Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Cincinnati have been presented with
500 each for long and faithful services
Prof. Newton says that the earth
receives about 5000, 900, 900 of meteors
every year, but they only increase the
size of the earth one inch In 100, O00, 900
years.
"A Detroit detective promises to
vanquish any one who viii compete
with him in the matter of pie eating,
without regard to sex, color, politics
or anything else. "-Detroit Post
Fifteen and twenty dollar bouquets
are to be dispensed with this winter
among the ''best" people of the metrop-
oils, and only the tiniest punches of
flowers are to be in. favor.-N 7.
Graphic.
Two little daughters of Franklin
Phillips, of Braxton County, West
Virginia, put powder into the fire so as
to make it burn up. One of them is
SPARED of.-St. Louis Post
George William Curtis told the
Staten Islanders, at their late celebration,
that this precious stone Staten Island,
set in their silver seas, is the most re-
splendent gem of the imperial crown OF
the great metropolis. IN Y. Times
IA AC6UCI WAS ICCOuI1y I0C6lFO0 AZ
che White House from a citizen in
Somerset, Kan. This citizen humbly
petitioned to have the name of the place
changed to Handspring. The reason he
gave was: There are several men in
the town who can turn handsprings,
but not one who can turn somerset. -
Chicago Tribune.
Some time since a Hartford man
presented friend of his a.pet squirrel
which he had raised from its infancy.
The next day the pet was gone, having
forced its way out of the cage. Two
days later it put in its appearance at the
old homestead, wet, muddy and hungry,
having travelled a distance of thirteen
miles, Hartford Post.
Among the latest batch of cratic
suicides are these: A Texas lawyer,
because he lost a case; a Kansas miller
because a dam he had just built did not
hold water to turn his wheel; an Indiana
man, because an old wound would not
get well; a Maryland woman because
she got religion; an Illinois farmer, be-
cause the blowing did not suit him.
Philadelphia Record.
Among the incidents of the recenl
gale on Lake Erie are the rescue by the
life-saVing crew at Cleveland of eigh-
teen lives, the imperiled sailors being
brought to shore in baskets, and the
drowning of four duck-huHters at Erie,
who had no faith in the Signal Service
and put off in spite of the warming
of the Weather Bureau and the advice
of friends. = Cleveland Leader.
Judge Swan, who has passed some
months on the Queen Charlotte Islands,
in the interest of the United States Fish
Commission, reports the discovery of q.
new food fish, which he calls the black
cod. He says it is one of the finest fish
he has ever seen, and is caught in great
numbers by dredging in deep water,
and, when sailed, is more tender and,
palatable than codfsh.-N. Y San.
Mr.. Barnum reluctantly confesses.
that the profits of the greatest show
on earth last year were 800, 900.
The circus business is coming up, and.
will soon rival journalism as profess
sion. The girl that slides down the
wire from the center pole to the ground
gets bigger salary than any editor on,
earth, even if she hasn't spent four years
of her life acquiring a college educa-
| ton Chicago Inter Ocean.
Thousands of young American
swells are said by a fashionable tailor;
| to wear nothing of American make.
Their measures are sent to London tail.
ors, hatters, and furnishers, who pro-
vide the articles ordered very promptly.
1t is true that garments thus obtained
are liable to prove poor fits, but there
are English tailors here also, whose
sole employmentis to complete imported
suits to make them ft.--N. Y. Mail.
Five young men started to take
| their girls QUITO ride at Lancaster, N.
H, recently, in single carriages. In,
turning corner the forward team
| tipped over, and the other four teams
were going so fast that they could not
be stopped, but one after the other be-
came a part of the general wreck, until
| it contained five teams and ten people.
No serious injury resulted to the young
people, but two carriages were badly
wrecked.-BoStOas Herald.
DR.. j. P. Barnum, of Louisville,
who recently returned from the won
derful salt and gas well in BradenbuTg,
KY, tells a Commercial reporter that
the flow is as great as it was at the time
of its discovery in 1865. The well which
is $50 feet deep, has been tubed so as to.
| separate the gas from the water. The
Doctors tests showed an hourly escape
| of 81. 120 cubic feet of gas, with Yeloci-
ty warranting a company in laying
pipe to Louisville, forty miles distant,
to supply the city with light and power.
Mexico will never be inhabited to
any great extent by Anglo-Saxons,
according to Don Patricio Milmo, a
wealthy capitalist of Monterey, for the
very good reason that there is too much
available land in the United States for
people to settle on rather than cast
their lot among Spaniards and Italians
in Mexico. Those English-speaking
people who are now there are generally
adventurers with no money, ssbut plenty
of brass and wind, ;" and Don Patricio
/ predicts their downfall and final ex-,
pulsion in the course of time Chicago
Times 1f I a
A law forbidding rumsellers to
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