G THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. AN ELEPHANT'S FOOT. Th Clrcnmfprrnre rrnreit to llo Nearly Hnir the Animal- llrlcht. Any one who has even glnnecd nt Ut foot of an elephant must be awart that It Ib a pondorous piece of anatomy, but Us actual size la best Illustrated by an anecdote. Two men In the Central Pnrk Zoo 01 New York were speaking on tlila sub ject, and one of them thought the cir cumference of the foot must measure at least four feet. Ills friend laughed at this, but the younger man, after a second ttmo guag tec the size, instated that his guess was correct. "Nonsense Quite Impossible!" ex claimed his friend. And then, as the younger man still claimed that he was right, they lnld n wager and referred the matter to the keeper. "What la the circumference of the fore foot of that big elephant?" they aaked. "The circumference of an elephant's foot Is very nearly half the animal's Height," replied the keeper. "Will you be so good as to measure It?" asked the Amazed visitor. And the keeper got a long cord and went in beside the monster. Dazzle, who stands eight feut, five Inches in height. "Of course I measure while the ani mal is standing squarely on all fours," he said. "If I were to take the foot up from the floor, It would not be quite so large; a small part of that size Is caused by the spreading out of the soft matter of the foot by the pressure 'ci the animal's own weight." He drew the cord around tho monstei loot, held it up, and measured it with a tape line. The figures showed four feet, two Inches. The man who had lost the bet paid It, with the remark that he did not think he was paying too dearly for that cu rious bit of knowledge. Golden Days, EFFACED THE MOON. A Mary Which Many rmnii trill ISollcve Quit Chract-rN(lo. The story told about President Lin coln obtaining the dismissal of a client who was under arrest for burglary, and in danger of conviction because the prosecuting witness said he identi fied him in the moonlight, by produc ing an almanac to prove the moon did not shine that night, was not the first time the Idea was worked to perfec tion. John Phllpot Ctirran, the famous lawyer, had a client who was Identified under the same elrcumstanrps. The prosecuting witness saw the prisoner leaving a house that had Just been en tered by burglars on a moonlight night. Curran produced 13 almanacs, 12 of which he handed to the jury and one to the judge. The almanacs stow ed the moon was not visible on the night in question. The prisoner was dismissed. After the trial Curran's client asked what his fee was. ' "Twenty pounds," said the attorney. "Isn't that pretty steep?" queried the client. "No," said Curran. "I get only 2 of that; the other 18 goes to the fet fol I got to print those almanacs with the moon left out." Chicago Journal. POISONED BY SWALLOWING SPIDERS MioUtcr Ttlod from the KflVcU of Ono Concealed In HI Food. Some remarkable cases of Internal poisoning from the bites of spiders, ac cidentally swallowed, have been re ported recently in Kentucky. A Meth odist minister, the Rev. Silas Spurrier, swallowed a small spider which had been concealed in an apple dumpling. The inflammation from tho bites of the concealed enemy rapidly Increased and the patient died before relief could be given. The case has attracted es pecial attention from the rumor that a woman had purposely placed the spider In the dumpling. When investigations were made it was found that the per son suspected had left the country. A woman In Frankfort named Mrs. Par die also swallowed a black water spider by accident recently. The poison from the bites spread Itself through her sys tem until her head and face were badly swollen. She finally recovered. New York Tribune. Tho President' Flair.. - It has been the custom for many years to denote the Fresidant'a pres ence in the city by flying from the White House the American flag. When the President was out of the city the flag was taken down. The President's own flag Is never used except when he goes on board a naval vessel. The President's flag Is about the size of the regulation ensign. The body of the flag Is blue. In the centre is an eagle, exactly like that on a half dollar. The eagle Is embroidered in white. The arrows and olive branch are worked in similar material, and the stars are arranged above the bird. The shield on the breast .of the eagle is worked In red, thus giving the national colors red, white, and blue and forming a beautiful flag. St Louis Globe Jour nal. He Va Exomcrt. "You wish to be relieved from Jury duty," said a Judgo quoted by "The Green Bag," "but you haven't given a good reason." "It la to save money for the people," replied the unwilling talesman. "I have dyspepsia, Judge, and I never agree with anybody. If l go on this Jury there will be a dis agreement, and tho county will have to go to the expenEe of a new trial." "Excused,"' said the Judge. Rusty Hardup Yes, Wllllo, we're both just like bakers. Willy Notaccut. How bo, Rusty? Rusty Haidtin V.'o need doug'i. BeeT SHE WAS A BARRED BIRD Auntie Plymouth Rock Look here sonny, didn't you say I waa debarred from the chicken show? Joshaway Nit. I merely said . didn't see how you could enter, be cause you are barred. AT THE DEBATING CLUB. Mrs. Blacklock Which of dem is dt nighties In yo' opinion, Mistah Cuttal -de pon or de swode? Mr. Cuttah Well, In de fust place I'se nevah been in de pen, an' in d secon' place, I don't fink de swode i. in it wif a razzah. New York Herald SAYS NOTHING. BUT SAWS WOOD "John, what do you think of the elec tlon?" "Colla cuffee, two cent; shirtee, ten cent." A DESERVING DIPLOMAT. Fly Flannigan Will yer help a re- dooced gentleman dat's out at de knees, lady? Lady How came you to be out al the knees? F. F. Pray In' fer work, lady. WOULDN'T BE MJSSED. Mr. Skinner Spare me, as I have a wife and six children rft home to feed Cannibal Say, you wouldn't male much of a meal for such a large family I guess they'll not miss you. New York Herald. A REASONABLE REASON. Deacon Griffin Why was It dat j didn't see you at Sunday school yester day, Joseph Jackson? Joseph JdcUson I reckon 'twas bo cause I wasn't Uere, sah. New YorS Herald. i I i I -mm n I hiwlvipi I ' t TOy- ' Mil ill' N - HOODOO ENGINES. Strange Stnrlo Totd by tlm Men In the tllinoln Central Simp. Every engine that comes for repairs to the great shops of the Illinois Cen tral at Hurnslde has story of inter est to tell. SomeUmes the engine Is an old "lun ker" that looks as If it might have served ns ballast for Noah's ark, and Us recital of Injuries may be the com monplace relation of a pig ou the track and a bumping over tics to the dam age of frame and rivets. Again, it may bo the shapeless remains of what once pulled the finest vestlbuled ex press on the roud, and Its story may la mutely, but not the less graphically told on the footboard by tho stain that was once the blood of the brave engi neer or fireman. "Few engines as well as few engi neers serve very long on the road with out going through an accident," said a man who had worked his way through various positions to one of the most responsible posits in the great shop. "Some of the engines come In here as wrecka any number of times. I guoes there is no fabrication about the stories one hears of hoodooed en gines. There are a few on every road. They ciuko more losses of pay and position among the engineers than all (he rest of the rolling stock. Including hand cars. They seem infected with evil spirits. They will start backward or forward when there Is nobody near the throttle, or so I have heard repu table engineers swear with tears In their eyes. Of course, the company doesn't believe it. and the engineer, il ho has not already lost an arm or a leg. loses a few weeks' pay or his po sition In consequence of something which he could not help. These hoo doo engines cut st range capers when they break loose. If they can't man age to knock the underpinning out from a viaduct or bridge they will turn three or four somersaults into a creek Instead of smashing things in an or dlnary way. They generally damage themselves very little and we have to keep patching them up and sending thorn out time and time again. It they would only destroy themselves all the engineers would be glad. "Other engines only come to the shop once, but then they come to stay. I remember one engine that had gone a remarkably, long time without a emashup of any kind. It was run by ono of the oldest engineers on the road. He was cboi:t sixty-eight year via aua naa speni most or Ills Ufo as an engineer, yet he had never been In a wreck. One day. Just before he pulled out. he said to the boya that It would be his last run. ns he was going to retire from the road the next dav and spend the remainder of his life in peace and comfort. He spoke truly In part for it was his last run. He was going fifty miles an hour when he met a freight coming head on. The engi neer was instantly Killed and there was not much more than enough of mm engine lert to make a good sized fish sinker. It was the first accident and tho last run for both the engine and Its driver." Chicago Times-Her- uu. WlrnloM F.lcili iclty. The theory that electrlcty can be sent from one given point to another given point through air, wood, brick. stone, etc., without the UGe of a wire, has been practically demonstrated in a l'Uiiadelphla physician's laboratory Houston & Kennelly, consulting engln. eers. have a private laboratory at Forty-first street ad Elm avenue. In that ci;y. where they, singly and to gether, solve all the physical problems it the day, which have been announced ns solved abroad; and also do a vast deal of experimental work in a ori inal manner, and on their own account their laboratory U a building several stories in height, and they have been able to send an effective wave of elec tric energy from a battery In the cellar, let us say, though several floors to the garret without using any wire. This achievement has been demonstrated by the fact that a concentrated local elec tric disturbance occurs in the garret, following the generation of the force in the cellar. This disturbance In the gar ret may consist of firing a pistol, rlng ng a bell or receiving a telegraph mess age there In tho shape of the usual signals applied In the Morso alphabet. In an Interview Dr. Kennelly said: "We have confined our experiments to the limits of one building, the centre from which the experiments have been made toeing our laboratory, but in a short time we will try experiments to other distances. We have no doubt whatever that Marionl's system is aa operative system. The only question is how far such messages can be sent. The discovery is still In Its infancy, but I believe when completed It will revolutionize present day message dis patching and prove of Inestimable val ue to the general community." The Canary llird Trade. For more than a century the breed ing of canaries has been a thriving Industry in parts of Germay. In 1850 the German dealers began to ship the birds to New York, and then to South America and Australia. The profits are small, but the industry is a godsend to the poor, who make the small wood en cages. It Is estimated that about two hundred and fifty thousand canary birds are raised every year In Germany. The most Important market is the United States which takes about one hundred thousand birds per annum. When the birds are shipped to this country they are always accompanied by an attendant. Ou the return voyge these attedats take American birds and animals to Europe. Yluliling to Time. The Pall Mall Gazette asserts that "when an Inquisitive Investigator climb ed up the scaffoldings whioh have been erected for the purpose of repatring the Parthenon, the other day, he dis covered that, while the outside of the structure is of the finest Pentelllc mar ble, the material behind the external layer, which, of course, was never in tended to meet the public eye, Is of a echistlc nature, and has yielded to the ravages of time Biifilciently to destroy the beauty of the masterpiece of Phi dlea. In fact, the softer stone behind the beautiful marble has simply crum bled and brought down tha outside layers with it. Undo Bam pays plumbers $5 a day at 'Frlaco. The food Governor, Governor Hastings gave very good advice lo the delegates to the Granges, when he told them that they had "better rise in their might and drive from place and power those who mis represent you and your interests." One question that arises is who the parties in power are whom the gov ernor wants driven from power. The governor is in power himself, or is supposed lo be, as governor of Penn sylvania. He can hardly, however, be supposed to be asking that he shall be driven from power. For if this is his wish he can have his wish by re signing his office. It may be assumed, then, that the governor means to say that he is not in power, though governor and that the governor's office at present is ornamental rather than influential ; and that the rascals rule, without mind ing him that the Legislature spends money without asking him ; that the state capitol is being planned without consulting him j that generally he is out and some other fellows are in, whom the governor wants to be put out. The facts sustain in some degree the fcovemor's contention as to his powerlessness. He was undoubtedly beaten in the matter of the plans for the new capitol ; and he intimates that whereas he would have built the capitol for the $500,000 appropriated, the other fellows, who are managing the business, propose to spend "mill ions on millions" in "a subjerfuge or delusion which will "enrich some favorite architect or building con tractor;' and which millions the far mers will have to provide out of their wheat and corn, their oats and potatoes. But the governor does not explain how he was going to build the new capitol for $500,000 when the plans he chose were estimated to cost more than that, in t! e building. Nor does he explain that the farmer's grain is not taxed for state purposes, unless in a very indirect way, but the corpora tions of the state pay tlie piper. Still the governor is right enougl in saying that the people ultimate'y pay for t heir music in some wjy or other ; and he may be right in char. ing that the new capitol plans ure going 111 the end to be very costly. it win oe proiitauie tor the gov ernor to explain, however, clearly how his would . have been much cheaper and how architects and builders wouU have made but small profit off them, to be contributed by the farmer's corn. The people at present do not seem to see this matter just as the governor docs, or tells them that he does. And they may ask the governor, since these extravagant rascals whom he denounces are the fellows in the Legislature and their bosses out of it j and since these fellows and their bosses are said bv him to be the real power in the state ; and since we have just had an election in which the Republican party was Bhown to be the party in power ; and as the candi dates ol its bosses were elected not withstanding the revolt against them of many voters who voted tor Swallow and Thompson for state treasurer in stead of Be'.com ; they may fairly ask him, we say, in view of these things and of his protestations against the .ruling thieves, whom did you vote for governor, yourself? For Swallow or Thompson or Beacom ? Certainly it will clearly appear to every unprejudiced mind that if Gov emor Hastings asks the farmers to drive Quay and Quay's lieutenants and legislators and candidates out of the offices of power in the state, be cause of their extravagance and rascality, he could not consistently have voted for one of these fellows for state treasurer. As the governor seems to get squarely on Swallow's platform and gives from it Swallow's advice to the voters, did he vote for him ? It will be an interesting incident if he did showing as well his present honesty of declaration as his magnani mity of action. For Dr. Swallow has been firing away diligently at the governor, charging him with being as deep in the mud as the other fellows in his party are in the mire, in the matter of state spoliation. If the governor tan assure the doctor that he means what he says and that he is as ardent as anyone in the desire to drive the rascals out of the state offices wet may look to see them embrace and buckle down to a joint effort with the farmers and honest voters of the state, to put honest men in its offices. Lancaster Intelligencer. In Heart Disease it Works Like Magic. "For years my greatest enemy was organic heart disease. From uneasiness and palpitation it developed into abnormal action, thumping, fluttering and choking sensations. Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart gave instant relief, and the bad symptoms have entirely disappeared. It is a wonder-worker, for my case was chronic." Rev. L. S. Dana, Pittsburg, Pa. 37. Sold by C. A. Kleim. ; "A perfect type 01 tn nigneT Walter tt wlm MfcAIVrAM LULU A It Absolutely Pure Delicious Nutritious. Costs Less than One Cent a Cup. 1. Ti ,78o. He 'ir ttint you grt the genuine article, made at WALTER , www wwww ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO. DEALERS IN Cigars, Tolacco. Candies, Fruits and Nuts SOLE AGENTS FOR Henry Mail lard's Fine Candies. Fresh Every Week. GOOD3 J SrECIALTT, SOLE AGENTS FOR F. F. Adams & Co's Fine Bole agents for the Honry Clay, Londros, Normal, Indian Princess, Samscn, Silver Ash Bloomsburg Pa. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF CARPET, MLATTI1VG, or OIL CLOTH, YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT W. M. BBOWEE'S 2nd Door above Court IIouc. A large lot of Window Curtains in stock. Colder Weather a Help to Hetail Traij. Next Year Expected By Business Men To Bo Butler Than 1 his Ono, R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says : All markets and all industries are working toward the period of Thanks giving, of stock taking and of holi days. Colder weather has done much to accelerate retail trade, so greatly delayed in many lines by unusually mild and open weather. The pro ducing force increases on the whole, and many manufacturers are unable to take all the orders ottered, while others are committed as far ahead as. they are willing to be. The output in several great indus tries is considerably the largest ever known and confidence in yet greater business next year is unabated. Hesi tation in speculative markets is in part because an immense capital has been turned from them to investment in productive enterprises. Wheat has advanced a cent during the week, and small fluctuations have been due to reports about Argentina rather than to the heaviest exports ever known. Iron products have changed but slightly in price, with wire nails a shade lower, and the consumption of pig is the largest ever known. There is less activity in bars at the east, but a healthy demand at the west for manufacturing, car building and other uses, and rails are in larger demand there, while some eastern works have recently taken orders for months ahead. ' The woolen market is embarrassed by the delay of winter weather, which retards orders from clothiers, although most works have enough work for some time, and though cold weather would quickly bring a change, prices of wool are so high that some mills have stopped part of their looms. Cases are mentioned of mills which could realize a profit of $200,000 to $300,000 by selling the wool they hold, but can expect none by manu facturing at current prices. Spain was going to have Cuba finished off by the spring of 1897. Then Veler promised sure the job should be done by this fall. When the Conservative cabinet resigned and gave place to the Sagasta regime, a Liberal general predicted that the war would be over in seven months. That would take it till the beginning of another hot season in Cuba, when no man can fight. Now comes Ramon Blanco, the new captain general, and says, ,lI cannot fix any time for the duration of the war. There is a Class of People Who are injured by tho use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it with out distrebs, and but few can tell it from colLe. It does not cost over J as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15c and 25c per pack age. Try it. Ask for GRAIN O. uii-4td nrnrr or rxcMirnce in mnfactnr " f baker x Uvs H DORCHESTHR, MASS.K By.. it BAKER & CO. Ltd. Cut Chewing Tobacco following brands of Clears- Humbugging the Euralist. All people enjoy being humbugged, apparently I lie hard headed, practical farmer better than anybody else. He likes to hear of extraordinary new vegetable growths that will make him a fortune in a year or two without any more culture than planting the seeil He might know from his common sense, however, that when the story of some new plant or grain reads' like a fairy tale it is a humbug. Such stories originate in two ways. In the one case they emanate from the brain of the space writer for the newspaper, a person who will concoct any lie, however impossible, for the sake of Setting his $3 or $5 a column. In the other case the fake story conies from unscrupulous seedsmen and seed agents who want to trap the agricultu rist into buying their stuff. Little they care whether the thing grows at all or if it does grow whether it may not be a noxious weed that will be a pest to the universe. It is a pity that among so many honest and worthy seedsmen there are some of that kind. One of the fake stories that went the rounds was about the fortunes to be made in chili peppers. Another told of the extraordinary virtues of a Russian weed called by some saghalien. Then there is the Idaho pea, no doubt ex tremely useful in its way, but it will not grow everywhere, and it will not do all that is claimed for it. Time after time the farmer has been trapped with machines, with chemical preparations and with plants only to find when his money has been spent that if one wishes to be successful there is nothing like pegging away at the work immediately under your nose, at the same time watching every opportunity of bettering yourself that comes your way. To give you an opportunity of test ing the great merit of Ely's Cream Balm, the most reliabie cure for ca tarrh and cold in the head, a generous 10 cent trial size can be had of your druggist or we mail it for 10 cents. Full size 50 cents. ELY BROS., 56 Warren St., N.V. City. It is the medicine above all others for catarrh, and is worth its weight in gold. I can use Ely's Cream Bhu with safety and it does all that is claimed for it. B. W. Sperry, Hart ford, Conn. Diamine Tour Fruit Trees- By an act of the legislature it is un lawful for any person to keep any tree infected with the contagious diseases known as yellows, black knot, peach rosette or peach blight, or to offer for sale or shipment or to sell or ship any of the fruit thereof, except the fruit of the plum, cherry and pear tree. Both trees and tAiit diseased are subject to destruction as public nuisance uptt complaint of any person. If the owner does not destroy the tree the authori ties of the town or township shall ap point three freeholders as commission ers to inquire and condemn, and the expense charged to the borough or township, which may be recovereJ from the owner of the tree condemned. t
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