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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA..
THE WOHLD OP LABOR-
There arc paper coffins.
Taper matches gain favor.
There's a hominy combine.
America has 38,000,000 sheep.
Switzerland has 7 Coo hotels.
A fireworks trust is anounced.
The States contain 9533 sailors.
India has 1900 miles of railway.
Vienna has a pavement of cork.
Georgia is shipping watermelons.
Fresno boasts a 44$-pound potato.
Indiana has six tinplate factories.
United States arc worth $64,120,
oootoco. At Transvaal gold fields beer is $ 1
a bottle.
Queen Victoria has $2,000,000 in
rare china.
Tasmania apples are six pence per
pound.
An Indiana orchard has 550 varie
ties of apples.
Typewriting machines have lessen
ed the demand for steel pens.
The charge for residence telephones
at Newton, Kan., is $15 a year.
A French railway company has
ordered clocks to be placed on the
outside of every locomotive.
Anew industry in the distillation of
sweet potatoes for alcohol aed whisky
has. been opened up in the South.
Above Lyons the Rhone is to be
dammed so as to obtain the water
power needed to provide Lyons with
electricity.
In 1830 the whole tonnage of the
Brittish Empire reached but 2,600,
000. To-day the tonnage register is
aer 6,000,000 of steam and nearly
5,000,000 of sailing.
The scarcity of ivory has set inven
tive wits at work, and now in Sweden
hollow balls of cast steel are found to
he a sat'.sf.-.ctcrj' substitute for ivory
billiard bails
Spain is very rich in all kinds of
metals used m manuiactures, especi
ally iron, copper, tin quicksilver and
lead, and in 1895 she exported them
to the amount of $13,000,000.
The Chicago drainage canal will be
a free ship canal for boats drawing up
to 22 fect. Tle c.3t when completed
will be about $27,303,216. Itextends
from- the lakes to the Mississippi
River.
During the recent troubles in
Johannesburg, one of the first acts of
the officials was to close every saloon,
compensate the owners for their stock,
and then destroy the liquor by pour
ing it on the ground.
The Philadelphia Textile School
has been brought to such a state of
perfection that the pupils are now
making goods, such as cassimeres,
beavers, meltons and tricots, from the
raw material to the finished fabric.
Wade's Fibre and Fabric.
Martin Quinn, driver for a steam
laundry of Poulard, through a split
in the Republican party, which could
not but mean ruin and defeat, leaps
from the obscurity of an $1 1 a week
job, handling soiled linen, to the
proud eminence of representing the
State of Oregon at the capital of the
nation.
The Japanese workman's tools are
most primitive affairs. The saw, for
instance, is simply a sheet of steel
about eight inches square roughly
notched with teeth. This is set into a
handle measuring as a rule, about two
feet in length. With this clumsy
instrument, however, he is able to ac
complish an immense amount of work.
"Men are now living," says the
Baltimore Sun, "who heard the emi
nent scientist, Professor Silliman, de
clare in a lecture at Vale College,
after a careful mathematical calcula
tion, that no boat could contain a
sufficient amount of coal to propel it
across the Atlantic Ocean. It is not
likely that he ever dreamed that ships
would be constructed which could
contain and consume nearly 2000 tons
on a single voyage."
The inaccessibility of the rookeries
frequently involve seal hunters in
danger, says a writer in the New
York Press. "The seals are shot from
a promontory. Then the hunter is
lowered on a rope by his comrades
100 or 200 feet to the slippery wave
washed rocks below, where the dead
seal lies. He quickly skins the animal.
A small boat from the ship rides out
side the surf line ready to carry the
hides away."
The Parisian bookbinders tell
strange stories of the orders they
receive to insert fragments of human
skin in the book covers. The skin'of
notorious criminals is generally used
for tobacco pouches and pocket-books.
The bodies are sent after execution
to the Ecole de Medicine. Hut there
are ways and means of getting a mor
sel of the he.ul or body, and a police
reporter of a Paris paper still shows a
cigarette case made of Pranzini's skin.
A Minneapolis coYespondcit writes;
One of thr- largest clocks in the world
has just Lcuii ccupk-tcd iuul put in
motion in te tuwr r the rnvr Hen
nepin Conn! y Cu.ii Jl.tuc Mi.J.v
capolis. This t it;.-'!" riser. 365
feet abow tl:t ;Tf-r. '. '. - '!:
is located m lif to) t-ii'n.. ivied ui'y
wn liiin
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U U U KJJ UJb-AUY
A Nervous Disease Characterized by
Involuntary and Purpose
less Spasms.
It Occurs Most often in Girls ; is Often Hereditary,
but Articular Rheumatism and Scarlet
Fever Predispose to it.
From the Chronielt, Chieago, 111.
Notwithstanding the poor re always with
tlx, Tlinnkagiving ii none the 1pm s day of
rejoicing. Many charities have been (lis
penwd and through numerous inatrumeiit
Hlitifd the nrcpssltius and sufferings of many
worthy person hnve boon relieved. Absent
monitors of houwhoUU reunite at the old
homestead and gathered nrnund the festal
board recount the Incident that have taken
place and the various Mewing that have
been vouchsafed them, since they assembled at
the luNt annual meeting by the same fireside.
It is a time for memory and for joy. Among
the countless families of Chicago there is
perhaps, not one to-day tlmt feels a deeper
sense of gratitude to the Giver of all good
and perfect gilta than Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Collier, of 41HM Armour Avenue.
Mr. Collier, who is the electrician at the
Chicago and Rock Island Railroad shops in
this city came here from Hamilton, Canada,
a little more than nine years ago accom
panied by his wife anil little daughter, their
only child Ktta, then aged four. Little Etta
was a bright anil beautiful girl, but not a
very robust one.
For the last few years she had been some.
what ailing, hut her condition was not such
as to create any uneasiness in the minds of
her parents, who almost idolized her. In
the school she was regarded as one of the
brightest scholars of her class and waa the
envy of her claw-mutes. Although but a
little over twelve years of age, her intellect
was phenomenal. Mie was possessed, how
ever, of a very nervous temperament which
is fieiiuoiitly the case with children of her
advanced intelligence. Early in the month
of June last, owing to a sudden fright, she
was thrown into violent spasms, to recover
only to he Htllieteu with SM. Una' dance in
the worst form. The consternation of her
pnrents may well be imagined.
Of course the best physicians were sum
moned at once but their efforts to restore her
to her normal condition were devoid of re
sults. She continued to grow worse, her
appetite wholly failed and commencing with
her right arm her whole right side and lower
limb became limp, numb, and useless and
whut liUie nourishment she was able to take
had to be administered by others. To add
to the seriousness of the case she was unable
to obtain liny sleep whatever.
It was while in this deplorable condition
hovering between life and death with all
the prospects of a premature grave before
her, that one day on returning home from
his duties Mr. Collier found awaiting him a
newspaper, which an old acquaintance in
Hamilton, his former place of residence, had
sent to him by mail.
In the lo"iil columns he read of the ease
of a certain person he had known years be
fore having Deen permanently cured of the
complaint of which his own daughter was
now sum-ring, by the use of Dr. Williams'
Pink Tills for I'ale People. He had often
heard and read before marvellous accounts
of the efficacy of this remedy but as no
names with which he was personally familiar
appeared, he not only doubted hut positively
disbelieved the statements, Hut here before
his eyes was apparent evidence from one he
knew. He therefore lost no time in mak
ing assurance doubly sure and as soon as he
learned that the story was ubsoliitely true,
he lost no time in procuring the Pink Pills
for his suffering daughter. This was on the
1'ith of Scptcmlier. Prior to this date and
after consulting doctors of different schools
of medicine, he had takeu her to the Home
opathic Dispensary where her ease was dis
cussed by all the members of the faculty
who unanimously declared in the presence
by the belfry, in which hangs the
peal of ten bells. This clock has four
faces, each dial being 23 feet 4 inches
in diameter. The minute hands, which
are broad pieces of wood sheathed in
copper, are each 1 1 feet 8 inches in
length.
In Germany and Austria the cafes
have a function called "zahlbellner."
or "pay waiter," whose duty it is to
collect all charges. He receives all
tips, and the waiter who serves gets
his share in the distribution. "I have
tipped these men," says a traveler,
"and seen them go straight off to the
zahlkellner and give him the money.
Noiie of them would think of keeping
it for himself, for he knows that an
honest accounting from every waiter
will bring up the whole to a higher
rtgure. 1 have seen the waiters in
Southern Germany go up to the silver
urn on the cashier's desk and drop
their fees in there to be distributed
equally among the lot afterward."
A Tampa, Fla., dispatch says :
"This city is probably the most im
portant centre of clear Havana cigars
in this country, and the largest colony
of Cubans outside of the island is
located here. The contributions to
the Cuban revolutionary fund from
here have been an important factor
in the success of the patriots thus far,
There are now in Tampa, including
bonded warehouses that have been
put into use without having yet been
put in bond and in the factory store
rooms about 25,000 bales, and there
are 10,000 more in Havana that will
be allowed to be exported under the
extension of the order.
HARPER'S WEEKLY-
The in:;ta'.iiiciits of Mr. Howell's
serial story, "The Landlord at Lion's
Ile.iu," will be a feature of distinction
in JLirfcSs 11 cK!y during the present
I monH- Tlp JVniorratic Convention
at Cl.'i-.v..i will be fully dismissed, and
inivfn i 1 :'. u. ..!ts on the War in Cuba
nir.y I evj i 'M
rnTtr?s
of the elans that there wm no longer any
hope to lie held out as it was a malady which
in this instance at less) was incurable. It
was therefore with a feeling of utter despair
that Mrs. Collier first began to administer
the Pink Pills.
She says a perceptible change came over
the little one before even the second box had
been emptied and how after having used six
boxes her health is entirely restored. In the
early part of her illness her intellect was
very much clouded. She had become ex
tremely dull of comprehension hardly real
ising the meaning or words when addressed.
Seen to-day in the cheerful home of the Col
lier's on Armour Avenue, she is the person
ification ot health. Her nervousness has en
tirely disappeared, her intellect is bright,
keen and active, her strength has returned
and the roses in her cheeks attest to the com
plete recovery of her bodily health.
She is now ready to resume her music les
sons and as soon as the schools open after
the holidays she will again take up the
studies which Bhe so suddenly left off im that
eventful June day, The sister-in-law of
Mrs. Collier, Mrs. Lewis, who was present
at the interview emphatically confirmed all
tlmt Mm Collier has said regarding the past
and present condition of little Etta, adding
that a famous physician in Hamilton in
variably recommends Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills iu such cases as this and many others.
Mrs. Collier herself has for a number of
years been a constant sufferer from a female
complaint which so far has baftled the skill
of the doctors, and during a period of less
than six months her husband bos expended
over two hundred dollars in fees for medi
cines. She has now begun the use of Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills and while it is as yet
too early to announce a cure in her cn.se. she
feels so much improved as to express the be
lief that her phyieal troubles will shortly
be of the past. These are some of the rea
sons why the Collier family return thanks
on this our national day of praise and
festivity.
The nhove is a correct afatement of facts
concerning my little daughter and myself.
Mrs. A. Collier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
2nd day of December, 1835.
DanOrkknr,
Xo(ary J Si Mie.
Dr. Williams' Pink Tills for Pule People
have an enormous sale. An analysis of
their properties shows that they contain, in
a condensed form, all the elements necessary
to save new life and richness to the blood
andrestore shattered nerves. They are an
unfailing specific for such diseases as loco
motor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus'
dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nerv
ous headache, the after effect of la grippe,
palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow
complexions, that tired feeling resulting
from nervous prostration; all diseases re
sulting from vitiated humors in the blood,
such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc.
They are also a specific for troubles peculiar
to females, such as suppressions, irregulari
ties and all forms of weakness. They build
up the blood, and restore the iriow of henlth
to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they
effect a radical cure in all cases arising from
mental worry, overwork or excesses of what
ever nature. There are no ill effects follow
ing the use of this wonderful medicine, and it
can be given to children with perfect safety.
1 nese inns are mnnuiuciurea Dy the Dr.
Williams1 Medicine Company. Schenectady,
N. Y., and are sold only in boxes bearing
the firm's trude mark and wrapper, at 30
cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and are
never sold in bulk. They mav be hod of
all druggists or direct by mail from Dr.
Williams' Medicine Company. The price at
which these pills are sold makes a
treatment inexpensive as compared with other
remedies.
HARPER'S MAGAZINE.
The August number of Harper's
will contain the first part of a new
serial story by Mark Twain, entitled
"Tom Sawyer, Detective" ; a paper
on "The White Mr. Longfellow," by
W. D. Howells j "Stuart's Lansdowne
Portrait of Washington," by Charles
Henry Hartj "Peeps into Barbary,
by J. E. Budgett Meakin, formerly
editor of the Times of Morocco ; "The
Strange Days that Came to Jimmy
Friday," by Frederic Remington;
"Doorstep Neighbors," by William
Hamilton Gibson ; the second part of
Langdon Elwyn Mitchell's "Two
Mormons from Muddlety" "Postes
et Telegraphes," by Quesnay de
Beaurepaire ; "Her Prerogative," by
E. A. Alexander ; "Miss Maria's
Revival," by Sarah Barnwell Elliott ;
"The Mayor's Lamps," by John Ken
drick Bangs; "The Wreck of the
Columbia," by Professor Simon New
comb ; "The Silent Voice," a poem
by Lawrence Alma-Tadema ; short
poems by Archibald Lampman and
Arthur Sherburne Hardy, and the
regular editorial departments.
"For five weeks I lived on cold
water, so to speak," writes a man who
suffered terribly from indigestion.
He could hardly keep anything on
his stomach. What stayed, wasn't
properly digested and gave him ter
rible pangs.
This is not an uncommon case.
Dyspeptics don't get enough nourish
ment. They are generally thin and
weak.
They may eat enough, but they
don't digest enough. Much of what
they eat turns into poison. If this
keeps on there's no telling what
disease they may get next.
That's why it is best to take Shaker
Digestive Cordial, as soon as symptoms
pf indigestion apqear.
It cures all the evih of in.'ii ;tiop.
and prevents the evils which indiges
tion causes.
Sold by druggists, price 10 cents to
$1.00 per bottle.
HINTS FOR SPRING! C00KER7.
SogfcttloDS for Modifying the Family
Menu to Salt Chungs of Season.
Lagging spring appetites tire most
easily tempted by a dainty salad. No
menu la complete without the Introduc
tion of a light salad of lettuce, cress,
dandelions or some other of the many
green stuffs that are making tlx
markets so attractive. For a salad ot
this sort the plain dressing Is prefer
able, and Is prepared in the following
simple way:
Mix one saltspoonful of salt and one
fourth this quantity of freshly ground
pepper. Add three tablespoonfuls ol
oil and carefully stir In one tablespoon,
ful of vinegar. No other Ingredients
are necessary.
For a vegetable or meat salad mayon
naise dressing Is required. Here Is the
most approved recipe:
leat to a smooth consistency in an
absolutely cold bowl the yolks of two
raw eggs. Add two saltspoonfuls of
salt, one of white pepper, one of mus
tard, and a tableepoonful of oil. Beat
up thoroughly, and by degrees add half
a pint of oil. Two tablespoonfuls of
vinegar are to be used, and should be
added at intervals, a few drops at a
time. When properly mixed and beaten
the finished mayonnaise is stiff and
velvety.
For meat and heavier foods It Is of
ten desirable to substitute fish. Broil
ed fish Is a particularly palatable dish
that Is often, however, ruined by In
competent cooking. Much depends up
on the length of time that the fish Is
exposed to the Are. Bhad an Inch thick
should be cooked twelve minutes with
a good Are, while a fish two inches
thick should be cooked twenty minutes.
Season the fish with salt and pepper
before cooking, and for a sauce use a
mixture of sweet butter, salt, pepper,
ft little lemon Juice and chopped pars
ley. The fish should be served very
hot.
Strawberry shortcake Is not slow to
suggest itself after the berries have
once become well rstabllehed In Uie
market. Notwithstanding Its popular
ity, however, there are a great many
cooks who have altogether wrong ideas
in regard to the preparation of this
dish. To make a good shortcake sift
together half a pound of flour, a coffee
spconful each of salt and of sugar and
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
Knead Into this a quarter of a pound
of cold washed butter, and after adding
two gills of cold boiled milk, mix quick
ly with a knife. Flour the mixture,
toss with a knife, roll to half un Inch
thickness and bake. When done place
strawberries between the two layers of
the shortcake, dredge with fine sugar
and put another layer of strawberries
on top. Cream, plain or whipped, may
be added. New York World.
The Bloomer Concjnered.
New Tork sets the fashion In bicycle
costumes, and the New York woman
has decided that the bloomer will not
do. The divided skirt, as Illustrated
herewith, is now comdng Into general
use. The bloomer Is disappearing. The
divided skirt is both modest and sensl-
rr A Model Bicycle Costume.
Lie. and It has the advantaire of add.
ing to rather than detracting from the
graceiuiness or a pretty woman. It
seems to combine more nolnta of n
rational costume than any other yet hit
upon.
Guessing Flowers.
'A pleasant variation in an evening
of games Is the drawing of flowers with
colored crayons, and then having your
guests guess the names of the flowers.
A list of flowers should be made out,
each one with a number. On separate
slips of paper write the name of one of
the flowers with its corresponding num
ber, until you have used each one on
the list. Give each guest one of the
slips, or have a draw for them, and
provide them with crayons and sheets
of paper. Give fifteen minutes for the
making of the flowers, then collect the
drawings and pin them up about the
room. As the names of the flowers are
read from the list guesses are given as
to which flower among the drawings
represents it. Another pleasant game
la called matching quotations. Well
known lines are written on slips of
paper and then divided Into bits, each
part having three or four words. These
fragments are pinned about the room
on furniture, curtains and hangings,
and each person takes one and starts
out to And the other parts that will
make the quotation complete. Some
times the quotations may consist of an
entire line, with the second line form
ing the other half to be looked for.
Philadelphia Times.
it:
Nature's Sweet Restorer.
Lady Londonderry attributes her
youthful freshness to the practice of
spending one out of every ten days in
bed. She sleeps until she wakes natur
ally, takes a warm bath and goes back
again, where she partages of a light
breakfast, remaining in bed resting
while her maid reads a light novel, un
til 6 o'clock. She then puts on a light
robe and has her dinner served In her
room, and reclines on the sofa until 10
o'clock. Bhe will not allow anything to
interfere with this programme. A
prominent business woman in Chicago,
famed for her good looks and an au
thority nn the core of the complexion,
staled to a fiiend that from Ba-lurday
night until Monday morning she re
mained In bed, resting quietly, advising
it ns the only "treatment to k-p one's
brain, nerves and strength in good
.worLliifc order.
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The best reason
some things sell so
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1 crreat sales of "BATTLE AX."
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Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association.
Edward B. Harper, Founder. Frederick A. Eurr.han, President.
FIFTEEN YEAR? COMPLETED
ANNUAL MEETING AND REPOHT.
Th3 Largest and Strongest Hm him Lib kmm C::-
i ifl World-
69,000,000 of New nuftlneftn in 1895.
$.108,660,000 of Hiihiiivhh In Force,
C4.H ,o73 ot Dentil Claim paid In 1895.
9S,ooo,ooo of Death ClaiitiM paid tiuce IlusliieNSbeUU.
I89S SHOWS A IS I NCR R A SI? IIS nitOSN AHAETH,
ATS ITNCttKAHi; IN MKT (41RP1.1S,
AJS INtKICAWK IIS I7SCOM1C,
ATS INCHKAHK IX Ht'MIISlCMS IIS FOHCF,
OVKR 105.800 SltMUlUlH I.NTi:Hi;(tl l.U.
The Annual Meeting of the Mutual Reserve Fund Lile
Association was held in the Association's Building, cormi
Broadway &Duaue St., New York City, on Wednesday, Jan
uary 22nd, and was attended by a large and representative
gathering of policy holders who listened with keen interest to
the masterly Annual Report of President Burnham.
Many policy holders evidently regarded this as a favorable
opportunity to meet face to face the new chief executive officer
of the Association, President Frederick A. Burnham, the man
whose PraSD flf Ufa insnrancp -wlirtoo t'fion ovQinliim oln'li'tiT onrl
strong individuality have enabled him to take up the work laid
vv.Mia iu uuiu kj mo luuuuci ui 1111 jusui uiiun, uie mie .on
ward B. Harper, and make of the administration of his office of
President, not an echo
piece of finished work, characteristic of a man of independent
views, ami wormy 10 ioiiow me worK which had earned me
Association to a position never attained in the same length 01
time by any life insurance organization in the world. It U
rare, indeed, that a great institution like this passes, without
check to its prosperity, through a change in the executive chief,
for it is rare indeed that a chief like tlm Info Mr Hnnw finds
so able a successor as President
The record of the year 1895 speaks for itself, 'and shows the
following gratifying results;
The GROSS ASSETS have increased during the year
from $5,53G,115.99 to $5,GG1,707,82.
The NET SURPLUS over liabilities shows a NET GAIN
for the year of $300,329.43, and now amounts to $3,582,509.32.
The INCOME from all sources shows a gain for the vear
of $G31,5 11.97, and amounts to $5,575,281.50.
DEATH CLAIMS to the amount of $1,084,074.92 were
paid durintr the
$1,013,500.91.
The BUSINESS IN FORCE shows a gain for the year
of $15,293,205, and now amounts to $308,659,371.
Counting three hundred working days in the year the
daily average income for 1895 is 18,584.27; the daily average
payments for death claims, $13,652.25, and the daily avmge
gain in business in force within a fraction of $51,000.
eSn,"cinfi,'?,T,n,c. an aBency or a"y "'her information concerning Vhe . l'
TUAL RLSLRVL FUND LIKE ASSOCIATION may apply to
B. B. &WBWIQ, Snpt,,
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The Pot Called the Kettle Black
Because the Housewife
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