THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMBURG, PA. WORD EI8T0BT. Tea is a Chinese word. Ukase is of Russian origin. Teck was only a poke or bag. Gin was first made at Geneva. Villian was formerly a farmer. Acre formerly meant any field. Pillow lace is made on a pillow. Candy was first made in Canadia. Guinea fowls came from Guinea. Frieze first came from Friesland. Lemons originally came from Lima. Florins were first made in Flor encc. Huzzy is a corruption of house wife. Apocrypha means hidden or spuri ous. Magnets were discovered at Mag nesia. Tulle was invented at Tulle, in France. Canaries came from the Canary Islands. Sarsanet was first made by the Saracens. Gillyflower is a corruption of July flower. Taboo and tattoo are of Polynesian origin. , Farewell means, may you fair or travel well. Broadcloth took its name from its unusal width. Fetish and zebra are from a dialect of South Africa. Marigold took its name from Queen Mary Stuart. Ascalon gave the world the odorif erous shallot. Gingham comes to us from the Japanese language. Kreutzer was so called from the cross on the reverse. Shawls were first made at a Persian town of that name. Agates were first found in the bed of the river Achates. Prevaricator was properly a cripple with distorted legs. Topaz took its name from Topazas, an Island in the Red Sea. Pragmatical formerly had the significance of business like. Jungle, punch and toddy are words from the Hindostanee. Copper first appeared in history on the Island of Cyprus. Cognac was first made at the French town of the same name. Mammoth comes to us from one of the Siberial dialects. Furlong was a furrow-long, or the length of a plowed furrow. Hussar is one of the few words we have from the Hungarian. Kersey is a corruption of Jersey, where the fabric was first made. Coffee is so called from being first brought to Europe from Caffa. Corpse was formerly applied to any body, living as well as dead. Damascus gave to the world da mask linen and the damson plum. Tobacco was so called from the Spanish Indian town of Tobago. Brandy is a contraction of the old English brandywine, burnt wine. Knave was first a boy, then a servant, and lastly a rascally man. Craven was a man who had beg ged or craved his life of an enemy. Moleskin is so called from its smooth surface, like the skin of a mole. Gauze is believed to have this name because it was first made at Gaza. Idiot once meant a child, and was used in an affectionate style of ad dress. Dimity was invented at Damietta, a city which gave its name to the goods. Tulip is the Persian name for tur ban, the flower being shaped like a turban. Ducats were originally Duke's money ; first made in the Duchy of Apulia, in 1140. Neighbor was once only a nigh boor, or the boor or farmer who lived nearest. awn is fine linen bleached on the lawn instead of the ordinary drying ground. Azure, bazaar, chess, lilac, sash, scarlet, turban and orange are Per sian words. Blankets were invented by Thomas Blanket, who made them at Bristol in 1340. Cambric is believed to have been so called because it was first made at Cambray. Gutta-percha, bamboo, cone, rat tan and three or four more are of Malay origin. Turquoise takes its name from Turkey. It was originally called the Turkey stone. Puss, the common name for cat, is a corruption of the Persian word Pers, a cat. Gossip was once a sponsor in bap " tism, next any elderly person, finally a tale bearer. Tories were originally bandj of Irish outlaws. The Celtic word tores means robber. Vagabond was once only a traveler going from place to place on pleasure or business. Carbuncle means a little glowing coal, the appearance of the gem sug gesting the name. Mohair is properly Moor hair, or Angora wool, introduced into Europe by the Moors. Calico was made at Calicut, and was so called in honor of the place of its invention. Bachelors' buttons take their name fro n being once used by young men in divination. Girl, in the old English of Piers Ploughman, was applied to a young person of either sex. Dog-rose was so called by the Greeks from its belief that its root cured the bite of a mad dog. Muslin first appeared at Moussul, the place which gave this kind of goods its name. Lager beer was so named because, in order to ripen, it was allowed to lie in a lager or cellar. , Secretary birds take their name from the tufts of feathers like pens on the sides of their heads. Parchment was first made at Per gamus from the sheep or the. moun tain goats of Asia Minor. Cashmere goods were invented in the celebrated vale of which Moore sings in Lallah Rookh. Maps were first made on pieces of cloth like napkins. The Punic word for napkin is mappa. Imp was once a title of honor. Spenser speaks of " Ye titled imps that on Parnassus dwell." Tarantulas took their name from Taranlo, in Italy, where these ven omous spiders are common. Indigo is thus named from its being first exported from an Indian city of similar designation. Polite was formerly only polished. Cudworth speaks of " polite bodies like looking glasses." Odalisque and about a dozen more are adopted into English from the Turkish language. Queer Facts About Honey. There are 119,900,000 old copper pennies somewhere. Nobody knows what has become of them, excent that once in awhile a single specimen turns up m change. A lew years ago 4, loo.ooo bronze two-cent nieces were set afloat. Three millions of these are still outstanding. Three million three-cent nickel nieces are srattprprl over the United States, but it is very rarely that one is seen. Of 800,000 half cents, which correspond in value to English farthings, not one has been returned to the covernment for recoin- age, or is held by the treasury. Con gress appropriates from $100,000 to tf . i. ; . . iju,uuu ycany recoining me uncur rent silver coins now in possession of the treasiirv. Thpse nrf mnstlu half dollars, and are not circulated because mere is no demand tor them. Not loner atro the stock nf thim amnnnt. ed to $26,000,000, but it is only about nan mat now. ihe money set aside for recoining is not intended to pay for the COSt of the minting hut is r.. . " . 01 quired to reimburse the treasury of the United States on account of the loss in weight which the silver pieces have suffered bv abrasion. This loss ammints to $30 on every $1,000, and it has 10 De maae good in order to set the treasurer's account straight. Boston M . j. ranscripi. The Tortures of the Armenians. A recent letter which aonears in a Tiflis paper states that for nineteen days the residents of Armenian villages where the outrages were perpetrated tougnt against the Kurds. 1 he Ar menians lost only ten warriors, while the Kurds lost 6o. When the reo-n. lar troops, under Zekki Tasha, appear ed tne Armenians were compelled to succumb. After Zekki Pasha's treachery in of fering peace sixty young Armenian men were seized and tortured horribly for three dai s. Then all were mur dered and their bodies buried in a ditch. Among the Armenian heroes who lost their lives the writer mentions Derbedros. who. with his own hand. killed seven Kurds in fair fight. He was captured and flay ed to the waist. Pieces of his flesh were cut off, broil ed and eaten bv the savaie Turks while he was still alive. Danger of Seduction in Price of Coal. In the coal trade it is said that a very limited business is expected for some time owing to the heavy stock on hand. To have the supply more than equal to the demand would tend to cheapen coal something that the combined operators will not tolerate. All the interests are mining on half time to avoid overstocking the market. They can thus manage to pay the miners more than pauper wages when they work, don't you see ? How very smart the operators of our protected industries are, and how very foolish it is to further protect them under the apprehension that they will actually keep up wages in consequence. If wages are not cut by half time em ployment then we can't understand the modern process of fleecing the consumer and the wage earner at the same time under the high protest ive plan. Strange. "It's funny about bridal pairs. They're not like other pairs at all." "Why not ?" 'They're softest when they're green." ' Hungry Higgins Tell you what ; no man never loses nothing by keep in' his mouth shut. Weary Watkins How about when somebody offers him a beer ? Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla. WASHINGTON. Secretary Carlisle Satisfied with Hit Cur rency Reform Bill.-. Representative Ma gulre, of California Feted by the Wash ington Association.--Senator Hill and the Desired Cloture. --Billy Mahone and Hit High-priced Land. --Scientific Watte to be Curtailed at Uit.-. Gloriously Right It it. From our UpkuIht Correspondent. Washington. December m. tm Secretary Carlisle is thorougaly sat isfied that the more his currency re form bill is studied and discussed the stronger it will be, both in and out of Congress, and he used his influence with the House committee on Rules to prevent the original plan, of voting on the bill before adjournment for the Christmas recess, being carried cut. He never did a thing that displayed better judgment. The bill is now be fore the country and the debate in the House this week will furnish an intelligent basis for argument both for and against the measure, and the time between the Christmas adjourn ment next Saturday and the re assembling of Congress Wednesday, January 3 will be well put in by members of the House in studying how the bill may be improved ; also, in learning what their constituents thir.k of it. The information thus ac quired may be put to good use in the democratic caucu3 which it is pro posed to hold on the bill as soon as Congress returns to Vashinfton. The California Association, of this city, this week held a reception and gave a banquet in honor of Represen tative James G. Maguirc, of California, one of the few re-elected democratic Congressmen residing west of the Mississippi River. The Single Tax Society, of Which Judge Maguire is an honored member, assisted in making things pleasant for the large numbei of guests present. Gov. Renfrow, of Oklahoma, is doing his level best to fill Congress ional ears with the idea that Oklahoma ought to be a State. He points out the existence of a population of 250, 000, growing cities, a tip top public school system, good newspapers, and, in fact everything found in the most progressive of the old States, and de. mands any good reason for denying statehood to the territory. Senator Hill's speech in favor of cloture in the Senate was a good one, filled with excellent arguments in in favor of cloture, but it did not change the views of any Senator, and mere is no great probability of ary change in the Senate rules at this session that will even squint towards cloture, aitnougn (it is generally be lieved that the reDublicans will adont cloture should they regain control of me senate. The question of whether "Little Billy " Mahone is more powerful than Congress was revived this week by the attempt that is beinr made hv the committee on Public Buildincs and utuunus 01 me riouse and senate to agree upon a site for a new Onvcm. ment Printing Office. For four years juanone nas Deen powertul enough to prevent any steps being taken towards the erection of a G. P. O., because the House would not aeree to Inv at $1.50 a foot some ground he bought for about 15 cents a foot, and upon which he has not for vears Daid one cent of taxes. His hold upon republi can senators is doubtless largely political, but it is suspected that his hold UOOIl democratic Senators U'hn belong, as Mahone himself does, to what is locally known as Tnhn Chamberlain's poker-playing crowd," is rjasea upon something very differ ent. At any rate his influence has proven more powerful in this matter man it was in anything when he held the balance of power in the Senate and made the notorious bargain that ianaea mm in the republican party. His control of this matter has been very galling to democrats generally, and a strong effort is being made to end it. The Dockery Congressional Com mission, which has already done so much to reform departmental business and to cut off needless expenditures, never made a better recommendation than that to abolish the separate bureaux of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Geological Survey, turning as much of the work they have been engaged in as it may be considered desirable to continue over to the survey division of the General Land Office. The so called " scient ists " who have for vears drawn liicr . - r salaries for a very small amount of worn are, 01 course, very indignant at the proposed abolition of so many sine cures an neatly covered by the cloak of science. But it is apparent that these two bureaux have cost a great deal of money and that there is ncAi iv iiuiuiug iu nuw ior 11. LOU cress clipped the wines of the Geo. logical Survey a year ago by cutting its appropriation in nail, and thereby spoiled a number of previously ar ranged summer excursions, upon which it had been common for the "scientists" to take members of their families, not only having their expenses paid, but in many cases get ting them on the pay roll as " assist ants." These " scientists " own a big club house in the fashionable part of town and wield an enormous social "pull," which is now being worked against the recommendations of the I Dockery Commission. STOCK ON THE FARM. The lirrn Is the only nnlninl that I mmio vlcloun by ricttlnK. A young ram th.1t l raised by hnnil. at tlio house, becomes bo'd flint noon learns to at tack cuttle nml iirrsoiis. When yonujr and Immature Atock Is used for breeding iiunpone year after yenr. and the o'der nulmnl sold, there la a liability of Ions of utiiniltu). Th best spcclmcna are procured from ma tured pnrentH. CroMlnc, or (trading up. should bo done with tumw object In view. It Is not Judicious to cross two puro-bred animals of dinVreut breeds, us the re sult Is usually a failure, the cross bred animal lielng inferior to both pa rents. Loss of appetite Is nometlmes due to c'ose coiifliieinctit. When the winter sets In mid stock must lie kept up, there xliould be a law yard for exer cise. If there Is n Held adjoining the. yard. Into which the nnlinnls can go In clear, warm days, so much the bol ter. All deaths from bulls are due to the supposition that they can 'bo made Ren lie. A bull th.it Is apparently the most pcacc.iblo animal 011 the farm may sudili nly. and without cause, be come very dangeroiM. No bu'l should be allowed Its liberty, but should be kept under control. A horseman of experience says that colts are often ruined by their train ers. They are taken in soft condition and put through work that old stagers could hanlly stand. In coimoqueneo they break down In the legs or bo come weak In tlielr organs and are shortly ruined beyond recovery. Cows Iu milk. It Is claimed, will con sume nearly .Ml per cent, more water than the same cows when not giving milk. The New York experiment sta tion nt (ioneva found as an average of several breeds that each cow drank 1.o:t) pounds of water and consumed ."47 pounds more In food per month. The fact Is, says the Sheep Hreeder, sheep can be made protltable under right management in almost any kind of times. Spasmodical sheep hus bandry always was and always will lie unprofitable, and it Is this class ot husbandry from which come all the reports which stamped the rest of the brotherhood of "doubting Thomases." Careful comparisons made to Ger many from the records f large herds, show that there Is no relation, or even approximate relation, between the live weight of cows and the yield of milk. The record of a Norwegian herd for ten years, shows that In different years the average yield of milk per pound of live weight averaged, for the herd, between 4.311 aud CO pounds. The amount Increased during the first eight years. The Individual record for 1S03 for a herd of eighteen cows shows that the milk yield varied from 4,2Xi to 8.19" pounds dur ing the year, and yield per pound of live weight, ranged from 4.4 to 7.3 pounds. . litis: Prervlnjr Apploa- A writer in the American Cultivator tells how he has preserved apples and kept them fresh aud fair for eighteen to twenty months. He takes the ap ples ripe and fresh from the trees, at this season of the year, and covers them up with dry, tine coal ashes, to a depth of fourteen to eighteen Inches. Ho lins apples that have passed two winters thus preserved, out-of-doors, exposed to rain and frost, and yet the fruit came ont fresh and fair. How much longer the apples would keep under these circumstances ho does not know. Possibly pears, eggs and some other perishable articles, he thinks, might be kept by this simple and In expensive process much longer than by present methods. . 1 tj Drying Fruit. A California woman. In on exchange, tells her way of drying fruit and vegetables. She says: "My husband made wooden boxes or frames to fit the hot-bed sash, then set them up from the ground on legs, one pair longer than the other, to get the pro per slope. Holes were cut at the top and the bottom of the box to securo a current of air over the drying fruit or vegetables, which should be placed in trays or dishes In the frame, The sash should be placed directly over It. riace the whole In the broad sunlight, and leave until the contents are suffi ciently dry to be packed In sacks or boxes. This method keeps out birds and Insects, dufct and rain, and re quires less care than any other." , , tia When the Hone Sleep. When the horse sleops It Is said that one ear Is directed forward, why is not known. A writer In the Eng lish Mechanic thinks this Is to guard agulnat danger, being a survival of their originally wild habits. He says: "Watch a horse sleep through the win dow of his stable and make a faint noise to the front. That ear will be all attention, and probably the other will By round sharply to assist Now let him go to sleep again, and make the same noise to the left. the for ward ear still will keep guard, with possibly a lightning flick round, only .o resume its former position. ill Buckerlng Corn. Nothing of late years Is said about the once common practice of snckerlng corn, that Is removing the suckers so as to give the main stalk better chance. It was always a practice of doubtful advantage, and cost a good deal of labor that might be better era ployed. The corn that produces most suckers is that whose early growth was stunted. When midsummer heats come on, developing more plant food In the soil than the single stalk could dispose of, one or more suckers were put forth to utilize the surplus. Some times ears are grown on these suck- ... .:.;! : fiream Shearing-. It Is said that the steam sheep fhearlng plant located at Casper, Wyo.. Is receiving liberal patronage on account of the superior work done by the machines. The operator is not ab'e to make as great speed with the machines as iby hand clipping, but ho Is able to do much better work, taking lift more wool per head, aud leaving It In better condition aud with less In jury to the 6heep. Sheep re-sheared by machinery yield about three-quarters f a pound of wool, so it Is said, after having beua hand-sheared- DR. E. GREWER, The Philadelphia Specialist, And tils associated stuff of English andnorman l'Uyslclnns, ore now permnneuily located at OLD POST-OFFICE BLD3., Scranton, Pa. The Doctor Is a graduate of the fnlversltj of rennsylvania, formerly demonstrator of IihyttfoloK.v and surg-pry at the Medlco-ChlrurR-fill lOllige, of t liliadolphla. Ills specialties arc chronic Nervous, Kkln Heart, womb aud liloort diseases. niSKASKS OK TUB KEKV0UH 8Y8TEM. 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