Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-17

ty, Georgia, made a crazy quilt con-
tanning 3, 461 pieces. As soon as it was
finished she died.
IT is estimated that fully 10 per cent.
of the wheat crop in Lincoln County,
Washington Territory, is each year de-
stroyed by squirrels.
SEVERAL members of the faculty of
Dartmouth College voted against pro-
hibition the other day, while two
thirds of the boys voted for it.
BENJAMIN HARR1soN is the name Of
an infant three weeks old now at the
st. Vincent's Child Asylum, Balti-
more, Md. His mother cannot support
him.
EMERSON and Couchman, two farm
ers living near the Potomac, cutting
down a tree, discovered in a hollow
in it a package of Sc, 600 in national
bank notes.
A ScoTcH preacher in London re-
Gently, speaking of the frequent COM
plant of preachers for being dull, gave
his hearers this shot: "The fault is not
that we are poor preachers, but be-
cause you are mighty poor stuff to
preach to-"
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Mail and Express writes from Rome
telling of the interest felt in the base
ball game played by the thirty-fve
American athletes" That man must
have been drinking too much Falernian
or AIban vine.
SIR RICHARD WEBSTER has proposed
a bill to punish with life imprisonment
a spy caught making plans of English
Notifications, and imposes long term
upon any government clerk convicted
of a similar offense. It seems that
there is now no law in England to reach
this kind of offenders.
Two MEN in Tloga County, Pennsyl-
vania, who had jointly bought COW,
quarreled about dividing the milk, one
claiming that the other owned only the
"front half" of the animal. Subs
quently the owner of the rear half was
lifted by the cows horns, and he wants
damages of the "front" partner The
court viii settle it.
PETER COOPER, who died at 90, Ieav-
ing fortune of $4,000, 900, remarked
to a young friend a few months prior to
his taking off my son, I never went
to bed without saving half of what my
days profits were. If made dollar,
half a dollar was put away. carried
that rule into active life when I became
a merchant, and never departed
from it.
ISAAC PIT1rA27, the inventor of pho
biography, although rs years of age, is
still in vigorous health and works at
his Office from o'clock in the morning
until 6 o'clock at night, and has only
recently shortened his hours from 8 OF
10 o'clock at night. Since 1843 Mr..
Pitman has devoted the whole of his
time to developing and promoting
shorthand.
LONDON has recently been put IN
der. control of a government somewhat
resembling those of large cities in this
country, and the first woman Alder
man has just been elected. She is
Miss Cons, who for many years has
been well known for her work in the
direction Of securing the erection of &
better class of buildings for working
people.
THE Gar is said to wear always
ring in which is imbedded a piece o
the true cross, that was given to al
ancestor of the Gar by a Pope Ione
ago. The Gar is said to be supersti
tious about this ring, and once, whe1
he had started upon long journe!
and had forgotten it, he had his TRAN
held while a messenger went back upol
a locomotive AID fetched it.
WILLIAM Verify died recently il
Sacramento, Cal, leaving a fortune o
81. 600. Immediately there appeared
a Mrs. Verit5, living in New York, VIII
had not seen her iege lord since 1866
She had heard of his whereabouts il
1000 Ia etT- s,,~--<,Gs~.o I'D Is