Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04

A CURIOUS fact about cigarette smok-
ing is that nearly double as many
cigarettes are smoked during July
August, and September as during any
other three months in the year.
WHILE blowing in a field, the horses
of Farmer Guss, of 1Iartinsburg, BIai1
County, Pa, suddenly sank into the
ground and went fifteen feet below the
surface before they found bottom.
In nearly all the English towns
there are public bath houses for work
ing people. They are under the con
troll of the town or city authorities.
For from two to four cents a bath may
be obtained with the use of a fresh
towel. These establishments are well
patronized.
ANY ONE can make the hand-grenade
fire extinguishers, and at small frac-
ton of the prices charged in the mar
ket. Amy light quart bottle Will serve
to hold the solution, which is COM
posed of one pound of common salt,
one-half pound of sal-ammonia, dis
solved in about two quarts of water.
DURING the recent floods at Ana
helm, Cal, every hummock was swarm
ing with hares and rabbits that were
driven from the plains. They were
slaughtered by thousands by boys and
men, who used sticks, and when tired
of tn e sport would run the poor beasts
off their dry places into the raging
waters.
On it's cruise in the Arctic seas, the
Thetis discovered on the south side
of HerscheIs Island deserted village
of which history furnishes no account.
On the graves were laid guns of long
obsolete pattern, and birds had made
their nests in the skeletons of the
brave men who had given up their
lives there.
Mrs. FITzGEoRGE, pIebeian wife of
the Duke of Cambridge, is dead. She
was the daughter of printer when the
Duke married her, and the Queen in
sisted that her royal husband should
divorce her and marry a woman of his
rank, but he refused and remained
true to her though she never was
recognized by the Queen or received at
court.
A NoRrHFIELD (Osio) farmer named
Abner GreenIeaf, having a premonition
that the summer weather would extend
far into the winter, tried a little ex-
pertinent. He planted a number of
hills of potatoes late in September.
The tubers throye we'll, and on Christ
mas Day the farmers table was sup
piled with new potatoes from his own
garden.
JAMES ROBINSON, a farmer living
near Jeffersonville, Ohio, is the owner
of a carnivorous horse which wants
nothing better for a good square meal
than fat pig. Whenever the horse
sees a pig that it can get at, it grabs
it by the back of the neck and shakes
it to death, much as dog would shake
rat. The horse then devours the pig
with great relish.
A New YORK man has been sent to
prison for falling to pay his wife $4OO
that he borrowed before their mar
rage. This seems to be a harsh and
unnecessary proceeding, when the
wife could have cancelled the debt on
the instaHment plan by rumaging her
husbands inside pockets in the misty
morning light and quietly appropriate
ing all the small change
"BUDGE" is the name of tame
crow belonging to Miss Orlie Wheeler,
of Joliet. III. He goes all over town
alone and returns to his home at night.
He is fond of beer, and will drink it
until intoxicated. In his rambIes he
visited the depot, whore he found
much to interest him. He initiates the
shouts of the conductors, and takes
delight in yelling "All aboard for Chi
cago.
The proposal of the italian Govern.
ment to establish schools in New York
and Brooklyn for the teaching of the
large Italian population of those cities
betrays a desire for the maintenance
of the native language and spirit
which seems to conflict with American
policy. If we are to have the Italiani
here it is for US to give them such
teaching as VIII make them useful ant
IovaI to the United States. not to italy