THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA.
THE STATISTICIAN.
Mew Mexico annually sends out
nearly $i 0,000,000 in bullion.
Georgia exports every year over
J 1,000,000 worth of watermelons.
Arkansas in cotton stands fifth, in ,
mules ninth, in lumber twelfth.
Virginia is the first in peanuts,
second in tobacco and eighth in salt.
Tennessee is second in peanuts,
third in live stock, ninth in cotton.
Maryland is second in fisheries,
fourth in coal and seventh in tobacco.
Michigan is first in copper, salt and
lumber, second in iron, third in sheep,
fifth in hops, sixth in whiat.
Georgia sends out every year about
1,000,000 bales of cotton and cuts
every year 200,000,000 feet of lumber.
Nevada has sent out $560,000,000
in silver and gold, over $200,000,000
of which came from the Comstock
mines.
Illinois is first in corn, oats, pork,
distilled liquors and railways, second
in coal, wheat and hog, third in cattle.
Wisconsin is second in hops, third
in potatoes, fourth in rye and buck
wheat, fifth in oats, seventh in iron
and sheep, eighth in hay, ninth in
copper.
, New Hampshire cotton mills have
a capital of over $50,000,000 and pay
$15,000,000 annually in wages. Over
300,000 yards of cotton cloth are pro
duced daily.
Pennsylvania is first in rye, iron,
steel, petroleum and coal, second in
buckwheat and potatoes, fourth in
oats, fifth in silk and wool, sixth in
salt and copper.
Massachusetts has over 100,000
persons engaged in fisheries. The
making of boots and shoes gives em
ployment to 62,000 ; cotton goods,
58,000; building, 50,000; clothing,
.13,000.
Michigan produces one-fifth the
iron of this country, mining q.ooo,
ooo tons a year. The copper mines
are the richest in the world, having
produced over $200,000,000 worth of
metaL
Oregon's salmon fisheries produce
about 600,000 cases a year, and its
wool clip exceeds 16,000,000 pounds.
There are 25,000 square miles of pine
forests, and the annual gold yield
exceeds ?i,ooo,ooo
JACK NAPOLEON.
An interesting spectator at many of
the great bicycle meets nowadays is
Jack Napoleon, the remarkably clever
bulldog owned by nliam r . Murphy,
the famous Brooklyn racing man.
Jack wears a stovepipe hat as jauntly
and airily as a Fifth Avenue ( New
York ) swell, and, as he is doubtless
somewhat near sighted, he is compell
ed to resort to the use of eye-glasses
' when he examines the entries on the
programme or when he eagerly scans
the riders as they come sprinting to
the tape on the last lap.
Jack is very fond of a "dry smoke,"
too, for whenever he walks along tire
street or attends a bicycle meet he
invariably has a very English
Lrierwood pipe in his mouth. If the
sport moves him to utter barks of joy
as his owner wins a race, or crowls of
rage if Murphy isn't in it at the finish,
the fact that he has a pipe in his
mouth doesn't bother Jack Napoleon
at all. He barks or growls, as the
case may be, regardless of conse
quences ana trie pipe, out ne never
fails to cling to the pipe.
When Jack was young and
sive, he was considerable of a
and is the hero of many
fought batt!e in the pit, but
agjres
fighter,
a hard
he has
long since retired from the arena, and
earn s five good meals a day as mascot
for his master and a well-known bi
cycle race team. His potency ai
mascot is in no way inteifered with
by the fact that he is just 13 years
old. Jim Corbett once ottered Mur
phy $500 for Jack, stovepipe hat,
glasses and pipe, but the Brooklyn
wheelman scorned the offer, Jack's
cnum on the team is a monkey nam
ed McGinty, who sits on Jack's neck
and rides through the streets as proud
as a banian kinx.
Perhaps the most obstinate Mc
Kinley Democrat with which the
President had to deal last session w
as
Senator Gorman, of Maryland. Th
following culled from the proceedings
oi a recent Democratic convention
held at Westminster, Md., illustrates
the contempt Mr.' Gorman's action
incurred.
After passing a resolution expres
sive of faith in the wisdom, prudence
and transcendent ability of President
Cleveland the followiner was nassed
Ll 1
contempt for the action of Senators
Gorman and Gibson
"We hereby record our disapproval
01 me action 01 the senate in ingratt
ing on the Wilson bill legislation
the interest of trusts and monooolies.
and we especially repudiate the course
of our Senators, Gorman and Gibson,
therein, and declare that they are un
ht to represent the ' Democracy
of
Maryland or the country in the
na-
tional legislature."
Gorman methods arl Gormani
nsm
in Maryland are denounced as
democratic and unnatriotic. and it
un
is
declared that if they are allowed
continue they will result in disaster
to
to
the party. The resolutions declare,
further, for election of United States
Senators by direct vote of the peopl
LONDON'S WATEE SUPPLY
In London, the largest city in the
world, the water is furnished by com
panies and is charged for by the
uan;ity. No one lias a iree laucet
or can aitoru to waste nis water.
Every lamilv bargains for as many
gallons per diem as it needs, and this
amount is placed in tanks. Then
the water is shut oft. I f the family
uses it up by noon, it gets no more
until the next day unless it can bor
row of its neighbor. There is no
waste. The water is all measured and
paid for. With three or four times
our population London does not use
one third as much water as Chicago
does, simply because the water is not
wasted.
In Chicago the city furnishes the
water, and every one is free to do
with it what he pleases, and the result
is anarchy in water. The man on the
third story has no rights the man on
the second is bound to respect, and
the man on the first fVor cheats both
of them by running water via the
sewers into the river and lake. So
long as there is a disregard of human
rights by human hogs this waste will
continue, and those on the upper
stories will suffer because those on
lower stories are running water all
tday to cool their rooms or to flood
their lawns in other words, are let
ing millions of gallons run into the
sewers without being used at an.
Chicago Exchange.
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Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart
gives perfect relief in all cases of Or
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in 30 minutes, and speedily effects a
cure. It is a peerless remedy for Pal
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symptoms of a Diseased Heart. One
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ton. 6-i5-iy.
Queer Substitutes For Money.
The collection of coins, or, more
exactly speaking, the articles which
have passed for money in different
countries and in different ages of the
worid at the National Museum is a
complete one and well repays one for
a visit. The earliest American coins
are believed to have been those made
of Cortez, by permission of the Span
ish Government, and were issued
about the time of the death of Col
umbus, which occured in 1506. They
are of copper, and on the one side is
a representation of the " Pillars of
Hercules."
Next in point ct time comes the
money for Be-muda which was mint
ed in England. These coins are of
copper of the value of a shilling and
sixpence, and on one face is the pic
ture of a hog ; hence it is known as
the " hog money." The early settlers
of these islands found so many of
these animals roaming about that
they used it to mark the- coin. Only
one sixpence and two shilling pieces
of this money are believed to exist,
and both are owned in Boston. Among
the oddities of the collection is the
" knife money " of the Chinese, used
abouf the commencement of the
Christian era. The pieces are shaped
something iike a razor, about six
inches long, are of copper ,and worth
about 8 cents.
" Ring money " is another curious
variety, which was used by the early
Gauls and Britons. In those days,
as there were no banks and safe de
posit companies, it was the fashion to
carry a'l one's wealth upon ont'a
person. 1 he amount was wrought
into ornaments of various designs, but
a fixed standard of weight, and they
were frequently made in two or three
parts, which could be readily separat
ed and used as change. But coins of
different metals have not been the
only articles which have been used as
money. Salt molded into bricks of a
fixed size and weight is used in cOun
tries where this necessity of life is
hard to obtain and far more valuable
to the people than any metal, no mat
ter how precious. Tea into squares is
used very largely in Siberia, and the
price of this commodity regulates the
price o: everything else.
Tobacco was the money in the Vir
ginia colony, and the New Englanders
were so hard up for something to use
in exchange that corn, codfish and
peas served as mediums. Good lead
outlets paid many a debt in Revolu
tionary times, though in a number of
the colonies copper had been coined
The shells which are used as money
by the South Sea Islanders and in
parts of Africa form an important ex
hibit at the Museum, and the study of
the money of the World as represent
ed there gives an excellent idea of the
degree of civilization which nations
have attained.
A False diagnosis.
La Grippe is confounded by many
persons with a severe attack of catarrh,
which in some respects resembles the
former. These individuals suffer
severely with pain about the forehead,
eyes and ears, with soreness in throat,
and stoppage of the nasal passages,
and in fact, are incapacited for work
of any kind for days at a time. These
are catarrhal sufferers. Ely's Cream
Balm has been used with the best re
sults in such cases. The remedy will
give instant relief.
EDISON AND THE COCKROACHES
How tha Oraat Inmntor llroufht Hclroca
to Ilrar on Noilou Inject.
While In the WeMorn Union office In
Boston Edison, like a trrent manv
others on the nlpht fort-e, tvnn both
ered, says .1. N. Taylor in Donahoc's
Magazine, by tho vast nrmy of cork
roachos that each night formed a hol
low square with tho oporatorV lunch
boxes on the Inside. The lunches were
Uept on an unused tahlo, and promptly
at half past nix o'clock each night, or
mayhap earlier, the cockroach legions
would march upon tho old table, aw
cend the four legs that upheld It, and
and gorge themselves on sandwiches,
apple pie and other eatables. Ono
night while Edison was waiting for
Washington to start the nowspoper
specials he conceived a plan to anni
hilate the whole cockroach hoard.
He said nothing, but when he re
ported for duty the next night he was
supplied with a quantity of tin foil and
four or Ave yards of fine wire, un
rolling the tin foil and cutting two nar
row ribbons from the long sheet he
stretched them around the table, tak
ing care to keep them as near together
possible without touching, and fas
tening them into position with some
very small tacks. Then he connected
the ribbons of foil with two heavy
batteries and awaited the result.
Chief operators and all were Interest
ed, and little work was done till the
advance guard of tho cockroach army
put In an appearance. ISow, to com
plete the circuit and set this unique
little engine of death in operation it
needed but a single cockroach to cross
the dead line. One big fellow came
up the post at the southeast corner of
the room and stopped for a moment
Then he brushed his nose with his
forelegs and started. lie reached the
first ribbon In safety, but as soon as
his fore creepers struck the opposite
or parallel ribbon over he went as dead
as a free message. From that time till
after luuch the check boys were kept
busy brushing the dead insects to the
floor. At midnight the cordon of de
funct bugs around the table looked
like a square made of an old rope.
NEW COLLECTING CRAZE.
A Malaeao Who Mm Hecored Illatorical
Buttoni by tba HuahaL
People get curious fads, says a writer
in the Pittsburgh Dispatch. I met a
man from Maine, who had traveled all
over the world, Ho had not made a
collection of spoons, stamps, auto
graphs, photographs, nor any of the
things that are usually collected by
travelers. lie had digressed from the
beaten paths and started a new fad,
which seems as sensible as at least the
postage-stamp craze. He has a collec
tion of buttons, hundreds of them, of
all sorts, shapes and designs, buttons
from police, firemen, constabulary
and soldiery of all countries, cities
and towns, as well as buttons from
the clothes of famous men. Each but
ton had a history and a long one, too,
as told by the Yankee, so I did not
wait to hear much about them. Iiut
ho had taken the button, surely.
It may not be long until the button
cranks may become prevalent, and the
great men of the land will not be
bothered any more by requests for
autographs, but it will be: "Will you
kindly send me a button from one of
your suits?" The prospect of the
statesmen of these great Lnituu States
having to resort to hooks and eyes in
fcelf-defonse after having been deprived
of all their buttons to appease tho de
mands of this coming army of cranlcs
may cause some little joy in the hearts
of those who have been wearily watch
ing triumphant tomfoolery in con
gress. The predicaments which this
new -craze might cause are endless.
We might imagine a 11 ovcrobliglng
celebrity being forced to keep to Ida
room by thoughtlessly gratifying
those who flattered his vanity by the
asking. JSo matter how tho craze may
affect the victims, it is sure to boom
the button industry.
THE MEXICAN CLOVER.
A Valuable Forafc-e riant or the Arid
Bouthweatorn I'.rgluiia.
A beautiful sight that in 6umnicr
greets tho eye in the southwest from
Texas to California is the broad fields
of that exuberant forage plant, tho
alfalfa or "Mexican clover," with its
pink blossoms, brightening tho ex-
panses of densely growing dark-green
leaves and stalks. The growth of this
plant is astonishingly rapid and a field
will yield several crops in a season. Its
roots go fur down in search of mois-
ture, sometimes to a depth of eighteen
or twenty feet. Tho alfalfa is nutri
tlous and palatable to btock, and
horses, cattle, sheep and hogs eat it
and fatten upon it.
The large land and live stock Invest
ment companies which are now operat
ing in New Mexico and Arizona, have
as an es.scntiul part of their schemes
of utilizing the desert wastes tho
growing of large tracts of alfalfa with
which to feed their range cattle and
other stozk. At ono ranch alono, the
La Cueva ranch, in Mora county, Mex
lco, one thousand head of range cattle
are now being fed and fattened for
market on alfulia. The "Mexican
clover" Is grown by aid of moderate
irrigation, and tho lands laid down to
it tend to improve in fertility.
Ha'd Hava tha Uoat.
Going back to Washington from wit
nessing the test of a thlrteen-inch gun,
Jerry Simpson was asked what he
thought of the day's proceedings. After
denouncing war as unnecessary end a
nary as useless, Mr. Biinpson said that
hia opinion of the thirteen-lnch gun
could best be illustrated by a little
Btory. "A staid New England Quaker,"
he said, "who was strenuously opposed
to the use of an organ in church, at
last found that he could not prevent
his peoplo from getting one, and so
was induced to go and hear one played.
He finally acquiesced about as follows:
'Well, if thco Insists on praising Ood
by a machine, I suppose it's best to
bare a good ono.' Aud that," added
Mr. Simpson, "is about my idea con
cerning the thlrteen-iccn gun."
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THE MARKETS.
BLOOMSBURG MARKETS.
COHRtCTID WIIILT. BtTAIL rxlCII.
Butter per lb $ .28
Eggs per dozen .20
Lard per lb .12 J
Ham per pound .15
Pork, whole, per pound 07 to .08
Beef, quarter, per pound, . . . 06 to .08
W heat per bushel 70
Oats " " SS
Rve " " 65
Wheat flour per bbl 3.00
Hay per ton 16 00 to 18.00
Potatoes per bushel 75
Turnips " " 15
Onions " " 100
Sweet potatoes per peck 15 to .30
Tallow per lb 04
Shoulder "
Side meat " " 10
Vinegar, per qt .07
Dried apples per lb 05
Dried cherries, pitted
KaspDemes u
Cow Hides per lb 02
Steer " ., .03
Calf Skin 40 to .50
Sheep pelts .6
Shelled corn per bus ........ -75
Corn meal, cwt , s.oo
Bran, " 1.10
ChoD
Middlings "
Chickens per lb new , ,
" " " old.
Turkeys " 44 ,
Geese "
Ducks " "
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