Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-07-03
ITEMS Of INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
At a reception to Rev DR.. Seward, IN
New Britain, Conn, recently, reminis-
cences were in order. 1t was said that
! DR.. Seward insisted, when appointed
pastor in 1886, that he should not be
called upon for more than two public
/ services each Sunday that one member
of the church shortly afterwaTd prayed
I that the pastor would receive grace to
] preach in tine morning and afternoon,
and, 'If his strength held out, he might,
continue in the evening" DR.. Seward
| told Of receiving a bushel Of turniPs
| once for marrying a couple and some
/ years later the bridegroom appeared and
! passed out a SO bill, saying that ''his
wife had turned out so well that he felt
! justified in the expenditure" A man
once came into church late, and started,
with squeaky boots to walk the whole
length Of a side gallery, when an ex-
change pastor stopped suddenly in his
prayer, opened his eyes, and pointing a
long finger at the disturber, said, ''YOu
sit right down where you are" lie then
resumed his prayer.
An Alaska traveller who has seen some
thing of the Arctic mosquitoes, describes
some Of their characteristics. "Why,
sir," he exclaimed, 'they even kill bears.
Now, 1t seems strange that a mosquito
could Kill a bear, but this is the way it
is done. The bears came down from the
hills into the marsh land to feed on roots
and berries-a sort of cranberry found
there. As soon as they get comfortably
to work the mosquitoes attack them and
go for their eyes. The bears get up on
their hind legs to fight them OFF, and
sink into the swamp. The mosquitoes,
which are of most extraordinary size,
keep at them until they are totally blind,
and then they have them completely at
their mercy. I have seen over a dozen
bear carcasses IN those swamps positive
ly killed by the mosquitoes.
A greedy hen, belonging to Mrs.
Hummer, Of GAINESVILLE, O., ate so much
that her crop became clogged, and she
was in danger of dying. Mrs. Hummer
was equal to the emergency. She clipped
the feathers of the crop, then opened it
with a sharp knife, removed the contents,
deity sewed it up again, and the hen is
now the mother of a fine brood of chicks.
A Kentucky farmers says he gathered
about twenty of the cut-worms which
have been devastating the crops in his
section and put them in cigar box half
filed with dirt, covered the same with a
pane of glass. and set it in the sun. The
result in less than two weeks was brood
OF grasshOpPers.
In one of the rooms of a house in
Morelia, Mexico, on the wall is to be seen
the half-effaced imprint of a bloody hand.
That mark was stained with the blood of
''the panther of Tacubaya," Leonardo
Marquee, the murderer of AIelchor Ocam-
| pO. Marquee received a ball In the right
cheek during the revolution which broke
out Dec. IS, 1868, In MOreia, and on
reaching his bed, which stood In that
| corner, he probably felt faint, for he sup
/ ported himself against the wall with the
/ bloody hand which left the stain.
A reporter fresh from England was re-
/ Gently assigned by the city editor of a
| Boston paper to report a lecture. This
/ Is the way he "fzed" a quotation from
/ Tom Moore ''The reverend gentleman
/ announced it as his opinion that the
world is In the nature of a fieeting show,
given 4OL TIC --E1L-a--lL- -- --Lt-44 anu SLD-
/ ceeded to remark further that the smiles
/ Of Joy, as well as the tears of woe, shine
| deceitfully in the one case and flow de
/ ceitfully in the other. There is, he said,
nothing true but heaven"
Michael Crogan, better known as
/ Nosey Mike, died In the Coyingtoa
| hospital recently having been run over by
/ a railroad train while drunk. Rum killed
him and rum gave him his name. Twen-
/ ty years ago in a fight his nose was cut
/ OF. The man who did the cutting gave
Mike $50 to pay for having the nose re-
/ placed. Crogan took the money, got
| very drunk, and when he sObered up
/ found that he had the nose IN his pocket.
1t was then past replacing.
The Hotel Mai complains that "Ehere
are too many snObs at present officiating
| as clerks In the Office of hrst-class hotels
too many iliterats youths, notorious
] for incOmptency, and vulgar taste in
dress. These persons are yalueless to
their employers, and of little service to
! patrons Of the house They seem to
take especial pains to be rude and dis
courteous and pride themselves upon an
nOying their betters in every possible
way"
There seems to be a conspiracy be
tween two hens, a horse and the dog Of
a South Windhan, Conn, farmer to de
priVe him Of his rights IN eggs. One Of
the hens daily lays an egg in the dog
house, and the dog daily eats it. tn
other hen lays her eggs In the horses
manger, and he eats it indeed, so fond
is the steed Of fresh eggs that he some
times lifts the hen OF the nest to see if
the egg has been laid
Rev. F. K. Brooke was rectoro Grace
/ Episcopal church, IN Sanduslzy, O., and
the great majority Of his congregation
were republicans, as was Dr. Brooke,
There was great indignation, therefore,
when he voted for Cleveland for presi-
dent, and 1t is said that since that time
he has been the victim Of political per
seou6on which has at length resulted In
forcing him to resign his Pastorate.
A novel shower Of rain occurred recent
+ ly at Sacramento, Cal The stars were