Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-13
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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Samuel Hoffman, of Ohio, went
crazy because the Prohibition Amend
ment was not adopted. Cleveland
Leader.
The Denver Medical Times says that
there are more physicians in that city,in
proportion to the population, than IN
any other in the United States.
Two brothers named Lynch died in
the same hospital in New Orleans re-
Gently without either knowing of the
presence of the other.-N. o. PScGylt1ae.
The most important and valuable
stamp collection in the world belongs to
= son of the Duchess of Galliera.
Though it is yet incomplete, the stamps
alone have cost $500, 600.
1t was pet monkey that struck a
match and fired the British bark
Marqurite at Bayonne, N. j., laden
with 1875 barrels of naphtha and 1000
of petroleum.-M. Y. San.
"A Castleton (Vt.) man has lived
within four miles of Lake BOmoseen
twenty-five years and never set eyes up
on it. His brother has crossed the
ocean five times since 1S6O.-RutLG17d
Herald.
Mrs. Fred Fisk, of Canestota, n.
Y, has set of embroidered curtains,
the work of her own hands, and which
has occupied her four years. She has
refused an offer of four thousand dol
lars for them.
General Grant has had made at Hart
ford. for presentation to the Viceroy of
China and the Mikado of Japan, two guns
modelled after the Gardiner patent,
which have been fired at the rate of
aor,av, b,,0J-a1 cbO%c nor Y,,inUfo
David Hawthorne, of Philadelphia,
beat his wife. She dealt him mortal
blow with tumbler He lived q week,
and went around all right, when the
artery burst, causing death. His wife
was exonerated by his own statement
Philadelphia Press.
"A civil engineer who recently
surveyed one hundred and seventy
miles of railway in Arkansas reports
that the citizens strenHously opposed
the construction of the road on the
ground that it would scare all the game
out of the country.-,St. Louis Globe.
Pearl street, New York, is the
-crookedest street in the world. 1t is
mile and half in extent, and vet It's
curves are so incessant that you cannot
IN any place see more than two squares
forming q half circle whose arc is nearly
one mile in length.-N. Y. Mail.
"A New York Judge saws there is no
law to prevent q woman dressing ia
mems clothes if she wants to, and dis
missed one in that garb brought before
him by a valiant policeman. The Judges
head is level. Any woman so lost to
the sense of the beautiful as to be willing
to make herself hideous in the masculine
costume of the day ought to be allowed
the privilege.-N. Y. Times.
On railroad train from Macon.
&C., the other day was remarkable
couple. The gentleman was Mr.. Thomas
G. Smith and the lady was his sister
They were born in Sandersville, but at
the age of eight years Mr.. Smith went
TO Texas, where he lived and prospered
mp to few weeks ago, when he returned
to Georgia and met his sister after
seventy years Of separation.-Cb Chicago
Herald.
The great Napoleon married
widow. Scarron's widow became a
court favorite. Rousseau went crazy
after widow, and GibbOn, the historian,
made himself ridiculous over one.
Disraeli married widow, and three of
the most distinguished widows in
Europe to-day are the Empress Eugene,
of the French; Queen Isabella, of the
Spanish, and Queen Victoria, of the
English.
Eyes of vair,'' the old phrase
used by English poets, is a curious re-
suit of phonetic spelling. Vair is the
spotted fur made by the skin of the
gray squirrel; verre is the French word
for glass. The poets evidently meant
what Chaucer wrote: ''Eyes as grey
as glass" but they wrote vair, and
hence the counterpart of the mistake
about Cinderella's slipper, which was
of ''vair," not 'verre.
Long shelves in one of the Offices
at the White House contain cases, each
of which bears the label eccentric
These cases are crammed with written
communications of them in all
which have been received by the
President in the last two years, and
which are so eccentric" that no man
can tell what their writer's were trying
to express. Such letters of course re-
main unanswered. = Washington Star.
-''Our own tobacco EXPORTS saws
the Boston AdccrtjSer, care at least ten
times larger than are those of Turkey;
but probably few people know that in
the production, consumption and export
of tobacco America exceeds every other
country. and that, as producer of
quantities, it is followed Immediately by
Russia, Hungary, Germany, France
not by Cuba, which has but about 4, 800
tobacco farms, and exports less than
does Turkey"
A Philadelphia young man has gone
into court in order to find out "a
woman's reason" He was engaged to
marry one of the elusive creatures, and
not only engaged, but ready and willing
to fulfill his promise, when she suddenly
and without explanation, refused to see
or have anything further to do with
him. He now sues for breach of prom
Use, not to recover pecuniary damages,
but to find just why she treated him so.
At the end of the trial the inquiSitive