Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-31

come to America for their wives.
Mrs. HUMPHREY Wards Robert
EIsmere" has acquired undying fame.
A new linen collar has been named
after it.
THERE are in Vienna at present six
companies who make business of
hiring out steam-boiIers to small man
ufacturers.
SINCE 1872 the net loss in the postal
telegraph system in England has been
over sixteen million five hundred thou
sand dollars.
THE Paris courts have decided that
the police have no right to forbid news
boys crying in the streets the news Of
the papers they are selling
AT New Haven recently Thomas j.
Osborn wrote 1O2 words of memOrized
matter on the typewriter in half a
minute breaking the record.
W LILLIAN Il a i l444soO-N 44tgo tLoG AJONA-
struck again in New York. A train
ran over him. His friends have the
consolation of at least knowing what
struck him.
The regulation step in European ar
mics is longest in the German army
and shortest in the Russian. The Bel
gian march is the slowest-11O steps to
the minute.
PRINCE BISMARCK thinks there is no
use living unless one can enjoy life,
and so has returned to his long pipe
and beer, much to his regular ply
sician's disgust.
Mrs. CLEVELAND enjoys New York
life exceedingly. She says that she is
glad to step out of the bright sun
light of publicity" which surrounded
her career at Washington.
The Haytians are a little sensitive
on the question of color. They have
sent word that they want white man
as United States Minister. Liberia,
On the other hand, wants no one but a
colored man.
Col. W II. Il. TAYLOR, of st.
Paul, Mimi, the State Librarian, is
President Harrison's uncle. He is IS
years old, and knows his work so
well that he carries the whole library
catalogue in his head.
BOOTH cast his first and the only
vote of his life for Abraham Lincoln
in the autumn of 1864. A short time
after, on the night of Nov. %, 1864,
the three Booth brothers appeared in
the play of Julius Ceser,' Edwin as
Brutus, Junius Brutus as Cassius, and
John Wilkes as Marc Antony.
HARRIET MCKAY, a Scotch girl aged
q, stole a mans clothes while he was
asleep and went and offered herself as
d soldier. She passed the examination
all right until the doctors turn came,
and he handed the adventures, who is
tall and comedy and belongs to New
Zealand, over to the London police.
Mr.. EDWARD F. Horn, who pub
fishes a paper called Justice some
where down in Tennessee, is the latest
discovered claimant to the title OF
"original Harrison man" He prob
ably makes the claim in the hope that
justice, in the shape Of an Office, may
Overtake him, which it likely will-in
a horn.
SURROGATE O'NEL, of Jersey City,
received a $40 bank note as a fee, on
the edge of which was written IN
India ink: Anybody having this in
his or her pocket Will never be busted.
Hang on to it as long as you can, for ii
is the last of my $1,000. I'm busted
This is better in your pocket than S1OC
on a running horse"
MISS ETHEL HUXLEY, daughter o.
the illustrious scientist, is engaged t.
her late sisters widower, the Hon. J
Collier. They can't be married in En-
gland, of course; so next month tn,
whole Huxley family has to go over t,
Christiana for the wedding, which i
allowable under Norwegian law.
A CENTURY ago the law Of Main,
obliged husband to pay all the debt
of his bride in case she brought hin
any property. As outer clothing wa