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La Junta tribune., 1899-02-11

Richnrds' Magic Catarrh Expellant Co
Omaha, Neb. Write for particulars.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
MANUFACTURED EGGS.
Common Shell of Gypsum Is Used,
Wbic6 Is Carefully CoIUred
and Marked.

From recent observations of an ex-
pert collector of birds eggs it became
apparent that there was in existence
q person who made living by imitat-
ing nature in the production and COLI
Drng of birds eggs, says the London
Penny.
1t was traced to Partisan dealer,
and some interesting details as to the
methods used have come to light. The
unscrupulous but ingenious French
man was at one time an assistant in
large museum, and here he learned
the value of many rare eggs. Being OF
an enterprising nature he started busi-
ness on his own account and made nu-
merous experiments before he came to
perfection.
He generally uses the shell of some
common egg, chosen for its likeness in
size and shape to the one desired, but
when that is impossible gypsum is used,
this, when properly colored, being in
distinguishable from natures handi-
work The coloring process is not cost
ly, but very lengthy and tedious OPP
| Grafton, for each variety of egg has it's
| distinctive marks and spot.
Nightingales' eggs, which are finely
marked, are worth good prices, and
knowing this the dealer finds no diff
Guilty in obtaining larks' eggs and col
oring them to resemble the genuine
article.
Specimens of this undoubted but mis-
| placed skill have found their way to
collectors in all parts of the world,
and yet so completely and carefully has
the work been done not one of the buy
ers has ever discovered them to be
manufactured"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
FLATHOUSES IN MALTA.
Interested Capitalists Look to Amer
lea for the Latest Kind of
Fittings.

Nalletta, the capital of Malta, has
been invaded by the Harlem flat, and
the Maltese are delighted. One large
fiathouse having proved Il succeed, sew
eral more are about to be built and the
Maltese want to know just how the
thing is done in New York. The capi-
talists who are to build the tlathouses
have been to John NJ. Grout, Jr., the
United States consul at Malta, and told
him that they want the latest thing in
electric outfits for flats, such as bells,
etc, and new ideas as to plumbing and
elevators.
Mr.. Grout says: 81 have had several
conversations with the men in regard
to their getting American goods for the
new buildings, and have explained to
them, as far as l have been able. Now
our fiat buildings are constructed and
finished and the fittings used. The re-
suit is that they have become interest
ed to such an extent as to request me
to get them illustrated catalogues and
price lists of goods appertaining to the
interior fitting up of the buildings of
this class, and especially of door locks,
hinges, bolts, window fastenings and
house hardware in general.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
Cotton Mnde from Wood.

Consul Mahin, of Reichenberg, quotes
an account in a local newspaper of a
process for making artificial cotton
from the wood of the fir tree. The
wood is reduced to thin shavings, which
are placed in n washing apparatus, ex-
posed to the influence Of steam for ten
hours. They are then subjected to a
strong preparation of sodium lye, and
are heated under great pressure for 80
hours. The wood is now changed to
pure cellulose, and to give this greater
resisting power some castor oil, caffeine
and gelatin are added. The substance
is then put into an apparatus and made
into threads. The article concludes:
Artificial cotton can be produced SO
cheaply that the genuine article can
hardly compete with it, and one cannot
say that it is sham, for 1t is COM
posed, exactly as is the natural cotton
of pure cellulose."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
FIND OUT YOURSELF.

Why ask physician to find out whether
your Kidneys are diseased Take glass
tumbler and fill it with urine If there is a
sediment after standing twenty.four hours,
your kidneys are sick If you have desire
to urinate often, pain in the back, or if
your urine stains linen, YOU should at once
take DR.. David Kenpedy's Favorite Remedy,
as delay is dangerous There is no question
about its being the best and surest medicine
In the world for any and all diseases of the
Kidneys, Liver, Bladder and the urinary
passages, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia or consti-
patton of the bowels. 1t quickly relieves in
ability to hold urine and the necessity of
getting up often during the night. 1t stops
that scalding pain when passing urine anc
corrects the bad effects of whiskey and beer.
1t is sold by all druggists at one dollar I,
bottle. You can have trial bottle and
pamphlet of valuable medical advice sent
free by mail postpaid, by mentioning THE
COLUMBIAN, and sending your address to the
DIR. DAVID KENNEDY CORPORA.
TION, Roundout, N. Y. The publishers OF
this paper guarantee the genuineness OF this
liberal offer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
Why Cats Hiss.

Why does cat hiss when angry?
Take tiny kitten at play and make it
angry and it will snarl in it's baby
fashion and hiss as best it can. Why?
In Pearson's Magazine DR.. Louis Rob-
inson says that the kissing and splitting
OF young kittens is probably an instinc-
tive attempt to scare away enemies
from the helpless tots by initiating a
snakes hiss. A great many creatures
that live in shallow holes have like
habit of Kissing when annoyed or an
gered. The tail of cat seen dimly in
the half light of a cave suggests a
snakes tail and is often marked in way
to heighten the resemblance. III" says
DR.. Robinson, "this really is an instance
OF protective mimicry, l think 1t is
probable that the chief foe guarded
against was the eagle. Eagles are very
fond of cat flesh, and it has been re-
marked by naturalists that these form
liable birds habitually make war upon
the smaller felidae."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06

feet long, with an opening of about 20
feet. These traps are on the bottom in
shallow waters, supported by poles, and
they catch all the shrimp and small fish
that swim along with the tide. This
work is done at night, usually between
midnight and sunrise.
The shrimp are boiled in large vats
for about ten minutes, when they as
sumo the delicate pink color that marks
them when cooked. Then they are
spread out with brooms in the sun on
levelcd, cleared squares, and the China
men dance on them with wooden shoes,
to break the shells, and thus make 1t
easy to remove the meat. Twenty or
more celestials engage in the weird
hobble, covering the entire bed, and
resembling band of American Indians
at fire dance. When they have fin
ished the shrimp are taken in baskets
to dislodge the meat from the shells,
both of which are shipped to China.
The crushed shells are used in the
Flowery Kingdom as n fertilizer on tea
plantations. China is said to depend
on the San Francisco market for them
| entirely.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
MAY EXECUTE ANYONE.
Possession of the Ching Fang sword
in China Gives One That
Privilege.

1t is announced by the Imperial Ga
zette of Peking, the court circular OF the
Chinese empire, that the dowager em-
press has presented two "Schang Fang"
swords, one to Prince Tsa Tschi, elector
of Tuan, the other to Prince Tsai Lieu,
iii. grade.
These swords give their bearer the
right of beheading any man, woman or
child who may have offended him or
incurred his disfavor. He can perform
this execution without even word to
the emperor and need make no record
of his victims butchery.
The idea of the sword, however, is
that it is safeguard against treason.
The bearer must instantly do away with
any one who may have designs against
the ruling family, and thus discourage
"lese majestic" at the same time it is
a mark of esteem for those who receive
it.
The SchangFang sword dates back
centuries, still there is only one other
instance, besides the one just men
toned, recorded in Chinese history,
| where this sword was given to anyone.
1t was presented on that occasion to the
Mon-Gol General Sai-Schang-ah by En-
peror Hsien-Feeng, when, during the
| Tai-Ping rebellion, that general dis
| tinguished himself by exceptional
| bravery and earned the rank of gener-
| alissimus.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
window Washing No Bar.

Can lawyer practicing at the bar
be Mt the same time manual work.
err This question is now agitating the
members of the legal profession in
Hungary. A young brietless barrister,
tired of waiting for clients, took to
earning money by painting, decorating,
window-clcaning, and so forth, in the
provincial towns in the districtin which
he practiced at the bar. An effort
was made to have his name erased from
the roll of advocates, but the lord chief
Justice ruled that the young legal rev.
olutionist was within his rights in earn
sng money by honest manual labor.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06


expedition that has penetrated into the
country with Indians or dogs has been
one of great suffering and hunger.
Not only in carrying the mail will the
reindeer be of service, but to explorers,
miners, missionaries and settlers they
win prove a sure means of transporting
supplies and will greatly aid in eXplora-
ton and development.
The reindeer possesses all the requi-
sites for arctic travel. They are swift,
tractable and sclf-sustaining. The
moss upon which they feed covers the
whole of northern Alaska and they
reach it by burrowing through the
snow with their deeply cleft hoofs. A
swift reindeer can make $50 miles day
uuder favorable conditions, and IL
miles an hour is fair average rate of
speed drawing a load of 300 pounds.
The average price OF the reindeer Is
$40.
In order to teach the Alaskan Eskimo
She art of handling the reindeer, expert
enced Lapland and Siberian herders,
with their families, have been employed
by the government at salary OF S27 per
month and food. The government sta
ton is at Pt. Clarence. The reindeer,
besides furnishing transportation, pro-
rides food, clothing, house. furniture,
supplements, weapons and harness to the
natives, and to the white inhabitants
reindeer clothing is the most servicable
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
Musical Well In Texas.

Near Wiederman's, Tex, is an aban-
doned well about 60 feet deep, and
overgrown with vegetation, which, a
correspondent of Popular Science says,
Is famous in the neighborhood for its
musical powers. In fine weather, par
ticularly with a westerly wind, it gives
forth sound like that of an Aeolian
harp, swelling and dying away by
by turns. When heavy northerly
wind is blowing, the water rises within
few feet of the top, and strange noises,
which some persons think resemble
moans. issue from the old well. An at
tempt to fill up the well few years ago
failed, apparently because of the ex-
istence of subterranean cavity, which
swallowed up the dirt as fast as It was
dumped ia.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
SHERIFFS SALE.

nv virtue of a writ OF Lev. Fa., Issued out OF
the Court of Comm on Pleas OF Columbia Couh-
tv. Pennsylvania, and 10 me directed, there Will
be exposed TO public sale, at the Court House,
in Bloomsbury, Pa, on
SATURDAY, JULY IS, 1899,
at two O'clock in the afternoon, the following
described real estate, to wit:
All that certain messuage, tenement ana traco
of land, lying and being in the Town OF Blooms
burg County OF Columbia and state or Penn
sylvana described in the recorded deed OF con
veyance as follows, TO wit: Beginning In the
westward line OF Magee avenue, now being
opened, one hundred twenty y-slx feet, north
wardly, from the north line of sixth street, ex-
tended, and one hundred ninety feet westward
ly from the west line OF Leonard street, now
opened, forty feet wide thence along said Ma
gee avenue ENTHUSIASTICALLY fourteen rect
thence southw estwardly, at right angles, TO
Magee avenue, seventy feet, to line OF land OF
McKelvy & Neal; thence by same parallel TO
Magee avenue, enthusiastically. fourteen feet ;
thence ENTHUSIASTICALLY, by other land OF James
Magee, I'd, seventy feet, to the place OF begin
ming, whereon is erected two-story
BRICK DWELLING HOUSE.
Seized. taken in execution, at the suit Of
Anglo American Savings Loan Association vs.
James Magee, 3D. and NJ. b. Ritter, and TO DC
sold as the property Of James Magee' 3D. anc
NJ. b. Ritter, with notice to terre tenant.
w. w. BLACK,
HERRING, Atty. Sherin.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06

In n work just published in Berlin en-
titled "The Representations OF lnsan-
s.y in Shal<espeare's Plays" the author
Dr. Laehr, demonstrates Shakespeare's
wonderful insight into human nature
and the phenomena Of insanity. lie
shows how Shakespeare's delineation
c,f the onset of insanity in King Lear is
entirely in accordance with the knowl-
edge of the medical profession to-day
On the subject, although it was entire
ly misunderstood by the medical pro-
fcssion of Shakespeare's day. BESIDES
Iear, he selects the case of Hamlet for
examination and discussion and he
treats his subject in the mastery way
which characterizes the German sci
sntists
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
Girl Dead on a Couch.

Jessie Hill, the I7-year-old daugh-
ter of MIR. and Mrs. John Hill, OF
Standing Stone, village about seven
miles from Towanda, was found dead
on a couch last Thursday afternoon.
The mother and father left her IN
charge of the house while they went
to social. Foul play is suspected
and the Coroner was sent for.
The verdict of the Coroner's IN
quest was that she came to her death
from poisoning, administered by the
hand of herself or persons unknown.
There are some sensational stories
circulated concering the girl.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
Pennsylvania Ohautauqua.
Reduced Rates to Mt. Gretna via Pennsyl-
vania Railroad.

For the Pennsylvania Chautauqua,
to be held at Mt. Gretna, Pa, July 4
to August 10, 1899, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will sell special ex-
cursion tickets to Mt. Gretna from
New York, Washington, Baltimore,
Frederick, Md, Canandaigua, and in
termediate points, including all stations
on its line in the State of Pennsylvania.
Tickets will be sold June IS to
August 10, inclusive, and will be good
to return until August IS, inclusive.
6-2o-2t.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
THE SHRIMP DANCERS.
They Are San Francisco Cbinameh
who Have Dnilt UP Quite
Thrifty Industry.

One of the biggest industries of the
Chinese in San Francisco is catching,
cooking and shipping shrimp to China
In great quantities. The shrimp fish
ers, or shrimp dancers, as they are
called there, are of the lowest type of
humanity, and live in out-of-the-way
places along the shores of the Golden
Gate. There are hundreds OF them, and
they use old nondescript boats in their
calling. They catch the shrimp mostly
with bag nets Of fine mesh, about 40
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
WILL USE REINDEER.
Unique Postal Service for Alaska
and the Klondike.
Government Claims to HIVE Solved n
Problem which Has Puzzled the
Heads of officials for
Number OF Years.

The problem of arctic transportation
since the rush to the klondike has
caused much anxiety in the post office
department, and has been finally solved
only after an expenditure of much time
and money by the choice of the domes-
ticated reindeer as the only practicable
and speedy method of distributing the
Alaskan mail. Now, to carry out the
plans, the revenue cutter Thetis is be-
ing fitted out for a cruise along the 81
,berian coast to obtain the swiftest of
these animals from the Siberian herd
ers. Lieut.. ID. II. Jarvis, one of the most
experienced of arctic officers, will be
IN command.
The nearest market of the domest-
Gated reindeer is on the east coast of
Siberia, Just across the Behring strait.
Here the animals have been herded and
trained by the nomadic tribes that
roam up and down the coast, subsist-
ing mainly on the products of the herds
and bartering skins with the coast ma
tiyes for tobacco, firearms, ammuni-
tion and other commodities. The The
It's will meet these tribes along the
coast, purchase the best of the deer and
transport them across to the Alaskan
coast.
The present methods OF transporta-
ton in Alaska are by dog trains. In
dian packers and by boats. BY boat it
is impossible to travel nine months of
ihe year, and dog-team travel is limited,
stow and uncertain, as the greater part
of the load has to be taken up by food
for the animals. The history of every
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
While VIRer.

A white tiger was shot lately In the
Dibrugarh district of Assam, according
to the Calcutta Englishman. He was
nine feet long and in the prime of life.
The Calcutta taxidermist who prepared
the skin states that in IS years he had
neither seen nor heard of such thing
~ q whiSe tiger.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
SOAP FOR CHICAGOANS.
1t Takes 10000 Pounds Every Da!
to Keep Them Clean, Healthy
and PresentabIe.

Every year Chicago uses up about
Al 100000 pounds of soap. This is for
all purposes, but does not include the
various soap powders and other COM
pounds which are sometimes used in
it's place. Each day, then, it takes in
round numbers 100000 pounds of soap
to keep the city even as clean as it is.
Estimating the population at 100000,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06

The largest cask in the world Is the
Blatner cask, of Nuremberg, Germany.
Ii is 105 feet in diameter and 81 feet
deep, and Its completion a few years
ago was celebrated by ball, at which
over 500 persons were on the floor of the
cask.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06

these figures allow 20 pounds of soap
for all purposes to each inhabitant each
year. Each day on an average every
man, woman and child in Chicago uses
up one-eighteenth of pound. If all
the soap used in day in Chicago was
brought together it would make bar
16 times as big as the late lamented
Jumbo
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06

ESTATE OF CHARLES wHTTMIRE, LATE OF CEs-1
TIRE TOWNSHIP, DECEASED.
Notice is hereby given that letters OF admin
istratlon on the estate OF Charles Whitmire'
ceased, have been granted to George NJ. Whit,
mire, residing in said township TO whom als
persons Indebted to said estate are requestedto
mands will make known the same without de-
lay TO GEORGE M. WHiIMiRE,
6-22.6t. ADMINISTRATOR
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06

Japanese workmen are obliged to
wear on their caps and backs an in
scription stating their business and
their employers name.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06

Home, of N. Y; Merchants of NewarA,
N. j.; Clinton, N. Y.;Peoples', NY; Read.
ing, Pa German American Ins. Co., Nsv
York; Greenwich Insurance Co., New Yet,
Jersey City Fire Ins. Co., Jersey City, n. ].
These old corporations are we'll sessonsl
by age and fire tested, and have never vi
had loss settled by any court of law. Their
assets are all invested in solid securities. sn6
liable to the hazard of fire only.
Losses promptly and honestly adjusted and
paid as soon as determined, by Christian =.
Knapp, Special Agent and Adjuster, Bloons
burg, Pa.
The people of Columbia county shouid
patronize the agency where losses, il sny,
are settled and paid by one Of their ows
citizens.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

ESTATE OF CONRAD KREAMRR, LATE OF MADISON
TOWNSHIP, DECEASED.
Letters of administration, in the estate or
Conrad Kreamer, late OF Madison township,
Columbia county, Pa, deceased, have been
granted by the Register OF Wills or said county
TO the undersigned. All persons having claims
or demands against the estate OF said decedent
are requested 10 make known the same to the
administrator without delay. Those indebted
to the estate OF said decedent are requested TO
make prompt payment TO the administrator;
CHARLES q. BARKLEY,
Bloomsburg, Pa, June -, 1899. Admr.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-06
RRICK DWELLING HOUSE.
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

HERRING, Atty.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-08-17
A Clock That Runa n Year.

Peter NJ. Ravenskilde, of Cabrey, ILL.,,
has invented a clock that will run n
year, perhaps longer, without atten-
ton. 1t was started August 20, 1898,
and has not stopped or lost or gained
time since. The clock is run with a
wheel 60 inches in circumference.
From the outer surface ofJthe wheel are
suspended 100 cups, each one-half inch
in diameter and third of an inch deep.
Forty of these cups contain steel balls
three-eighths of an inch in diameter.
Every minute and half, as this wheel
turns by the weight of the balls, one Of
the balls falls out of the cup and rolls
down an inclined plane 90 inches long,
when, by its own weight, 1t reunites a
broken circuit of electricity and is ele-
waited by little car travelling along an
inclined plane to the top of the wheel,
where it falls into a cup which stands
vertical for short time. After the car
discharges it's cargo it returns to its
original station by it's own weight.
From the time one of these balls Is
dropped into q cup until it is again
dropped into another cup it travels
Sc inches. Thus the work done by all
the balls is equivalent to one ball trav-
cling over a mile day, 400 miles in one
year, and in so years the distance around
the globe. The electricity used is gen.
Grated in an ordinary storage battery.
Kansas City Star.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-08-17
PERSONAL NOTES.

|
Henry Baerer, of New York, has won
the contest for designs for the Goethe
monument to be set up in Garfield Park,
Chicago. The statue will cost $4,000.
Don Climaco Calderon, the new Colon
bian Minister at Washington, is 40 years
old. He speaks English iuently and
without any trace of a foreign accent.
Rev. L. E. Holden, The new president
of the University of Wooster, entered
Beliot College as student with inst S25
in the world. He graduated free from
debt and $500 ahead.
Rudyard Kipling is now at his home at
Nottingham, near Brighton. England.
He announces that he will write nothing
until next year, but devote his time to
rect and recreation.
Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, in a London
interview, says that her husbands chief
recreation is reading. She herself paints
both In oils and water-colors. Much OF
her work is said to be excellent.
Colonel D. b. Henderson, the next
Speaker of the House, is now at at New
Castle, N. H., where he was the winner
of whist tournament the other day. He
expects to return to Dubuque about the
o,;11Io of tbia month
Mrs. Frances Hodgeon Burnett is spend
Ing the Summer in England working at
intervals on her new hook. In October
she will return to this country and pass
the time between Washington an Denver.
Her son, the original Fauntleroy, is engag-
ed lin newspaper work in the latter city.
DR.. ]. Barrows, president of Oberlin
College, delivered an address on Budd-
hism on Sunday in Kent Theatre, at the
University of Chicago. He declares that
there is not the slightest evidence to
prove that Buddhism had any influence
on the formation of the doctrines OF
] Christianity. On the other hand, there
may have been debt on Buddhas part
to the Semitic teachers who preceded
Christ in the Jewish nation"
The Summer home Of Senator Jones,
Of California, is at Santa Monica, Gal.
The estate occupies an entire square, and
all about are streers of palms and the
eucalyptus. The mountains form the horl'
zon line at the rear, and the sea-biue
and beautiful, they say, as at Naples-ls
in front, and along the very wide beach
there is bathing all the year round. The
WALKS about the place, instead Of being
mere sandy reaches, are palm alleys with
everywhere arbors Of roses, the jasmine,
the moon plant.