Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-05

oranges, lemons bananas, figs and rals-
ms than any other country on earth.
LAST year the income of Ta1mage's
tabernacle from the rentals and all
other sources amounted to $33, 456.
A HORSE named "Bob Ingersoll" has
been ruled off all the California race
courses. He didn't seem to believe in
anything except boiling.
THE Jews free school at Spitalfelds,
England, is said to be the largest
school in the world. It numbers 3, 500
pupils-2,25O boys, and 1880 girls.
The Illustrated London Nelg8 has
asked for space in the Champ de Mars
on which to erect a reproduction Of
Shakspeare's house at Stratford-on-
Avon.
NEAR Newark. N. J., lives Henry
Louisa Caroline Amelia Adelaide
Theresa Whitehead Thorpe Wilkinson
Kinsey Post, but her name extenGs far
over into New York.
The man who made the first photo
graph ever produced in the United
States, Franz George Scheibner, is
still living in Philadelphia, hale and
hearty, at the age of86.
IT is proposed to remove the Univer-
sity of the Pacific from San Jose. Cal,
to San Francisco. President Hirst IA
vors the change, and says sn endow-
ment of $500, 900 is needed.
An Ohio farmer mortgaged his farm
to get his wife some diamond earrings,
and she lost one of them in the suds
the very first wash day and attempted
to hang herself in the barn.
II is rumored among the natives of
Corea that China will annex the coun-
try after the Emperor's marriage, and
that the present Corean Emperor and
all his family will be deposed.
WHEN an insurance company can lose
half a million dollars and let the rob
Der quietly walk off in peace it looks to
a man up tree as if rates ought to
come down about fifty per cent.
sYLvAxUs COBB only wanted an hour
to lay the plot of story and place his
characters It would have been harder
for him to write a school composition
than a serial to run for twenty weeks.
THE sales Of leaf tobacco at auction
at Danville, Va, for December, were
1,2O4, 100 pounds; for twelve months
just ended, q, 1868, O85; manufactured
tobacco sold during the year. {, 1871, 1O8
pounds.
THERE were a greater number of
lynchings in this country during the
last year than there had been in any
previous year since 1880, except 1884,
owing possibly to the bad blood OF
politics.
VIRGINIA also hangs for murder, and
the sheriff of Randolph County will
give $50 to any one who can prove that
any man who has witnessed a hanging
in that State has afterward committed
murder.
A KEY WEST fisherman rubs his
body in kerosene oil and swims among
the sharks in safety. They don't want
to get any nearer to him than you do
to man who has been eating last
years onions.
The discovery has just been made
that Daniel Boone was once a member
OF the Virginia Legislature. His many
biographers never suspected it, and it
was reserved for a newspaper man to
bring it to light.
Two WITNESSES in case in Iowa
who swore that they saw a man forty
rods of draw a revolver were proved
to be so near-sighted that they could
not tell a revolver from a poodle dog
fifteen rods away.
PETER JOHNSON, a colored resident
Of Cairo, was going to swallow ter
fshhooks in public on a wager Of So
but the law stepped In and prevented
him. 1t was decided that the fishing
season had not yet begun.