Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-05-16

DR.. HosrErrER, of Hostetter Bitters
fame. left an estate valued at $6,0OO,-
900. He always knew the worth Of
printers ink.
WHILE sinking a well in San Luis
Obispo County, California, Mr. Ander-
son exhumed the fossil yertebrae OF
whale. The well is $500 feet above
sea level.
Miss ELIZA PORTER, a young lady of
West Virginia, owns a saw and grist
mill on Camp Greek, Boone County,
which she conducts herself, and she is
laying the foundation Of fortune.
The Grown Prince of Sweden and
Norway during his recent stay at Me
ran, adopted two little Tyrolese- boys,
sons Of a poor carpenter, and they are
now members of his household at
Stockholm.
ONE of the largest forests in the
world stands on ice. It is situated be-
tween the UraI and the Okhotsk Sea.
A well was recently dug in this region,
when it was found that at a depth Of
116 meters the ground was still frozen.
MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY has seventeen
graduates in Congress-the largest
number of any institution of learning
in the country. Harvard has sixteen
and Yale eleven. This is the greatest
blow that Western colleges have re-
ceived lately.
MAX O'BELL says that young Tenny-
son once called upon Carlyle. They
sat near the fireplace for hours,
neither uttering a sound. Finally, the
gruff old fellow escorted Tennyson to
the door and babe him call again, for
he had enjoyed his visit so much.
Nor every person knows that the
sure test of genuine paper currency is
to hold the bill up to the light so that
you can discern two lines running
parallel across its entire length. These
are a red and a blue silk thread inside
the paper. No counterfeit has them.
The astronomers of the Paris OBJ
servatOry are in trouble over the pro
jected building of a railroad near their
establishment. They say that the
earth tremblings caused by passing
trains viii make their observations
useless. They viii try to have the
Government order a change of the
route.
A BRIDGEPORT, Conn, newspaper
recently printed the following adver-
tisement: "Chu Fong would likee
smally nice Melican lady. She nc
have to work, as Chu Fong got big lot
Of money. Chu Fong Will do the
washee and the cookee; wife she car
dress up every day. Prize, $40 fol
best girl. Chu Fong."
MODERN chemistry shows that tn,
MGGICdl lore OF JIG ancient u6EDdllSU
had a much sounder basis than haC
been imagined. In 1897 water cresse
were recommended for the cure o
scurvy and scrofuIa. Chemists nov
say that the cress contains sulphur
phosphorus, iodine and iron-sub
stances that are known to be actua
antidotes to scrofuIa
AT JohnstOwn, Pa, three chiIdrel
who were insured in one of the man,
baby insurance companies have deyel
oped symptoms of poisoning, and on
of them is already dead. Of cours
baby insurance is a Legitimate business
but to an unprecedented observer it doe
seem that some of the later develop
ments of civilization come very nea
offering chrome for murder.
THE following story is going tn
rounds of the English newspapers 90.
a recent trip to Europe it is said tina
the Chief Justice of the Supreme Cou1
of Texas was introduced to an EngIis
member of Parliament. The introduC
ton was made not by name but by tn
judicial title of the American visitor