F. PROFESSIONAL CARD8, j ' , . h. siurz ' ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Office front Room, Ovor Pontofllce, HLOOMBHUHU, PA. K. WALL-Hll, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Bloonuburg, ra Office oyer 1st. National Bank. vr U. FUNK, ATTORNEY. Ofllco In Eat's Uuiming, AT-LAW. Bloousbcro, ti, J OiiN M. OLAHIC, ATTOl IN EY-AT-LAW AND JU3T10K OF THE PEA13K. DlOO)l8CHO, I'i OJj.ee over Jloyer Bros. Drug Btoro. W.MILLEU, Arroitsnr-AT-LAW. OfUco ta Browcr's bulldtng.sccond lloor.room. Mo. 1 llloumsburg, I'n. S FHANK ZVHK, ' ATTO RNE Y-AT- LAW. Bloomsburg, Pa. Ofllce corner ol Centre and Main streets. Clark t uuiiamg. Can bo consulted In German. fi EO. E. ELWELL ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Hi-ooMsnuito, Pa. Office on First floor, front room of Col UMMAtf Building, Slain street, below Ex. chango Hotel. pAuXXlvTin Attorney-at-Law. Offlco In CoctiMDUN Bcildino, Third floor. BLOOMSBimO, PA. H. V. WHITE, AT. ORNEY-AT-LAW, B.L U 0 M S B U n.Q , PA. OUlce In i lowers' Building, 2nd;floor. may 1-tf H KNORB. t, B. WICTIHBTIIH. KNORK & WINTEKSTEEN, A ttornoy s-at-La w. omen tn 1st National Bank bunding, second floor, first door to the h-ft. Corner ot Main and Market stroeta Uloomsburg, l'a. tay'ennoH and Rotifiiict Collecttd. P. U1LL.MEYEH, DJUTJirOT ATTOJINEY.) ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. C-iTOfllco over Bloomsburg, Pa. Detiller's shoo store, upr-30.80. vtr. n. hiiawn. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. oatawlsta, Pa. onoo.eorner ot Third and MMnMtroeta. jyIOAEL F. EYEULY, ' Conveyancer, Collator of Claims. AND LT5QAL ADVICE IN THE; SETTLEMENT OP ESTATES, iC tif-Offlco In Denver's building with F. P. Bill mom, attorney-nl-law, front looms, 2nd floor Bloomsburg, ca. TVt. II02TOHA A. nOBBINF. tapr-j-88. u Ofllco and residence, burg, Pa. West First street, Blooms novaosa lr. JB. MoKELVY, M. D..8urgeon and Phj .Blclar.nnrth si le Main atroet.below Market D B. J. C. RUTTEB, PHYSICIAN &8CHGEON, Ofllco, North Market street, omsbnrB, P wi M TiKHEH aurccon ana ft lb. " ' -f" tjlr Vnrl IT.irlTPt Physician, umcouuruui ui troet. EXCHANGE HOTEL, W. R. TDBBS, PROPRIETOR BLO0USBUS9, PA. OPPOSITE i"OllRT UOU8E largo and convenient sample rooms. Hath room, hSi and cold water: and afl modern conveniences. IIAUTMAN RKFRBSXNT8 TUB rOLMWINO AMEltlOAN INBUKANCE C031PANIEB North American ot Philadelphia. Franklin, " Pennsylvania, " York, of Pennsylvania. Hanover, ot N. Y. oueens, of London. North British, of London, Ofllco on sarkat stron, No, s, Bloomsburg. oot. u, 1" IIKE INBOKANl ii ClimwnANf. KNAPP, BLOOMSBDltQ.PA, MEKCIIANT. OF NEWAKK, N. J. " LINTON, N. Y. .PEOPLES' N. Y. HEADING, PA. These i.d corporations are well seasoned uy ago and vibb tkstkd and havo nover yet naa a I obs settled by any court of law. Their assets are all Invested In solid sscuritibs are liable to tne hazard of urb only. . Losses promptly and iionkstlt adjusted and paid as soon as determined by Christian r. Kn ait, special Aoent and Adjcstkr BL00MSB0H0, The people of Columbia countyshould patron lie i tho Taeency where losses It any are Bottled and pall by one of ther own cltuona. P110M1TNES3. KOUITY. FAIlt DEALING. REAB BHOWN'S 1NBUHANOE AGENCY. Moyer's new building, Main street. Assets 4Stna insurance Co., ot Hartford, Conn ;r.gj.j iaioashlro 1 T.::":.:....."......... 10w;oiio Fire Association, Philadelphia t'.Vn Phamlx, of Iximlon T':,Ck Ijjndon Lanciishlre, ot England KiSX'Sft Hartford of llaitford ..... S'S'SX SprlngUcld Fire and Marine. . . . JSrvS; As tho agencies aro dlrfct, policies are written or the insures wiiu ut,j ',,.- uioomsuurg " rir n. HOUSE, DENTIST, Uloomsbubo, Coi.lmbia CulMV, Til All styles ot work done In a suporlor inanner.wort wnrrameaau ruMcwu .7,r d witiioot Pain by tho um ol : Oiib, an treeot oharge nhenartlficlaltetth aro Inserted, n..iAn lmllrllnir. alaln street below Marliet, tho doors below hlcimu drug storp, Hrst noor. lo be open at all hourt during the iaj CjnrAINWmaHT &CO WHOLESALE GROCERS, Philadelphia, Pa. TKAB, bYHVIB, COF1-EE, bUOAll, MOLASSKft KIOK, fPlCKB, UIOAliD SODA, KTO., BTO. N, . Comer Second and Arch Bts. rr-Ordera will receive prompt attention Benton Hotel, LEMUEL DllAKE, Prop'r. in.,. w.n t-nnun imiei lmstwen ro-oocncd and many Impro.ciiicnls made let the a1;"1'"''"0" ot the trWluiR public. 'Ihe bar ami tablo are BUppllM with the best tne marki'i and commodious stable Is connected with thi hotel. Terms always reasonable. 2lmayS7j LEMUEL DttAKE, IToprleWr. WILLIAM HART BLOOMSBURG. PENlf A., AGENT FOlt THE KEYSTONE DYNAMITE POWDER CO manufaetrueinof tho celebrated Keystone Dvna mlta. ThlB explosive U giving M'vereal satUfao; tlon. Quotations cheerfully Blven. (lgaugom PAT NTS. t btalned and all patent business attended to for "omce'uopposltethe U.S. PJtfntonioe and we can obtain Patents In loss time than those re mote from Washington. .,. ... rirfluinv. Wr advlso as to pat entablltty f reo of charge, and we uuke no cl'arga unless patent Is secured. , Wo refer herv, to tho postmaster, the bunt, of Money Order rilv-, and to oniclals otthe u.B. reteronoPstoactualcllenlB In your own btateor county, wruo to C. A. SNOW & CO., op pulte j'atfitlfftfiW'ehlngtou 0 3 Z BITTENBJ3NDEB, f reirItort. BEST MADE.CLOTHIN& 'n PHI L'A, YATES &C. 6r&CH'E5TIUT m BLOOMSBURtj FLAKING MILL :o. Tho undersigned hnvin? nut hl Planlnir lilt on Kallroad Street. In nrst-ciasA rnnrtitinn. in nr pared to do all kinds ot work In bis line. FRAMES, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS.MOUDINGS, FLOORING, Etc. urnihea at reasonablei rices. All lumber used a well seasoned and nono but skilled workmen aro employed. ESTIMATES FOE BUILDINGS urnlsbed on application. Flans and specinca on prepared by an experienced draughtsman CHATIXiES RHtm, m nmnlui"t. Pa Mason & Hamlin Organs and Pianos. The Cabinet Organ was Introduced by Mason Ss Hamlin In 1601. -Maon & Hamlin Organs hare always maintained their supremacy over all otben, hat ing received Highest Honors at all Great World's Exhibitions blnco The Improved Mode of Stringing Pianos, Invented by Mason A Hamlin In lb82, u a great advance ta piano construction, experts pronouncing II tho greatest Improvement In planouin half a century, 1'iano cinuinr, cnniuinine purchaperB, musicians, anu Organ Catalogues, free. 300 testimonials from tuners, and PlaDO and UASOU & HAULI11 0EOA1? A1ID PIAUO CO., 43 tut Uta St. OTslii Sjrnt), 11177 TOSS.., r'bros-bep30. Solid Truth ! etterCathartic etter lsver- than the orld -renown ed iP.CWrJc'S Di LLS T r Fl by r.ll Iinipirl-ls. Ti ! e 21 1 1. rr boi ' 1 rn f ,r r'. rti . i r -crt hyrraill, i mk" fn;, on rwMvitri'ri ' I' - licncksD.m.rhilada. Tiitt's Pills CURB Malaria, Dumb Chills, Fever and Ague, Wind Colic, Bilious Attacks. Tlicy produce rcffiilar, nutiirui evac- uatloim, neer eripoormieri " lolly IiiisIiims. AHufonilly iiiollelue, tliey KliiiulU be in oiery buiiseuolu. SOLD EVEUYWIIEKE. noviin.oaoiy. Bitten bender WAGON MAKER'S AND BLACKSMITHS' SUPPLIES, No. I'JG ifc 128 Kiaiiklin Avt., SCRANTON, PA. Iron aprlll-iy. and Steel. TOT rAItH pays fc Lii'BBuiioijAnaiiil'in FILMS' , llUSINKSSCOLLKOK 1709 Cbislmt ft., rtiUdtlpkit oslttonB for. Graduates. 4 moi. . Dost ho llost Equjpped, Ooursoof Htudy, llest l!.r eryinwe, Wrllu M L'ircuUu. 'ft.1'!' 1 ' I. . T No B &. Co., 8UHSCR1RE FOR TIJE COLUMUIAN, He BLOOMSBURG,.PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, NO ONE NEED Remain A DYSPEPTIC. "I linvo been pnlTpring for over two ypftrs witli Dynjiep nib. For tho last' year I could not tnlco a think of cold water nor cot fltiy meat with out tnmiling it up. My lifo was n miocry. I had had ru commended Simmons Liver Hi'Utilator, of tvhicli I nin now t.ikinu the pecond bottle, and ihu fact is that wind cannot expiefs the relit f I feel. My apprtite is very pood, and I digest uvtrylliing thoroughly. I sleep well now, and I Usui to bo very restless. I am fleshing up fast) good strong food and Simmons Liver Regulator havo dono it all. I write this in hopes of benefiting somo one who has suffered as I did, and wonld take oath to these statements if desired.'" E. S. Ballou, Syracuse, Neb. CROWN ACiJIJE THE BESTBURNINO OIL THAT CAN BE MADE FROM PETROLEUM. It gives a brilliant light. It will not Bmoke ine cnltnncys. It will not cbar tho wick. It has a high tire test. It win not explode. It Is pre-eu.inently a family safety oil.- WE CHALLENGE COMPARISON With any other Illuminating oil made. We Stake Our Reputation, As refiners, upon tho statement that It Is THE BEST OIL, IN THE WORLD. Ask your dealer for CROWN ACME. Trade for Bloomsburg and Vicinity Supplied by MOYER BROS., lMcomsburg, l'a. sep-iy. CL0THING1 CLOTHING! G-. W. BERTSCH, THE MERCHANT TAILOR. Gents' Furnishing Goods, Ea.ts & Gsipa OF EVERT DESCRIl'TION. Suits made to older tit Bhort notice and a fit lwas guaiHiiteed or no sale. Call and xr.imne tho largest and best selected st -ck of goodx eer shown in Columbia county. Store next door to First Notional IHnk, MAIN STREET, Bloomsburg Pa. J.R.SMITH&CO. LIJIITED. MILTON, Pa., Dkalkiis in PIANOS By tho following well known makers; Chickering', Knnbc, "Weber, Hallet & Davis. Can also furnish any of the cheaper makes at manufacturers prices. Do not buy a piano be fore getting our prices. .,.o., Catalogue and Price Lists On application. sepus-Sitf. UHHAMSSTAL IRON FENCES OF CAST Clt WIlOUdllT IRON. Suitable for Yards, Cemetery Lots and Public Ground: Thn fniiowlne shows tho Picket Gothic, one of the several bsiutltul styles of Pence manufactured hy tho unaer&igneu. Por beauty ana Durability they areunsurpasa eu. eiup Dyexperiencou uauua uuu i,aii.umi to give satisfaction. Prices and specimens of other de signs sent to any address. Address BL00MSRHR0 ? All Drutiliu, Mo., 40c., md llw. hniutd only ty Dr, Btlh Arnold, ilid. terp., Wwoieciit, K. I, oc)lllms M. C. SLQAH & BRQ BLOOMSBURG, PA. Manufacturers of CARRIAGES BUDDIES, PHAETONS SLEIGHS. PlTFlRfV WAGONS AC First-lass work always on hand REPAIRING NKA TLYJJOHh. Pricei reduced l lull the timet. FRENCH FOUNDLINGS. l.lttlfl Wnlta Itnlnril tip by tli State to lis conio (loot! Cltlren. Tho storv of Hotiast-au and his children has caused tho French systom of dealing With deserted Infants to bu regarded by a ;rrnt many Englishmen ns olllcinl connl- unco at jirivntu linmonilily. It Is not vi rvbo lv who has rend "Jeimo .Incnues' v.'ii!ites.ion," but most people who linvo n fair knolcdj;u of things in neutral hnve heard Hint to esenpo tho responsl Ml ty of 1 ringing up his children hu had them taken to tho foundling hospital ery soon nfter their birth. Many thlngj havo rhang.'d in France slnco ltousieau s time, but this Institution remains very much ns it was then. 'Ihu method ho adopted of losing his clilldriii without lui'Uirlng any risk of consequence is still pcrinltte I by law 'and taken advantage of. Jlueli as It may havo been abused, It originated in Cluifctian charity. In tho niiildle nges there was a stone at Notre 1 aim- upon which deserted infants were laid with tho knowledge that they would bo taken caro of, and tho practice of leaving them at the noons op ciiuncnEs, which was then common, has been fol lowed in much later times. D'Alembert, lor in'tancc, was found upon tho steps of .Icau-la.ltond. In 1(133 St. Vincent of l'nul founded a hospital for theso waifs nf humanity, anil this was the origin of tho institution known as ''I.es Knfants Trotivcs." Now it is termed "I.es Knfants Assiaters." In Uousseau's time, and as lato as 1837, childicn wero left hero and no questions wero asked. Upon a bell being rung a revolving cylindrical box op' tied, and the infant bein placed within, it was turned around with tho box and was lost to view. Nothingcould bo nwro simple, nothing less calculated to entire embarrassment or shame to tho visitor. Tho samo apparatus is btill in use, but the person who leaves the infant can no longer leavo without being seen. Any woman who takes a child there is assumed to bo tho mother, and she Is qtii-tioned with tho hop.' that sho will fi ate her name, but she is not obliged to do w). !sho is, however, compelled to listen to a little sermon on tho heartless ness of abandoning her oll'snringi to Mr. ngert and voluntarily losing all traco o' its 1. .entity ; in fact, anell'oit is made to turn her from her purpoo and to bring her to a sense of her matern.il duties. Sometimes she is pi rMiaded lo keep the child, and if she pleailspmcity a small monthly allowance is granted lier. It may la- well to draw attention hero lo the lad that as regards ill gitim.itu oil spring in France tho law only rcc-ogidvs the icsi onibil.ty of onepar.-nt -na nely, til mother. Supposing the tliild lohavo 1'i'i'U le.t at the institution it is en i red i. on the register merely us u number, ami henceforth tub ninECTon of tublio assistance is its guardian. Tho children, unless their state is such as to m-ed medical tri'iitimnt, aro only kept in Paris a few days. They are quickly placed in tho fa dies of peasants, who undertake to perform the duties of parents toward them in return for remuneration, which is usually Iroin fifteen francs to twenty francs n month. Thero aro inspectors who visit the foster parents periodically and report upon the condition of theii charges. Unless there are special reasons for removing them tho children, even when tho peiiod of infancy is past, ro- aiain in tho samo hands. They aro sent o the communal schools until the age of 13 and then the administrator puts them n tho way of earning their livelihood, but does not relinquish its authority over them. In tho large majority of cases the boys are kept to agricultural pursuits, and as shepherds or farm laborers be come identitied in lasting manner with the peasantry. As a general rule it is considered advantageous for them to enter the service ot the foster father, be cause from long association ho Is sup posed to hold them in somo affection. In addition to board and lodging they ro ceive wages, the bulk of which, under the uirection oi an inspector, is uepuaueu m the "caisse il epargne ' anu wuicn cor ivminnils to tho savines bank in Knglaud. Thus it frequently happens that when tlieso boys enter tne army ns conscripts at the age of SI, they own a little fortuno of L',000 francs ($400), and are consequent ly richer than the majority of young men of their own class who were not aband oned in their infancy. Pall Hall Gazttte. The Oermnn Ocean. Discussing the 'Picturesque quality of Holland,' (icorgo Hitchcock Bays in Scribner: Tho shallow, stormy German Ocean, breaking m ceaseless beauty on its white sands, is always a picture. Its waters olteu mixed witli sand, always in storms, make up in uno color what it lacks in transparency from pale blue to warm red in the wave-shadows, yel lowish form, and yet withal gray and harmonious. In high winds it breaks miles from the shore, when-all the light hi the picture teems to bo in the mass of rushing, foaming water; then if through this comes the black hull and russet sails of a fishing-boat, making for a place- certain death to any otuor model it is indeed a picture. Tho size of tlieso boats makes them most useful; large enough to compose well, and yet their leelmg and patnos not lost in too great owduice of safety. Tho almost daily going ii ml coming of the fishers from the lew villages, too departure ior too uer-riui'-flshi.ig, with tho croun of di'-con- bol.ito w.ves and sweethearts, the rise and fall of the tide, with ceas 'less chango of color an I conformation, are a never- failing, bource ot interest, THE LITTLE READER, I.euon for l'nrunU to Take to Heart. How quiet the house is at midnight. Tin- people who talk and latuib mil slug In it are asleep, and the people who fo.l asleep in it long ago came back hit j it livery house has tlieso two ruses of tenants. Io wo love best tho' with whom wo can talk and laugh anl slug, or the dear Mlont ones who eomu so noiselessly to our sides and whisper to in ill faint, sweet, far-away wh.epers that have no sound, so that wo only hear their very stillness ? I am not tired, but my pen Is wearv. It falls from inv lingers and I raise my head. I start to leave tho table and uiy eyes fall upon a littlo book lying ou tlp floor.' It is a little "First Header." llo left it there this afternoon. I remember just bow I was Impatient bcausj ho could not road the simplo lifle lesson, bip h an easy lesson, and I told him It was a was e of my time to toach him mi pushed him away from mo. I rem "ino r now. 1 see tho Hush come into th little tired face, tho brave, iheeiful loo'; jn his eye, his mother's brave. p.Uii'iit clioeriivss struggling with hW disap. polntmciit and pain. I see him lie ilo.vq on the lloor and the little face bent over the trouoli somo lesson, and baby mUht read it. Then, after a littlo struggle tdono. it has to bo given up, an I tha batlled little soldier, with ono mori up. pealing look toward mo for Minor .s incuts, sighs and goes away from th s son he cannot read to the pl.ty that coin fnru dim. And there lies th littl i book just as he left it. Ah, me, I could kneel down and kUs It now, as though il wero n live and lcivillL'. Why, what was my time vorth to mo to-day? What was there in the book I u-nniitil lo read one-half so precious to me as one cooing word from tho prattling lips that quivered when I turn -d away. 1 hated the book I read, I will never look at it again. Wero it tho last book in tlui woild. I think I would burn it All Its gracious wordi aro lies. I bay tq you, though all men nralso tho book, and fhniiidi an hour aco I thought It excel. lent, 1 say to you there Is poison in Its. hateful pages. Why, what can I loarq from Imoka that baliv liiu cannot teach me ? Do you know 1 waut to go to the door of his room and listen : the house is to btill; iunvbe he u not breathing. Wliy, ll between my nook and my boy I cliooso my book, w hy should not (Jod leavo me with my books? Sly hateful books. Hut I was not harsh. I was only a little Impatient. Ilccause, you sco, his lesson was so easy, so simple. Ah, me, there vcro two of us frying to read this afternoon. There wero two easy.slruplo lessons. Mine was Bilch a Very simple, easy, pleasant, lovliu ono to learn. Just a line, just a little throb of pat I nco of gentleness, of love, that would havo m.ulo my own heart glow and laugh and sing. The letters wero so largo and plain, the w ords so easy and tho sentences so short. An 1 I? Oh. pity mo, I missed every word. I did not read ono line aright. Sec, hero is my copy now 1 all blurred and blistered with tears and hearta. ho, all marred and inisqielled and blotted. I am ashamed to show it to tho Master. And yet I know llo will bo patient with mo i 1 know how loving ami g ntlo llo has been all theso years teaihlng mo theso simplo lessons I failed upon to-dav. But when my littlo pupil stumbled on a single word is my time, then, so much more precious than tho Master's that I cannot teach tho littlo lesson more than once ? Ah, friend, wo do not waste timo when we plait scourges for ourselves. Th sj hurrying days, these bmy, anxiotn, shrewd, ambitious times of ours aro wast ed when they take our hearts away from patient gentleness, and give us fame for tovo and gold for klses. Some day, then, when our hungry souls will si'ek for bread our Hellish god will give in a stone. Life is not a deep, profound, per plexing problem. It is a simple, imy lei-son, such ns any child may read. You cannot find its solution in tho ponderous tomes of the old fathers, the philosophers, the investigators, the theorists. It is not on our book shelves. lint In the warmest corner of the niot uiiUjUitViI heart it glows in letters that tho. blindest may read j a sweet, plain, simple, easy, lot ing lefeon. And when you have learned it, brother of mine, tho world will be better and happier. . .'. J. JJardette. It You Are Obliged to Sleep on tho Cur. In theso davs, when travel bvrallroaiU is very common, a few words on the best means to prevent taking cold in the cars will be useful. The Medical and Surgical Ji'ori,siys: For the men a light cap, ono tint will rover over tho cars, so as to servo as a liight-cip, will be desirable. In cold weatlier a woolen cap is bi'st. This cap should be put on as soon as tho car is en tered. A loose blouse should taku tho place of the coat usually worn. Slip pers must not be worn. If there be a dra ight in tho car, face it; do not 1 -t it striwo the back. Have the bed niado with the head toward thj engine; tlio dust will then bo driven to the foot, where it will do the least harm, lint bu sure to have a sullicient quantity of hod clothes to keep warm. A soft, loose-knit woolen hood is the best head wear for women ; this should be worn at night also. It should be warmer in winter than in summer months. The corsets should be removed at night and a loose woolen wrapper worn for a night dress. The slocking supporters as well as every constricting band around tho wais: should be loojened. livery adult should take from live to ten grains of quinine (I) on going to bed. It will be well to rub the hands, feet, face and neck with a littlo vaseline at the same time. The Chicago Sevm announces authori tatively that a girl is not an 'old maid' now until she is past 30. "Oneo s!io was an 'old maid' at '.'5. In tho better circles girls do not enter society at as early an ago as they did when the tajj 'old maid' was nllixed to them if they didn't marry by tho timo they were l!o. The lass of ll), 18, or even older, is in school occupied with her music and other studies now, and not receiving beaux alone in tlio parlor evenings. Tho largely increasing number of independently situated women who prefer to live unmarried is likely to work a decided change in tho status of the 'old maid.' Tlio girl who prefers the luxuries of her fathers home to sharing a liat or a boarding house with a salaried young man is multiplying rapidly." Thirty Fact. Worth Knowing. The second largest stato is California. Nebraska is moro than twice the size of Indiana. Michigan and Florida ore the samo size. Texas is four times as largo as tho New England States. Dakota is larger than England, Scot land and Ireland together. The population of London, Lncland, is equal to that of Canada, or that of New lurk, ciaie, iuciuuui us ciucu. jcntucky anu rortugai aro aoout mo uamo size. California w nearly flvo titnes as largo as Ireland, Tho Island of Cuba and the State of Tennessee aro nearly equal in area. lirazii is nearly as large as tne umteu States : but tho population of tho lattor is six times that of the former. Tho DODiilations of Canada. New ork. Irelaiul and Hclgium aro about tho same. If the neon o ol uauaua ana ot tlio United States were placed In tho State of Texas, the number of persons to the square mllo would bo fewer than at pres ent lnuuiua. The population of Canada is doublo that of Australia. Colorado is as largo as New lork. Pennsylvania and New Jersey together. it would take ten states as large as Massachusetts to mako a stato as Urge as Kansas, iliero aro moro peoplo In the cities ot New York and llrooklyn than in the Statu of Massachusetts, including its cities. 1 hero aro as many peoplo in tho City of Chicago as In the Stato of Connecticut. Thero aro twenv-soven states and ter ritories each larger than New York. Oregon Is equal in area to lew lorli and Pennsylvania. .Hiissacliusetts is smaller man citner New Hampshire or Vermont. .Minnesota is twico tne size ot unio. The threo states bordering on tho Paeillo are larger than the thirteen States bordering on the Atlantic. .Montana is thirty limes larger than Connecticut, Dakota is (our times larger than In diana. Iowa is five times as largo as Bolgmm, and four times as large as Denmark. .Maryland and Switzerland aro about the same size. Michigan Is twico tho size of Scotland. Tho area of tho Dominion of Canada Is almost equal to the area ot tho United States, including Alaska. Texas is as largo as France. Holland and Helgliini together. mere aro nearly as many people tn the City of Philadelphia as In the Stato of Kansas. The watermelon fleet is a great Institu. tlon ou lliesapeuku bay. It (uiupiiscj about m) vessi Is of various descriptions) and biz1 s. Tho season opens alKiut tho first week In August, and for nearly two u onlhs this most beautiful bay is filled with theso boats loaded down with melons. Thu dcpartiucs and arrivals are mostly at dawn or twilight, so that the daylight view ot tho fleet Is about the samii nil thu time, Tho boats carry from 'J,iM to 8,000 melons each, and give employment to several hundred men who fuel most conifortablo when dresser iu n cotton shirt, pat. bed trousers, oi suspender, and a well-colored piper I.oiiL' lines ot these men loss and catch the unions from tho outer boats until they are i.m led in the wagons alo ig the wharf. Thu Bcotiu Is always lively, and a largo part of the excitement Is duo tq (ho coimiiMon agents who sell tho melons along tho wharf and who exact 7 per centum of nil sal tor tie ir a ry.ixa. From Hulthuoro melons are shipped as far north as Canada and ai far west ns uuaigo.r mo uuik oi tne shipments go njuiw lurtiuui ijomoii, 1887. Literary success. Ihe Wnys by Which Home Noted Writer, llnve llecom famous. Kvcry literary success has Its own his tory. Thorcau's beautiful books are found in every library whero ho would have caro I to havo them; but they were so llttln appreciated when originally is sued that at tho end of tho first year al most tho wholo edition was returned to tho author, who carried tho books labori ously upstairs with the laughing an nouncement that ho was probably the only man In America with a library ol 1,0J 1 volumes all written by himself. Itider Haggard thinks ho will try tho doubtful experiment of weaving his Afri can experience Into a book for boys, and thons tnda of copies, perhaps hundreds of thousa ids of ''King Solomon's Mines" are sold immediately, quite as much to his own surprise as that of anybody o!bo. llayard Taylor, thirsting for tho literary life, eager for faino, butonlv for the famo that comes from doing' really admirable work, labors slowly, toilsomely, carefully, and achieves at last nn cnvialilo position for graceful, scholarly, patient literary cllbrt. Si Iney T.uska loans into tho literary arena with his first book in his hand, so brilliant a one that the critics only won der whether ho can ever do anything clsci as good, Miss Alcott is Inspired to write ''Littlo Women," because, as sho naively says herself, "the houso needed shingling." Mrs. Murfreo an I Mrs. Hiirnctl for years wrho short stories in obscure pub lications unknown, unnoticed and tin praised, till the long training and patient perseverance "tell at last, nn I result tin illy in a splendid efTort that tho ad miring world supposes to be their first. II. II., a brilliant. society woman, not esp 'cially interested In literature, ulrea ly In mid, lie age, writes suddenly a poem, is perfectly aimujd on receiving S10 for it, pays herself for tho publication of her lirst book, only to find herself in a few vean) acknowledged as tho finest poetess in America, if indeed ns Mr. ban rson said, we m i) not leavo oil tho last sylla ble of "poetess." Charlotte lironto, with profound con fidence in her own genius, encouraged by no one, d scouragod by every pub lisher till the last, writes "Jano Eyre," to bo ono of the greatest novels of her gen eration. Gcorgo Kllot, profoundly self distrust ful, venturing into fiction only at the ur gent entreaty of Mr. Lowes, writes "Adam Kcde," to bo tho admiration of the world, and perhaps never did uny work finer of its kind than her first. Harriet Prescott Spotfbrd, a girl of 10, who had never been out of America and hardly out of Newbtiryport, sits in her little room, with portfolio in her lap, and evolves from her inner consciousness and knowledge of books, a story of Parisian life, so faithful to the local color of thn brilliant city of the world that tho editor of 77w Atlantic bends it back to her at first on the plea that it is singularly tine, out presumably a trans lation. When a book appears so perfect of its kind as "Hans llrinker, or the Silver Skates," the world i3 interested not merely in reading the book, but in know ing how it came to bo written. It may be stated briefly that "Hans llrinker" was almost the first literary eil'ort, though not actually tho lirst, of its author; tuat at the tune she wrote it she had never been in llollond at all ; that like her d ar and Intimato friend II. II., bIio' had pissed her girlhoo I and early womanhood without a thought of a desire for literary fame. Street Cnr NuLnnce. Tho smoke nuisance on tlfo street cars, though the mo.-t annoying, is by nn means the only one to be found on that popular vehicle. Another ono is thu j) ssen.'er win persists in cro-sing his legs bo that one of his feet projects across the passagj wav through the car. llo is a mo.-t invariably a "long-geared" pas senger Willi feet to correspond; and ho is sure to become absorbed in a book or paper as soon as ho hastllectually blocked the way. Timid passengers must there after climb over him ; but even when an aggressive one knocks against him ho raiely takes the hint. He does havo tho grace siinirtiiues, if he is apprised that a la ly is stopped by tho barrier he has erected, to remove it ; but ho promptly puts it up agaiu when the lady has passed. A somewhat similar nuisan'o is tho passenger not always a male one who occ.ipics two or three seats by sitting hidewise so as to gaze from the e.t win dow. It is very common to seo ono ot the-e selfish nuisances, absorbed in con tumplailin of the stores or tho scenery, keep one or two passengers stanuiug for am nine trip. Still another nuisance is tho conductor who always wauls to "lend a hand." Whenever a passenger gets on he im mediately puts u hand between a pas senger's shoulder blades and helps him or her up and in to tho car. It makes no mateiial dilferenco to him whether the pass 'iiger is old or young, sprightly or lo ble, man or woman, though he does seem to havo a preference n hen too weather is warm and his hau '.s aro moist for ladies whitu summer dresses. Without knowing it, perhaps probably believing that ho is reahv doin tho public a service this particular nuisance ia uuu ui mil must uucusnu iu iiiu iisi. Garibaldi'. Iteuiln. A remarkable controversy is being fought out over tho body of Garibaldi. It will bo lecollected that when the hero and patriot died, his last will was found to confirm Ins expressions In lite in favor of cremation. IIo required his executors to seo that his body should not bo buried, but burned. Tho feelings of some ot tho members ot his family, and not a few of his friends, wero adverse to such a treatment of his remains. From that timo to this, tho present head of Ihe famllv. tho Denutv Atenotti Gari. haldi, has been entreated again and again by his father's admirers to carry out tho Kim, t.i.iu, a ..uu iqijuco.. A'.ciuibi, however, has always steadily resisted these appeals. The wholo business haa now been nut Into the hands ot tho Mi lan Cremation Society, which is nbout to take legal proceedings against Menottt Garibaldi in ordor to compel him to lav asido his personal objections and comply wiiu inu uirviuou ui ins lamer. Aphorlama from Africa. Do coolos' spring hides the closest 'mongst do rocks. Las' year's hot snell cools off mlihtv f- ' Light nigger too much fo' de so'-back bos'. Do moller applo give fa'r warnln, 'fo It lau. De nolso o' de wheels don't measure do load in do wagon. Wild goose in de wheat flel' don't go to sleep. .Twon't ho'p do crop to plant a now fangled sort of corn with fifteen ears to de. sLilk on do po' broomstraw flel' ; dat sort o' land got all it kin do raisin ono ear to do hill. De dog dat try to scratch a mole out do pmiin' ain't got 'iiotigh cdicatlon to hint I.l.x KllISON has a romarkahlo mnmraln of en IK edJft Heecher at his house in Llewullvn Park. Iis phonograph for impressing on a soft metal sheet the utterance, of the human voice, and then emitting it aeain bv tho turning ot a crank, has never been put to any very practical use. but he has utlt. Iz d it to make a collection of famous voi es. instead ol asking his visitors for Iheir autographs or photographs, he has, in in u or.iurou tiuuureii instances, re quested them to speak a tew sentence into a phonograph. IIo has kint thn plates iu a cabinet, and occasionally hu runs some ot mum mrougu tne in.lcli no, ...1.1.1. 1. . .1.. T - i which souds out the words as at first Uf tereu CxiM THE COLUMBIAN, VOL. XXI.N0 47 COLUMBIA DKMOOBAT, VOL U, NO 9 ASCETIC COLLEGE LIFE. J now the Modern Youth Rtmgfle with BcliolastleLm nml Anti-Poverty. Education Is not alt the bare seholnslio strugglo that it formerly ,was. Tho oarly graduate, who remembers the Spartan experiences of his collcgo life, tho un timely morning bell that called htm from his hard couch to the barn-like chnpd, tho bare walls of his cell-like study, tlio uncomfortable-chairs and the rude table everything, indeed, subordinated to tho ono Idea of discipline must havo bitter thoughts of what ho might havo become if he had enjoyed all the aids to development which the modern student has. What a pine It Is, tins Sybaritic bower, for the cultivation ot tho intellect! Neither Wuii.ter nor Calhoun had any such influence nbout him. What a stiinulous to the mind it is, this rug-covered mid curtained chamber I its tinted walls hung with exquls.to etchings and bits of color In oil, and tho winning pic tures of the most beautiful actresses and singcM of our time, silken portieres, deep ch.dr.4 that invite to tho profoundest re flection upon the great problems of ex istence, carved tables strewn with nil the literature of the boudoir, rows of book shelves where tho grand classics jostle tho latest dialect and realistic outcome of our civilization, an cleg tut chan teller o.i whose branching arms hang a hundred souvenirs of tlio germnti; bats, balls, rackets all the tools of tho higher edu cation; a deep win low-seat of blue plush, where the young anchorite lies and pond ers perhaps an epic, perhaps an oration in the senate, perhaps a great argument at the bar, more probably the solution of tho chronic strugglo between capital and labor. Do we forget tho piano, tho rack and tho carved pipes? These are for re laxation, for relief in the hardships of tho stern collegiate life, for the hours of sentiment that como alike to pitcher and stroke oar, when he sings, '.inch an ed-u-ca-tlon has my Mary Ann." Naturally .this ascetic life-manifests it self more or less in tho undress apparel of the devotees of learning. Hut the striped cap3 and striped jackets that mark the student aro not imposed by the state, and not adopted in tho humili ty of penance lorsins, but aro noble signs of the fraternity of learning, taken from the tennis-court and the boathouso and tho race-course, and show that all educa tion is one, an rethetic democracy, a fel lowship between the construer of Greek and the flying rider of tho thoroughbred. It is a note of the higher education ot tho period. Thero was a good deal said some time ago about w hat was called the luxurious life of some of the students at ono of our universities. And an impres sion was spread abroad that this must Becessarily interfere with tho pursuit of learning, and consequently with success in life. "I don't see how you can study in such a boiver," said an old-fashioned person who saw for tho first time one of these silken scholastic dens. Tho reply was only a pitying smile. Study? Why, did this ignorant questioner know that in this university an muter-graduate had re ceived tho otter of a higher salary as pitcher of abaso ball nine than was ever made to any of its graduates for filling any professor's chair In this country 1 Charles Dudley H'anur in llarper't for September. Col. Hob n. a bAtnarlt&n. An Interesting story is told ot Bob tngcrsoll which, if it reaches the cars ot St. I'eter, may improve the Colonel s: standing with that gentleman. Soma time ago an old Illinois soldier made ap plication iur u pension on account oi utu trouble which lie had contracted during his service in the army. During tho examination into his case the examiner was struck with tho peculiar cxactnes.) with which tlio applicant recalled the very day upon which hu caught tho cold from the cticcts of which his troublo was claimed to havo originated. "How is it," asked lie.-"that vou aroeo sure that you caught a cold on February 21. ISO:! V You must havo an excellent memory to recollect such an insigniticaut event for so long a time." "I remember it from the fact that Col. Bob lngersoll was married on thu follow ing day." "Why. what has that to do with it." asked the p. nsion-exa'ainer, astonished. "Well. I was in the Colonel's regiment. and on the night of that day I was uu guard duty. It was a bitterly cold night. lOlonel lngersoll happened to stioll along by me, and I said to him that if he, did not eitliersend mo a warm overcoat, a bottle oi whiskey, or relieve mo from guard duty, I d freeze to death." " 'I'll do all three.' said tho Colonel. and suiting thu action to the word, ha took od a line fur overcoat he was wear ing and uauded it to me. Then he took from oneo. nis pockels.n flask ofsnlendid old rye, whio i he also gave me. con tent with tnis, he actually wenpk. to headquarters and wrote out an orp!? cal ling in the guards, as it was entirely too cold, for guard duty. This is why 1 hap pen to have such a vivid recollection of the Colonel's marriage and thu contrac tion ot my cold." Decided hj the Wenther. The hot wavo reminds mo of a littlo study iu utonoiny tint caused a loss to rt. 1.CUH oi several millions ol dollars, and wlnen kept away a settlement of o people, ion Know tlu old stor.- ol i I a 'ii coming to st. I.onls to local h.s -n j,n ? Well, ho had settled on tin cu in .as m.u l, and even tho rapacity o. me re,u no owners HIM nut teriltv hi, ii. I Kim v iroin what 1m tol.i inethi.i he e msi i re i -t. Umis the mot ceutr situ fur uis purpose, and w.isoniy iu luce to change ins intentions ny it mere ucci iient. ne ran uown ironi cincigo onj very hot day. It was a rogularsior, her, and Ihe ol . timer was sipping Ills sherry co ibler, with its tropical tri nmings, w iiu grcai lusio. riiuman nan not cum, prepare I for u Snharan expedition, anil wneii ne ventured out ou l ourtli stro t in a plug hit, black Prince Albert and heavy suiting, he imagined himself standing on a thin crust that separated the city from the tires of Tophet. George SI. was a practical man. ami ho instantly began figuring on thu effects of the climate ou the human system, He eventually conciuuou that a man en gaged at manual labor was depreciated 'M per cent. His calculations leaked lltcu a tame ot logarithms renrcsoutim. loss of vitality, time for drinkuu water in tne suop, general teeuieness and men tal stagnation Induced by excessive caloric, then ho determined that ho could not risk his capital. This storv lias never been puhlishod, but I guess, ll Pullman had reckoned tho savlnc In fuel iu firing his boilers, he would Ii stuck to his first choice and built his village on tlio outskirts ot this dity. tjUIUI'5 ANU SCRAPS, Last year's cross receipts of tho mall ervico are placed at forty-eight million uuiiars. An Eastern steel comnanv has con. traded to supply the navy with sixty-five tons of steel gun forgings, to cost nearly uivj"iuur W1UU3UUU uoiiurs. It has boen estimated that tha nower exerted by the tail of a whale eighty feet long and twenty feet across the flukes ot the tail, in propelling it at tha rat of twelve miles an hour, is equal to the jiuma ui i-to nurses. A PARROT beloncincf in a wntleman nf Chicago is 6aid by Tiim to be ono hundred years old, me ownor has letters dated in 1700, referring to "Old Putnam." tho bird, and commenting on his manv ao- compllshmcnts, The bird is an agile and luiaauve us a young one. Tub cent which, until recently, vu .,!.., .n.n In .1... t ....l,..' 1 ing favor. A scliemo was nut Into time. tico at ono time for the lloodlmr ot thn uniry wiiu me copper currency, but It wis in vain, jucr. nowever. ino no. tire J object U steadily being accomp- . DELICATE SCALES, hey will K.en Show Ilia Weight Man' luture Carrie' With It. In Broadway store which Is branch of a big out-ol-lown scalo factory, are morn dill'erent kinds of scales than most peoplo imagine were over mado s There lire sp 'clnivns of ovcry grade ot weighing machine, from tlio big track rcalcs that can weigh a railroad car full ot pig lead and weighing KtyWO pounds, down ton tiny balance so find that it Is kept in a glass case which you could carry in your pocket. The smallest scale of afl is made fer delicate tests in essaying, It is ad justo I to milligrammes. Its sensivencss Is no flno that you can weigh a hair or an eyelash on It, You can writo your name on a slip of paper with a load pencil and then find out just how much your signa ture weighs. The weights aro the merest bits of aluminum not half bo big as the head of a pin. Tho maehino is so delicate that .a littlo dust blowing In from tho street will afreet its accuracy, and it lias to bo carefully cleaned after each exposure. It is made of aluminum, platinum and the finest tempered steel. People do not tne it as a play thing as a general rulo. It costs as much as its weight in gold. Every once in n whilo a seoptlc comes along who doesn't believe that story about the scales that will Weigh tho hair from a man's head, and It the manager of tho store Is good-natured and has plenty of time lie will bring out the wonderful httlu maehino and operate it. A reporter happened in. the other day whilo tho operation was going on. Tho manager took a slip of ordinary writing paper and weighed It. It welghod thirty-eight milligrammes. Then La gave thu paper to the visitor with a lead pencil a id the visitor wrote "John Henry Lamed" on it in a full free hand. Then tho manager put the slip back ou the scales and fixed tho littlo weights. The man's signature weighed live millt. grammes. Then tne man pulled a hair out of his hoad and the manager found that It weighed three milligrammes. An eyelash weighed a littlo less than ono milli gramme and a hair from his whiskers weighed live milligrammes. Then tho manager showed how easy it was to count the hairs in a man's head. At the rate of threo milligrammes to a hair, thoro would bo 80.OJ0 hairs in an ounce. Tho man probably had tliroo ounces of hair on bis head and therefore 2J,000 hairs. Sew York Commercial Advertiser. ' ABOUT WOMEN. Sire. Thomas A. Hfndricks denies that she will publish a collection of her husband's letters. Slario Foster of Adams, Sfass., pot thirty days imprisonment for plucking a fow flowers. Such a place. It ought to grow weeds. Sarah Bernhardt has made her tiger cats popular. They are a sure protection against dogs and dudes and no parent should bo without one. Sirs. Francis I. Armory has been tho toast among the married ladies of Nahant this summer. Tho pretty rose buds have felt quite jealous. Signora Verdi, wife of "II Trovatore," Is a very charitable woman. She is now putting up a splendid hospital at Hussato, which she and Verdi will endow. Sliss Olivia Cobb of Atlanta, Ga., is called the Southern queen of love and beauty. Sho is just out of her tceas and wears thirty scalps, or we should say hearts in her girdle. Boston ladies havo taken to patron izing bucket-shops, and it has been ob served that their former sweet Sledca look of attic Boulfulne&s has left their faces. They have turned to vulgar boodle. It has como to caramels in the turf at last. 'Ihey have been crunched this summer. As for chewing-gum, the very porpoises have stood aghast while gazing at an American maiden chewing her cud. Queen Kapiolani finds life dull since she returned home. What is tlio good, bIio thinks, of being a queen unless you can boss around a lot of lords and ladies in waiting. She has nobody to crush but Kap. Thero has bon a great call at the watering places this summer for fasting girls. It has been fashionable for society girls to have good appetites. Hotel men uu mat ueiinaiu gins pay oest, anu It may be so. Mrs. General Logan has been in Chi cago arranging lor the building of a monum 'nt which is to commemorate her husbands patriotism. Sho also looked after tho General's book. Mrs. Logan will reside in Washington. Piute maidens of Bodie. Col., exeel their Boston sisters in ingenuity, if not in classical knowledge. They use the trees of discarded sad lies for improvers. They aro very charming little Bodies and much addicted to oarly 1'iutey. Mrs. Nancy Culpepper, of Starkvllle. SI'ss., is now cutting her third set of teeth. She is young yet, being only 10.1 years old on her lost birthday. Babies ot seventy and thereabouts thinkher a very wise person ior neryeara. Miss MarciaSIarvin. daughter of tho late Bishop E. SI. Slarvin, has been ap- ( united matron in the Mission School at 'iracicaba, Brazil. Thero is a Una field for her shining lalonts in that land of hidden gold and mighty rivers. Sirs. M. E. De Geer. an attornev-at- law hi Topeka, Kansas, was not afraid to a Idress over lOjOJUpT-ons on the Fourth of July at Lamed, Kan., on "Our Foro- mutnera. 1110 assemblage, it is unnecej. sary to say, w as a Lamed one. Ouecn Victoria has an idea when tho royalty business gives out ot keeping a bo irdmg-housu. Sho charged somo ladies who came down to Windsor with an 8i),iK)J gift for their tea. Tho Queen's talents have so far been hidden under u bushel. Little Dot Dick, why is mamma like a horse, papa like a cow and you like a pig? Little luck i guess l don t know, Dot? .Mamma like a horse because she can't dim. i a tree. Yes. And papa is like a cow because ho can't aland on his head. les, and why iiiu I like a pig? Cause vou dou't offer me any of vour candy. Tub man who was to publish a news paper tosuit everybody fell outofNoah'a urK aim wus urow neu. A had habit to got Into a coat that is not paid for. A novel custom still prevails amoncf ladies in some parts which will commend itseii to maiden lames growing oiu. it is said that sho who puts on a silk-knit garter the first day of tho year and wears it continuously win certainly marry during tho year. It is said that tho mother of a young lady, being very much pleased with the silken garter worn by a young lady for this purpose, proposed to knit a "fellow" for it ; but tho young lady declined, saying sho had sullicient confidence in tho bewitching circlet, and prelerred tne natural coming of the "fellow." A Young- nnce.Ior.e Owner. Here is a littlo man ll! vean ol I. nrob. ab.y the youngest and wealtii.e.t juve nile race-horse owner In thu world. His name is D, .1. .McCarthy, ot San Fran cis o. Although he wears kn o breeches and roundabout jacket, he sports a man's season badge from his buttonhole. Hii lather gave the boy two years ngo a pair of (Shetland ponies and a wng.in, paying Sd0r for tho outfit, with wi ia.i to amuse himself outside ot schod hours, ou Saturdays and during school vaentons. Thu young t -.low g.imi;.' enjoy d his outfit, which was a f-u.urii ot the drives through th i park an I down tho boach to the Clilt' llonsj. IMA year the youth sought a higher grade of horseflesh, and, taUn,' u laney to a young runner, traded Ills Shetland pony eciui page for it, rooeivhii $i.l0 to boot. Tlie horse ohtaiiud U O, II. Todd, winner of the Derby t'lis. month (it (.'hlc.igo, by which SI ister Sic Car hy wort about SH.OO,). The vou.i r n.au took Su0O0 of this moue'v mi I Umilit 'f odd's brother, which yoil.i horse has given evidence nfgroit sp-.l ihu won a number of minor local ov -lit Tne rist of tho mqney he p tl In t'm kink. Master Mel aahy no un'y lalUs tiif equal to tome ot iho ve, ut is a good tchol.tr for on iw n s a. , u i tuks very ably on thu i'.ujuiccs unj ;ioulliQl C:lliuriiia, etc. I I13I1CU,
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