Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-12-27

their living out of sharks. They cure
the hide, fry out the oil, and use the
pulp for fertilizer.
The widow of the late King Luis of
Portugal Will receive yearly allow
ance of $64, 900, which viii be reduced
One-haIf if she lives abroad. OF
course she has decided to remain in
Lisbon.
AT Platte City, Mo-, tragedy was
prevented the other day by looking
glass. A woman was in the act of
shoot ing her husband in the back and
he was saved by seeing the reflection
in the mirror.
A PROMISING start has been made
with the movement to erect a monu-
ment to Gen. Hartranft at Philadel-
phia, by means of dollar contributions
from members and ex-members of the
National Guard in Pennsylvania.
ELIZABETH LIsKE, a Russian II years
old, already six feet six inches in
height, three feet eleven inches round
the chest, is the latest thing out in
giants. The doctors say she viii con
tinue to grow in every way for some
years yet.
THAT brilliant advocate of woman
suffrage, Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake,
declares that under the laws of this
country it is a crime to be a woman.
This, however, is only wOman's Opin-
ion, which all men reverse without
waiting to hear argument on the ques-
ton.
MONTGOMERY SEARS, who is one of
the richest men Of Boston, and lives in
an American palace, is the son of
grocer who lived on fifty cents a day
and slept in the store. He made money
and saved it, following the wise advice
of Franklin, that a penny saved is a
penny gained"
PoLYGAoIY seems to flourish a good
ways this side of Utah. A Western
Ohio editor apologies for the lateness
of his paper by saying: eve were IN
able to give proper attention to work,
owing to our wives illness" This ed
itor had better look out, or first he
knows he viii get into Jail
IT is a sad case-that of young wo-
man in an interior town of New York
who became insane the other day be-
cause a story she had written had been
rejected by a publishing firm. The fact
that she lost her mind over a little
thing like that shows that she has
never done very much writing.
IN Naples there exists race of cats
which live in the churches. They are
kept and fed by the authorities on pur-
pose to eat the mice which infest all
old buildings there. The animals may
often be seen walking about among the
congregation, or sitting gravely before
the altar during time of mass.
ALTHOUGH it has been asserted that
sealskins can not be properly dressed
and dyed in America, several firms in
New York annually turn out thousands
of skins prepared in their own estab-
hshment by American workmen: so
large is the demand for their goods
that they can not wholly meet it. An
encouraging outlook, this, for home in
dustries.
In Holland lady is expected to re-
tire precipitateIy if she should enter a
store or restaurant where men are con
gregated. She waits until they have
transacted their business and departed
Ladies seldom arise in Spain to re-
ceive a male visitor, and they rarely
accompany him to the door. A gentle
man does not offer to shake a Spanish
lady's hand.
DIR. Isaac BARTLETT, of Hope, Me-,
is one of those who have attained
a good old age, and he is said
to have lived all his life upon
bread and milk, and never to have
eaten an ounce of meat in his life,
never to have taken a teaspoonfu1 of
Intoxicating liquors, and never to have