Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-12-06

PRESIDENT HARRISON learned his let
ters from Henrietta R. Giesy (then
Root. q governess for year in his
fathers family in 1888 and 1889. Mrs.
Giesy now lives in Columbus, Ohio.
THE parents of Mr.. Koo, attache of
the Chinese legation at Washington,
have written to him informing him that
they have selected a wife for him. He
has never seen his prospective bride.
JULIAN STERLING, of Bridgeport,
Conn, lately had his eyeban removed
by a doctor to get at a cinder, and
while it lay on his cheek, insensate to
pain from cocaine, he could see his ear
with it.
Mr.. BEEoHER spent $3.50, 900 on his
beautiful PeeksIill estate, Boscobel.
The executors of Mr.. Beecher's estate
viii sell it for one-third the figure.
Mr.. Beecher used to say his potatoes
cost him 81 apiece.
The Boston Transcript gravely ad-
vises its readers not to pick up horse
chestnuts in the street and pocket
them. They may be horse chestnuts
that somebody else has loaded up with
rheumatism and thrown away.
AFTER destroying a very large num-
Der of letters, Mr.. Gladstone has Sc
lected 10000 for preservation, and has
built for them a fire-proof room. When
his biographer comes. to overhaul them
he will find his work half done in ad-
vance.
ROBERT BONNER once paid Tennyson
$4,000 for a poem which made only
twenty lines in the New York LEDGER
This was at the rate of $3.50 line,
which is a price that would almost
seem beyond the value of any written
production.
IN countries where marriages are
regulated by love, divorces are COM
mon. In countries where love is left
out of the question, and marriages are
regulated by the common sense of the
parents, marriage is not failure. So
says Sir Edwin Arnold.
IRELAND in 1879 had 5,265, 625 in
habitants, and the population just
made up for 1889 is but TIT, 534. A
decrease like this is true of no other
civilized country in the world, and is
its own condemnation of the methods
of England's government of ireland.
THE average number of fires in New
York is $500 year, or about seven a
day. OF these, one-half are due to
heating apparatus, chimneys, stoves
and boilers, and the other half is due
to electric lights, gas. matches and the
use of kerosene. The number of in
cendiary fires in year in New York
is about fifty.
WHEN Lucy Whitaker, co1ored, of
Vicksburg, died, the other day, she
said she would haunt Frank Jones, a
recreant lover Of hers, all his life. He
has appealed to the courts for an in
junction to restrain her from going into
the haunting business, but the Judge
is inclined to regard the case as beyond
his jurisdiction.
A FEW days ago a lady who left Lin
coin, III, for a short journey had her
purse and ticket stolen as she got on
the car, and the conductor dropped her
on the track between stations because
she couldn't raise 80 cents. There were
twenty-five men in the coach, and not
one offered her the insignificant
amount.
TIE Library Journal says the fol-
lowing singular communication was
addressed to the trustees of a certain
library: Gentlemen, desire to make
application for curator of the -
reading-room. I am aware that there
is no vacancy, but the present curator
is a single lady and can support her
self in various ways that cannot,
hsving family 70 support; also she