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

WITH all the psychological studies
that have been made by scientists an
medical men no one has been able IS
explain why sudden mental alteration
so often takes the form of murderous
frenzy. These frightfuI attacks are
becoming so frequent as to suggest the
need of closer acquaintance with the
symptoms, in order that the probable
victims may be warned and escape in
time. So many persons, in asylums
and out, are seized with homicidal ma
MIA that there is no lack of opportunity
for investigation into the mental pro
cesses which lead them to murder their
nearest and dearest-their wives,
sweethearts, and children.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

WHAT is known in American history
as the "AthertOn Gag" was the reso-
luton introduced into the United States
House of Representatives by @. c.
Atherton, of New Hampshire, and
which passed Dec, II, 1888 to prevent
the discussion of slavery in the House,,
that all papers and petitions relating
to slavery be laid on the table with
out being debated, printed or refer
red" The rule was rescinded in 1845.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

THE reporter who manages right can
get admitted to any insane asylum,
but what some of them write after
coming out is proof that they ought to
have remained until thoroughly cured.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

TIE young Emperor Of China has
publicly expressed his dissatisfaction
with the chief bride provided for him.
Fo the present he viii try to worry
alo-g with some Of his secOnd-class
brides, but it is hard lines for an en-
perOE
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

TIE chimneys are not the only cause
of the smoke nuisance. There is be-
sides, for example, our young friend
the cigarette smoker, who stands on
the street corner exhalng noisOme
vapors into the faces of innocent pedes-
TRANS.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

JOE HOWARD says: ga clever rogue
recently fooled me well, selling me
pile of matter he had copied from Nc
Cabe's admirable book, Sunshine and
Shadow in New York The trick re-
minds me of another equally success
full. paid young writer $3.50 for a
serial, and used it. One day my office
boy said: why don't you publish this
story the same week the Fireside Com
pa1liO1e does?' Investigation showed
that the scalawag copied each weeks
installment from popular periodical.
We are not all dead vet"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

THERE is a popular idea that acid
wines obstruct the laying on of fat,
and, hence, they are considered by cor
pulent subjects as the best suited to
them. Not impossibIy some such are
benefited by these wines. but for the
majority they are i'll advised. A low
type of indigestion Is present In the
large proportion of cases of cOrpuIence,
and acid wines make the trouble worse.
Again, they are peculiarly liable to
cause indigestion, and If taken regularly
are quite likely to bring on catarrh OF
the stomach The same may be said Of
most of the acid drinks, at least those
made from vegetable acids, which act
much differently from the mineral
acids Acid fruits are also cOntra-indi-
Gated where there Is digestive trouble
of the stomach or intestines are irri-
table. Such fruits, being of them
selves difficult Of digestion, are often
thrown out Of the system after being
but imperfectly acted upon, leaving be
hind an irritation excited by them,
which may last for several days. Hence
they are very apt to produce diarrhoea.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

DENNYsvILLE, away down on the
Eastern Maine coast, is one of those
"old towns with a history" The town
has no debt; the village has not had a
dweling-hOuse destroyed by fire for
more than eighty years, and at the late
town meeting Peter E. VOse, Esq,
was reelected Selectman and Treas
urer, after a service of twenty-seven
years in the former and twenty-three
years in the latter position. During
all these years no person but Mr.. Vose
had ever written a word or made a
figure in any town book excepting the
Town Clerks book or drawn an order.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

THE Pennsylvania Railroad, which
proposes to maintain its position as one
of the best-managed roads in the
world, is making experiments to miti-
gate the horrors of burning trains. It
is proposed to place on the engines a
connection with the steam-pump, by
which a hose can be attached and used
to quench fire. A trial was made the
other day in West Philadelphia, and
the pump threw a stream over the
highest buildings If further expert
ments prove successful, a number of
passenger engines will be equipped
and the train crews exercised in the fire
drill.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

residence and Thea .,..,l from above.
At depth OF no5 less than 200 feet he
obtained flowing stream of 300, OOO
gallons daily. Then he closed the
mouth of the tunnel and thus made an
underground reservoir of large capac-
ity. The water runs by gravity into
the second stories of the buildings in
the town. Seven other flowing wells
have since been obtained in the neigh
borhood
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

The inhabitants of Dakota town
have recently been treated to a shower
of frogs. In old times this would have
been an unexplained occurrence, but
in these days it is known that hurri-
cane caught them up from some pond
and scattered them over the country
In 1904 there was a rain of wheat in
Andalusia, and it was regarded as a
most wonderful phenomenon; but the
explanation was very simple one.
In Africa, across the straits of Gibral-
tar, some laborers were threshing
wheat. A cyclone came along, sucked
up the grain, and sowed it over in
Spain. It was simply natur' cutting
of her capers.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A Choice Selection Of Inter
esting Items.

FW1LL the educated woman marry 90
asks the Baltimore american. Just
a * her aud see if she VIII.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

IT is estimated that 10O,OOO,00O
copies of the Constitution of Japan
have already been sold in that country.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

Arthur L. THOMAS, the new Cover
nor of Utah, was at one time tele-
gra. n messenger boy in Pittsburg.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

ARrEsIAN wells have a future In this
country. The towns in Dakota are
putting them to important uses. Two
years ago DR.. i. B. Lawrence, of
Sonoma. Cal. tunneled a hill near his
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

SUCH a thing as bringing a libel
suit against a newspaper has not been
known in Italy for fifty years. The
belief is that a newspaper seeks to tell
the truth. If it is mistaken a frank
statement to that effect satisfies the
Italian"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

For streets in London wood and
asphalt are found to be too slippery,
and macadam will not stand the wear.
We do not believe iron has yet been
given fair trial It would certainly
be durable, and might be put down in
a form to obviate the objection made to
asphalt and wood
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

Dean Carmiehel, late Of Hamilton, Canada,
las received and accepted a cali to an Epis-
opal church, Richmond, Va.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19
The Frog and the Ball og Butter.

A lady of this town recently set q
pot Of cream IN a spring near the house,
90 that it might keep cool. During the
aight a frog fell into the cream pot.
and in his struggle to get out actually
shurned the cream, 50 that when the
lady visited the pot the next morning
she found the frog sitting on bali OF
butter, washing his feet in the butter
milk. MiddIetolg9l E7alerprise.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

THE experiment of importing rein
deer from Norway to the forests Of
Northern Scotland suggests the idea
that they may be acclimated in the
great Northwest of our own country,
from which the buffalo has disap-
Deared.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

MAUD MULLER has been fined so foE
at Parsons, Kan. What's
IN q name?
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

CARPER-I wish I had your voice,
Fiddley. FiddIey pleased You do p
Carper-Yes, I'd tie q stone to it and
1rOp 1t off the bridge.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

@HAYE you ever been through the st
I Lawrence rapids % NO, but I married
my third wife last week
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-07-19

MAIDEN ladies always betray their
mmost thoughts by laughing. He's
ae-he.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-26
RIDING A WHALE.
An Extraordinary Yarn Spun by a Truth
full Old Sailor.

An Extraordinary Yarn Spun by Truth
full Old Sailor.
In Scottish Moors" a peculiar bit of
whale history is related in the words OF
an old sailor. A big whale had come
on the land at tow water on the north
end of the island of Bernera.
1.-The man that found her he began
to cut her blubber off, said he, "to
get good share before his neighbors
would know of it. For e must know
that the people thereabouts makes
common property of a whale when he
gets stranded on the SIND, and this
man being along when lie found the
whale, thought as how hid have the
first dab at the blubber, afo'e his neigh
bors came in for their share. An ye
ken he got a share that none o his
neighbors craved.
HE commenced to cut the blubber
from the back of the whale,~hiRfs3f
being on the back of the whale at the
time. He was hot at work, hurryin'
his best, an the first thing he knew the
whale an himself atop was ahoat out
of his depth. The whale was no more
dead than be, an he want a-goin' to
lay quiet an have his blubber all cut
out.
oval, the poor man couldn't swim,
an he thought his last hour had coon,
for he couldna swim no morn cat;
but he stuck his cleaver into the whale
clean up to the handle. an he held
or for dear life's sake.
GAS good luck would have it, that
old whale swum clean round the island
an never dove once, the man a-ridin' on
her back in grand style, but clean scarf
out n his wits, all the same. Wal the
old monster swum round, an then
come up on the sands little ways be-
low where he started from.
1.-The man got olf'n his back in pretty
short order, an made off home fast's
his legs would carry him, L tell ye
Folks wouldn't at first believe his story,
but they went down to the shore, an
there was the whale, sure enough.
Twas kind O Gurus that whale
never dove once, but it might "a ben
that the blubber was part cut from her
back. Anyhow, that's the truth Of the
! story. Chicago Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-26
A Clay-EatingAHorse.

Superintendent NJ. j. Dean, OF the
Anti-Cruelty Society, vouches for this
clay eating story. He says: ut is re-
markable the amount of intelligent in
stinct which is displayed by dumb
animals. This is especially noticed in
horses. They will not eat or drink
any thing voluntarily that will injure
them. A horse that l once owned
showed remarkable popularity for
eating clay. When 1 would ride or
drive it along Thirty-third street l
would have considerable trouble in
getting past a certain vein of light
gray clay. The horse would try to get
near it and when allowed him would
eagerly devour The horse often ate
what seemed to me to be considerably
more than pound of clay. l never
had any fear of allowing the horse to
stand where the clay was, and often
left him there until l attended to some
errand in the neighborhood. The con-
sequence was that the horse ate fire.
quently of the cay and actually got fat
upon it. 1t never injured him in the
least. If the mud didn't do him some
good he would not have touched it. ~
Pittsburgh Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-26
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

THE British Women's Temperance,
Association has now 400 branches and
25, 900 members.
SIR E. SAUNDERS, F. r. G. s., sur
geon-dentist to the Queen, says that
the latest scientific experiments have
confirmed the teaching of DIR. Rich
ardson and other leading medical men
as to the great value of total alb
stinence in the preservation and pro-
motion of health.
THE School Board OF Vienna is
wrestling with one phase of the Tenn
perance question. 1t appears that it
is quite common for the children
of poor parents to receive by way of
breakfast nothing more than glass of
spirits, and even to come into the
school-room drunk.
DIR. I. d. CRoTHERs says: "Of the
estimated half million inebriates in
this country, ten per cent. are yearly
convicted of crime of all degrees. OF
this number two per cent. commit cap
ital crime, and one per cent. Of this
number, or about one hundred per-
sons, are executed every year."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-26
THE LAND OF NEvERWAs.

Where are all those shining valleys which we
used to sing and rhyme,
Purple with the clustered fruitage OF the har-
vests fields OF time?
Where are all those Young ambitions, framed in
rainbows, aureoled
With halo mist OF glory woven from the sun
sets goldy
Gone before their realization, like effects with
out cause,
Vanished in the misty limbo Of the Land OF
Where are all those topping castles, turret-
tipped with moonlit CLOVIS,
Gay with youths and laughing maidenS, thro'
their echoing portcoes!
Where are those aerial brownstones with their
gargoyles OF red mist,
Touched with sardonyX and topaz and with gold
and amethyst
They have fioated on the summer clouds that
never wait nor pause,
Down below the dim horizon Of the Land OF
Neverwas!
Where are all those golden galleons floating on
the tideless seas,
With their sendal sails distended, bound for the
rIesperides,
Sailing thro' the dancing dolphins, thro' the
archipelagoes.
Where each waited breeze is heavy with the
cinnamon and rose?
All, their hulks have turned to shadow and their
sails have turned to gauze,
And, like dream ships, they have vanished in
the Land OF Neverwas!
IT'S the purple land of rainbows on an island
far away,
None but little folks and babies meath its
fronded branches stray;
Never does a bird of passage land upon its tow
.e", ering Cliff,
But sometimes daring poet sees it from his
dream-blown skiff,
But when he tries to sing Of it men neither heed
nor pause,
For most men are disbelievers in the Land OF
NeverwaS
S. W. Foss in Yankee Blade.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-16
COTTON"

Daily receipts are falling OF rapidly as
compared with same time last year. the re-
ceipis yesterday being q bales against 1871
bales same day last season. Receipts thus
far this season are 7Oi, 5S5 bales and ship
mcnts 600 1880 bales; stock on hand, 1880
bales. The Memphis market closed quiet
and steady, with sales Of $50 bales Of which
100 bales were taken by exporters and 200 by
spinncrs. The New orleans spot market
closed firm. and futures advanced 3 to o
points. Spots are firm with prices stiilcning
a little at Liverpool, and futures were marked
up ? To 2 points. In New York the spot
market advanced i-lGc, closing firm, with
futures very steady at TO . points advance.
kilograms from New York state that the
crop adyiccs do not improve, and the more
distant positions in the future market have
shown greater amount of strength than
those OF the old crop The market is tame
ON the old crop and very firm on the new,
aud operators believe that the market would
sustain further advance.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-16

enter fine OF $50 against the Attorney
General OF this court, and take him out,
Mr.. Sheriff.
Acknowledgement Peters-Does Your
Honor Judge me in contempt OF court
when have committed no offense?
Judge DuBose-You have been disre-
spectful to this Court, sir. MIR. Sheriff,
take him out
Acknowledgement Peters-Your Honor,
how can / be in contempt when / have
said nothing, but respectfully demonstrated
against Your Honor's private instructions
| interrupted by many raps OF the Judges
gavel1 to the Grand Jury [again inter-
rupted by gavell not to indict confessed
felon? loud rapping.
Judge DuBose-Mr. Sheriff, take him
out! Take him out! Here the Sheriff
approached the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Attorney-G General Peters turning to the
Sheriff IL will relieve you OF any embar-
rassment by retiring, Mr.. Sheriff. (To the
court)-I would respectfully ask your honor
how you can fine-P IGavel.
Judge DuBose--Take him out
Attorney General Peters, leaving the
bari: | solemnly protest against this action
Of Your Honor as being in my conception
an unprecedented invasion OF the powers
and prerogatives Of the Grand Jury and
Attorney-General, and an unwarranted
usurpation OF the functions Of both, and
full Of the most baneiul results to the
public service.
AS the Attorney-General was retiring
from the courtroom the Court again or
dered the Sheriff to take him to his office
and said, "Let him cool off," and still fur
ther remarked, 81 could send him to jail
but don't believe will"
From which ruling and judgment o
contempt an appeal was prayed.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-16

The Elks benefit at the New Memphis
Theater last night was only fairly well at
tended. The features Of the program were
the scene from "old Curiosity Shop" by
Miss Alinc Greenwood and Mr.. Lou Davis;
the violin solos Of Master Saxby, and the
musical quintette, composed OF Miss Ida
Levy, Mrs. George Levy, Mr.. and Mrs
Reynolds and Mr.. Ion Thompson. Miss
Aline Greenwood made the hit Of the
evening and was roundly encored. There
seems to bo a brilliant future ahead OF this
talented little lady.
After tho performance the Elks and n
few friends. together with those who took
part in the program, enjoyed themselves
at banquet at Spcchrs, where merrimont
and good leasting rcigned supreme.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-16

Peters is man slow to wrath, but
he is now thoroughly aroused and has
taken the step that separates him from
unity and good will with the court It
would be impossible to reconcile him
with the Judge. The case is before the
people and it win shortly be before a
higher court, and no matter what the de-
cision, whether for or against either OF the
litigants, an impossible gulf has been fixed
between them. 1t is now war 10 the knife
and the knife TO the hilt.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-16
DECLARED FOR TAYLOR.
Panola County Democrats Highly In.
dorso Him for Governor.

Panola County Democrats Highly In
dorso Him for Governor.
Special Dispatch 10 The Appeal
BArEvILLE, Miss, May ia large
and enthusiastic convention Of che Democ-
racy Of Pamela County assembled here to-
day. and among other things adopted the
following resolutions
Resolved by the Democracy Of Pamela
County In mass convention assembled,
That having full and unqualified conf.
dcnce in the incorrupiible integrity OF
Robert II. Taylor, Of Pamela County, and
knowing him 10 DO man Of marked
ability, broad experience. wise conserya-
tism and Of sound principles, We present
him to the Democracy Of the State ~ our
choice for the Gubernaiorial nomination
and office, aud M he struck the keynote In
1875 and took the advance stop leading 10
the rescue Of the State from Radical misrule
aud corruption and has never ialtcred In
battling for her rights aud her interests
even In her darkest hours we know that
he would guard those rights and interests
with slecpless vigilance aud a dauntlcss
courage; therefore Pamela calls on her sis
ter counties OF the State To aid In nominate
ing him and clccting him 10 the office Of
Governor, which he would hll to his own
credit, the peoples welfare aud the States
honor.
Fifty delegates and twenty-five altcrnaics
were chosen 20 represent the county in tho
state Convention and instructed 20 vote
for Robert II. Taylor ~ long as his name
Is before the State Convention.
The convention was apdrusscd by the
Hon. r. II. Taylor, s. ID. Pollard. the Hon.
J. J. Slack, OF Grenada, aud Mai. /. T..
Cooper former citizen Of Pamela, bu, now
Of Memphis
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-16

Tm Farmers Alliance, representing
thirteen southern States, assembled In
convention In Birmingham yesterday for
the purpose Of considering many qucs.
tons pertinent 20 the interests Of the
farmers and planters Of the South, prin.
cipal among lhom being tho baeging
trust From what has been saId by tho
Alliance organs and the movements
set on foot by the State Alliances,
II IL not too much TO expect that stops
will be taken by this Convention TO ratiiy
what has been done In Alabama, Georgia
ani Mississippi looking to a release Of the
farmer from the pressure OF the irus, and
Its power to force haggIng at its own rates
But this aside, tins Alliance Congress is
significant as proving, II proof was needed,
that tho farmers Of the South are thor