Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-15


tramps in Wyoming Territory. Chica-
90 Times.
Fasting from four to eight days,
with water and lemonade at Intervals,
is the latest sure cure for rheumA-
tism.-C Chicago Journal.
"A correspondent of the Buffalo a.
" Express informs it that its published
list of pensioners in Erie County con-
tains the names of some who have been
dead for years.
1t has been demonstrated that any
Maid of the Mist can pass the Niagara
whirlpool, but that's poor satisfaction
for swimmers not built on the steamboat
plan.-Detroit Free Press.
There is a family living in Nash
vile. Tenn, whose members In the last
three years committed four murders,
but have always escaped punishment
through some technicality Of the law
Chicago Times.
The home of natural curiosities
seems to be Robson County. North Car
alma. There was born ssMillie Chris
tine, . the two-headed nightingale, and
a few days ago another phenomenon In
the shape of a negro woman with three
eyes was discovered in Lumberton.-
Exchange.
"A woman of Brownsville, n. r,
had narrow escape from death re-
Gently. She was seated at the dinner
table, when bullet from a gun in the
hands of lunatic passed through the
window in front of the lady, so close
that it broke a hairpin fastened on her
left temple.
The Cleveland Herald keeps this
legend standing at the head of its edi-
tOrial columns: Population of Cleve-
land two hundred and ten thousand. -
Buffalo has been claiming two hundred
thousand for year past, but she must
peg up ten thousand more at once
Buffalo Commercial AdUertGSer.
The occasion of Queen Victsria's
recent interdict against excessive card
playing IN the royal palaces wax that,
during the residence of the DGSe of
Teck at Kensington Palace this season,
the games were often continued all sun
day and other days at night. Enor-
nous sums were frequently lost.
When George Stryl5er was at work
in the bottom of the we'll at Fort Hamil-
ton, in New York harbor, bucket fell
and killed him. Before going to work
in the morning young Stryker told his
friends that he dreamed in the night that
a large stone fell on him in the well and
killed him and his uncle cautioned him
to take care in the WOrk.-N. y. MGGL.
Emma Clark, a handsome girl of
| twenty, was arraigned in the Common
Pleas Court at Cleveland, recently, for
stealing pocket-book with 1921 in it,
! from John Flanagan's coat. He had no
evidence againt the girl except that he
dreamed she had taken the money.
Emma, who had been telegraph oper-
ator in Detroit, was acquitted. Detroit
! Post.
"A Philadelphia bride received
among her wedding presents a few days
ago dinner service of hand-painted
china, two hundred and odd pieces in
| all, that cost, so the gossips say, one
! thousand five hundred dollars. It took
three ''hand-painters' six months to do
the ''decOrative-art business. 1t is to
be hoped that the bride is fully appre-
ciative. Philadelphia Press.
A Traveller of Selma, Ala, who re-
Gently visited the Mammoth Cave in
| Kentucky, returned to his home, taking
with him as a curiosity couple of eye
| less fish that are found in the subterra-
mean river there. The little finnies
are as lively in their glass river as if in
their native waters. They are perfectly
| eyes ought to be, belong to the catfish
family, and are only two inches long.
Sob Kwanfi Pom, Secretary of the
! COrean Embassy at Washington, has
made the following observations in this
country: ''The women of America are
all far more beautiful than any others
we have seen. I notice most women
wear black clothes; many wear blue,
| and when the weather is warm white Is
very commonly worn. Some women
wear their hats and bonnets tilted back,
showing the front hair, while others
wear them squarely on the head. OF
the two the former style is the nicer to
see."
If young married couples would fol-
low the domestic plan laid down by SEN
ator Vance, of North Carolina, there
would be less contention in households,
and, perhaps, fewer divorces in courts.
He said to his second wife shortly after
marriages: 'tMy dear, I'm a stubborn
fellow, and you may anticipate trouble.
Now, in the beginning, while am sub
missive, want to give you one piece of
advice. If you follow it Wen get on
mighty well. 1t is this: Make me do
just as 1 darned please. - Chicago Inter
Ocean.
- mere is an awful warning IN .t1o
following case, which recently happened
in Danbury, n. c., to persons who use
Gods name in vain. Mr.. Smith, a to-
bacco farmer, who lives in Danbury.
some days ago was in an almost insane
rage over the damage to his fine crop
by the rains and winds, and he walked
over his plantation swearing and ours
ing the Almighty. His language was
so terrible that several laborers who
were with him left, when, as he was
about to utter frightful imprecation.
be fell yOiceless and as if dead. His
case is a puzzle to the physicians, who
can do nothing whatever to relieve him
from his difieultY.-iSt Louis Post.
Bishop Warren, of the Methodist
Church, is enthusiastic over American
nrooress. He proudly declares that or