Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-01-10

been paSUurlng MS cdTJI6 Oh S5O5OOO
coal field, never suspecting its value.
He sold it to a sharp neighbOr few
days ago for $500, and the purchaser
disposed of it at once for 100000.
THE fact is noted that of the 1000
men in the Eastern Penitentiary of
Pennsylvania, only nineteen were
bred mechanics. Industry and crime
are not natural allies, and the best
safeguard of youth is a good trade.
SAN FRANcIsCo, with a population
of about 400, 900, has only 100 church
es, with a seating capacity of 10000
and an average attendance Of $4,000
The climate of San Francisco does not
seem to be conducive to churchgoing.
Ex-QUEEN NATALIE, of Servia, in
tends to build a mansion in Belgrade
and establish a court independent of
the one already existing. A lively time
may be expected when the two fac
tions get to work plotting against each
other
CHINESE railway building has come
to an end, because the French govern
ment insists upon the fulfIlment of
the Tientsin treaty, by which France,
it was agreed, was to supply the per
sonnet and material of all Chinese
railroads.
PRoTHoNoTARY CoLLNER, of Clarion
County, Pa, has a priced war relic in
the shape of a sergeant's report-book
which saved his life. A mimic ball
struck the book and spent its force,
though the blow was heavy enough to
knock the soldier down.
A SENSIBLE suggestion is made that
the movement to restore the monument
to the memory of Mary Washington,
the mother of the first President, shall
include the purchase of the old house
in which she lived and died. It is a
small house at Fredericksburg.
Mrs. SHERIDAN is living quietly with
her children in Washington in the
beautiful home presented by Chicago
citizens to the General at the time he
went to Washington to take command
of the army. She is devoting her life
to the rearing and educating of her
children.
THE prize offered by the New South
Wales Government for the extermina-
ton of the rabbit pest has been with
drawn. No new modes of extermina-
ton had been suggested. The rabbits
are also a terrible nuisance in New
Zealand, but are there kept under by
the hawks.
A YOUNG lady from Caldwell, Ohio,
created little scene in the ticket Office
at GAINESVILLE the other day. She laid
a late-imprOved six-shooter on the
counter and proceeded to search for her
pocket, then bought ticket for Seat
tie, Wash, showed her gun in her pis-
tol-pocket and departed.
THE importation of American game
into Austria has proved a big success.
On the Danubian meadow forests of
Count Bremen 100 wild turkeys and
thirty wapiki are marked for destruc-
ton at the next big battue. On Prince
Huniady's estates the American game
has increased so per cent.
THE old saying that the man who
minds his own business viii make
money is not true. Charles Cochrane.
a Canadian, has remained on his farm
for fourteen straight years without
leaving it and has not spoken to a
stranger in all that time, and yet he
is poorer than when he began.
GEORGE JENNINGS. of New Portage.
Ohio, was fishing in Wolf Greek, and
had set a line and went further up the
stream. When he returned he found
a duck had swallowed the minnow and
swan away with the pole and line.
He followed it up and captured it.
This is a new way to get ducks.
TIE origin Of the word @hurrah" has
for some time been a theme Of discus