Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-09-25

PHLLIPsBURG, KANSAS
BISMARCK declares he never wants.
to return to public Office again. He is
too old.
SILK from paper pulp is made smooth
and brilliant, with about two-thirds
the strength of ordinary silk and about
the same elasticity.
A GEORGIA editor has twenty-seven
children. He positively refuses to in
sert an advertisement announcing that
a boy or girl is wanted
A TRAMP named Wilson Becker bet
a Boston man that he could beat his
way to San Francisco and back to
Boston in twenty-one days, without
spending a cent. He made the trip
and won the bet.
"UNCLE DARE, a centenarian living
near Sheffield, Ala, has just died He
was with Andrew jackson in the In
dian war and helped to plot Sheffield
over seventy years ago. His wife died
in 1912, and every day up to his death
he prayed at her grave.
The leaves of the paw-paw tree are
employed by the negroes in washing
linen. as a substitute for soap. They
also have the property of rendering
meat wrapped in them, tender. owing
to the aIkaloid papain which they con-
tain and which acts as a solvent.
THE accounts Of a pilI-maker who
has Just died in England show that he
has been spending 5000, 900 a year for
advertising. His heirs, however, are
finding no particular fault with this
extravaganza, as he leaves an estate
valued at S25, 900, OO0-an due to pills
and advertising.
THE smallest newspaper in the world
is published at Arp, Banks County,
Ca. It is 74x5 inches. It is named
The Boss, and is edited by ". A. Har-
ris, who claims in his salutatory that
the paper is a perfectly normal prod
net, yet it appears to be the represent
ative of a literary club, a laboratory,
an alliance, a broom factory and
flying machine.
WELDLEss tubes of steel are now
made in Germany by the Mannesmann
process out of solid bars. A pair of
rolls revoIve at the rate of 200 or 300
revolutions a minute. A bar Of hot
and therefore plastic steel is delivered
to them, and by Nleir action it is
stretched and hollow is made in the
center. The tubes made by this proc
ess are peculiarly strong and light.
Mr.. JOHN COLLINS WooD, Of Ken
lucky, is, perhaps, the richest jack-tar
living, having had many vicissitudes.
The death of his father and reverses of
fortune making him a dry goods sales
man in New York, the death of a rich
uncle in Paris gave him an inheritance
of two million dollars, and sent him to
Atlantic City in search Of lost health.
Here he lives in hotel, but belongs
. to the Lfe-saying crew, wears surfman's
garb, and serves regularly in the life
boat, alternating the hardships of his
comrades with his free purse.
NEAR Somerset in Perry County,
Ohio, is an ancient ruin, whose walls,
inclosing fOrtya cres, were built Of IN
dressed stone, now lying in confusion.
They have been estimated sufficient to
build a wall seven feet high and six
feet broad around the whole forty
acre inclOsure. One gateway be-
tween two large rocks opened into the
country and was defended by a huge
bowlder. The Enclosure contained a
large stone mound. No skeletons have
been found, and the inclosure was GER
tainly used for other purposes than
habitation or sacrifice.
IT is said that the butler of the Fifth
avenue mansion occupied by the widow
of William Vanderbilt each day for
dinner sets the table with an entirely
different service Of plate, glass, and
china, and the mistress of all this mag
nifcence is thus daily given an oppor-
tunity to enjoy the beauty of her treas
ures. The plate is stored in a room
adjoining the dining-room, in which
two rows of safes are built into the
walls, the upper row being reached by
steps and an inside balcony. To the
care of the butler is consigned these
rare collections, and he is obliged to
give bond for their safe keeping.
In Brittany a curious matrimonial
custom prevails. On certain fete DAYS
the young ladies appear in red petit
coats, with white or yellow borders
around them. The number of borders
denote the portion the father is
willing to give his daughter.
Each white band, representing sill
YER, denotes one hundred francs
per annum, and each yellow band
denotes gold, and betokens one