Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-12
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A Virginia boy was arrested for cut
ting cats tails off for fun. He was only
following the example of Benjamin West,
who used to clip the cats caudle append
ages for paint brushes.
The New jersey General Assembly
has given the telephone and telegraph
companies two years during which they
must put their wires underground IN Jer-
sey City and Newark.
AT Benson, Arizona, the trainmen are
said to be chary of carrying the usual
lanterns about the depot yard, a habit
having arisen among the cowboys of try
ing to snuff them out with revolVers from
Assistance.
During the little blow along the At
lantic coast, considered by some people
the Virgins storm, the largest clans ever
seen there were washed ashore at New
port The bivalves averaged pound in
weight and some of the larger ones
weighed one pound and half each.-M
Y Sum-
All You, the Chinaman who died in
Philadelphia from the effects of an
assault made upon him by three young
men, held in his right hand, when his
soul fed to COnfucius, a small piece of
clay, brought from his far-away native
country, as a charm and a remem brance
of home.
"A Canadian farmer stationed his son
in the barn to see that no one broke in
and stole. When the said farmer went
to see how the son Jared he found him
hanging head down from rafter, and
nearly dead. Inasmuch as nothing was
missing, the farmer and his neighbors
thought this a most extraordinary pro-
ceeding.
An indignant Justice of the Peace
in Utah, before whom a man was ar
raigned for arson, imposed penalty of
forty days in the work house, and ruled
that the prisoner must work forty days
for the man whose barn he had burned
down. There may be very little law in
the last decision, but there is vast deal
of Justice Chicago Herald.
"A st. Louis husband, who has left
his wife, writes: 81 Was Missing money
out of my Pocket 1 Finally had to lock
My Pantaloons up Nights the Way She
Would Talk about folks Was Sin to
david Crockett the Six Weeks We Ware
together it Was Come and go you Shant
She Never Called me Geo or mr. Little it
Was go Come or Shant." st. Louis
Post
-"What nonsense this is" exclaimed
a Gotham belle, looking up from daily
Journal "Ihis paper says that death
has been busy in high places this year.
and somerOf the most prominent men in
the country have passed away Why,
l was present at the very last party be-
fore lent, and there was not a leader of
the german who was not alive and well"
N. Y. J0atI nal.
Pastor John Jasper, of Richmond,
is more firmly than ever convinced that
the world is fiat, and has four corners,
and that the sun moves up when it rises
and down when it sets. As the good old
man advances in years he becomes more
positive, and he has now reached that
point from which he hurls his anathemas
at all who disagree with him. Such per-
sons he declares to be infdels.- Chicago
Tribune.
C. A. Sala, the London Journalist,
says large American oyster reminds
him of the tongue of an invalid giant.
This relieves us of most distressing an
nOyance. For years we have been both
cred to remember what it was that an
American oyster so strongly reminded us
of, and now it comes to us like a flash of
thunder. Those who have never seen a
sick giants tongue can form no idea of
the startling Chicago NelOS.
"A Boston Photographer, tired of the
senseless and incessant ridicule heaped
upon Hubites for their attachment to
baked beans, has published a recipe for
the cooking of those yankee dates"
evidently with the hope that their use
may become general throughout the
country, and that the malgning of them
and of their birth may cease. Here is
the recipe: "Let your beans simmer in
warm water slowly, with molasses and
mustard; then put in the pork and bake
a long time. A small green onion adds
delicious flavor. IN Y. Tribune.
in the office of the Pilot Commits,
sioners in New York is strong iron box.
constructed on the plan of toy savings
bank. 1t is known among the pilots as
the ''swear-box," and every person swear
ing in the room has to pay ten cents for
each oath, or three for quarter, the
money going into the box. One pilot is
known to have paid over 1000. 1t was
not unusual to collect 500 a week for
the first few months after it was put up,
but of late years the contributions have
fallen off heavily. The rule is rigidly
enforced, and no one ever objects to paw
NAAS PNAAtNAOlS CNCA IL IIAC Otllu WIS
purely accidental. Old Commodore Van
derbilt was once a heavy contributor,
and so were other large ship and boat
Owners.-N. Y. Herald.
The american and Chinese Meas SAYS
that China now possesses a greater body
of literature than Europe can show 1t
is now known by all Intelligent people
that the empire contains large and
wealthy middle class; that a Chinaman
who can neither read nor write is a rari-
p ty; that the rights of property are every
where respected; that education is uni
Versal, and ignorance reputed crime;
and that, as a Chinese mandarin told the
people of Philadelphia some few years
past, in excellent English: eff after
rule of three years, the head of the city
in China does not improve his people in
morality and intelligence, he cannot be
promoted; and if a school teacher. dur-