Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-20
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OF Lansingburg.-7goy, IN. +. Times.
Six hundred sea-lions have been killed
on the Fort Osford reef, Oregon, this
season, by sealing schooners.
General Ketchum is one of the
officers to look after smugglers at New
York. Suggestive name Indianapolis
Journal.
-Cayotes are so thick and tame at
Mineral Park, Arizona, that they come
into town and play with the dogs Chi
cagO Times.
"A Texas owl mistook a sleeping
mans head for chicken, and fastened
his claws into his hair and scalp. Then
the man woke up and wrung the OWLS
neck.
Representatives of every colony of
the Cherokee Indians east of the Missis-
sippi met recently in Swain county,
North Carolina, and reported popula-
ton of 3,000.- Chicago Journal.
DIR. Glib recommends the use of
bromide of ammonia to those who suffer
from obesity. When taken in small
doses it will absorb fat and diminish the
weight of the body with greater GER
tainty than any other known remedy
N. Y. Sam.
Professional mourners abound in
New York. They are only happy at
funerals, and there they cry as freely
as the nearest relatives of the deceased.
They are chiefly women, and under
takers who think a funeral is to be
SHINY attended send for them.-N. Y
Mail.
Seven years have elapsed since James
Lick, the California millionaire, at his
loft g,
public uses, and not a dollar has reached
the designated objects. The trustees,
who receive 81, 900 a year each, have Just
been censured by the California pioneers.
San Francisco Chronicle.
OF the 127, 14O persons in English
lunatic asylums, only 154 belong to the
group of teachers, schoolmasters,
schoolmistresses governesses, lecturers,
portion than in almost any other pro-
fession.'' It would be interesting to
know how it is in the United States.
Surprise has often been expressed
at the fact that no new species of animal
seems to have appeared since the glacial
age. Mr.. Donald Macintosh, writing in
explanation of this the new theory, which
DIP DCdIO W OC S1OWlLlSSS I11clO O1l1l Il lew
thousand years had elasped since the
glacial beds were laid down.
The Postmaster-General at Wash
ington has received letter inclosing
sixty dollars in gold from the
Rome, with the explanation that
pouch containing ordinary letters, re-
OoiJyaI from NoI1r VO,slr an Nav 10
that the Italian postal officials had been
unable to find to whom the gold be-
longed.
DR.. Axtelle of Waterbury, Conn,
being applied to recently by a man who
said his right arm panied him and was
useless, found that the shoulder was
dislocated and had evidently been so
for long time. The man said he did
not know how he hurt himself. Several
weeks ago he event off on little
racket. :" and after that his arm was in
the condition mentioned. The disloca-
ton had gone unattended so long that
it was impossible to set the bOne.-HGTt-
ford Post.
The snuf-box presented to Admiral
Baldwin, of the United States navy, by
the Gar of Russia, is valued at S15, ZOO.
Six sOlitaires, three on each side of the
portrait, are said to be worth 81, 200
apiece. The portrait is surrounded by
ring of about forty diamonds. The
box itself is an art gem, and has ca
pacity for fullyshalf pound of snuff, but
as the Admiral does not use that article
be may keep his plug tobacco in it
Chicago Herald.
"A sad scene recently happened In
the jail at New Haven, Conn. A convict,
Andrew Heely, aged "a, of Milford,
Conn, dropped dead while being served
with his food. He was apparently In
the best of health when attacked by
fainting fit. He fell and struck his
head against an obstacle, producing con-
cussion of the brain. His wife and
child, who had come to visit him,
reached the jail an hour after he died,
and when the sad news was impaired to
them it made the stoutest heart beat with
sympathy to hear their heartrending
grief.-Bostoaa Post.
One of the Kansas Postmasters is
more than pleased with the new official
order. He SAYS: 'When the wife of
the first or second class Postmaster
officially requests him TO beat the carpet,
or weed the onion bed, or whitewash
the back fence, he can draw out and
read Postmaster General Gresham's
order forbidding first or second class
Postmasters from absenting themselves
from their offices. Then he can go out
from the sheltering roof of his donlicile
absorbed in the beautiful thought that
there is no cloud without a silver lin
ing. - Chicago Ne10S.
The Sandwich Islanders appear to
be tolerably good judges of woman's
smile. A Hawaiian newspaper, in de-
scribing such an affair, said: '.Her
rich, red lips parted, and there flashed
upon the landscape two rows of beauti-
ful white teeth. Slowly her mouth
opened wider and wider. Deeper grew
the dimples in her bronze cheeks
Brighter danced the sunbeams in her