Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-13
on GENERAL INTERRST.

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1t is so quiet at some of the summer
resorts that a mosquitoes yawn can be
heard for half mile.-N. Y Commercial
Advertiser.
Golden weddings seem to be nu-
merous now all over the United States.
You must hurry up and have one, if
you wish to be in style.-L01CeH Citizen.
Letters from several of the largest
dealers in fish in Eastern Maine and
others show conclusively that this is the
worst year for fishermen that has ever
been known.
"A Revolutionary relic IN the shape
of twelve pound shot was found in the
Mohawk River, near FultonvilIe, n. Y,
a short time ago by fisherman, which
he retains in his possession.
"A gang of Winnebago Indians en-
ployed on the Union Pacific Railroad
have proved to be excellent workmen
and IN some respects superior to those of
any other nationality Chicago Journal.
The catch-name of Beantown for
Boston is simply amusing, but when
little seVen-by-nine down-East newspa-
paper calls this city ''Sullivanville, it
becomes Standardization Transcript.
Because a Virginia man dropped
dead just as he was going to swear his
tax list was correct, the Merchant TrGU-
eter says it seems as if a man should
learn little from the Bible story of
Ananias.
THE more I study the subject, -
said a well-known citizen of Massachu-
sets recently, 1.-The more fully I am
convinced that our State Prison policy
has a direct tendency to make hardened
criminals. Boston Herald.
Reports of the harvest prospects
from all parts of Ireland are very en-
couraging. In the northern, the mid
land and southern counties, the crops
are full and promising. The potato
yield is large.-N. Y. Herald.
"A horse belonging to Mr.. Clark, of
New York, that has been afflicted with
stiff joints, was brought to his knees by
a stroke of lighting recently, and since
that time his knees have not been stiff
and he skips off like a young colt
Troy IN. ~ Times.
An Englishman who pretends to
know all about cholera epidemics says
that it is safe to stay in place as long
as the swallows and sparrows remain.
When these feathered visitants dissap-
pear, he packs his trunk and leaves by
the first cOnveyance.-N Y Post.
The white elephants which Bar
NUNS agent got in Siam, and had
transferred to a ship at Singapore, were
poisoned at the orders of a native
official, to prevent the sacred animals
from being put to unholy uses. Mr..
Balnum was thus out of pocket $780,
000.- Hartford Post.
An old doe whose fawns had been
captured near Sylvania, Ga, became SO
enraged that she charged upon pack
of dogs, who had her fawns captive,
and, by jumping up in the air and strik-
ing them with her feet. succeeded in
putting the dogs to flight, and then
marched triumphantly off with her chill
Chicago Times.
Values have fallen below their
proper level, as measured by the volume
of the currency. This undue decline
has released large amounts of money,
which will sooner or later seek employ
ment in business channels. In other
words, the time for a panic has gone by,
and the country is gradually but surely
approaching a renewal of seasonable
activity and higher prices. Boston
Herald.
-Alphonse Karr, who is fighting Wv
isection with great ardor, argues that
nothing contributes more to render
manners so cruel as the spectacle of
torture inflicted on animals, and quotes
Montaigne, who said, cit was by killing
beasts that man came to kill man. !"
The great champion of vivisection in
France is Paul Bert, whose atheistic
school manuals have raised such diff
cuIties between the clergy and the Gov
ernment.-N. Y independent.
"A huge alligator has.be the terror
of bathers at MontrOse, Ala, for long
time. The other day a colored man
saw the monster summing himself near
the wharf, and determined to sacrifice
him. Selling an AK he rushed into the
water and engaged in mortal combat.
The struggle was fierce, and lasted a
full hour, at the end of which time the
alligator quit the scene of earthly woe.
The saurian measured ten feet three
inches in lengthy. o. PicGyaI7ae.
Some of the merchants of Philadel-
phia develop an amount of business en-
terprise that does much to acquit that
city of the charge of being behind the
age. A shoe store has had a photo
graph gallery fitted up in the top floor,
where every purchaser Of pair of
shoes is entitled to have his photograph
taken. A cigar dealer exposes the
legend: GA ticket for the Mannerchor
Garden and good Havana cigar for
% cents. And a popular dentist at
tracts custom to himself by giving teeth
on Philadelphia Press.
in the Crimea two Tarters quar-
relied on account of their common
sweetheart, and they agreed to settle
their. troubles in their own way. With
out any artificial weapons they met
each other as the bucks do, striking
each other with their ,foreheads. They
made half a dozen rounds; blood flowed
from both of them, yet neither of the
Tartars would yield. After another
furious round, one of them fell down
exhausted. Being crazed by defeat, he
drew his knife and cut his throat on the