Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

be reproduced In great atlas with ac-
companying text-a Swedish and an
English edition to be issued.
IT is given out that John L. Sulli-
van has made over 100000 by prize
fighting, and to-day is not worth dol
lar. Assuming that this is so, it is IN
order to remark that what's-his-name
and his money are soon parted.
THEODORE URBAN, an antiquarian
and student of Columbia, Pa, says he
has evidence that this continent was
settled about $50 years after the del
uge; that the inhabitants were highly
civilized and used tools of metal,
A MAN who lives near PIatt, Sullivan
County, Pa, claims to have a scheme
whereby he can manufacture shoes with
movable soles, so that when one sole
wears out the old one can be replaced
with a new one without any trouble.
A CERTAIN popular Cincinnati gen
tleman, who recently married widow
with a grown-up family, found him
self within three weeks a bachelor,
husband, father, and a grandfather.
He is wondering what will happen to
him next.
DIR. PEPPER, Provost of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, greatly wants to
resign his post, but the Trustees will
not hear of it. He gets $4,000 a year
salary, and gives the college $40, 900
year from his own pocket. No wonder
they want him to stay.
AN Australian who was hanging to
the beam of bridge and realized that
he must fall, made a verbal Will to a
companion, disposing of about $4,000
worth of property, and the courts have
sustained it. Once in a while the
courts do a sensible thing.
A YOUNG married couple in Ashta-
bula County, Ohio, have been making a
garden for the first time. When plant
ing onions they were at a loss to tell
which end to put down, so they COM
promised the matter, he putting them
in one way and she the other
WHO would believe that the once de-
rided velocipede would within few
years give birth to more than $4,000
bicycles, and that the League Of Amer
lean Wheelmen counts alone $4,000
members, 10000 of whom live in New
York and the surrounding suburbs.
A SHARP falzir is making a good in
come by advertising a sure method of
killing all insects. When you send
him so cents you Will receive a printed
card on which are these words: sect
your insects to smoke cigarettes, and
they will die within an hour. So long. 4"
The foulest blot on the nation to-
day is MOrmonism, with its defiance
OF law, disloyalty to country, its delu-
sions and degralations. Unless sup
pressed by law, theoretically en-
forced, it is only question of time
when it must be suppressed by VIC
1ence.
RELIGIOUS differences often make
their appearance in the secular courts.
The recent split of the United Breth-
rem denomination upon the question OF
the lawfulness of membership in secret
societies cuts right through the middle
of many congregations, and will give
rise to a number of yexatious lawsuits
for the possession of existing church
buildings and other property.
WHAT would the hotels and railways
of the United States do without the
commercial travellers. There are $50,
600 of them in the United States whC
are ''on the road, upon the average
nine months in the year, and during
that time spend collectively $3.50, 900,
600 for travelling expenses. Of tn,
4OO,OOO,OOO tons of freight carried
yearly by the railways of the country
they sell 800, OOO,OO
Nor to detract from the fame O
Father Damien, the heroic Ieper prizes
of Molokai, in the Sandwich Islands
it ought to be borne in mind that Ro
man Catholics and PrOtestants ar
about equally numerous, and that
Protestant native minister who haC
come to Molokai in charge of his Ieprou
wife, is also doing efficient work there
and that all this is the product of