" THE SIEG c OF GIBRALTAR. <*
The thiaurcessfni Atiaiupt of Spain to Re.
gain tlie Portree*.
The most memorable siege in history
wus the unsuccessful attempt of Spain
to regain in 1779 the fortress of Gib
raltar, which England had taken by
storm a few years before. For three
years and seven months the strong
hold was invested by a large force of
all arms, and a practically uninter
rupted Are from 135 guns, including
some fifty mortars of thlrteen-inch cal
ibre, was maintained from January 12,
17811, till February 2. 1783. Meanwhile
the gallant, little garrison was only
once relieved, aud suffered all the
pangs'of starvation, not unmlngled
wnh a feeling of despair; still they
clung to the gigantic rock, repelling
attack after attack with indomitable
courage and endurance, and inflicting
enormous losses on their opponents.
The most Interesting and exciting
episode during this long siege was the
ferocious attempt made by the Span
lards toward the close, when they
strained every nerve to dismay and
overcome the already exhausted but
still unflinching garrison. More than
50,000 troops and 170 pieces of ord
nance of large calibre were at the dis
posal of the Spanish general, and an
Ingenious type of floating batteries,
strongly resembling the famous
"cheese boxes on rafts" of the late
war, had been devised by the Dons,
who expected great things of them in
the meditated assault.
The numbers of the opposing forces
were ludicrously disproportionate. Be
sides the above mentioned troops and
guns the Spanish possessed nlne.lino
of-battleships, fifteen gun or mortar
boats, covered boats sufficient to land
nearly 40,000 men, and in addition the
ten floating batteries, which consisted
of large vessels, protected
by a banking of timber seven feet
thick, and the decks and guns screened
with a slanting roof of shot-proof ma
terial.
To this gigantic armament the de
fense could only oppose some 7,000
men, many of them sick or wounded,
and all reduced to scanty rations for
many months past; ammunition was
limited, and the cannon even then were
antiquated.
On September 8, 1782, fire was opened
on the fortress at a preconcerted sig
nal by the entire strength of the Span
ish artillery, both on land and afloat.
The floating batteries were inoored
within half-range and proved Indeed
invulnerable to shot and shell, which
lastd all night and day until late on
the 12th, On that day the garrison,
unable to make any Impression on the
fleet, whose efforts were beginning to
give the small force of defenders con
siderable trouble and inconvenience,
conceived the brilliant idea of loading
their guns with red-hot shot and burn
ing shells, which, though of little or no
penetrating power, turned out to be
very effective against the wooden sides
of the battleships and gunboats; In
fact, within a very few hours every
one of the floating batteries lay per
fectly quiescent on the water, a useless
mass of burning hulks.
The endeavors and energy of the de
fenders finally prevailed over the vast
numerical superiority of their oppon
ents-, and on the 14th of the month the
desperately conducted attack was given
np and the Spanish troops retired to
their linos, severely crippled by the
enormous losses they had suffered,
winter quarters were taken up, the
bombardment practically abandoned,
and peace was declared on the 2d of
February following.
Thus ended the most memorable
siege that can be found In the pages of
history; remarkable for many reasons,
but most of all for the small loss of
life among the defenders, who, during
the three years and a half that the
Invert nent lasted, lost In all but 500
men, while they inflicted on the enemy
k total joss of several thousand lives.
S
Military Courts*,
The question of the comparative pro
portion of ideally brave men In any
army will probably never be determin
ed. Great officers on the Continent
keep their knowledge on that subject
rigorously as a professional secret, and
assume as a certainty that all soldiers
are brave. They know very well, how
ever, that they are not, and when con
fidential will admit, as Marshal von
Moltke once did in public, that with a
great number It takes discipline, and
severe discipline, too, to induce them
to face shells unshrinkingly. Ameri
can officers have been known to ac
knowledge that of their men, who are
aa brave as any In the world, 20 per
cent, would run away If they could,
and In every army, even ours, which
a man enters only of free will, there
is a certain proportion who literally
cannot overcome their fears. They are
etricken with a sort of paralysis. The
proportion Is probably not high in any
army, the majority, If in health, being
able to do their duty, and having in
tense motives to do It; but neither Is
the proportion high of those who lit
erally feel no fear.
There are such men who do not
quite understand what the emotion Is,
as there are also some who have in
extreme danger a sense of pleasure,
which sometimes not only quickens
their blood, but distinctly Increases
their intellectual force. This is said
to have been true of Gen. Plcton, who,
though a hard, rough man, was an
"angel when bullets were about"; and
was undoubtedly true of the first Lord
Gough, who had a trick, highly disa
greeable to his staff, of seeking points
of full exposure to the enemy's fire.
"Yes," she sighed, "for many years
fve suffered from dyspepsia."
"And you don't take anything for
ft?" her friend asked. "You look
healthy enough."
-Oh," she replied, "it's my husbaod
that hae it." .
it Army.
Tccle Sam'f bill for his 186,000 sol
diers is ever $50,000 & clay, and if the
war keept up for a year it will reach
the fine figure of $15,000,000. The old
fellow is feeding more soldiers than
there are people in Jersey City or New
ark; more than the total population of
Colorado or West Virginia. This, of
course, doesn't take Into account the
thousands of men employed as civil
ians by the War Department, or util
ized by it in transporting and issuing
the food. Many of these men, too, are
fed by the Government,
By buying in large quantities, the
cost of the army ration is brought
down to eighteen cents a day, which
is about as cheap in price and a great
deal better in quality than the ration
of the Bowery lodging house. Then,
to the eighteen cents is to be added
four cents for the transportation and
issuing of the food. This, of Itself, for
a year, would cost $2,715,600.
The army rations for one day for
this vast body of soldiers amounts to
605,895 pounds, or nearly 303 tons. For
a year the enormous total would be re
quired of 221,151,675 pounds, or over
110,575 tons, which means that a ton
of rations costs $135. In the army ra
tion are a dozen constituents —bacon,
hard bread (which is hard tack, or
crackers, six Inches in diameter),
beans, potatoes, coffee, sugar, molasses,
vinegar, salt, soap, candles and black
pepper. This ration is about a third
less in quantity than that served by
the State of New York to its soldiers.
Notwithstanding, there is such an ex
cess in the quantity of the Govern
ment ration that by drawing a commu
tation of rations in money, other kinds
of food can be bought according to the
needs or the taste of the individual
companies.
A regiment. Including only the sol
diers, eats more than a ton and a half
of food a day. In measure of weight
this seems a good deal, but when the
cost is considered, it is ridiculously
small —six cents a meal for three
square meals a day, or about $lBO for
an entire regiment
Every day the army consumes 69
tons of bacon, and In a year. 25,458
tons. Any butcher can tell how many
hogs It takes to turn out this item in
the ration.
A pound of hard bread or hard tack
and a pound of potatoes go to each
soldier once a day. • A year's consump
tion of potatoes would be 1,131,500
bushels. The whole army eats 93 tons
of each a day. Beans are highly nu
tritious, more so, in fact, than pota
toes, and S3 tons, baked and in soup,
are consumed by the army every day.
Butter is not a part of the ration, but
sugar Is, and of the sweet seasoning as
much is supplied as of beans.
The army recognizes hut two stimu
lants —coffee and tobacco. Tobacco is
not a part of the ration, hut the Gov
ernment supplies it at cost. The cof
fee, if well made and served hot, will
go as far as any article of food to
ward cheering up the soldier In the
early morning, and before going on
guard at night, as well as when com
ing off bis post Bach day the army
uses 7 tcne cf coffee, and in the course
of a year, 2,715 tons. Sugar, but no
milk, goes with the coffee, though
milk, like butter, and other articles
called luxuries, can be had through
the process of commutation of rations.
lie Wit* His Own Kecommendatlon.
When a merchant bad hired an of
fice boy, oue out of fifty applicants
who answered his advertisement, a
friend asked: "How did you come
to select that fellow, who didn't have
n single recommendation?"
"He had a great many," replied the
merchant. "He wiped bis feet when
he came in, and closed the door after
him. showing that he is careful; gave
up his seat to that lame old man,
showing that he is kind and thought
ful; he took off his cap when he came
in, unsweriug my questions prompt
ly and respectfully, showing that be
is polite ami gentlemanly; he picked
up n book which 1 had purposely laid
on the floor, and replaced It on the
table, while all the rest stepped over
It or shoved it aside; and he waited
quietly for his turn, instead of push
ing or crowding. When I talked to
him I noticed tliut his clothes were
carefully brushed, his hair in nice or
der, and his teeth as white as milk;
and, when he wrote his name, 1 no
ticed thnt his finger nails were clean,
instead of being tipped with jet, like
those of that handsome little fellow in
the blue jacket. Don't you call these
things letters of recommendation? I
do, and I would give more for what
I can tell about a boy by using my
eyes ten mlnute6 than for all the let
ters of recommendation he can give
me."
The selection proved a wise one.
The Incident shows that a mother
who Is teaching her boy good manners
and habits of self-respect may be pro
viding him with a capital more sub
stantial than a bank account.—Suc
cess.
A Remarkable Case.
The aloe, which is used so largely
for pills, &c., comes from quite a dif
ferent plant to that which is famed
as blossoming once In a hundred years
or so. The latter is the American
aloe, while the aloe of medicine Is the
Aloe Socotrlna, so called from the is
land of Socotra, of which place it is a
native.
Every ton of Atlantic watei when
evaporated yields 811b. of salt, a ton of
Pacific water 791b., Arctic and Antarc
tic waters yield 851b. to the ton, and
Dead Sea water 1871b.
From Investigations into the effects
of tobacco it is stated that there were
no live microbes after twenty-four
hours in the cigars made up with wat
er containing 1,500,000 cholera mi
crobes ,to the cubic centimetre, _ J .
THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA.
Quaint and Curious-
Transparent leather is made in
France.
Denmark slaughters 1,400,000 hogs
every year.
There are 10,000 camels at work in
Australia.
Savages, on the whole, live longer
than civilized people.
As a rule, a man's hair turns gray
five years sooner than a woman's.
The most wonderful bridge in the
world is one of solied agate in Ari
zona.
A pen carrying a small electric
lamp to prevent shadows when writing
has been patented in Germany.
It is estimated that since the be
ginning of the historical era 13,000,
000 persons have perished in earth
quakes.
The Tartars have a quaint custom
of taking a guest by the ear when in
viting him to eat or drink with them.
Chileans never enter or leave a
coach, street car or other public
vehicle without bowing to all its occu
pants.
Under the laws of China the man
who loses his temper in a discussion
is sent to jail for five days to cool
down.
Ornithologists have discovered that
crows have no less than twenty-seven
cries, each distinctly referable to a
different action.
The nests of the termites, or white
ant, are, proportioned to the size and
weight of the builders, the greatest
structures in the world.
The earliest pottery which printed
designs of American subjects was
made at Liverpool at the end of the
eighteenth century.
The Russian state scepter is of
solid gold, three feet long, and con
tains among its ornaments 268 dia
monds, 360 rubies and 15 emeralds.
In Sweden there are floating can
neries. They are small vessels, which
follow fishing fleets, and men on them
can fish while they are fresh
It was once customary in France
when a guest had remained too long
for the host to serve a cold shoulder
of mutton instead of 4 hot roast. This
was the origin of the phrase ''to give
the cold shoulder."
Cats can swim if they only care to
exert themselves sufficiently. The
ancient Egyptians used to fish with
them on the Nile, according to the
representations on walls and so lorth
that have come down to us.
The most magnificent tomb iD the
world is deemed to be the palace tem
ple ot Karnak, occupying a space of
nine acres, or twice that of St. Peter's
at Rome. The temple space is a
poet's dream of gigantic columns,
beautiful courts and wondrous avenues
of sphinxes.
Out of the 84 women admitted to
the St. Louis Insane Asylum last year,
68 were from domestic service. The
rest of the list comprised one clerk,
one factory hand, one music teacher,
one saleswoman, two seamstresses,
one tobacco stemmer, six without oc
cupation and three unknown.
The recently completed tower at
New Brighton, the top of which is
620 feet above the level of the Old
Dock still at Liverpool, is the highest
structure in England. The tower
itself is 570 feet in height. The similar
structure at Blackpool measures but
518 feet, leaving its new rival with an
advantage of 5 2 feel.
A coal mine in Scotland which
caught fire over fifty years ago and
has been burning ever since has at
last burned itself out. The mine is
on the Daiquharran estate, Dailly. It
was set on fire by the engines which
worked the fans, and although many
costly attempts have been made to ex
tinguish it they have been unsuccess
ful.
Denmark makes a clear distinction
between the thriftless and the respect
able poor. The former are treated
like English paupers. The latter never
cross a workhouse threshold. If desti
tute, they receive a pension ranging
from $l4 to $B4 a year; or, if too
feeble to look after themselves, they i
are placed in an old-age home.
The Scarcity of Tin Ore.
The fact that tin, of all the metals
in common use, is only sparingly dis
tributed throughout the world is again
called attention to by an Australian
geologist, Mr. B. J. Skertchley, who
has published a monograph upon the
subject. While the known gold fields
of the world cover more than 1,500,-
000 square miles, the tin fields have
an area of less than 12,000 square
miles. Thus," for every square mile of
tin ground there are 132 square miles
of gold-bearing country. There are
seven tin districts in Europe, pro
ducing about 8,300 tons yearly, of
which the Cornish mines yield about
8,000 tons. Asia has two tin areas—
Hunan, in China, estimated by some
of the best authorities to produce 10,-
000 to 20,000 tons a year, but proved
_ 1
OABTORIA.
Bean the The Kind Yeu Han Always Mt
by official figures to yield less than
2,500 tons, and the Straits Settle
ments and adjacent principalities,
yielding 58,000 tons yearly, the rich
est yield in the world. Africa has no
known tin mine ; North America no
payable mine; South America only
one tin area Bolivia and Peru, yield
ing less than 4,000 tons a year, and
Australia, the youngest, contributes
about 6,000 tons a year.
Diocese of Pennsylvania.
Growth of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
The journal of the one hundred and
fourteenth convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal church, just issued, fur
nishes the following statistics: Num
ber clergy, 275; number 1 of churches
in union with convention, 128; sit
tings, 70,000 chapels, 60, with 15,-
592 sittings; mission stations, 50;
postulants, 13 ; lay readers licensed
65; parish or Sunday school buildings,
no; parsonages, 76; baptisms, adults,
564; infants, 4,156; confirmations,
2,878; communicants added, new,
2)<>35 ; by transfer, 1,229 > present
number, 46,875; Sunday schools and
Bible classes, teachers, 3,273; scholars,
40,574; other schools, 241 ;
scholars, 2,270; receipts, $1,104,761.-
15; expenditures, $1,096,556.45;
estimated aggregate value of church
property in the diocese, $12,500,000;
encumbrances on church edifices,
$176,400; encumbrances on other
buildings and lands, $159,628.01 ;
other indebtedness, $20,921.35.
Schedule of Trains to Eaglesmere,
Train on P. & R. leaving Blooms
burg at 7.30 a. m. connects at Halls
at 10.23, reaching Eaglesmere at
12.20 p. m.
Train leaving Bloomsburg at 3.40
p. m. connects at Halls at 5.25 p.
m., reaching Eaglesmere at 7.15
p. m. tf
Jurors for September Court.
CRAND JURORS.
Benton twp. —C. B. Meyers.
Berwick —Fred Chrisman.
Bloom—E. F. Dielterick, William Kramer,
Edward Myers, J. H. Mercer, Charles
Quick, Joseph Witts, Thos. E. Wildsmith.
Briarcrcek—Charlie Martz.
Catawissa boro. —I. G. Ervin.
Catawissa twp. —W. H. Roberts.
Centralia boro.—James Reece.
Centre—John Scott.
Conyngham—John Frash, Wra. Riley.
Fishingcreek—Henry S. Hummel, O. S.
McHenry, O. S. Pealer.
Millville boro.—Frank Stadler.
Orange—Harrison Brenner.
Pine—William Swartz.
Scott—J. E. White.
Sugarloaf—l A. Ruckle.
TRAVERSE JURORS, FIRST WEEK.
Beaver—Samuel Clingerman.
Benton twp.—Bruce zVsh
Berwick—Chas. Haas, Miles Marteeny, Geo.
S. Mooney.
Bloom—W. B. Allen, Frank Derr, Wm.
Dcntler, Edward Gerringer, Wm. Herbine,
B. F. Hicks, Frank Knorr, Jas. Magee Ist,
J. B. McHenry, Wm. Pugh J. M. Walter.
Briarcreek—George W. Miller.
Catawissa boro.—Charles Brown, John R.
IJeemer, Harrp M. Hamlin.
Centralia boro.—Johir\B. Laughlin, Mike
Maddon, Robert Wljite, Jr.
Cleveland—Ele Clever.
Conyngham—Charles Emmis, Lewis Fetzer,
Emanuel Levan, Wm. Rhoads.
Fishingcreek—A. W. Buckalew, Amos Hart
man.
Greenwood—George W. Derr.
Jackson—John Savage, J. H. Shultz.
Madison—Howard Greenly Thomas Kinlin,
George Mausteller.
Main—C. F. Hartzell.
Millville boro.—V. P. Eves, Alfred Hunter,
John Kingston.
Mt. Pleasant—Samuel English.
Roaringcreek—lsaac W. (Sherrington.
Scott— N. W. Fowler, George P. Hess, John
Jones, I.J. Musselman, 11. C. Ruckle,
John Wanich.
TRAVERSE JURORS, SECOND WKEK.
Beaver—John Clingerman.
Benton boro.—H. O. McHenry.
Benton twp.—R. M. Shultz.
Berwick —James W. Basorn, MacCrea Evans,
H. C. I.auhach.
Bloom—A. H. Corell, George W. Hartzel,
B. Fred Hartman, Jacob Stiner, E. J.
Stetler, C. M. Ter villiger.
Briarcreek—Samuel Rinard, Alfred Stiner.
Catawissa boro.—Jas. A. Guy, Chas. Heist.
Centralia boro.—James J. Colihan, Robt. P.
Farrel.
Greenwood—Lewis Robbins.
Hemlock—John Moore, Barton Purcel.
Jackson —Earl Derr Michael Hartman.
Locust—Daniel Knorr.
Madison—Latimer Whipple.
Main—Boyd Hartzell.
Mifllin—J. D. Ilouck.
Mt. Pleasant—Clinton Crawford.
Orange—Josiah Lowery.
Pine—J. F. Fenstemacher.
Scott—Jacob Ilirleman, H. C. Millard,
Charles Shaffer, Jerry Welliver.
Sugarloaf—Andrew Lewis, Ale Park.
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T. ... CAPITAL. ASBBTS. OTIBAU,
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Penn'a. Phlla 400,000 :1,8C5,160 MIUM
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Westchester, N.Y. 300,000 1,758,807 480.75•
N. America, Phlla. 3,000,000 #,780,589 2,*M7tt
OPFIOB IN I. W. MCKSLVY'B STOM.
WLosses promptly adjusted and paid.
M. P. LUTZ & SON,
(SUCCESSORS TO FREAS UHOWN)
INSURANCE ANDREAL ESTATE
AGENTS AND BROKERS.
N. W. Corner Main and Centre.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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Represent Seventeen as good Corapaa.
ies as there are in the World and all
losses promptly adjusted and paid
their Office.
CHRISTIAN F. KNAPP,
FIRE INSURANCE.
BLOOMSBURG, PA. ,
Home, of N. Y.; Morchants of Newark,
N. J.; Clinton, N. Y.;Peoples', N.Y.;Read
ing, Pa ; German American Ins. Co., Nvav
York; Greenwich Insurance Co., New York)
Jersey City Fire Ins. Co., Jersey City, N. J.
These old corporations are well seasoned
by age and fire tested, and have never yet
had a loss settled by any court of law. Their
assets are all invested in solid securities
liable to the hazard of lira only.
Losses promptly and honestly adjusted and
paid as soon as determined, by Christian t,
Knapp, Special Agent and Adjuster, Bloom*-
burg, Pa.
Tne people of Columbia county shoaM
patronize the agency where losses, if snp,
are settled and paid by one of their OM
citizens.
CENTRAL HOTEL,
B. Stohner, Prop. C. F. Stohncr, Assistant
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Large and convenient sample rooms. Hot
and cold water, and all modern conveniences.
The hotel has been lately refurnished.
CITY HOTEL,
W. A. Hartzel, Prop. Pelfr V. Relay, Manas
No. 121 West Main Street,
©TLarge and convenient sample rooms, bath
I rooms, hot and cold water, and modem con
veniences. Bar stocked with best wine and
liquors. First-class livery attached.
EXCHANGE HOTEL,
G. SNYDER, Proprietor,
(Opposite the Court Ifouse x
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Large and convenient sample rooms. Bsth
rooms hot and cold water, and all modern
conveniences
GET YOUR
JOB PRINTING
DONE AT THE
COLUMBIAN OFFICE
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