Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-08
OF GEyRRAL INTERFsT.


The sum of S25, 900 has been raised
for monument to Robert E. Lee.-M
7. san.
-''Yes. I'm a cop, and I've several
little copies remarked the policeman
N y Mail.
"A Brooklyn man has run away from
his wife for the fourth time, leaving a
note stating that this is positively his
farewell Brooklyn IN. ~ Eagle
The first white labor ever employed
on South Florida railroad glistens II
the shape of thirty Irishmen at work on
the International Railroad.-DetrOii
Po3t.
"A Penobscot (Me.,) lumberman
pounds of spruce gum in three days
last winter, only taking what they could
reach from the ground.
Professor Paul Passey, of Paris,
says the United States is the dullest
country he ever visited. He probably
didn't go out and interview the cow
bOys.-C Chicago Herald.
Some workmen, while cleaning out
an old well at Lockeford, Cal, found
six hundred dollars in twenty-dollar
gold pieces among the refuse at the
bottom. FRANCISCO Call.
-Twenty-three counties in Texas
neglected to make any returns at all to
the Secretary of State of the votes cast
upon the Constitutional Amendments
which were submitted to the people and
ratified in August last.-N. T. Times.
Ten warriors, five squaws and four
papooses of the Omaha tribe have sailed
from New York to France. They are
under contract to give exhibitions in
riding, shooting, dancing, ETC., receiY
ing fifty dollars per month and expenses.
Yellow Smoke, one of the braves, is
seventy years old Chicago Journal.
The San Francisco AEt0 says that
shad, which were planted in the waters
of California a few years ago, are natur-
alizing themselves along the whole Pa
cific coast. They are now caught in
Puget Sound, and, the ALtG believes,
will soon frequent every river and har-
Dor between San Francisco and Alaska.
Among the numerous relics and
curiosities possessed by Mr.. Zimmerman,
of Boston, Mass, are a chair and bureau
$50 years old, bill for load of wood
hauled in 1868, costly china ware over
one hundred years old, four volumes Of
literature published in 1914, and snuff
box which was carried by a person in
Perry's fleet on Lake Erie.-BOStOn Post.
The States in which no tax is levied
upon commercial travellers are: New
York, Colorado, Connecticut, Dakota,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Min
nesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio,
Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont West
Virginia and Wisconsin. Chicago
Times.
An ear of corn was on exhibition
at San Luis Obispo, Cal, grown in the
exact form of the hand of a child, show
ing the wrist, hand, thumb and fingers,
all perfect, except the little finger, which
is double. 1t is covered with small
grains of corn to near the fingers, which
arc bare prOngs of cob, giving it the APP
pearance of hand clad with nit
San Francisco Chronicle.
"A twenty-dollar gold piece and a
silver dollar were found on William
Petty's person after his recent arrest, in
Portland, Ore. He is a gambler The
coins were followed out, and in each
hollow was a mirror, and while they
were lying on table at an angle of 45o
behind a stack of coin in front of the
dealer, he could see every card held by
his opponents Chicago Journal.
"A National Homestead Monument
Association has been organized at
Mitchell, D T., for the purpose of COM
memorating the benefcent provisions of
the Homestead law. 1t is proposed to
erect shaft 100 feet high in the center
of a quarter section of land-160 acres
and to ask every settler to contribute at
least one cent for every acre he has
secured under the aw.-DenCer Tribune.
"A young man living in Dayton, O.,
has commenced proceedings to ascer-
tain by judicial decision whether the
father of young lady, to whom he was
attached, had right to enforce with a
horse-whip his order to keep away from
the front gate. 1t is rather late in the
season, but it is hoped that the point
will be definitely settled in time for next
summers gate swingers. Chicago Her
aid.
Political writing in Hawaiian Jour
mails is not much behind some other
''barbarous" countries in vigor, as the
following from q recent issue of the
Honolulu Gazette may illustrate: 1.-THE
history of the present Administration,
with its kaleidoscope Cabinets and
boards, is an account of blunder upon
blunder, until now the Great MuddIer
has fairly sunk up to the neck in a sea
of mud, from which no skill can extri-
cate him.