Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-04-03
ITEMsOF INTEREST.

The NantichOke relief fund has reach
ed the sum Of $4,000 Each widow is
to receive S125 per annum, In monthly
payments, SO long as she remains Wid-
OW and the fund holds out.
A German Psychologist, who has been
making experiments on ''a large butchers
dog" declares that beer EetaUds digestion
more than vine containing the same
quantity Of alcohol
"If de wedder grows much worse and
de work harder all de time, - said an Ala
bama colored man, sdis niger viii
have a call to preach
The elevated railroad in New York is
about TO dispense with 81, GOO worth OF
oil lamps from the cars and substitute
electric lights.
A citizen Of Bloomfield, Czl., has had
all the Cinnamon In that town arrested
owing to threats made by them against
his life.
A piece Of gold weighing about eight
ounces was picked up by a child at Cal
averitas, Cal, the other day, from a pile
Of dirt.
At Penobscot, Me-, a poster annsunc-
ing a church festival had the postscript;
''NO flirting allowed"
After chasing a fox all day, a party Of
eleven hunters from West Rutland, Mass,
brought up at a hole. The dogs hOWled,
and the hunters dug for two hours and a
half, and at last unearthed a wOOdchuck.
A Buffalo woman has brought suit
against a hair-dresser Of that city, claim
ing 50, 800 damages for failure to bleach
her hair and made her a blonde. The
work was not properly done, and the
hair had to be cut OFF.
Boston experts criticise Howells' last
story, where he gives a carefully elaborate
scene in a police station, but represents
the captain as asking the young women
who makes a complaint to him, what
her age, height, and weight are.
Parchment cards are used for visiting
cards in Paris, and the programme Of
some Of the musical matinees given in
New York society have been on the same
stiff parchment, which has a tendency to
curl up and become unmanageable.
Mrs. j. has a mania for going out, but
she insists upon taking a coupe. II
never see your wife on the street" re-
marked a gentleman to her husband.
''You stop the first coupe that you meet
and you'll find her" replied the brute.
In the Louisiana lowlands there lives
an old man whose object Of affection in
this life Is a large gray goose. The goose
Is never so happy as when at his owners
feet, his long neck stretched upward and
his head resting against the old mans
knee.
The fearful mortality among the Ia
borers on De Lesseps' canal indicated by
the statement that no less than five Gem
eteries are open, and that in one, Of them
opened less than two years ago upward,
Of three thousand interments have taken
place.
1--WE go to press at 2 instead Of 4 to-
day" said a Tennessee paper, Sin order
to attend to some business Of importance
In the country" AT precisely five min
utes Of 4 two high-toned-looking men
with shot-guns called, and wanted TO
know where the editor was.
MI IL L. l1eIa-4G4Lf WHO was NJJaEultEs-
ter at East Weymouth, Mass, during
President Buchanan's administration,
but who resigned at the expiration Of
the latter's term, has Just received notice
Of ms reappOintment at the hand of Post
master General Villas.
On February u, for the first time, a
telegraph message was flashed from
Chiapas to PasO del Eorbe, the extremes
Of southern and northern Mexico, repre-
senEng a distance Of 1,08O miles. The
government is making efforts TO render
the service acceptable In every respect.
A Methodist preacher IN north Louisi-
ana has a horse which possesses strong
reasoning powers or remarkable memory.
On the frst and third Sundays Of the
month Mr.. Cadlan holds service IN a
town which is reached by taking the left
fork Of the road, while on the second and
fourth Sundays the town in which he
breaches is at the termination Of the
right fork Of the road. The horse. with
out a word or 6 touch Of the bride,
never tails on the first and third Sundays
20 take the road TO the LETT and on the
second ana fourth Sundays that 70 the
night
Seeking cat With coa3 81 and seffne