Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-04
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

net Citizens of Massachusetts Who plant
four trees by the highway are, allowed
one dollar abatement of their highway
tax 80 = - Ak * - ~
s9.-FA pearl weighing .seyentyrive, :,
learats. the largest ever found was takens 81
recently iron the shell of an oyster in.
the GulfHOf California. CHICAGO Lines. I9ll
ttNfrs' lay. Of Oil City,. who has been ;. {
prospecting in Wyoming, hazards the f,
opinion thst the Worlds futile petra y
l1eti1n supply viii be found there. IN. n IS
.ese The diseases that London Lancet
says mag be conveyed BY books are
measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, sore
throat, whoOping cough. bronchitis and =
perhaps phthfsis, 't'..,-..... $3.50. 1ois1a1 a1a
o. Maine farmers r. have been caueIllt at ?
iits0 They raised bears in droves in order 9
ito, secure the State bounty on their
seal ps, This is an infant industry which.
viii not be protected. Boston Post e5-s
81 Suppose we pit our American SMALL
FjpoK against the Egyptian choleraNshens,yl
the latter. arrives in this country next 4, u
summer 1t would do to .laetl ON the I'D
Home article. in. a .catchras-catch=caAl 81
wrestle - Ctie0go tNea0S. Jsl0 tsIl
sA-A clerk in the New YoiR CemptroI-
ler1s Office made a mistake of three
CSlllS III a NdIIdnO
033. % and was dismissed. ftiwaS his.
2seeon d error within a month and errors
iRdthat office are fatal to the man W hols 8.
makes them.--N.lE Times, sI9noia.iiunso
"A little ehntl6f Mr. and Mrs. Jas. ~
Vaughn, of Gentle Valley, Utah, was
carried three or four miles by bear
recently. Search was made high and
low for the child aDd@at last it-rwas CT
found lying in the brush unhurt, and
close beside it, was, the. place where a.
bear had lain during, the night previous.
I-4Deaaeer Irt6at,aeo,5t za = 95tfJI2E.i'
1a-+The Comparative value ii England, g !.
| of two panes of glass and one baby is
illustrated by two recent trials. In one
| case "a young man was sentenced to SIX. -
weeks Imprisonment at hard labor for
breaking two window, panes in, police,
station III, il the other drunken l i father
kicked li s3et :! his baby twice The baby was
| fatally Injured, and the father was SEN
fenced TO one months imprisonment is at "a
i haEq lapof- brt,, s,t .,tesstsf,aV ~ tsoN
h IA building in Bridgeport, Conn,
belonging to the NaugatpckYa alley lee q
| Company was on, fire recentlya,iAfte =,
the flames had beenIextinguished a har=
rel of blasting powderlwas found in the b,
| building. The. slaves had been burned
| through to the lead 1ining.iA While the
fire was burning some of the employees
ofthe companySwer fighting the fiamesg
| directly over ifwhere the powder barrel
was; ablaze. Hartford Post. .8i
"A letter was received a few days
ago at the Office, Ola Boston horse-raiI-
road company from q man in England, u,
| whe.wrote that his conscience troubled
! him and he wanted to confess. He said
he was, about eight or ten years ago, a
| conductor on that road, and had stolen
small sums aggGsggfastipqg between $500
and $780, He had no money wherewith
to make restitution. but he thought, that
confession would be- good for his SOU.
t Reference to the. books of the company.
showed that he had been spotted and
discharged for stealing. IN. r Sun. q -
"A. dusty man: riding a 'wiry mustang
pu1ledup in front of an office in Newitrk,9o
I n. j., one evening trecemly. He stated
in the course of conversation that he
had ridden from Arizona in the saddle
and was on his way to Rhode Island
He had been three months on the road,
but about one month of the time had
be6ncOnsumed in stoppages. His horse
was in good condition, though spare,I-,
and there Seemed to be an excellent I'M
derstanding between man and beast
The man rodRufoff to find lodgings,
the next morning.-N y Tribune, ~. r.
90 Long Branch is said to be the Oldest
t0Wn in chat part of New jersey ana the "a
queer little church Observation-Disclosures Houses
are clustered was originally built IN
Queen Anne's time although but little is
]efb of the original sstFdeSdreO except the
Iyhhigh-backed2 goyern6r's pew, the silver z
communion service, the bible, and the
old cross surmOunted by crown, which
bears the weathercock. The crown, . /.
tradition says. had its csymHaetry Of dee
sign marred by a bullet .dl4lllriin during the 3.
Revolutionary war, when some Jealous
patriot wasted his ammunition on the
hated symbOlsfAaN bK,sI eqeeSU 400 la jn9a
Professor IMeagheFa who's resides n
mean Virginia City, New, has and cleo ,
trica1 stove. During a thunderstorm
the stove cannot be approached withoutH1'
exhibiting all these properties, and ON
K1tquehing it a shock is the result. Dur
inc the cloudy DAYS last week the stove So
was continually charged with the fHid, x
and on the appreachOf astSrm cloud thed n
family provided, themselves with silk
handkerchief lnonTeopd uctors) Which i -
the stove. Mr.. Meagher says he is posi-
tive there is no telegraph wire id sthe'
vicinity OF the liouseI II 75ied96 HerGtt7s =
Governor Ben Buffers stables arc y
the finest in Lowell He keeps nine
thorough Bred horses Among them is 2.
fine pain of chestnut msFesy. presented
by, ex-GoYernorI Spragues of Rhode
Island. pair of Black Knox horses, a
pair Of thoroughbred blooded bays, and
buggy saddle and .ph3eton horses, In :.
his farm Stable Is Kept the Old bueksSfrl q
horse which caFffed the General thF6a Zal'
out the var NOobeast has a more en-be3
joyable existence dips his cid age.sr, He,
has the free run, of the grounds! goes IN /.
and comes out when he pIeases, has all