Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-07

near New Philadelphia, ONO, VINO never
shaYes or cuts his hair or nails, has a
flock of sheep which have not been shorn
for six years, the old man contending
| that God gave them wool to keep them
warm.
The quite genuine Princess de Ger
CHAR has become a concert hall singer in
Paris. It was only last winter that the
city had a similar scandal in the debut of
Claire Gambetta, a cousin of the express
ident of the Chamber, in a variety
theatre.
Dick Luke is the owner of a whole
coal mine in Michigan, and yet he is not
much of a capitalist, for it is very small
property. He personally works the only
tunnel, into which he crawls in the
morning, to get out an average of ton of
coal before night.
The New Albany woman who paid
$3.50 to gypsies to rid her of a witch neigh
| boris deviltry is angry because the law
officers have compelled return of the
money. She declares the country is not
free in which person can't spend her
money as she pleases.
Three Kentucky brothers were mar
ried on the same day two years ago, and
! they came as near to simultaneously get
ting divorces as the courts would permit,
the three suits being instituted at one
time, and the DEGREES being granted
within a week Of each other.
-HenryWard Beechera lat theconclusion
of a recent lecture at Montgomery, Ala,
took occasion to say that he had never
uttered word against the Confederate
soldiers, and that had he lived in the
South when the war broke out, he would
probably have been Confederate.
"A member of the New York Phonetic
Club writes to this able and influential
journal, asking us to "drop the final ue
in words so ending, and spell dialog, ep-
ilOg, ETC., etc." Well, we kick. We are
willing to drop the ne to a limited ex-
tent, but when the New York language
club asks us to spell glue, 81, we protest.
HGaOkeye.
-Trollope received $24O for his first
production, and $35, 900 for one Ofhis last.
Captain Marryat received $3.50, O00for the
copyright of the cheap edition Of his
1 addition to the large amount paid at the
time of their publication, while it is well
known that Messrs. LOngman paid Lord
Baconsfeld $4,000 for "Endymion."
"A correspondent of the Washington
| IlCDktOCCCCIJG GSllS VI q OOS NnlCn IdO UGOu
bitten by rattlesnakes at three different
times, and every time cured himself by
going at once and finding puddle of
mud sufficiently deep to bury himself,
leaving his eyes and nose only above
ground. He would remain in the mud
from three to four days, and return home
quite as well as usual.
The very tallest men in Great Brit
ain, averaging 5 feet 81 inches and up
ward, are found in the Scotch counties of
| Rescudbright, Ayr, and WigtOWn, the
Lothians and Berwickshire. The next
tallest go to 699 inches) prevail in other
Scotch counties and in the North and
East Riding of Yorkshire. The next 1851
to 50 inches) in the Irish provinces of
Munster and Connaught and the north
ern English counties of Cumberland and
! WestmOreland. The lowest 1861 to 81
inches) are found in Middlesex and the
counties around London and the lower
part Of Wales.
On the farm of George Logan, near
| Lebanon, in the county of Warren, Ohio.
hen has long evinced an ardent desire
to be mother, by persistent efforts to
hatch dOOr-knObs and anything else that
bore the remotest resemblance to an
egg, that her owner finally had pity on
| her, and placed in her favOrite barrel
fourteen curious eggs that he had discOv-
cred in turning furrow, Then he went
off to camp-meeting and thought no more
about the matter until his return, when
he was amazed to find that the hen had
Matched into this wicked world fourteen
| little snakes, for which she was caring
with the utmost affection and sOlicitude
and from which she received constant
demonstrations of filial affection. Next.
La PreSse MedicaIe Beige saws that a
mysterious parsonage recently installed
| himself as doctor in the most frequent
ed part Of the Faubourg Montmartre,
Paris, to whose presence admission could
only be gained after infinite questionings.
His assumed name was foreign, and his
servants were bound over to secrecy.
This difficulty of access and air of mys-
terry acted as a tremendous advertise
ment, and his consultation room was so
! besieged that the attention of the police
was attracted. A COmnliSSdiTe demanded
an inspection of his deploma. To his
surprise the doctor showed perfectly au-
thentic documents. "And now that you
have assured yourself, M. Commissaire,"
said the doctor, edo not betray me; for if
my patients come to know that I am a
mere doctor of the medical faculty of
Paris, shall see no more of them"
The proposal to make a huge water
way of the Jordan Valley is slowly gain
ing practical shape. The valley forms
depression 1000 feet below the level of
the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean. BY
cutting channel at either end, sixty
seven miles in length and averaging forty
feet in depth, into the Red Sea, a chan
mel 240 miles long would be opened from
sea to sea. The flood of water would
submerge the towns of Jericho, Tiberis,a
Capernaum, Bethsaida and all the coun-
! try between made sacred by the Savior's
| footsteps. Some English writer's have
called attention to the curious fulfllment
of prophecy in this opening of water
way, should it be made. ''Living wat
ers," said Zachariah, "shall go out from