Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-26
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ne most universal tavorite among
English statesmen is the blind Postmaster
General.
"A girl baby, whose hair at birth.
reached below her waist, is the latest
Mormon freak of nature.
1t is proposed to so change the Mas
sachusetts State Constitution that women
who are lawyers may be made Justices
of the Peace.
-JackhSh are very num8rous in the
streams in the Riding Mountains. where
hundreds are being speared with pitch
forks by the men in the lumber shanties
Chinese historians have been at work
for 200 years past, and yet have only
brought their books down to the four
teenth century. They don't believe in
skipping anything.
The Philadelphia Bm1etin thinks
there ought to be grand crop of good
living coming up about this FINE, as the
result of the grand sowing Of good reso-
buttons during the last six wees.
Two Ohio men played checkers for
thirty-eight hours without eating or
sleeping, and the game would not have
been broken then had not the wife of one
of the players made clubs the t%ump.-
Detroit Free Press.
Mr.. Josiah Quincy writes shat in
1920, during one OF his visits t. Phila-
delphia, he was struck by a singular CO.
clesiastical privilege which then existed
IN that city-the right to obStrugt the
streets by chains during the hours of
divine service.
There is les5 snow on the Sierr1 Ne
vada Mountains ShiE year than there has
been for many years past. Along the line
OF the Central Pacific Railroad fire trains
are employed in wetting down the snow
sheds to prevent their catching fire from
sparks.
"A rooster owned by a Virginia
farmer has gone off to live with flock of
wild turkeys. Every morning at day
break he crows, and the farmer, who
knows where his rooster is, is thus enabled
to go out and kill wild turkey every
day. Such an abuse of hospitality is
worse than human bunko steering.
Prof. J. P. STEELE, of Alabama, is
down on what he calls the "carp farce"
| He thinks the carp is no better than the
buffalo fish. He calls it the aquatic
buzzard," and says it is the "meanest fish
of any waters; nasty, grisly-feshed
kind of mud-sucker, which digs in the
muck and feeds on decaying substances.
Connecticut demands a law to pro-
tect railroad brakemen. The Hartford
COurant says: "NObody doubts the story
now going through the newspapers that a
railroad Superintendent told an applicant
for the place of brakeman that he had no
vacancy then, but somebody would be-
killed off in a few days. 1t is too true to
be questioned"
The Lyons IN. Y Press states that
dealer in that village recently shipped
two car loads of straw to firm in Penn
Yam, who informed him that every par
ticle of that straw would be made into q
certain kind of paper, which after being
soaked in tobacco juice, would greatly re-
semble Havana leaf, and be used as such
in the manufacture of cigars.
Burglars broke into a Cincinnati
newspaper-man's bed room, night or two
since. 1t was unlucky for the inmates
of neighboring rooms that the intruders
found nothing worth stealing but per-
fume bottle in the newspaper-man's apart
ment, for from the others were taken
money, jewelry, handkerchiefs, hosiery
and other property Of varied value.
"A report comes from Montreal,
Canada, that the right of nun to take
be tried in the law courts there, as the
opulent friends of a young French
Canadian lady are about to apply for a
writ of habe.:5 corpus to compel the
mother superior of one of the local con-
vents to open the doors and allow her to
leave.
The statue of Liberty Enlightening
the World will weigh eighty tons and il
- L -, n ,ooJoetoI IN fooA
The fear is that the statue will not be able
to resist the pressure OF the wind. AS
only $4,000 of the $250000 necessary
for the pedestal is collected, there seems
to be no prospect of their raising either
the statue or the wind high enough to
do any harm to it.-DetTOt Post and
Tribune.
Two young men from the rural dis
tricts visited a King street. Hamilton,
Ont, photograph gallery, for the purpose
stance fade" and they performed their
additions in bowl of water while the
operators Lback was turned. It was a
nitrate of silver bath, and they have COD
Guided that, though the Ethiop may not
change his skin, it is not difficult for u
white man to do so.
The injudicious use of metaphors
has occasionally created great amuse-
ment both in the old Irish and
English Houses of Commons The other.
night Mr.. Gallon, NJ. P. for Louth, a
staunch opponent of the Sunday Closing
and Permissive bill, and personally
great benefactor to the revenue, replying
to the Irish Attorney General said: "The
facts relied on by the learned gentleman
are very strange. Now, Mr.. Speaker, 1.
| swallow a good deal. [''Hear, hear"
"QIite true," ''BegOrra you can" and
roals of laughter.] l repeat, I can swal--
low great deal [''Hear, hear" and fresh
volleys of laughter, but can't swallow:
that" A few nights before, in debate
which had to do with the Jews, Baron de
Worms had just remarked, owe owe
much to the Jews" when there came a
feeling groan from well-known member
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