Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


1t is said thatsparrows and swallows
fOrSake district when cholera is about
to make its advent.
An Albany On. Y. butcher figures
he has sawed seventy-eight miles of
bone in thirty years at his block.
"A Cleveland woman got two thous-
and dollars damages because of cough
she acquired in newly plastered hotel
-CIeUekG9s d Herald
If the area of the United States was
as densely settled as that of France,
there would be room here for $50, 600, 900
people Chicago NeCS.
The town corporation at Caldwell.
idaho, offers to deed a lot to each child
born in the town between the 10Th of
May and the 10Th of June, 1884.
The Victoria Falls, in South Africa,
are nearly twice as wide as the Falls of
Niagara, and more than one and half
times as high Chicago Herald.
The decision that cat is not prop
erty did not prevent New York Judge
from sending to prison for ten DAYS a
viXenish girl who had poured kerosene
over cat and then set fire to the ami
NAL.
The cigar points cut off by the clip
pers now found at every cigar stand
are put to an extraordinary use in New
York. They are collected, sent to Ger
many, and there sold for the benefit of
an orphan asYlum.-N 7. San.
More than three thousand snakes
were killed within mile Of Falls City,
Neb., during a recent overflow. They
were driven by the water from the bot
tom lands and swarmed upon the en-
bankments thrown up for railroads.
AS part of the marriage ceremony
in Servia the bride has to hold a piece
of sugar between her lips as a sign that
she will speak little and sweet1y during
her married life. 1t might be well to
introduce some such custom in this
country,
Ex-Governor Coburn, of Maine, re-
Gently sold eight hundred thousand
dollars worth of Western land
in single lot, and it is said that
it was the largest sale of country prop
erty ever made in the United States by
single individual. Boston Herald.
There are two things" says a
patent lawyer, ''that have absorbed
more brain tissue from the heads of in
ventiVe geniuses than would be neces-
sary to outweigh all the gold that has
in consequence been put into their pock-
ets-railroad couplings and bedsteads."
Chicago Herald.
1t was a novel game of whist that
DR.. j. II. Zukertort, the champion chess
player, played in the rooms OF the Union
Club, New York, the other afternoon.
When his hands were dealt to him he
glanced at them, threw them on the ia
BILE, face downward and played the
game from memory. He said after
ward that it was very simple thing to
be compared with playing blindfold
games of chess.-N. 7. Herald.
Marriage for those who live in the
Siberian mines has peculiar features.
it, the only thing necessary for him to
oVerseer, who forthwith allots him
wife. Three days of probation are
then allowed, and if any incompatible
applicant may receive twenty-five lashes
tinued until he gets wife to suit him.
japanese funerals are always con-
Quoted at sunset, in accordance with
superstition that is rather beautiful than
otherwise. The procession is headed
by priests and a company of musicians,
who play upon samisens and beat TOM
toms. The coffin is a wooden tub, in
which the deceased is squatting as he
has lived, with his feet tucked under
him. There is this difference, however:
The face of the dead man is looking to-
ward the north, whereas this position is
religiousty avoided by the living jap
anese.
Simon Carson, a farmer near Sedalia,
Mo-, missed small sums of money sever
al times during the past three months.
but could not understand how any one
could break into his house without leav-
ing some marks of having been there.
One night recently, however, he dreamed
that one of his servant girls was the
culprit, and that the money would be
found concealed in the mattress of her
bed. The next day he had it torn open
and searched, when he found that his
dream was true. The girl is now in
jail Chicago Herald.
The Board of Supervisors at Sacra-
mento sent some carpenters out to where
the Chinese leper lives, beyond the
north levee, to build for MIN comforta-
BILE winter quarters. The poor fellow
was much pleased at the interest taken
in his case by the Mclean man, and
was very profuse in his thanks for their
kind services. Holding up his hands,
the fingers of which are dropping off
one by one, and pointing to his feet, the
toes of which have disappeared, he said,
with grave smile: ''You see; bimeby
Chinaman all gone. San Francisco
Chronicle.
"A youngster of nine years, who had
already escaped several times from st.
Mary's Industrial School in Baltimore,
performed that feat again by sliding
down the lightning rod from the fifth
story. But how did you get your
hands over the fastenings that hold the
rod to the waIl?'' asked the police Cap
tain before whom the captured runaway
was taken. whenever come to one, !"
replied the boy, with great composure,
II holded myself with one hand above
the fastenin' and put the other one be-