Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30


The soepter of an Egyptian king has
been examined chemically by Professor
Berthelot, and proves to benearly pure
copper, with only traces Of lead. It is
supposed to be about six thousand
years old.
ANDREW JACKSON COFFEE, a nephew
Of cold Hickory" is a notary public at
San Francisco. Mr.. Coffee is a native
of Louisiana and has many interesting
relics of a Jacksonian character in his
possession.
THE duck is to China what the cod
fish is to the rest of the world. They
eat duck raw, cooked, boiled, fried,
baked and every other way, and they
worry over the duck crop the same as
we do over wheat.
TULARE LAKE, in California, which
was formerly twenty by thirty miles
in extent, isnow only fifteen by TWEEN
ty. Although the water is strongly
impregnated with borax and alkali, the
lake is full of fish.
ENGLAND has over 81, OOO.O 900 invest
ed in the manufacture of idols for hea-
then countries, and yet the churches
of that country are continually calling
for more money and more missionaries
to suppress idolatry.
Mrs. ALLEN G. THURMAN says Of
the late Mrs. Hayes: "The White
House was never presided over with
more grace than by Lucy Hayes, and
never contained a nobler woman. Her
death Will be mourned by every true
woman in the land"
The weight of whale is said to be
about nj nety tons, but the weight of
citizen Of Chicago since that place has
been increased in population to 1,2OO,
600 by annexa ton is past finding out,
as scales of sufficient power have not
been found to bear him up.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has commissioned
Koch to paint picture representing
the scene at the moment when he led
the foot guards past his father at Char
lottenburg on May IS, 1888. This was
the only occasion upon which Freder-
lex inspected the troops as Emperor.
The young men of England have ex-
hibited a taste for our national game
of baseball, and have invited the
bright young men of American col
Ieges to give them some lessons. The
invitation has been accepted, and the
prospect is for some friendly rivalry
and fun.
r. P. McGREGoR, of Ohio, the deaf
mute orator, who made the address at
the unwilling of the Gallaudet statue
at Washington, was accompanied by a,
reader, and the effect of this simuIta-
neous delivery of the speech orally and
in the sign language was extremely
striking.
If the capital punishment of muir
derers by electricity is going to bring
into the language the horrible word
"electrocuted, E" to express murderer's
taking off, then the millions of limo
cent people who never murdered any
body viii be made to suffer more than
the few guilty.
THE private detectives of railroad
company must be constantly shifted SO
that their faces may not become ia
miiar to the employees and arouse sus-
picion. The cost of secret service to a
railroad is often very large, but can
never compare with the proportions OF
adroit and successful freight robbing.
IN September, 1880, the first paper
mill in America was erected in Rox-
borough, Philadelphia, on a rivulet
now called Paper Mill Run, which
empties into Wissahickon Greek, a
short distance above the river SchuyI-
kill The first papermaker was VII
helm Ritinghousen, now anglicized
into William Rittenhouse. The mill
was no doubt built by William Brad