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AJ ATTO 1 tNE Y-AT-I, AW,
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onlco over 1st. National Dank.
N.
U. FUNK,
ATTOIINEY-AT-LAW.
DLOOHSBCBO, l'A,
O nee In Sot's Building.
J 01IN M. CLA.HIC,
ATTOKN K Y-AT-LAW.
AND
JU3TI0K OF THE PEACE.
Dloomsbdko, Pa,
O Ilea ovor Moyer Bros. Drug Store.
p V MILLER,
ATTOUNKY-AT-LAW
ODlce la Brower's building, second noor.room No. 1
Uloomaburg, l'a.
O FKANK ZvKK,
ATTOltNEV-AT-LAW.
Bloomsburg, l'a.
onlco orner of Oentre and Main streets. Clark 4
Building.
Can be consulted In German.
1 EO. E. ELWELL
-ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Bloomsiiuro, Pa.
OMco on First floor, front room of C'oi
CMiitAN Building, Main street, below Ex
change Hotel.
pAUL E. WIUT,
Attorney-at-Law.
Offlco In Colombian Ucildino, Koom No. s, second
door,
III )0MSDUIIQ, PA.
B. KNORK. L. B. W1NTIRBTXBN.
KNORK & WINTERS TEEN,
Attorney s-at-Law.
omce In 1st National Hank building, second Door,
nrstdoor to tho 1 It. Corner of Main and Market
Btreots Uloomaburg, Pa,
tSS'l'ennon and Bounties Collected.
J H. MAIZE,
ATTORNEY AT-LAW
Offlco In Maize build! k over BlUmeyer's grocery.
JOUn"c. YOCUM C. K. GEYZIt.
YOUUM & GEYER,
Attorney s-at-Law .
CATAWISSA, PA.
(Office front suit of rooms on second floor of
MwsItbm building.)
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UanWer'BDIrectoiynnd the American Mercantile
and collection Ablation. 111 give prompt and
careful attention to collection or claims m any
part 01 tho I'nlted states or canida, sell as to
ill other piolesblonal business enliubted to them
K. OSWALD,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Jackson Building, Rooms 4 and 5.
BERWICK, PA
yf. II. RUAWK.
ATTOUNEY-AT-LAW.
Catawlssa, Fa.
omce, corner or Third and Main street.
jj v. whit
ATTOllNEY-AT-LAW,
BLOOMSBURQ, PA.
Offlcc In Browcrs' Building, 2nd Hoot,
may 1-tf
T E. SMITH,
Attornoy-at Law.Bcrwlck. Pa.
Csn bo Consulted in Oerman.
ALSO F111ST-0LA8S
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANIES ItEPBKSENTED.
WOfucc first door below the post office.
MISCELLANEOUS
' B. McKELVY, M. D.,8urgeon and Phy
. slclan, nortn aide Main 8treet,below Market
, L. FRITZ, Attorney-at-Law. Office
In Colombian Building,
M. DRINKER, GUN & LOCKSMITH
ajvr'ng Machines and Machinery of all kinds rb
p tired. oraA Uousii Bulld og, Bloomsburg, Pa.
R. J. 0. RUTTER,
I'UYHICIAN CHUltQKON.
omce, North Market street,
Bloomsburt, Pa
r.R. WM. M. REUER, Burgeon and
U Physician. oiUce corner of Kock and Market
treet.
TK. EVANS M D., Surgeon and
.Physician, omoe '"" Kesldenoo on Third
piRE INSUKANC'.
PHItlSTIANK KNAPP, BLOOMBBURQ, PA,
HOME. OP N. Y.
MERCHANTS', OF NEWARK, N. J.
t'UNTON, N. V.
PEOPLES' N. Y.
READING, PA.
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ai:o and fiiik tastbd and hae never set had a
loss bettled by any court of law. 1 heir assets are
all Invested In solid sbcukitiss are liable to the
liaiardot HKKonly. ,
Losses raoui-rLV and iionbstlt adjusted and
paid as toon as determined by chmstian '.
KNArr, spbcial aobnt anb AuJCsrka Bloohsbuko,
1 The people of Columbia county should patron.
Ue the 1 agency v. hero losses If any are Bettled and
paid by one of ther own cltue ns.
PROMPTNESS. EQUITY. PAIR DEALING.
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' BirSISINTS THl F0LL0WIK0
AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANIES
North American of Philadelphia.
J-'rauhlln, " "
1'ennsylvanla, " "
York', of Punnsylvanla.
Hanover, of N, Y.
Uuerns,of London,
North British, of London,
omce on Market Street, No, 5, Bloomsburg,
oct.JJ, 1-
SCRANTON HOUSE.
-ON THE HUItOPKAN PLAN.
"Victor Kooh, Pxopriotor.
Kooins aro heated by steam, well ventilated and
elegantly furnished. Finest Bar and Lunch Coun
ter lu lie city. . M .
Muals to order at all hours.. Ladles and Oents
Tcstauraut furnished with all delicacies of the
Location near D. L. W. R. It. Depot, Bcranton,
pa. Mar W-tt
EXCHANGE HOTEL,
W. R. TUBBS, PROPRIETOR
BL001ISBUBO, PA.
OPPOSITE COURT HODSB.
fj. reed and convenient Bample rooms. Bath rooms
bet wid cold water, and all modern conveniences
& BITTBNBEMDEB, )
Catarrh
ELY'S
15 WUKIH
$ 1,000
TOANVJUN
Wcman or Child
AUFFKtllKII rilO.M
CATARRH.
A. E. NEWMAN,
(Iraling, .Mich.
HAY-FEVER
A pnrtlclols nnnlled Intn eneh nostril and Is
agreeable to us", send for circular. Price suits,
by mall or nt driuglsis.
ELY HUOl'ilEHS, druggists, Owego, N. Y.
mors, lv. d
AINWIUUHT ia CO.,
WHOLESALE OJIOCEKS,
Philadelphia
teas, syrups, copepe, sugar, mollssls
KICB, BPICIVS.BlCAUBSODi, iC.,0,
N. E. corner Second and Arch streets,
unorders will receive prtntt attention
CQURSEN, CLEMO N & C.
Limited,
Imrorters nnd Wholesale Dealers in
Crockery. Glassware, Tablo and Pocket Cutlery,
Window Olass, and l'lated-warc,
The 50 candle-power marMi electric lamp.
Hie celebrated Pinafore Burner.
Bird Cases, Fruit Jars.
4i Lackawanna Avenue. SCRANTON, la.
may My
11. house;
DENTIST,
15 i.ooMsnuno, Columbia County, l'a.
All Btylesof work done In a superior manner.work
warranted as represented. Testh Kitrict
id wituodt Pain by the use of (las, and
free of chargowhenartlflclalteeth
are Inserted.
Offlco over Klclm's Drug Store.
lo be open nj all houri during the ('at
Nov 21. 1
Jim, Meilly,
PHOPIUUTOl! OF
U&ngeUsr Shop & Fool Room.
At tho old stand, under the
Exchange Hotel,
BLOOMSBURG, FA.
H. C. SLOAH & BRO.,
HLOOjSISBUUG, PA.
Manufacturers or
CARRIAGES BUQQIES, PHAETONS
SLEIQHS, PLATFORM .WAGONS &C.
First-class work always on band.
REPAIRING NBA TL Y DONE.
Pricei reduced lo mit the timet.
BL00M3BU1 PLA11INS MILL
:o.
The undersigned having put hlB Planing Ml
on ltallroad Street, In tlrst-ciass condition, is pre
pared to do all kinds of work tn his line.
FRAMES, SASH, DOORS,
BLINDS. MOULDINGS,
FLOORING, Etc.
turmsnoa at reasonable prices. All lumber used
la well seasoned and none but skilled workmen
are employed.
ESTIMATES FOR BUILDINGS
nrntsbed on application, Plan and spoclllca
oai.irop.ired by an oitperlonced draughtsman
CHAItliKS KIllMJ.
ItlooliiNburu, l'a
ORNAMENTAL lEOli MCES
OF t AST CH WHOUGHT 1H0N.
Suitable for
Yards,
Cemetery Lots
and
Public Grounds.
Tho following shows tho Picket Gothic, one of
the several beautiful ttyles of Fencemanufactured
byihe undersigned.
For Beauty and Durability they are uusurpass
ed. net up by experienced hands and warranted
to give sutlsluctlon.
I'riccs and specimens of other de
h'ikiih dt'iit to any address.
Address
BLOOMSBURG PA-
May 4-tf
Five Qold and Two Sliver Modals,
awarded in 18S5 at tlio Kxposltlons ot
Now Orleans ami Louisville, and tlio In
ventions Exposition of London.
Tlio superiority of Corallno over horn
or ivbalebono lias now been demonstrated
ljyovcrflvo yeare' experience. It Is more
durable, more pliable, moro comfortable,
and never breaXi.
Avoid cheap Imitations made of various
kinds of cord. Kono ure gcuuino unless
"Dit. Waiiner's Co'iuiins" is printed
on insldo of steel cover,
FOR SALE BY All LEADING MERCHANTS.
WARNER BROTHERS,
353 Broadway, New York City
teb & r Cms,
SUJJSCK1HK von
THK COI.UMUIAN,
w
H'iM.,:iIili
"The Oreftteit Cum en Vjirth fnv run"
rUTt wor quickly then anj other ki.own rrm-l
backftclio, Oulm-y.boro Throat. I
HrlnUra. Wounds llrfwlnrhOtH
Toolliacne, Knr&lun. rto.. lTlcfl
ttct.i. a IkiI le. llolJ hr allB
HlnmHitt IHntlnn. Tr.A en H
DC rrtrlirtfri'.l Tr .do-Mnrk. nnd ont 0
fae-rtmlla flCTftbiro. A. O, Miiif a Cu., SoleH
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ForthccureofCough3,Col(li, Hoarsj
r."so, Croup, Asthma, Lro.ichitlj,
Whooping Cou'-.i, Iaci-I nt Cc".
Eunpt.sn, and f-r thi rtl.:f of con
cumptivo persona i.i p.Jva--ed c'ar-j
of tjo Disease. Fcr EUatycU Llrus
Cists. Price, 25 cents.
BauausHEss.
Bilious cymptoms invariably
ariso Ironi inillgestion, such as
furredtongue.vomitinffofbilo,
Riddincrs, sick headache, ir
regular bovels. Tho liver se
cretes tho bllo and act3 like a
flltor or sieve, to cleanso impu
rities of tho blood. By irregu
larity in its action cr su3pen
ctons of its functions, tho bile
is hablo to overflow into tho
blood, causingjaundico, sallow
complexion, yellow eyes, bil
ious diarrhea, a languid,
weary feeling and many othor
distressing cymptoms. Bilious
ness may bo properly lermetl
an aficction of tho liver, and
can bo thoroughly cured by tho
grand regulator of tho liver
and biliaryorgans, BURDOCK
BLOOD BITTERS. Itacts upon tho
stomach, bowels and liver,
making liealthy bile and pure
blood, and opens the culverts
nnd sluiccvays for the outlet
of disease. Sold everywhere
anil guaranteed to pure.
atijr. 88-ly-nld.
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
the popular favorite for Urpwfnff
the liair, Itwtilni; color when
f ray, and ircveiitlriR IttiTHlrtilL
t LlcatiM'fl the K-nlp, rtot tho
hair f alii tic, ami 1 Min to tilni.se.
60a mul $LO0 nt li iirr Mk
TIiu ltcst Cough Curo ytm rati tisc,
And the best revcntlo know n for ConsumpUoii. It
cures bodily I'aliiit, and alt dlutili.-rmf the htomiuh,
ltoweN.Lunps Ut-r.KiJiu)". Vrirmry (Iikiuh ami
tdl Female Coniplaint. Tito ftt'Mo and t-Ick', itnu
Kliurf ayalnst diaousu, and blowly drifting tuwurda
tho prave, 111 tn most ea.'-eH rwoxor their ht-attli hy
tho time ly use of I'ABkkU's Tnvir.Ltit delay Ik dun
gcrwus, lako it In time. Sold hy all frufcbta In
Ui go liottica at $L0(X
HINDERCORNS
Tlio af est, Furt'Bt, qiiiikest and tot,t caro for Coinf(
PunlonsAVarts, JIoh-8,t'aUousPH1A(. Hltuh-r their fur
therprowtli. Stopaallpnfn. (JIvpHtiotroiihlo. MaUmtlw
ftttcoinfuitaUe. Hindt-n-inim cuies whem'tLrjlhlnfr
clitofaiK Fold hy Lruin;iota at IV IIi-liix &t'o., N. Y.
aug. 14-ly
nvalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute
663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
StafT of 10 Physicians and Surgeons.
Rxpcrleiirril S pM' I ji I him for every
rliiHH of HNciihoN treated I iiIho,
li-iilnoil, cxporitMiccd ami obllcliif;
Nil rhPh.
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trlc IIcIN, uml all modern lin
provomoiitk. Tablo well Mipplli'rt
IVitll (llO lll'ht of food.
In not a HoHpltal, lint n plcaoant
llcini'illiil Iloiuv. Upi'ii day ami
nlKlil.
ALL CHRONIC DISEASES,
wlirtlicr rcfiiirliitr (or llioir euro
int'illcal or hurKlcul nlil, b!UllfnU)
trotiteit.
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ani'i'H knomi lo mtMleal kcIuiu'U
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lor otir invalhlK' (jitlilo-Hooh (1US
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tcmbly tuat could hardly walk, at tiuicH
uiiahlu ti turn mj ln-ud. 1 tried tho lluMiau
llUouiuatiKiu Ouro luiiido of two HuikalHan
romplttUy lurtsl."
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addrtwHlu the Aua-rlcau proprit torn,
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13LOOMSBURG, PA., FllIDAY. MARCH 26,
THE BRIEF LIFE OF A SONG.
Wlililllnif h Tiinn Into Notlen uml Tlvin
lliirjhiK It In (llillrlnii,
A poni;, n, llowcr, nil actor lieComes
popular. Kvorylxxly nlngs nnd wlilstles
that Hong liet'nuso it lin u time? Not
exactly! other pours hnvo tunes ami do
not nehlcvi' this tmlvprsnl ivcqiienco. Tho
girls who fells n paper of pins hums n
certain tune its she wrnps tip tho littlo
jmckiinei tin.1 grimy littlo ly who hlncks
"yer Ixxits" whistles it ns he puts on the
shine; it is in tho air, iu the streets, in
the parlor; it is played hy Oerninu street
hands and grouyd hy the street organs;
hahies murmur it lieforo they can tnlk;
jokes nie made nt its expense; It resounds
from Maine to Mexico; hut how did it
begin? and when nnd where does it end?
There is even now a generation which
has never heard "Pin.'iore;" in ten years
from now no ono will enro for the
"Pinafore' that drove this generation
half distracted and the chances arc,
should that oporn Ihj then revived, it
would fall flat; Its fun would not touch
tho humor of tho day, and the young
folks would say: "Dear me, this h
decidedly antiquated; Why. can't you
givo us something nmuiing?"
Once upon a time, aliout a thousand
years ago. there was written a song
known as "Vlllikins and His Dinah." It
traveled far and wide, from cottago to
palace, hy rail and hy sea; it was sung in
the theatres lietween tho acts; as encoren
at concerts; somehody ovenvrote a play
on the tmtchlngstory; it was whistled uni
versally, and every undeveloped musical
genius in the land sung nothing hut "Vil
llklns." Who knows now where that
popular ditty first impressed Itself on the
wnsitivo public ear? Who knows, in
deed, who wrote it, or by what inspira
tion he hit on n melody that bewitched
millions as It did. Nobody sings it now,
any more than he sings "Life on tlio
Ocean Wave," "lien Holt," and a dozen
other sentimental ballads that had such
vogue; yet they are unchanged, and
quite ns fetching iu substance as tho
hour they were written. A song or a
tune lias its day, nnd can never bo resus
citated. The tirst person who whistled
it into notice is lot iu obscurity, and
moro singular yet, ho who was tho last
to whistle it can never be discovered.
Who is the man that filially buries tho
popular tune?
This view of tho life of a song is dis
tracting. Yesterday the classic "See
Saw" lerineated society, to-day it is "Tit
Willow," to-morrow well, to-morrow's
tunc is unborn, hut, ns sure as tlio sutt
rises over l'ark streot steeple, it will be
hero when it is wanted. Probably at
this moment some poor dovil iu a back
street in Indon is covering music
paper with the notes of a tune for the
music hall favorite to beguile a rough,
uncritical crowd. It is wretched stuff,
but it has "go," and go sends most any
trash headlong into dangerous popu
larity. It catches on like a leech to tho
public's tympanum, and, after one or two
nights, it will lw carried away bodily.
What is sung with success iu tho London
music hall ascends with ease to the pale
of good society.
Tho higher typo Oilbert and Sullivan
songs have liewitched nations, but if
the readers of to-day live twenty years,
their children will ask them who were
this Oilbert and Sullivan, and nothing
will induce them to believe those old
fashioned things were ever thought droll
and amusing. "That ever considered
fascinating! Why, my dear sir, you
must be mistaken. How uninteresting
it is. Don't you seo wo have outgrown
all such rusty twaddle." In its day, "The
Ueggar's Opera" took Loudon town by
storm. London bociety lust its head in
admiration of this new departure; its
music, its singers; but let any reckless
theatrical manager of to-day place on his
btago that once popular "musical innova
tion," in all tho glory of modern dress,
and ho would lie beggared as well as
Polly. "I can not sing the old song"
warbles the tired world. No, you can't;
that is the unblemished truth. Bor. Bos
ton Herald.
A rhotngruiih from the Hotlna.
A physician friend of mine called my
attention to an account of a recent at
tempt to observe in tlio retina of a mur
dered girl's uyu tho image of her un
known slayer. Ho laughed and said:
"It is all nonsense to expect that this
thing can In! done. I have known of u
dozen exin'iiments, all of which failed
from the very nature of the thing. All
there is to it is this: Tlio brilliant coat
of tho retina has a color duo to what is
known as visual purple, and this color is
to some extent visibly impressed by
light. When in college we tried a care
ful exjierimcnt on a horse. We gave the
animal atropine and placed a negative of
my own photograph over its eye. It
was then kept in a dark room for six
hours. This was followed by excising
tho retina to the picture iu broad day
light for a few moments. The result
consisted of three dark patches repre
senting my chin, nose, anil forehead. It
was an absolute failure as far as produc
ing a recognizable likeness is concerned."
Chicago News "Itambler."
Uouil Manner nf Knglitli ServutiU.
In the presence of their masters the
English servants maintain a manner that
may almost bo said to be refined. It is
quiet and subdued; too obsequious er
haps to suit tho democratic idea, hut
otherwise unobjectionable. Tin's man
ner, however, I suspect is something liko
the livery, put on for their superiors, and
laid aside as soon as they alone.
In many old families them still lingers
among tho retainers an attachment for
those they serve, a fidelity and duvotiou
that recall the feudal feeling, and which
are returned by a protection and interest
that make the tie a not unlovely one. I
knew instances of friendship on lxth
sides as sincere and loyal, if not as famil
iar, as ever exists among equals, Adam
Badeau's Letter.
THE SOUTH OF THE SOUTHERNERS.
The Obliging CmiducUr A IsnbtU
f Hirllmtltm ature'ii l.uvrUtufc.
Hut theie is another south, the south
of the southern people, not so easily
reached, but well worth reaching. Ono
needs to have plenty of time and plenty
of patience to travel in this south. And
linu-lll l,r li.n,i.i..r if 1. i-.irri- v.'illi liiit, '
cettain siniplo btores besides "the articles
I have mentioned such as tea, colfee,
lump sugar, potted meats and pieserves,
A portable bath-tub and Ids own boap
and towels will make a vastdifToicnco iu
his comfort. Certain things he must not
exjiect to tlnd hern either. Southern
trains have little regard for their time
tables, and lie had better ctury a supply
of pa)HT novels for odd hours at stations
in what aro most appropriately named
waltitig-riftuns, Hut, ns a compensation,
southern railway ofllcials on local roads
are the most all'ahlo and obliging of men,
They return for you if you are too late;
they wait for you to eat your dinnerb;
they btop any where iu tho woods to let a
man get off. "Neveryou mind, ma'am,"
says the obliging conductor, "you take
your time with the dinner; tho train
ain't going off without you." ,
Ono time I remember u train which
waited a half-hour Air the juissengers to
get dinner liefoio they stuited. Wo were
alluirother three hours behind time. I
itskeil the man at the station if this train
did not meet another. "Yes, lna'ain,"
said he; "but, you see, we meet at ,
and whichever train gets tliero first waits
for tho other, so there abi't a bit of
trouble." .Somewhere nt tho end of the
lino n boat waited for tho train witli the
Bamo engaging politeness. The south
ern conductorsnre always kind to women
and children, nnd hospitably polito to
Mrangem, srnd the station-masters seem
rather to like answering questions. One
has to expect a certain alisence of tho
virtue next to godliness south, and ho
can not look for honesty among the
blacks; but what aro trunks made with
locks for?
At first the untidy ways will jar on his
sense of order; ho will very likely lie an
noyed by tho languid fashion in which
life moves on; it will irritate nnd dismay
him to seo tho absolute lack of compre
hension of the meanlngof comfort, Hut
very soon he will feel a subtle, reluctant
fascination; he will bo soothed by the ah
sevco of hurry and bustle; he will appre
ciate tlio gentle courtesy which seems to
be the southerners' birthright; he will
bo touched by their pathetic hospitality;
ho will learn to admire their bravery,
gnyety, anil that energy which often
lurks lieneath their indolence.
And nature will have her word. Thoso
weird cypress forests, thoso solemn pine
woods among the red clay hills, those
tropical splendors of plant and flower
and sky, that softer loveliness of thu
southern homes stately old mansions
which ruin makes but the mora
picturesque, set amid their gardens on
dliady streets or overlooking fields of
cotton, or rice, or cane all these and a
hundred sights as fair come to captlue
his heart and haunt his memory. If
the traveler have a friend with a planta
tion, iu that caso he will have all the
poetry without tho discomfort. In any
case, the real south (which, by-the-wuy,
is by far tho cheaper south) is the one
which is sure t repay the traveler for
his outlay if time nnd money. My
friends who are going to the real south,
you who aio about to enjoy I congratu
late you. Cor. Harper's Uazar.
A Cullrrtlim of Arabian 3lHiiticrijtii.
The collection of manuscripts which
the sultan of Morocco has turned over
to tho niedresseh, or high school, of Fez,
proves to cotnpriso copies of numer
ous west Arabian works which in Spain
were destroyed by the holy inquisition.
In scientific attainments tlio scholars ot
the Moorish universities wcro several
hundred years ahead of their Trinituiiau
rivals, and by ignoring their existence
Christian historians of civilization hao
been obliged to assume 1,000 years Inter
regnum of science. In the ghastly night
of the middlo ages Bagdad and Cordova
were the intellectual (Joshcns, still en
joying the light of a sun which in the
land of their neighbors seemed to have
set forever at the downfall of the Iionian
empiie. Dr. Felix L. Oswald in Clu'eago
Times,
I'or Anything Needing Henri-Work.
"How do you like tho English?" asked
a British squire of his Scotch gardener.
"Weel, sir," was tlio answer, "bein'
frae hame, and among tho English, I
ind nao great faut iu them; but 1 maun
niak' this remark, that for mee-nistcrs or
gardeners, or anything needing liede
wark, ye maun como to us i' tho northl"
Youth's Companion.
l'uel Tor tin. TraiiHcuMiiiaii Halluny.
A telegram from Askabal announces
that the yield of the Transcaspian
naphtha springs having been found
amply sullicient to supply fuel for tho
locomotives used on tho Transcaspian
railway, work at the springs lias now
been commenced by order of CJen.
Aunenkotr. Foreign Letter.
Tho Egyptian chariots had linch-pins
of bronze, and were put together witli
pins anil nails. Screws, so far as known,
were not invented.
Individuals have been cured of stam
mering by always tilling tho lungs with
air by a strong inhalation before begin
ning to speak.
Only .120,411 immigrants entered the
United States last year, a decrease of 19
per cent, since the previous year.
The Roman schoolmasters used a whip
made of eel skin to punish their scholars
on tho naked back.
If a man don't say much, ho can soon
get tho name of knowing a heap.
Chicago ledger.
One firm iu Germany lias made and
sold 3,000,000 thermometers during the
last five years.
Hardly will you find any ono so bad
but he desires the credit of being good.
South.
' 1 .Sent My Hoy to College."
"I sent him oil to college." "I sent him
off to college."' That is the epitome of
damnation of thousands of Ixiys. "I sent
him oir to college." Now, sir, you strike
mo at a point where I am ready to say
this: It is. a question iu my mind
whether I will over send one of mine to
a college or not. "Yes," you say, "you
aro opposed to education." No, I ain't;
but I'd rather my boy would sit down iu
heaven to learn his A B C's than sitting
down in hell reading (.reck. I tell you
my congregation, if I hud a good boy
who was loyal to (lod and tho right, I
might trust him at college; but if 1 have
got a wayward, dissipated boy I will
never send him to college to get shut of
him. You have mailn a mistake as long
us eternity to do so. There is many u
man who has sent his boy to collego
because ho did not, know what else to
do with him. You hail lietter lure that
laiy to steal something and send him to
the iH-iiitentiary. That is my judgment.
If he is no account the cnitentiury is
aliout as safe a place as a college, liceause
ho will not only dissipate but ruin every
other decent Ixiy ho meets there. Ix't
him practice on convicts if you want
him to ruin somelsxly. Hoys, let us be a
comfort and consolation to mother.
Iter. Sam Jones.
rumoii Mr. KuiU as u lilt of u liny.
When nlsmt 10 years old his father
fitted for him a small workshop, and
there he constructed models of sawmills,
lire-engines, bteamboats, steatn-engini,
electrical and olJjer machines, Ono of
tlio pastimes of his childhood was to take
in pieces and put together again tlio fam
ily (dock, and at 12 years he was able to
do tho same with a patent lever watch,
with no tools but his ocket.kiiifo.
When lit niisfortunii oveitook his father,
nnd lin had to withdraw from school and
work his own way, Popular Science
Monthly.
TraiumUiiiim of an Klcflrio Current.
Itecent experiments iu Franco bhow
that the transmission of an electric cur
rent over a distance of tlfty miles was
effected with a loss of only B0 (icr cent,
of the force with which it started on tho
journey, Tlio current was a tremendous
one, but no ditllctilty ensued from heat
'lig of thu wire or tho dynamo, Chicago
lleraiu,
Three or four now motors have been
introduced on tho market, to ho operated
by water, compressed uir and gas.
188(5.
IN THE SWING.
Back and forth in the awing, with rhytk
Inlcnl How anil motion,
They snoep in tho evening Lroew, nwlft
a swallow's wing,
Boft, as lu moonlight dreams, smooth as tin '
roll of ocean,
Hack nml forth in the swing. (
This ts tho festal strain they breathe on reph-
yrs ntnbi-osian:
"Wo have drunken of I .'(lie's stream, los'
in a wandering dream,
We have eaten of lotus, lo e hath smote ui
with shafts of a golden gleam,
And our souls Una to between."
INDIANS SLIDING DOWN HILL.
A Streak of Copper Lightning squaw
Mothers uml ln ppoo.es I'llll.
Twenty-live, years ago, iu Minnesota, 1
used to watch tho Sioux boyH and girls
in their winter village up the Minnesota
river. Their arrangements were simple.
First, a strip of balk from four to six
feet long, and not over twelve inches
wide, was jH'eled from a living tree.
One end was cut to a point, a small hole
bored through, and a string tied iu, Then
the little Indian, taking his piece of bark
to tho top of a hill, placed it on tlio
crusted snow smooth sldo down, liont up
the pointed front by pulling at the string,
and, placing ono foot about in the mid
die of this crude sled, gave a hard push
with tho other, nnd went scooting like
a streak of copper lightning. Ho stood
erect, nnd sometimes with lioth feet on
tho bark ono liehind the other, but usu
ally tho hind leg was sruck out as a sort
of balance and rudder combined.
The dash down the hill was all right,
nml so was the arrival at the foot if tlie
cruet of t ho snow wasn't broken; but the
fun for the spectators began when use
wore out tho hard surface, and tho
striking of a tolioggan into a soft spot
sent the bark's noso into the snow and
tho Indian Hying in somersets. His
proboscis might plow the snow too, but
usually not until ho had taken a header
of aliout fifteen feet; and ho didn't stop
at that, but usually did two or three flip
flaps before coming to a rest. Hurt "em!
Bless your heart, no. AVhy. I have seen
squaws of sixteen to eighteen lithe,
graceful young things take the ride and
tho tumble shrieking with glee; and, if
one happened to have her papoose along,
didn't bother about tho baby a bit. You
know, they carry them on their backs,
held in placo by a blanket, which is
belted around tho waist.
To see a girlish squaw-mother shoot
through tho air head foremost, while her
babo went rolling end over end, would
have stirred a Society for tlio Prevention
of Cruelty to children; but the pappoose
seemed always to como out all right,
being so swaddled iu rabbit-fur, thistle
down, and blanket that it hadn't thu
remotest idea of tho mercury dropping to
20 degrees below. Now, for real, solid
fun that kind of sliding down hill beati
the luxurious tobogauningthat has coma
into New York fashion, out and out.
Cor. Chicago Tribune.
I'rof. Ifpnry's llig Magnet and lluttery.
Among the many valuable and historic,
pieces of apparatus about tlio college 'are
several instruments which were invented
and used by the lato Professor Henry
in his experiments on electricity. In
ono of tho lalioratories of tho school of
science may bo found ids "big magnet,''
as it is called, mounted on a large frame,
which, when charged with electricity
by means of his "big battery" of one
cell, was caKible of lifting il.llOO pounds.
Ho afterward made ono of nearly the
paino size and capacity for Yale, which
has been in constant uso there until
within a few years, when it was laid
aside, and is now preserved among other
relics of the college. Professor Henry's
large magnetic globe, made partly of
wood, constructed so as to show the
electric current of the earth and the
dipping of the needle, together witli his
galvanometers, coils, electro-magnets,
and recorders, aro of special interest and
of peculiar historical value. Prince
Ionian. A Soul AbHorhlng Oeeupatlon.
Yes, my son, it is jiossiblo for you to
live to the end of your days, jierforming
successfully every day tho rare feat of
keeping your mouth shut at the right
time, of never uttering a sentence until
you nave nrst weiglieil it caretully m
your mind, ie vised it, and adjusted it
accurately to existing conditions of
tilings. Yes, you can do that. Hut then,
you won't do anything else. No, my
boy, if you do that, always, you won't
do one other lingering, solitary lone
some thing in all your life. You will
have time to do nothing except to think
what j ou aru going to say and how you
aro going to say it, and then by the time
you are all ready, and oien your mouth,
the man you were going to say it to will
have grown weary of waiting nnd gone
away. liurdetle in Brooklyn Eagle.
One of M. ilt I.ehep' strong 1'olnU.
"One of JI, do Dessep's strong points,"
says the London Times' Paris correspond
ent, "is never deferring for a minute
what ho thinks it necessury to do. I
have several times been present at con
versations with friends or udvUers who
would recommend him to see a particular
minister to link for something. Tlio ex
ped in y of tho step would be discussed,
nnd no "ooitor had this been settled than
M. de I'sseps would ring for a cab to bo
fetched, und would start at once to make
the application, M the end of tho day
nothing of what had to ho done is left
undone. He is unique iu this rosiicctand
never violates his rule," Exchange.
When lllll-llo.uils 1'lrst Came Into Use.
Bill-hoards came into use ns articles
upon which announcements mid procla
mations were fisted ill I-nudim about
thojear 1710. A man by tho nnmo of
Uioiuis, wdio had been a street crier, ob
tained H'i'uiissiuii from thu authorities to
erect on vacant lots a numlicrnf boards,
llK)ii which ho placed the ollicial adver
tisements of the city and received a
small stipend fiom tlio municipal author
ities for tho service. The erection of
these lsiards and the matter placed upon
them of course attracted tho attention of
tho mpulucc, and they were constantly
surrounded by crowds reading tlio an
nouncements, This fact struck tho
fancy of a Jew clothier as lielng an ad
mirable plan to get an adveitiseinent of
his goods and place of business before
tho people, and ho applied to Loomis for
permission to have his proclamation
pasted on the same Imard with tho of
flclal announcements. Ijiiomis being un
der the direction and in tho pay of the
city authorities could not agree to this
projiositiou without consulting his supe
riors, and this was done.
Tho council debated long and seriously
over the matter, and at last gavo their
consent ou tho condition that thu Jew
pay the city so much n year for tho priv
ilige. This was agreed to, ond the bill
lioard and its covering was brought into
existence as ono of the necessities of com
merce. Tho Jew's example was followed
by other merchants, and ns Loomis re
ceived a commission on all the new con
tracts made fur bill-board work, ho soon
did a nourishing and profitable business,
and his boards could Iki found in every
quarter of tho city. The idea being now
mid novel, spread as such things do, and
it was not long until the hill-b4rd
was found In every civilized country,
Columbus (Ohio) Capital.
THE COLUMBIAN, VOL. JCX.NO 13
UOLUM111A DEMOC'IIAT, V01..I., .NO :i
A LATENT STREAK OF INSANITY.
k" ccnllarltlr of l'ropte Who Ar Hot Ex
actly Compos Mentis "A risetl Idea."
Some one has paid that in every ono of
us there is a latent streak of insanity, and
t guess lie wasn't far in the wrong. Tho
only thing Is to keep our streak from liv
ing discovered. There wn9 an old lady
in Michigan wdio kept a lioardlng-house
for students. She kept a good boarding
house. She made royal pies, and she
brought the juclest roasts uon the table
that the hollowest student ever con
sumed. She had the peculiarity of not
being able to write her name. Thu stu
dents, although they liked her pies, re
garded her with great contempt. She
was tho last person to whom they thought
of applying when they began lo miss
their Qreek and Hebrew liooks, and great
was their astonishment when one of
them, wdio happened to go Into her room
for a tire-shovel, found them hidden in
crannies aliout tho fire-place, They re
covered x)ssesslon only to have them
stolen again, nnd it became the regular
tiling, when one nf these books were
missing, to search the old lady's room
until it was found,
Her peculiarity is equaled by that of
another old lady over seas who had a
mania for watches, and never a peddler
came to tho door with them but she made
a considerable purchase of them. So
poor was she that she must have denied
herself her full allowance of porridgo to
indulgo in tho singular luxury. When
she died her friends found an immense
oaken "kist," as high ns a table, and half
as long as her ill-covered lied, filled with
them. There is an old gentleman of re
spectability and comparative wealth who
never loses an opportunity to possess
himself of a paper of pins. If ho goes
into a dry goods store to make a pur- I
chase, which ho does once a week, ho J
never rests until ho catches sight of tho j
pin basket, and he is apt to carry these
pointed reminders of Ids visit away with
liim.
But after all is lie any more of a mad
man than wo who collect moro 1kk1;s
than we can read, or pay a great sum for
a black-letter volume whose pages am
pealed to us? What tinder the sun does
a man want with sixtv different editions
of Shakespeare ? He might just as well I
have sixty dilterent pairs of spectacles.
A physician of tin insano asylum would
denominate this as a sjiecies of compara
tive aberration known ns "a tixed idea."
For instance, I know a man who never
pays his fare on the street cars without
afterward holding an imaginary alterca
tion witli the conductor tlio latter de
manding tho fare a second time, nnd ho
indignantly insisting that he paid it, and
that tho conductor's carelessness is inex
cusable. He fights against this feeling
whenever he feels it coming on, but it is
too strong for him. I have recom
mended him to procure a freu pass as a
as a relief from his "tixed idea."
An estimable lady of my acquaintance
has an exasjiorating trouble of this nat
ure. Some liowerful mental influence
compel her every few minutes to regard
her left thumb with the most intense in
terest. Now there is nothing remaika
ble about this useful portion of her anat
omy, either iu size, shaie, or feeling, yet
her eyes aro riveted upon it at stated in
tervals, to tho great annoyance of herself
and family. She is mentally strong, and
comes of a family of good mental and
physical condition, but somewhere iu her
make-up tliero was an influence working
at cross-purposes with tlio surrounding
forces. I have heard of a gentleman
who was similarly imjielled to count
everything he saw. In this way ho finds
himself counting passengers in street
cars, windows in houses, all tho horses
in sight, the buttons on people's clothes,
etc., till he is almost out of his senses.
Ho is tinder medical treatment for tho
trouble, which seems to bo undermining
his mental powers. Chicago News
"Rambler."
A Most Mischievous Practice.
"Picking the ears" is a most mischiev
ous practice; in attempting to do this
witli hard substances an unlucky mo
tion lias many a time pierced tlio drum
and mado it as useless as a bursted rub
ber life-preserver; nothing sharper or
harder than tun entl of tlio little hnger,
with the nail pared, ought ever to bo in
troduced into the ear, unless by a phy
sician. Persons are often seen endeavoring to
remove tlio "wax" of tho ear with the
head of a pin; this ought never to bo
done; first, liecnusu it not only endangers
tlio rupture of the ear by being pushed
too far in, but if not so for, it may grate
against tho drum, excite inflammation,
produce im ulcer which may finally eat
all the parts away; second, hard "sub
stances have often slipsd in, and caused
the necessity of painful, dangerous, and
expensive operations; third, the wax is
manufactured by nature to guard the
entrance from dust, insects, ami unmod
ified cold air, and when it lias sub
served its purposp it becomes dry, scaly,
and light, and iu this condition is easily
pushed outside by new formations of
wax within. Boston Transcript.
flie Kief tro-Miiguetio Locomotive In 1851
Professor Pago made a trial tiip with
his electric-magnetic locomotive on
Tuesday, April SI), 18.11, starting from
Washington, The progress of the loco
motive was at llrst so slow that a laiy
was enabled to keep )ice witli it for
several hundred feet. But the speed was
soon increased, and Blandensburg, a dis
tance of, I believe, aliout live miles nnd
a quarter, was reached iu thirty-nine
minutes, When within two miles of
that place, the power of the battery lie
iug fully up, the locomotive liegaieto
run, on nearly a level plane, at the rate
of nineteen miles an hour, orsoven miles
faster than the greatest speed heretofore
attained. This velocity was continued
for a mile, when ono of tho cells cracked
entirely open, which caused the acids to
intermix, nnd, as a consequence, tho pro
filing (Kiwer was partially weakened.
Two of tho other cells subsequently met
witli biniilar disaster.
Tlio professor proceeded cautiously,
fearing obstructions on tho way, such as
tho coming of cars iu the opmslto direc
tion, and cattle ou the road. Seven halts
wcro made, occupying in all forty
minutes. But, notwithstanding theso
hindrances and delays, tho trip to and
from Bladensburg was accomplished in
one minuto less than two hours, Tho
cells wcro made of light earthenware,
for the purpose of experiment merely,
without reference to durability. This
part of tlio apparatus could therefore
easily lioguaided nguinst mishap. The
great point established was, that a loco
motive on the principle of Prof, Pago
could bo made to travel nineteen miles
au hour, But it was found ou biibse
quent trials that the least jolt, such as
that roused by the end of a rail n little
nlKivetho level, tin ew the batteries out
of working order, and the lesult was a
halt. This defect could not 1m over
come, und Prof, Pago reluctantly ahan
dotted his discovery. Ben; Perley Pooro.
1'ossll of the Ohlest Knonii Illril.
The fossil remains of an arclueopteryx,
the oldest known bird, which seems to
form the connecting link lietweeu birds
and leptiles, has just been sold to tin
Berlin museum for f000.
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Transient orlflcalnotlcrs.tencentsnllne, reg.
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A Chat Concerning KuuerstltloDS.
We were discussing superstitions the
other night. Tho mercurial De Vivo wsj
telling us ntioiit the Italians and their
superstitions. Brignoll, the tpnor, was
a child of superstition. In Italy sheep
nro always supjiosed to bring bad luck,
and IX' Vivo says ho has seen Briguoli
run away like the wind from a flock of
sheep. Ou tho other hand, ho would
walk clean Into a herd of pigs and al
most embrace them. Humpbacked peo
ple are alwuys supposed to Iki good luck,
nml Briguoli would rush across a street
and put his nrms around n humpbacked
man, it Ix-lng necessary to touch the
hump to get the full benefit of tho good
fortune. All tho great singers nearly
nre superstitious. I'arepa-Rosa was ex
cessively weak on this point, and al
ways carried as an amulet a coral horn,
which she immediately touched when
ever she came across anything unlucky.
Cross-eyed people, are always looked
upon ns unlucky; why, nolmdy knows.
Most cross-eyed people that I know are
rather lucky than otherwise. There are
several very wide-spread siqierstitions,
which tuko different shapes with differ
ent people. Pel haps tho most uni
versal ono Is the thirteen ono. In
theatres for instance, on salary day when
a man comes up to sign the pay-roll
that Is, In the theatres where they pay sal
aries he always counts the numbernhend
of hi m, and if lie is tho thirteenth lie will
not sign. If you go to a theatre with a
pass and you are the flint man there they
will not allow you to go iu until somc
Isidy has gone iu on n paid ticket. San
Francisco Chronicle "Undertones."
When Thure Were- o Dentists.
"I often think." wrote Olive Wendell
Holmes, in his letter declining an invita
tion to dine witli the New York Odonto
logical society, "of tho forlorn condition
of some of the great Jiersonnges of history
iu the Hays when there were no uentists,
or none wdio would be recognized as such
by the dental artists ot to-day. Think of
xor King David, a worn-out man of 70,
probably without teeth, and certainly
without sjiectacles. Think of poor
(leorge Washington, his teeth always
ready to drop like a portcullis, and cut a
sentence in two. Seo him in Stewart's
admirable portrait, his thoughts evidently
divided lietween the cares of empire and
the maintenance of tho status quo of his
terrific dental arrangements.
"Think of Walter Savago Landor's
melancholy complaint that he did not
mind losing his intellectual faculties, but
tlie loss of his teeth he felt a very great
calamity. 1 venture to propose, then,
the dental profession and their associa
tion as its worthy representative. It has
established and prolonged tho reign of
lieauty; it has added to the charms of
social intercourse and lent erfection to
tho accents of eloquence; it has taken
from old age its mort unwelcome feature
and has lengthened enjoyable human
life far lieyond tlio limit of years when
the toothless, and purblind jiatriarch
might well exclaim, 'I have no pleasure
in them.' '" Exchange.
The farmer ami Ills Illlzzarit Hope.
No one who has not been in a blizzard
can form the laintest conception of its'
fearful character. AVhy, do you know
that every farmer in that country tikes
the precaution when the first snow ap
liears to provide himself with a rope by
which lie guides himself from his house
to his stock sheds or stable? He ties one
end of the nipt to the door-knob of his
house and then walks to his barn-door.
At this point he ties a stick into the rope.
and when the blizzard comes ho simply
takes what he thinks is tlio right direc
tion and follows the rope until he reaches
the stick. If ho does not strike the barn
door when be readies the stick lie knows
he has missed his bearings, and simply
starts off in a circle holding tlie rope
taut until ho reaches the barn. When
he gets ready to start back ho hauls him
self iu hand over hand until ho reaches
Ids door. If he looses his hold on the
rope the chances are that he will never
reach his door even though he might
wonder within f'ne feet of it. Chicago
Tribuno Interview.
The (iiiarileri Language of Diplomacy.
The Hon. E. B. Wasbburne is an ex
pert diplomate. His exjH'iienco as afor
eign minister some years ago served him
to good purpose iu this respect. Ho was
called as a witness in the Storey willcase
tho other day, and, being asked whether
he considered Jl'rs. Storey "a young
woman," he replied iu tlie guarded lan
guage of diplomacy, "All women are sup
posed to lie young." Chicago Journal.
No f'olor-lttlliftncss Auioiik Savages.
Not n single instnncoof color-blindness
has lieen found by Schwarzb.ich iu an
examination of 2,000 Hottentots, Ma
lays, Mclanesians, Australians, Moors,
and Polynesians; and he concludes that
the defect is confined to the white nice,
and is due to influences connected with
civilized life. Arknnsaw Traveler.
Terms to soil.
Lady (to applicant) What wages will
ynu e.s'it as nurse?
Applicant How ould Is the baby,
mum?
Lady Sewn months, '
Applicant Wiihmt laudanum, mum,
f2.."i0 a wake; wid laudanum, 2. Har
per's Bazar.
A Cat'- rmieral in Yeririo.
Ill Japan wealthy owners of cats have
a high lespeot for them even when they
aro dead. Iu Yisldo, nt a recent cat's
funeral, the coffin was covered witli a
white silk p.ill.
A fine niarblo statuo of Jupiter, two
meters high, has Wit dug up at Slier
shal, the ancient sito of tlio Numidian
Jol, iu Algeria.
Tlio copy of the first lawk on arith
metic, of which only another copy is
know n, fetched $200 nt a sale iu London
tho other daj.
Mills, of Texas, is the fastest talker in
congress, and fntmently goes on at tho
rate of 215 words to a minute.
Tlio liest days in memory aro those in
which wo met n companion who was
truly such. Emerson.
Dhlli't Cam to lio Abroad.
Inly visitor I suppose, Mr, Swipe,
you will soon go abroad to study tho old
masters?
Mr. Swipe Well, really, I am afraid
that iu tlio study of the old masters I
Bhould forget my own individuality, and
como to paint liko ono of them, Harper's
Bazar,
"Ian lioefstoak and hot water for sev
enteen weeks" is the latebt diet that such
of the world's fat jioople wdio wish ta
get thin are trying.
The Hiel rebellion cost Canada ovef
14.000,000.
ltussla as an Iron Vrorfufer,
Fifty years ago Russia htood almost first
among iron-producing nations; now her
name is nearly last, and her imports ot
Iron and steel amount to more than 75,
000,000. Demand for Secret Society II ail gel.
A New York jeweler says that tha demand
for secret suclety liadgw it dying out hi th
east, lu the south and west there it still
lieinansl fur theiu.