Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-09-27
OF CONGRATULATIONS.

OF GENERALzINTEREST.
The wealthiest city in the United
States, in proportion to population, is
Portland, Ore.
According to the Louisville Courier
Journals Saratoga pringscorrespondent,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ISL ,290, 000a month,
or $4,000 day.
"A man near Newman, Ga, has been
working an alleged gold mine forty years,
and has never made cent. He is still
confident that there's millions In it. 4"
An English Judge has characterized
the disagreement of a jury which stood
eleven to one after eight hours confne-
ment, as lamentable and sad.
The Boston papers proudly record the
lady's package-room of the Old Colony
station in that city for six weeks, with.
out being checked, but was returned. tc
the owner when called for.
George Holyoake, the English phi
lanthropist, has arrived in New York, hiE
object being to try to induce our Gov
eminent to issue a trustworthy guide
book for immigrants, giving facts in re-
gard to the resources of each State
Chicago Tribune. sg5
"A real estate dealer advertises in
Dakota newspaper: !" l can be found at
the Gold Mine playing freeze out at
MitchelPs Exchange betting on the age
of 'old bosses with Brown, or at my
residence on Oak street, perusing the
Scriptures" IN Y. Sun.
According to the official estimates
for 1881, Just published, the population
of Scotland it IA, 685-of whom 1902
901 are males and 1,941, 784 females.
About 80 per cent of the 3,744,0OO live
in the eight principal towns. The total
number of births was 1924, last year.
"A Polish woman, who recently ar
rived in Pittsburgh from London, has
had her husband arrested there for deser-
ton. She had tracked him to St. Peters
burg, London, Paris, back to London, to
New York, and then to Pittsburgh, where
she discovered him at work. Chicago
Times.
"A Kansas City paper estimates the
corn crop of Kansas and Missouri at no.
100000 bushels. Just think for mo-
ment of the husking bees out there, and
the number of red ears that must GER
tainly exist in that pile. The girls of
Kansas and Missouri are sure to have
good time this winter.-ChicGgo Inter-
Ocean.
Fifteen lives are lost on the British
coasts each week on an average; and thus
in twenty-six years about 10000 have
persisted, chiefly in the occupation of
fishing. These losses have generally beenre-
garded asinevitable, buta society has been
formed for providing places of refuge on
the coast for fisherman and other mari
ners. Convict labor is to be used in the
construction of these harbors.
"A recent decision of the Treasury
has stopped Canadian tugs from towing
United States vessels between United
States ports. They may tow from
Canadian to United States port, but
may not continue from that to another
United States port. A Kingston paper
is torn up by it, and says that similar
privileges on the other side have been
used by United States tugmen, which
will now be cut off. Chicago Journal.
The operator at the Mobile office of
the Mobile and Gulf Telegraph Com
pany was recently surprised by hearing
over his wire through messages from
New Orleans and New York. An inves-
tigation showed that an unfortunate frog
had found it's way into a cable-box, and
its body burned almost to crisp, formed
sufficient connection between the West
ern Union and the Mobile and Gulf wires.
The centennial anniversary of Mrs.
Joseph Harris, at Wheeler End, England,
was the occasion of a jubilee in which
the whole village joined. A triumphal
arch was erected, under which the old
lady rode in an open carriage drawn by
over 200 men and women, all of whom
we're her Ineal descendants. She has
been the mother of sixteen children. The
eldest now living is eighty-one years old,
and the youngest fifty.
1t is related as a remarkable circum-
stance connected with the unfortunate
Miss Blair, who committed suicide at
Camden, S. c., that only few days be-
fore her death she had been sketching
points of interest around her home, hay
ing acquired considerable skill in that
line, and one of the sketches was faith
full delineation of the gully, in which she
was afterward found, with the dead body
of young girl lying in it. This fur
nishes strong presumption that the act
of self-destruction was premeditated by
her for some time before its consumma-
ton Chicago Times.
The Alexandria correspondent OF
the London Standard relates humorous
story. Agentleman wrote to the Ad,
miral complaining that there was shell
belonging to the Infexible in his draw
ing room, and requesting its removal