Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

AMERICAN women are said to spend
500, 600, 600 year on cosmetics, and
the more money they spend the worse
their compilations get.
MINNESOTA has law hooking out |
imported dressed beef, but she wishes
she hadn't It simply makes the butch
ers of the State trust.
KATE FIELD thinks that the way to !
stop incompetence is to abolish treat
ing. A good deal of drinking is doubt
less due to sociabiEty, but, as in the
popular game of euchre, a man can
often "go it alone"
A NEW law in Madagascar gives a I
husband the power to chastise his wife
with a regulation whip only, and does
away with clubs and dray-stakes en-
tirely. The whole world is progress
ing, even if slowly.
A WOMAN in Rockford, Ill, has OBJ
tanned a divorce because her husband
made her get out of bed before day
light to play euchre with him and then
compelled her to listen to his reading
of the Bible. She never complained,
however, until the last infection was
presented.
WHAT is kiss? is a question which
has agitated the world for centuries.
The great problem is solved at last
DR.. Henry Gibbons, in a recent lecture
at San Francisco, described a kiss as
"the anatomical juxtaposition of two
Orbicularis oris muscles in a state of
contraction" There!
THE London Daily NelUs, in an
nouncing the retirement of the two
spinsters who have had charge of the
Shakespeare birthplace and relics at
StratfOrd-on Avon, says that last year
there were II, 900 visitors, of whom it
is interesting to note that about one
fourth were Americans"
WHEN Drexelius was asked by
friend how he could do so much as he
had done, he answered: "The year has
three hundred and sixty-five days, or
eight thousand four hundred and sixty
hours; in so many hours great things
may be done; the slow tortoise made a
long journey by losing no time.
GREAT progress is being made in
dentistry for animals. Barnum's hip
popotamus lately sat and had bad
tooth extracted without a growI, and
the same operation is now practiced on
lions and tigers. When the wild beasts
are all provided with false teeth we
propose to interview a few of them in
their cages.
HERR JOSEF RITTER Won WERNDI.
the great Austrian rife inventor and
manufactures, gained his knowledge of
firearms in America, and then from a
small beginning built up a factory en-
ploying eight thousand men. On the
announcement of his death stock in
the concern fell 10 per cent, showing
the Importance in which his person
atty was held.
The King of Italy intends to paw a
visit to the Empress Frederick. at
Homburg, during his stay in Germany
and as the projected marriage between
the Prince of Naples and Princess
Clementine of Belgium has been aban-
doned, it is exceedingly probable that
the young prince viii be betrothed to
Princess Margaret of Prussia, the
youngest sister of Emperor William.
ONF of the most distinguished Amer
lean engineers, a man of vast knowledge
and experience, who has not failed in
anything he has attempted, said the
other day that the Panama Canal could
be taken as it stands and finished fo1
less money than it would cost to make
the necessary preparations, collect the
machinery and get the commencement
Of work on the Nicaragua Canal fairly
inaugurated.
SIR JULIAN PAUECEFOTE, the new
Minister at Washington from Grea
Britain, is to be paid $4,000 a yea.
for his services, while his Government
finds him a house, servants and "sun
dries" without a cent of expense t
himself. Compared with the inclusiv
payment Of $17, 800 to our Minister a
London, Sir Julian is extravaganza,
oaid and his GOOD fortune is the nor