Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-25
KANSAS.

PHILLPSBURG, KANSAS.
@. S. CHGPMANCo Waterbury, Conn,
has a clock which has licked off the
time without stopping since 1888.
JUDGE THOMAS BoULDIN, of Char
1otte County, Virginia, owns planta-
ton that has been in the family 146
years.
The Mexican Governments encour-
aging the cultivation of rubber trees.
4 company has recently planted 8OO,-
200 IN Chiapas.
THE distress from famine in some
districts of China has reached such a
point that girl babies are taken in
baskets and carried around the cities
for sale.
ENGLISH capitalists have bought the
Forepaugh circus. Barnum has shown
the English that we have the biggest
shows on earth in this country, and
they want one of their owns but
have to come to America to get 1T.
TEE widow and children of the Ia te
Conrad Seipp, the Chicago brewer,
has sent to each of seventeen different
charitable institutions in Chicago a
sum not less than $4,000 nor exceed
ing $4,000. The total was $135, 900.
A STRIKING characteristic of John
Jacob Astor, WHO has passed away, is
said to have been the entire absence
of egotism. The pronoun I seldom
passed his lips, he even using evasive
expressions in order to avoid making
use of it.
"THERE is a lady living on the east
side of the river, says an Augusta,
Me, paper, "who is in her seventies
and is cutting a new set of teeth.
Several months ago the gums became
painful, and in short time the new
teeth began to appear"
THE Germans criticise in the harsh
est terms the American habit of con
testing and breaking wills, and declare
that it is an action which heathens
would be ashamed to indulge in. Moth
is too sacred in this world for the
American lawyer to tackle for fee.
THE Germans are much interested
in NJ. Paul Giffard's repeating air
rife, named "the miracle gun" It
uses a steel cartridge about a foot
long and as thick as a mans thumb,
which is charged with hquefed air
and contains 300 shots, The shots are
expelled with great force and accu-
racy, and without flash or smoke. The
weapon is inexpensive.
AN English militia Captain, recently
asked to resign on account of his age
and to make room for younger man,
replied to the authorities that if they
would send on a dozen of their strong
est men he would walk them for forty
miles, and then lead them to the top
of the highest and steepest hill in the
neighborhood. The authorities declined
the challenge, and did not press for
the resignation.
EGGs are said to become unwhoIe-
some when kept in refrigerators. A
fungus forms in them which is easily
found by the microscope, though it is
not noticeable to the taste. This fun
gus constitutes a danger when we con-
slider how many eggs are consumed by
all classes of society, and people Of
delicate constitutions ought to be par
ticularly careful that they eat fresh,
and net kept, eggs.
MAJOR JOSEPH W. WHA1I, now sta
toned at Tucson, A. T., says he was
a Lieutenant in the Twenty-first Hi
nOis Regiment when .. S. Grant took
command Of it The "boys" wanted a
speech, and loud cries for Grant, 3"
Colonel Grant, were persisted in I'M
til Grant, who had been sitting down,
arose and securing instant attention re-
sponded as follows: Go to your quar-
ters." They went.
THE meanest man in Maine lives
near Lewiston. He had an only son,
who was drafted and killed in the war.
The father now says: 81 was short
sighted in not paying $4OO for a sub
stitute, for have been forced to hire