Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-11-22

KALAKAUA, King of the Sandwich
Islands, is writing another book. It's
subject has not been announced, but
royalty on it is assured.
As IRON expands with the heat the
EiffeI tower is said to be five inches
taller when the temperature is high
than it is in the cool of the day.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has
subscribed 10000 francs to the fund
for the relief of the sufferers by the re-
cent explosion and fire at Antwerp.
SCIENCE and art have advanced so
fast that much larger diamond can
now be bought for a dollar-and-a-ha
than for one hundred and fifty dollars.
The Empire of Japan has 81, OOO,O
inhabitants who are slowly but surely
adopting Western customs in dress as
we'll as in civilization and methods Of
research.
AN Eastern Ohio girl who advertised
for correspondent was mad as a wet
hen when she received a reply from a
young chap whom she rejected three
years ago.
In view of the numerous recent
deaths resulting from dependence on
christian science, the faith-cure fraud
should be renamed. "BarbarOus igno-
rance" would be a much closer fit.
PROBABLY the longest word in the
German language is in the last edition
of the official journal of commissions.
Here it is: Observation-Disclosures
Observation-Disclosures"
AN interesting discovery is said to
have been made in India This is
nothing less than the lost books of
Euclid, of which a Sanskrit transla-
ton is said to have been found at Jey-
pore.
A LAw-scHooL for the purpose of
giving to the ladies of New York and
others the opportunity to study law
and to qualify themselves for the man
agement of their own affairs is soon to
be started.
The prisoners in the Texas peni-
Tertiary raise sugar cane and refine its
juice. After paying all the costs of
food, fuel, shelter and clothing, 800, .
600 have been turned into the State
for this work
JOAQUIN MILLER, who gave to the
incipient State of Idaho its name, says
that it is written and spelled improp-
erly. The correct form is Idaho,
with the accent on the middle sylla-
BILE. The name means the light on the
mountains.
THERE are 90 political journals in
Paris, IS journals devoted to science,
% to the theaters, 26 to the fine arts,
go to trade, 78 to Jurisprudence, 100 to
medicine, a to sport, and so to fash
ions. There are, besides all these, rs
illustrated journals.
THE proudest boast among Cuban
women is the dainty smallness of their
feet. They require nothing larger in
the way of footgear than the No. size
for American women. This peculiar
endowment is perfectly natural; nc
pinioning or pressure of any kind is
used.
AN ENGLISH paper states that som,
days ago there was terminated at War
saw a lawsuit which lasted four cen
turies. The suit was over a forty-acr,
piece of uncuItivated land. 1t wa.
commenced in 1890, and, curiousIy
enough brought to an end by amicabI
arbitration.
SIMON COLLINS, of Marietta, Ohio
has been blind twenty-seven years. H
is an expert carpet weaver, prints pa
per sacks in colors, has invented sew
eraI useful articles, and does good wOrl
on the typewriter. He walks abou
the city alone, and never has tn
slightest trouble.
THE number of persons who los
their lives at Johnstown, Pa, in tn