Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-07-12
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The production of beer in the
United States last year amounted to ten
and one-haf gallons for every man,
woman and child in the country.-M
7. Mail.
1t takes nine ounces of chloroform to
put Yearling calf to sleep. You can sit
down with the young man who parts his
hair IN the center and figure on the resi-
for him very handily.-Detroit Free
Press.
He who says ''pair of stairs
means only one stairs. He who speaks
of a ladder might just as consistently
say ''pair of ladders" 1t is only when
you tumble down stair that the steps
| double on you Chicago Herald.
"A boy in Elizabethtown, KY, who is
| four feet tall, will weigh about forty
| pounds, and his head, which is thirtv-two
and half inches round, would weigh
about as much as the rest of his body. He
is not at all bright, but can talk, Chicago
Times.
"A Cuban, whose wife was devoured
by a shark, is taking his revenge. He
! has killed over four hundred of the
monsters within eighteen months. He
| is bound to keep on until he finds his
wife's frizzes in some victims stomach.
Detroit Post.
"A Pakenham (Canada) man caught
a rat and put it in an empty barrel with
his cat, in order to teach the latter to
! kill rats. The strange companions
whom fate had brought together struck
up tuce and became fast friends
Toronto Globe.
-''Yes, said the gilded youth, ''Iwant
e. I,
objected his friend, you'd be bowling
round town nights all the same. y YES,
but now nobody cares, and it would be
such comfort to feel that somebody
was at home mad about it. boston
Post.
"A special train on the Bound Brook
! (N.J.) Railroad, carrying some officials
of the road to New York, and going at
the rate of a mile a minute, passed over
the Neshaminy Falls bridge, the other
day, without decreasing its speed, break
ing the sleepers and driving the rails in
several places deep into the wood,
Mr.. John w. Garrett, President OF
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, has made
a present of his stallion Damascus,
valued at $4,000, to King Humbert, of
Italy, STIMULATING that the sculptor
Story shall have the privilege of making
a model of the animal. In return for
the gift the King will send Mr.. Garrett
two camels.
"A driver for a Cincinnati teamster,
while teasing horse in the stables re-
Gently, was bitten in the arm by that
animal. This so Infatuated the man that
he seized a whip and commenced a
severe castigatiOn, but the horse let
drive with one of his hind feet and
struck the whipper square in the face,
crushing the nose and frontal bone
Cincinnati Times.
There are three trees in the Horti-
cultural Gardens of Toronto, Canada
planted by members of the royal family.
The Princess Louise planted there in
1879 a Scotch fir, but it died, and last
year she planted tree of the same kind,
and it is now fourishing finely. The
Prince of Wales set a handsome maple
in 1860, and Canadian oak was plant
ed by Prince Arthur in 1869. Toronto
is justly proud of its extensive and we'll
kept Horticultural Gardens.
Among the guest at Cranston's Ho-
tel at West Point, at the recent COM
mencement exercises of the military
school, were l. j. Austen, of Newport,
R. L, and W. L. Drayton, of South
Carolina. They graduated from the
academy fifty years ago in the same
class. They were warm friends at the
academy, but never saw each other af-
ter their graduation until they met on
this occasion on the hotel piazza. De-
spite the changes which the years had
wrought in their appearance they
recognized each other and half a cen
| o1o-v,o1 hands
with tears in their eyes.-N. T. Times.
News comes from New York Of the
death of a well-knoWn Russian gentle
man while taking a Russian bath, and
photographers begin to warn the gentle
public against baths. But the only
danger in bathing is that of going into
the water too soon after eating. Two
| hours is the least time which should in
tervene between meal and a bath, and
very often longer time should be al
lowed, especially if the meal has been a
hearty one. Common sense agrees with
the doctors in advocating plenty OF
water as a means of health, but COM
mon sense should be exercised in regard
to the place and manner of taking
baths Chicago Inter Ocean.
"A Georgia picnic recently was
largely attended, but when the parties
returned homo two couples were miss
ing. simultaneously there appeared at
hotel in Albany two strange couples,
who seemed to have something inn
portant on hand. They got the hotel
keeper to procure for them marriage
licenses for w. L. Simpson and Miss E.
Collier and James Gliz and Miss A.
Lundy. A preacher arrived, but here a
hitch occurred. One of the ladies want
ed to back out, and the parties kept the
parlor door locked for five hours, trying
to settle the point. At ten O'Clock al
night the door was thrown open and the
preacher admitted, when the ceremony
was performed. They returned home
to Terrell County, where the fatted cali
was killed, and all forgiven. They all