Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-27
OF aENERAL IErEREsT.

Virgins has nine eolored men in
her Legislature.
The record of our alphabet has been
traced back nearly four thousand years.
1t is the fashion to. use one perfume
only. Thus one girl always uses violet.
another rose. ete.-N. 7. Groplie.
Lord Br0ugham once facetiously de-
fined a lawyer thus "a learned gem
tleman who rescues your estate from
your enemies, and keeps It himself. =
"A member Of 8 Kentucky church
offered the Ladies Aid Society Eve
dollars If its members would meet and
make a quilt without saying word
Two dozen of the ladies met st the par
sonage. and in two hours the quilt was
finished. but they all say that they would
not do such a thing again for fifty dollars
-L0aeiscille Courier Journal.
The ladies of Olympia, ". T.. held
a jubilee meeting when the Woman SUI
frage act was passed. and afterWard in
dulged in q street parade. a great
many ladies marched In the ranks bear
ing transpareneies, notices, etc. The
most attractive feature Of the procession
was a large transparency borne by a
buxom woman, displaying the words:
is 1t He, or She, Which?''
What a place France would be for a
hard-cider campaign. There are now
tivated for the purposeof cider-making.
An idea of how large a number that is
may be gained from the fact that were
the trees placed side by side they would
line boulevard fifteen thousand miles
along. A great deal of this cider, chem
ically prepared, gets upon the Amer
lean market as camampagne. = ChScGg0
Inter Ocean.
Fish culturists will be interested in
an enormous eel pond-the largest in
America-on a farm in the town of Xiv
erhead, Mass. 1t covers five acres
About two thousand dozen eels were put
into the pond five years ago, and their
number has now increased to millions.
They are fed regularly every third day
on ''horse-feet, d peculiar shell-hsh,
and at meal-time crack from their
owners whip will bring thousands of
them to the surface.
Speaking of the origin of some
names in Oregon, the OregOl1Gd79 says of
Grants Pass: when Grant was Lieu
tenant he was camped there with par
euchre for one dollar on the corner
The game stood three to three Grant
picked up his cards and had the right
bower, ace and king. He concluded to
pass, thinking he could euchre his OPP
ponent, a burly miner. The result was
that he lost his dollar, and the place was
called Grants Pass"
At fancy ball at Sidney, New
HT,1.N
wife of the editor of the Morning Herald,
appeared as the Press in several
pages of the paper named, printed in
colors on a beautiful white satin.
Every column was in a different color,
and each was brought out as distinctly
as though printed on paper in the or
binary issue. The body was represented
with flags of the various colonies
in their proper color. The head-dress
was that of Minerva, with the words.
''The Press" in bold relief, printed in
thirteen different colors. The costume
was much admired.
"A chief cause of dogs ''baying the
moon" and barking at nothing is dis
comfort. Many unfortunate animals
are from pure carelessness consigned to
cold and comfortless kennels. 1t was
found on investigating the kennel of a
dog. which had nightly rendered life a
burden to a neighborhood, that the
kennel was too small and the poor
creature could only lie partly in it, was
kept awake by cold and misery, and
not unnaturally howled. Many dogs,
too, suffer in health by being tied up
without exercise, and thus are rem.
dered restless, and consequently howl
at night. a dog properly cared fol
will rarely give annoyance Chicago
| Tribune.