GA
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-30
DUNN NAY DECLINE
TO ACCEPT THE WAGNER CHECK
FOR SLEEPING OAR
TAXES.
UNDER THE LAW OF 1897,
PROVIDING FOR A THREE PER
CENT GROSS EARNINGS
TAX.
As to the Interpretation Placed on
the Law by the Wagner
People.

StateAuditor Dunn yesterday received
from the Chicago office of the Wagner
Sleeping Car company a check for
$2S.56, in compliance with the per cent
tax imposed on companies of it's kind
by the new law, known as chapter $50,
General Laws of 1897, which appeared
in printed form for the first time yes
terday. The promptness Of the COM
pany In submitting it's report, while
commendable, has not won entire
favor, as the state auditor is not con-
WINGED that the return made by the
company comes within the spirit of the
law, although it appears to comply with
its letter. The statement made by the
auditor of the company accompanying
yesterdays report and check is quite
brief, and while 1t purports to COM
prise all the earnings of the company
within Minnesota for the year just
closed, 1t does not go into detail, and
the auditor will inquire somewhat into
the apparent earnings of the company
before receiving the rendered check as
a compliance with the new law
There is only one road in the state
using the Wagner cars, the Omaha,
between here and Chicago. The dis
tance from here to Hudson is about
twenty miles, the ordinary sleeping
car run, which is from either of the
Twin Cities to Chicago, is, to Milwau-
kee, $50 miles, or to Chicago, 40 miles
from ST. Paul
One car runs to each Of these cities
every night, and the charge Is never
no 81,
earnings of the Wagner company f0r
a year in this state were not more than
81 900, then the auditor is mistaken in
his figures.
The Minnesota earnings are therefore
one-fourteenth Of the Minneapolis trip
to Chicago, about one-twentieth of the
trip from ST. Paul
Even on the basis Q. the last named
ig ures, one-twentieth, which is the
smallest fraction that can in any way
be accredited to Minnesota, it would
mean that the gross earnings of the
road running out Of the Twin Cities
for g, year had been $4,000 This
would mean that less than 10000 pas
sengers had gone out or come in over
the line of the Omaha in a year, or an
average of scarcely over twenty per
day. ten each way in spite of the fact
that never less thar; two sleepers are
run on a train.
1t is suspected that the company has
misinterpreted the law which provides
a tax on fares beginning at a point
within this state, and has under that
view of the case, taken no account
of west-bound traffic, as naturally no
one coming to st. Paul or Minneapolis
from this side of Hudson would take
a sleeper. There is no doubt that this
was not the intent of the legislature,
but the term beginning at a point in
this state may have given pretext for
such an Interpretation, and the auditor
will inquire fully before accepting the
offer, not because of it's money value
SO far as the Wagner company is con-
cerned, but because of the material
difference it might make in computing
the earnings in this state of other COM
panies, which have longer runs within
the state.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-30
Petty Police Jotttings.

John Simon, charged with the theft of a
bride from a stable at Fifth and Broadway,
Wednesday, was arraigned for larceny in the
police court yesterday. Pending an arrange
ment looking toward sending the lad to the
state school, the case was continued until
Tuesday.
James Maninan, accused of holding the
household effecs of Frederick Benno for rent
alleged to be due him, had the charge of ar
ceny against him continued in the police court
yesterday in view of a probable Sc tlemen- of
the difficulty. Assis ant County Attorney Zoll-
man says the case will be dism ssel
John Van Buren, and John McC .a.en, the two
men arres ed by Detectives Wells and Wer-
rick, Wednesday, on suspicion of having stolen
a set OF harness ant kit of tools from Sim
mons blacksmith shop. on Eighth street, were
discharged yesterday. The men are strangers
from Chicago, upon whom the police looked
with suspicion, and they promised to leave
the city.
Guy Risdon, arrested by Detectives Wells
and Werlich Wednesday night, on The charge
OF grand larceny, was arraigned before Judge
Twohy yesterday and secured a con inuance
until tomorrow. Nettie Willard from whose
resort RiSdon is accused of stealing property,
valued at $50, has lodged fcT nal complaint
against the young man.
Michael Barret, arrested for street begging,
was sentenced to the workhouse for thirty
days.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-30

thirty-three years Of age and they
were married in st. Paul four years
ago this month. The complaint al
leges that the defendant owns house
and lot in Eastville Heights, worth
81 ,200 had business worth 81, 900 and
is the owner Of horses, cows, wagons
and other personal property of the
value Of $1,000 The plaintiff asks for
temporary alimony and counsel fees
and permanent alimony. The COM
plant further alleges that the defend
ant had beaten and struck the plaintiff
and that she had him arrested for as
sault and battery, and that he had
promised never to strike her again, but
that on April TO- the defendant as
saulted plaintiff, knocked her down
and kicked her with great force and
violence.
Judge Otis granted a divorce yester-
day to Arthur r. Walker from Julia
P. Walker, on the ground Of deSertion.
The plaintiff is thirty and Mrs Walker
is twenty-seven years of age. They
were married in Minneapolis in 1889
and have no children.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-30
SUIT OF A "sHATCHEN."
Hebrew Marriage Brokers Compact
Not Fulfilled.

The case of Robert Cotton against
Moses Ryder, by which the former at
tenpts to collect SAG from Ryder for
procuring the defendant a wife, was
tried before Justice of the Peace john
son yesterday. Cotton swoTe that ae
had offered to get Ryder's widowed
eister-in-law to marry the latter The
widow was rich, and Cotton destined
that Ryder had agre7d to the plan
promising to pay him $50 when the
marriage had taken place. Cotton teS-
tilted that he had followed the business
of bringing about marriages in the old
Country, but said the Ryder affair was
his first experience ssiince coming 70
Ar.crica; Asked the mear1rs vsr re
Hebrew term which he us61 . @tsig-
nate hts avocation, he explained that
it meant "a kind of mixing up Cot
ton affirmed most seriously that he had
made a contract in his line of business
with Ryder, and had successfully
brought about the marriage, but
claimed that afterWard when he APP
piled for his compensation, Ryder gave
him but 81 and refused to liquidate fur
ther.
Ryder insisted that Cotton had in no
way been concerned with the happy
event He did not know Cotton, he
swore except by sight, and had never
spoken a word to him in his life.
AS the evidence in the case was in
almost every particular diametrically
opposed, Justice Johnson RETAINED
from rendering an immediate decision,
and took the matter under advisement.
Ryder is seventy-two years of age.
while his brothers widow, whom he
married, is seventy years of age. He
had been married before. Mrs. Ryder
is said to have been left with some
thing like $4,000 by the death of her
first husband, and a comfortable home,
where she and Moses Ryder now re-
side at Viola and Rice streets.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-30
BICKEL LOCKED up
YOUNG BANKER REMAINED IN DUR
ANCE VILE THROUGH THE
NIGHT.
COULD NOT FIND B0NDSMEN'
AFTER SURRENDERING TO THE
COURT AND PLEADING NOT
GUILTY.
COTTON SAYS HE'S A sHATCHEN.
Interesting Testimony in a Hebrew
Disagreement in Justice OF the
Peace JOhnsOn's Court.

William F. Bickel was arrested at
1870 p. m. yesterday at the office of his
attorneys, McDon,.id & Barnard, in the
New York Life Insurance building.
AS d matter of fact, Mr.. Bickel sur
rendered himself. He purposely avoid
ed the deputy sheriffs Wednesday
night, knowing that it would be diff
cult. If not impossible, to secure d
bond at such a late hour and that he
would be obliged to spend the night in
iail. AS it has turned out, however.
the experience Mr.. Bickel. sought to
avoid was only deferred, for he spent
last night in the Ramsey county jail
Mr. Bickel appeared before Judge
Twohy. of the municipal court, later
in the afternoon. He pleaded not
guilty, waived examination AID was
held to the grand jury. Bail was fixed
at 81. 500. The rest of the afternoon
was spent in looking for bondsmen, but
at D. m. none had been found. Mr..
Bickel was thereupOn taken to the
county jail. where he remained over
night
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-30
TYPHOID FEVER GERMS.
State BacterfoIORtst Fights Them
With Great Success

DR.. r. F. Westbrook. the bacterioIo-
g1st, who has recently made report to
Health Commissioner Stone, of this
city, on the local situation, has now re-
ported the general condition of the
state to the state board Of health. He
summarizes his findings thus: Ty-
phoid fever has received special atten-
ton with wonderful success in apply
ing the new Vidal test for this disease
Since this new method was first put in
to use last January the Minnesota lab
oratory has probably made more dag
noses than any other laboratory in the
country. In January they tested thirty
five specimens: in February, los; in
March, 254; making total of nearly
400 in three months. Most of these
specimens were from the city of Min
biological laboratory. The state board
uses the Vidal test as modified by Dr.
Johnson, Of Montreal, and is now able
to give a certain diagnosis within
twenty flour hours. A drop of patients
blood is sent to the laboratory and ac-
cording to this new method Is inoculat-
ed with baclli. If the blood contains
typhoid bacilli they will Immediately
gather in little groups. This test, which
was discovered only last September by
DR. Vidal, Of Paris, is now being
DR.. Westbrook feels great confidence in
this process for discovering typhoid
after the thorough trial that has been
given it in the state laboratory.
The most valuable work Of the state
board is the assistance 1t Is able to give
local boards of health in cases of con-
tagious diseases. At all times 1t is
open to free consultation for health
officers and physicians in regard 70 bac-
THEOLOGICAL examinations In the one
disease of diphtheria 1t has examined
about 1,600 specimens in the past year,
565 of them being made in the past
three months.
DR. Westbrook is assisted at present
in the laboratory by DR.. L. B. Wilson
and o. Mcdaniel. and also by three vol
untary student assistants, Fritz Bau-
mann, a graduate from one of the Ger
man universities. and Messrs. Hare and
MCGEE. The laboratory is very well
equipped with incubators, sterilfzer and
microscopes. and under the direction
of DR.. Westbrook, who has made a
special study Of bacteria in Europe,
principally at oxford, has every pos
sibility of becoming one Of the fore
most centers for meteorological re-
search IN this country.