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[* She's np to date and strictly new,
And yet she's not aflnme with zeal. vS
Sbe wear* Ho hkirl (bat's btm vu in twot
She 1B not skilled to ride a wheel.
Her sex's wrongs alio does not fool. *
No publio scheme her thoughts pursue*
And yet, the fact 1 can't conceal,
bile's very now.
Her soul's ldcnls arc scant and few.
Yet not by man is she controlled,
And, thongh her eyes are deeply blue.
No occult force her glances hold.
-She cares not for the days of old,
Nor docs the future charm her view.
She does not work for fame or gold.
And yet she's new.
All homage at her shrine in due.
Her claim 110 mortal dares to scorn.
Bhe from the infinite takes her cue.
She's fresh as earth's primeval morn.
Bhe faces life with powers unworn,
For, now to prove my statements true,
It's scarce ono moon sinco she wus born.
You see, she's new!
—Marion Couthony Smith in New York Sun.
A YOUTHFUL EXEGETE.
His Interpretation of the Scriptures Was
Not Orthodox.
Strange are the workings of the in-
Jhnt mind. The little son of a well
known naval officer stationed here has
advanced a new version of an old text.
The wife's mother, who makes her
home with her daughter, is of tho old
school, a dear creature, with puffs and
caps, who reads her Bible from prefer
ence. It is a custom for her to teach her
little grandson every day a vorse from
Rul on Saturday of last week
er the Sabbath day to keep
had unusual difficulty in
tho verso, but, once mas
ust have settled deep into
;est biain cell possessed by
orning the youngster come,
3 and starched, from his
nurse's bauds and was deposited on the
front porch until tho family assembled
for church. Emerging at tho last mo
ment, the mother was horrified at the
sight of Ijpr small offspring seated upon
tho terrace, digging with all his might
into the moist ground.
"Baby, baby, come here this minute.
Don't you know it is naughty to play
on Sunday and get yourself all dirt?"
cried tho mother.
The little fellow looked up with a
puzzled air and made answer, "Why,
njuvyer,. dear, I is digging holes for
Sunday."
"Digging holes for Sunday? What
nonsense! You had, bad little son," re
turned the mother, none too gently,
trying to rescue the once immaculate
suit.
"Now, muvver, dear, I did learn ve
verso from grandma, and it was 'Re
member ve Sabbath day to keep it
holy,' and lis only digging vo holes for
Sunday to make it holy, and I isn't a
bad 'ittle sou at all."
There was a suspicious trembling
about the mouth, but it is needless to
relate that the little philosopher was
caught in his mother's arms and kissed
before the cry doveloped and that ho
was given two plates of dessert for his
Sunday dinner, all because of his orig
inal theory.—Washington Star.
In Sir Walter Scott's Mail Hog.
k . Some letters from tho fair sex caused
Sir Walter Scott at least as much amuse
ment as annoyance. In his earlier years
"a mad woman from about Alnwick,"
by dint of letters and plans, first ex
tracted from him a guinea for a charity,
• then sent higi the manuscript of a curi
ous novel, which ho was to publish in
his own name, and of which he was to
take half tho profits. Finally, on his de
clining tho partnership, she suggested he
should take shares in a medicino for
babies, her own invention. Dread of
in "such a Horodlike
Scott to decline tho honor
ijOpTuture correspondence with the lady.
V On a March day in his futal year,
1820, Sir Walter answered two modest
requests from widow ladies. One of
these, presuming on a former slight ac
quaintance with his mother, desired
that he should impress on Peel, then
home secretary, tho merits of her second
son, whom he was to represent as "fit
for any situation in a public office."
The second lady, who had already po
rused "Marmion" and "The Lady of
the Lake," engaged, in return for a suit
able provision for her sou's education,
to read all her benefactor's other works.
After dealing with these letters, Scott
felt himself constrained to record his
conviction that "your destitute widow,
especially if she hath a churgo of chil
dren and one or two fit for patronage, is
ou! of the most impudent animals liv
ing. " —Temple Bar.
Reword of Literature.
Among the women writers of tho cap
ital there is one young matron whose
name is very well known. A few mouths
ago sho sent a short story to a magazine
which presented itself as an untried field.
By and by she received notification that
the story had been necopted and that in
payment thereof her name had been put
on the subscription list for one year.
The author immediately returned an
swer that the compensation was not ad
equate.
"Dear madam," tho ediLjr wrote
back, "yours of such a dattH-eceived.
We have put your name on tho subscrip
tion list for two copies each month."
And for fear that further correspond
ence would burden her with three cop
ies of the magazine sho was forced to bo
content with that.—Washington Post.
Cement Pipes.
Cement pipes are made cheaply by
an ingenious process dovised by a French
inventor. A trench is dug and the bot
tom filled with cement mortar. On thiß
is placed a rubber tube covered with
canvas and inflated. Tho trench is then
filled up with cement. As soon as this
is Bet the air is let out of the rubber
tube, which is then removed and used
again in another section. By this method
6 inch pipes have been made at a cost of
88 ante a yard.
I\ FAMOUS MULBERRY TREE.
Planted by Milton In Christ's College fiar
ri*ns, Cambridge.
liV the gardens of Christ's collego,
Cambridge, stands a venerable mulberry
tree, which, tradition says, was planted
by Milton during the time when he was
a student at the university. This would
be botwcon the years 1624 and 1083,
for the following copy, from the Latin
of bis entry of admission, accurately
fixes tho former dato, and his admission
to the degree of M. A., to which he pro
cceded in the latter year, ended his in
timate connection with tho university:
"John Milton, native of London, son
of John Milton, was initiated in the
elements of letters under Mr. Gill, mas
ter of St. Paul's school; was admitted
a lesser pensioner Feb. 12, 1624, under
Mr. Chappell and paid entrance fee,
10s." He was thon 16 years and 2
months old.
The treo so intimately associated
with his name is now much decayed,
but in order to presurvo it as muoh as
possiblo from the ravages of time many
of the branches have been covered with
sheet lead and are further supported by
stout wooden props, while the trunk has
been buried in a mound of earth. The
luxuriance of the foliage and tho crop
of fruit which it annually bears are
proof of its vitality, but to insure
against acoidents and perpetuate the
tree an offshoot has been planted close
by. In the event of a bough breukiug
and falling it is divided with even jus
tice among tho fellows of the college,
and many pieces are thus preserved as
momentos of tho poet. It was during
his residence at Cambridge that he com
posed his ode, "On the Morning of
Christ's Nativity." "Lyeidns," too, is
intimately connected with Milton's life
at tho university, since it was written
in memory of Edward King, his college
friend and contemporary, with whom
he doubtless shared the same rooms.
In those days students did not, as
now, occupy separate apartments, as
witness the original statutes of the col
lego, "In which chambers our wish is
that the fellows sleep two and two, but
the scholars four and four," in conse
quence of which a much closer intimacy
was formed among them than is now
possible. Dr. Johnson relates tlint Mil
ton was flogged at Cambridge, but tho
fact is doubtful, though there is reason
to suppose that he had differences with
tho authorities in tho earlier part of his
college career, since he was transferred
from his original tutor. This tree is
still pointod nut to visitors and was un
til recent years especially marked by a
bough of mistletoe growing upon it. —
Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper.
I*oct and Queen.
Dr. Max Muller relates that the late
queen of Holland frequently came to
England and was fond of meeting while
thero distinguished literary peoplo. On j
one occasion she lunched with Dean j
Stanley and asked him to invite several '
literary men, among whom were Tenny
son, Lord Houghton, Huxley and Max •
Muller himself.
Luncheon was ready, and everybody
had oome to the deanery except Tenny
son. Dean Stanley suggested that the
party should wait no longer, but the
queen refused to sit down before the
laureate's arrival. There was another
period of waiting, painfnl to all the
company.
Finally some one suggested that prob
ably Tennyson was "mooning about in
the cloistors somewhere." One was sent
to see, and tho poet was indeed found
thoro, apparently oblivious that any
thing was going on. He was brought in
and placed at the table next the queen
of the Netherlands.
The queen took the conversation into
her own hands and in particular tried
to draw Tennyson out. He wus not in
talking mood. She addressed him a
question.
"Yes, ma'am," ho answered.
Then thero wus another question.
"No, ma'am, "y came from Tennyson.
Again she asked his opinion about
something. Tho question was not sus
ceptiblo of answer by "Yes" or "No."
"Ma'am," said Tennyson after a
great effort, "there is a great deal to be
said on both sides of the quostion."
Presently he turnod and whispered to
Max Mullor, "I wishthoy had put some
of you talking fellows next to regiua."
Anglo-Saxon Common Sense.
I had occasion at Coolgardie to be
proscut at a public meetiug gathered to
protest strongly against the aotions of
tho Western Australian government
with regard to the mining population
and the insufficiency of its political rep
resentation. Several speakers held forth.
One declared that ho was neither demo
crat nor socialist, another that ho was
a democrat, but not a socialist; a third
at last professed himself a socialist.
Sometimes groans, sometimes applause,
underlined certain phrases, but in the
midst of these gold luiucrs, iu this town
but three years old, in spito of the re
laxing influence of a torrid heat, the
most perfect order reigned throughout.
Thanks were voted at the cud of the
meeting to all the speakers without
distinction of opinion, a motion of pro
test was adopted, and the crowd retired
iu tho greatest tranquillity. I thought,
not without shame, of the manner in
which meetings of this kind are often
conducted in France.—"Lcs Nonvellos
Societes Anglo-Saxoimes,'' Pierro Leroy-
Beaulien.
Naturallj Inferred.
"What's tho name of tho girl across
the street?"
"I've forgotten ber last namo, but I
know she is Maine somebody."
"Maim somebody! What an ideal
namo for a footballer's sweetheart!"—
Indianapolis Journal.
A Long Felt Want.
Bright—l'7e got an idea that will be
worth millions if I sncoeed in perfect
ing it.
Wright—What's the scheme?
Bright—A smokeloss cigarette.—Chi
cago News.
THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
LEFT ON TRAINS.
All Sort® of Articles Are Forgotten by
Absentmlnded Passengers.
Recently a Chicago railroad displayed
in its unclaimed parcel room five barrels
of rubber overshoes and a box full of
falso teeth. All this property and more
during a period of six months had been
left on the suburban and through trains
by absent minded passengers. The gen
eral baggage agent, upon being asked
•what was the oddest occurrence of this
kind, said that a woman once left on a
train a 6-months-old baby, and she did
not miss it until a trainman overtook
her with the little bundle of hnmanity
before she got outsido of the train shed.
It was not a caso of abandonment. She
had forgotten to tako np her own off
spring.
Only ono-balf of tho articles left on
trains nre claimed and returned to own
ers. At all the railroad offices in Chi
cago there are to be fonnd motley col
lections of abont all the articles wbioh
man or woman ever owned. It would
bo impossible to list them in a whole
page of a newspaper.
The article which figures most exten
sively among tho lost and found of tho
big railroads is the umbrella. An offi
cial of tho Illinois Central says he re
ceived in the baggage department 1,500
umbrellas a year. General Agent Sadd
of the Burlington says his records show
about 600 a year, and the other lines
report large collections of this service
able artiole, which are left on trains in
all kinds of weather. On a recent fine,
snnshiny day the Burlington railroad
showed on its record a whole page of
abandoned umbrellas.
Next come the overshoes, which aro
doily found, singly and in pairs nnd of
tentimes odd in size and kind. At all
the offices they are accumulated to the
extent of barrels and barrels. It is a
common occurrence to find upper, low
er anh partial sots of false teeth. Some
give evidence of loug service, others
have been too new and have been "laid
out" to give relief. But they come in
all shapes and sizes.
Wearing npparel in largo quantities
is to be found in the lost parcel rooms.
The clerks in tho Alton's quarters at the
Union station .fitted out a dummy figure
with every single article that a man is
likely to wear from head to foot. The
articlos wero all left piece by piece on
the train nnd gathered up by the em
ployees until the figure was togged out
in newest fashion.
Tho young woman stenographer in
Baggage Agent Sadd's office has a pet
kitten which was found in an envelope
box on a train, and, thero being no
claimant, young Tom is being taught to
earn his board by mousing in the bag
gage room.
Cripples frequently leave their
crutches on trains. There is a collection
of them at all the oflices. Hanging up
in the paroel room of the Illinois Cen
tral is a big anchor made of moss gath
ered from trees in the far south. The
maker had taken care of it until Chica
go was reached, only to abandon it to
the caro of tho parcel man.—Chicago
Tribuno.
Free Io Splto of Ilimself.
Under the first French empire tho ad
ministration of the prison of Saiute-
Pelagie was so loose that it was not rare
for accused persons to lie there six
months without knowing the cause of
their incarceration. The following ad
venture, narrated in "Tho Dungeons of
Old Paris," discloses tho fact that re
lease under similar conditions of igno
rance wus not impossible:
Tho doctor had given to a prisoner
who was slightly ill an order for the
baths. Not knowing in what part of
tho prison the infirmary was situated,
he presented his order to a tipsy turn
key, who opened the outer door of tho
prison.
M. Guillon, a free man without being
aware of it, took the narrow street to bo
a sentry's walk and went a few paces
without finding any ono to direct him.
Returning to the sentry at the door, he
inquired where were the baths.
"The baths?" said the sentinel.
"Tho prison baths."
"The prison baths, "said the sentinel,
"are probably in the prison, but you
can't get in there."
"What—l can't get into the prison?
Am I outside it, then?"
"Why, yes, you're in tho street. You
ought to know that, I should think."
"I did not know it, I assuro you,"
said I<l. Guillon, "and this won't suit
me at all."
Ho rang the prison bell and was re
admitted, and his recital of his adven
ture restored to sobriety the turnkey
who had given him his freedom.
Sherldau and the Joke.
Sheridan, himself a brilliant orator
as well as u shrewd observer, was one
day asked how it was he got on so well
in tho house of commons. "Well," he
said, "I soon found out that the major
ity wero fools, but all loved a joke, and
I determined to give them what they
liked." The great advantage of a joke
is that it puts the speaker at once on
good terms with his audience. Hence
Cicero recommends it for an exordium.
A common way of winning the good
will of an audience is flattery. When
the Jews brought down tho orator Ter
tullus to accuse Paul, Tertullus began
his speech with flattery of King Agrip
pn, "Since by thee we enjoy," and so
on. Another way, a subtle form of flat
tery, is to describe yourself as a native
of the same place or county as those
you ure uddressing. Tho forensic formu
la, tho fustian apostrophe to the l'i "in
telligent and patriotic and high minded
men" whom the rhetorical Buzfuz sees
before him, is played out, but it has its
modern equivalents.—Westminster Re
view.
Disconcerting.
Mrs. Manycooks (severely)— Didn't I
hear a man talking loudly with you in
the kitchen just now, Mary?
Mary (complacently)—Oi hope so,
mam, for thin Oi can call yez as a wit
ness in a case av braich av promise suit,
ma'am. —Brooklyn Eagle.
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A London general omnibus is sup
posed to earn $35 per week.
Ant hills in West Africa sometimes
reach the height of fifteen feet.
Five feet is the minimum height of
the Russian ar.d French conscript.
In the towns of Chile most shops
are open till midnight, and during the
hot afternoons, when everybody takes
a siesta, they are locked up.
The King of Siam has a bodyguard
of female warriors—i. e 4OO girls,
chosen from among the strongest and
most handsome of all the women in
the land.
In northern China one of the prin
cipal occupations is raising dogs for
their fur, which is fine and dense and
much used for clothing. They cost
only 40 cents apiece.
With a piece of string and a little
sand and grease some Hindoo con
victs recently sawed through an iron
bar two inches in diameter in five
hours and escaped from jail.
Just as a letter was being read in a
Farmington (Me.; household from a
daughter in California announcing her
good health and well being, a tele
gram came announcing her death.
Garlic came from Asia and has
been used since the earliest times.
It formed part of the diet of the
Israelites in Egypt, was used by
Greek and Roman soldiers and
African peasants.
The quaint little chimney sweeps
add to the picturesqueness of Charles
ton, N. C., where they are still in
constant demand to clean chimneys
of the soot from the soft pine wood
so largely in use.
The skin of the reindeer is so im
pervious to the cold that any one
clothed in such a dress, with the addi
tion of a blanket of the same material,
may bear the intensest rigors of an
Arctic winter's night,
j As soon as a man falls into debt in
Siam the creditor can seize his person
and keep him as a slave. Should the
; debtor run away, his wife and chil
dren, his father, or other relatives are
liable to be seized.
OASTOHIA.
Bun the A Kind Vou Han Always BuugW
The Month of Bloodshed-
April Figures Pre-eminently in All Our
Wars.
Many of the most stirring events in
American history have occurred in
April, including the first conflicts of
the War of the Revolution and the
beginning of the war of secession.
The formal order to Spain to relinquish
the island of Cuba was made on April
19, a date already notable in our
military annals.
It was on April 19, 1775, at Lex
ington and at Concord, that the first
armed resistance was made by the
minute men to the British troops.
The excitement of April 19, 1861, is
still remembered bv many persons.
The Sixth Massachusetts Regiment
was attacked by a mob in Baltimore,
and that city was turned over to the
secessionists.
North Carolina was the first colony
to declare for independence, in April,
1776, and Rhode Island almost im
mediately followed with a similar
declaration. Six years later, in April,
1782, the recognition of our independ
ence was made by the Dutch Repub
lic.
April 18, 1775 —Paul Revere's
famous midnight ride.
April 19, 1775 —Beginning of the
revolution by battle of Lexington.
April 11, 1783 —Congress pro
claims cessation of hostilities.
April 15, 1783 —Congress ratifies
preliminary treaty of peace with Great
Britain.
April 4, 1812—Congress estab
lishes the embargo that begins the
War of 1812.
April 21, 1833 —Santa Ana suffers
his great defeat at San Jacinto.
April 25, 1846 —Hostilities open
between the United States and Mexico.
April 12, 1861—War of the Rebel
lion begun by General Beauregard
firing on Fort Sumpter.
April 19, 1861—First bloodshed of
the war, in conflict between United
States troops and mob at Baltimore.
April 9, 1865 —Lee surrenders to
Grant at Appomattox.
April 19, 1898 —Congress of the
United States declares "that the
people of the island of Cuba are, and
of right ought to be, free and inde
pendent."
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Beef, quarter, per pound,...
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Oats " ... ' ' t ,
Rye " 77
Wheat flour per bbl 5.20
Hay per ton 7 '9 to $lO
Potatoes per bushel, new,.... i.co
Turnips " " >t
Onions " " 77 too
Sweet potatoes per peck .j
Tallow per lb "
Shoulder " " oq
Side meat " " * O B
Vinegar, per qt * *''." ** Q -
Dried apples per lb '„S
Dried cherries, pitted . 7*
Raspberries ' [ I 9
Cow Hides per lb "
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CalfSkin ..7.7.7 ilo
Sheep pelts * ',5
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Middlings " .83
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