Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-06-27

FACT AND FANNY.


say the florists.
Jacksonville. Fla. has organized a
humane society.
The giraffe has never been known
to utter q sound.
The peach crOp is promising IN
spots in South Carolina.
The erection of a 500. 600 hotel at
Gainesville, Fla, is assured
There are 1l6 students In the North
Georgia Agricultural college.
Selma, Ala. had $4,000 worth Of
property destroyed by fire last year.
There are fourteen Mormon preach
ers in the vicinity of Asheboro, n. @.
Good farm labor is aifieult to op-
tain in many South Carolina counties.
Religious services are held in tho
Washington dime museum every Sum
day.
Woman suffrage has received sixteen
defeats An the Massachusetts legisla-
ture.
The recent cold spell did more dam
age IN Texas than in any southern
state.
The poetry of motion is shown when
the editor invites the poet to leave the
sanctum.
Atlanta's artesian wei has already
cost that city $4,000, and 1t is far
from being bored vet.
a whale forty feet long was captured
at Cape Lookout, n. C., last Sunday.
1T was valued at 81, 800.
A half-dozeu Pima Indian children
have been received at the Albuquer-
que, New Mexico, school.
a letter was picked up on tho street
in Lau euceVlIle, Ga, the other day
that is thirty-live years old.
One of the best Latin and Greek
scholars IN Athens, Ga, is working
for 70 cents per day sodding grass.
The police force of Charlotte, N. c.,
has been reduced from twelve to eight
men, and the mayor has turned over
$500 of his 81, 200 salary to the grad
ed school.
The wheat crop of San Joaquin
county. California, this year viii come
from the islands and tuIe lands. Farm
ers are much discouraged throughout
the county.
The boss" peach tree in the Della
ware region, according 10 local fame
is a tree elght or ten inches through,
and hOary with AGE Last season it
yielded eight crates Of understandable
from the ground.
There are now 1878 newspapers
published i'm the United States, gain
Of 6Z3 since 1884. Kansas shows the
greatest increase, her gain being 76,
Illinois coming next with III. One
newspaper is now printed tor every
5,867 OF population.
The demand for copyright protec-
ton is illustrated ia the fact that TIE
Century secures copyright protection
in Great Britain by issue there day
or two in advance great advantage
to contributors, since their articles are
now protected In both countries.
A Spartansburg, S. c., young lady
adveruses in the local paper TOR hus-
band She describes herself young
and pretty, charming and witty, petite
and piquante. Either there are no
young men in Spartansburg or the
damseI has overrated her charms.
at an official reception in Washing
ton an Old captains wife was heard to
say to a pretty young lady standing
near: ''See Edith! Look at that
young man with the eyeglasses; and
Just think, he can send your Uncle
Frank to the uttermosJ parts OF the
earth.
The new Catholic university is to be
placed in Washington, because that
city possesses greater literary, sci
eulic, and philosophical advantages
than any city in the country. it is
the capital of the nation and the cen
ter of the social aud literary life of the
country" This is eZOrbitant praise
for Washington.
The tulip Is very prolific. A CORE
SpOndent OF lite GdFG5Hs an EngiiSh
horticultural paper, says that in 1880
he had fifty bulbs given him, which
had been forced ia the spring and
placed out OF doors to dry of. He
planted them In November the same
year and took them mp the next June,
repeating each year, and now finds
himself the pCsEessOr OF more than
three thousand good Towering bulbs.
BY the eXer5iOn of the late Capt
Marryat (mainly instrumental in sup
pressing the vile system OF press
gangs) no naval officer may lnhict
logging until tWenty-EOur hours after
the commission of an oIense, so that
pun shment may not be the result Of
passion. In Scotland. by an act o.
George T., no sentence Of death can D6
inflicted on the south side OF the Forth
In less thal thirty, and on the nOr5h
in less than forty days
A New York company which manu-
facUures every day l. 500 busties stuffed
with renovated antelope hair has Just
begun tine Manufacture of lf6-pre-
servers stuffed with the same mate
teriaL A test Of the comparative
value Of different life-preserVers has
been made. 1T requires only ten
pounds OF buoyancy TO keep a live
persons head above water. a cork
buoy weighing nine pounds. was
found 20 support thutF-three pounds;
q buoy of California rule held up City
pounds, and an Alaska down buoy ol
i've pounds held up sixtv-four pounds.
The company recently fitted cut seY-