Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-11-06

PHTLLIPNBURG HERALD.
PHILLIPsBURG, KANSAS.
THERE are always $500, 600 people
on the seas of the world.
THERE is over one hundred miles of
streets paved with wood in London
THE Japs administer the oath by cut
ting the witness finger and taking
blood to seal the swear.
FRANK D. MILLET, the artist, who
has returned to Europe, was an art
critic. His taste for gunpowder, con-
tracted In the civil war, led him to join
the staff of London paper during the
Russo-Turkish war.
THE late Jefferson Davis. while Sec
rotary of War under the United States
Government, recommended the intro
duction of camels for use on the great
plains. The suggestion was carried out
and there are still some half-wild cam
els in Nevada.
CANTON, Me-, must be a fortunate
town. Having no other use for their
jail the selectmen have rented it to a
man for shoemaker's shop. The ten
ant, however, keeps a cell or two in
readiness in case somebody should
lapse from virtue.
Mrs. MILLER, wife of the Governor
of North Dakota, dropped into the
Office of a newspaper at Dryden, n. Y.
recently, and set couple of stickfuls
of matter, as a reminder of the old
days when she was a composition in that
Office and the Governor was making
up" to her.
THE other day couple of little girls
came to a physicians Office to be vacci-
mated says the Toronto Mail. One of
them undertook to speak for the other,
and explained: Doctor, this is my sis
ter. She is too young to know her left
arm from her right, so mamma washed
both of them"
AMONG the incidents of the late
Grand Army reunion of Boston was the
meeting of two brothers, natives of
Maine, who had not seen each other
since the war and each of whom sup
posed the other to have been killed in
that conflict. One now lives in New
-,
CARDINAL LAvIGERIE, of Paris, who
has taken great interest in the slave
trade which is still carried on in Africa,
has offered a premium of So, 900 for the
best romance treating of this diabolical
affair. Uncle Tom in Africa, it is
hoped, will awaken public interest to
the existence of this great crime.
A RHODE Island man whose trunk
was wrecked by the baggage
brought suit for damage, and in giving
him a verdict for $50 and costs the
Judge said: "There should be 500 suits
where there is now only one. No rail
road has the least anxiety about pas
senger's baggage. The way to bring J
about reform Is to go for their pocket J
books"
GENERAL MOVES, of Ohio, who drop
ped dead in Cincinnati the other day, |
lost his leg while leading a brilliant
and successful charge during the late
war. On his way to the hospital in an
ambulance he met Gen. Mcpherson,
his commander, and said to him:
General, got their works and point
to his shattered Ieg) they got part of
mine; but it's Fourth of July, and I /
don't care a continental"
AMONG the things saved from the
rubbish when the home of the late |
Henry Ward Beecher was broken up at
his death were two leather bound books
in which he had kept his farm accounts,
and right in among the tables of dol
lars and cents, corn and potatoes, tur-
nips, cabbages, ETC., will be found de-
scriptions of flowers or trees. In one !
instance several pages are given up to
lamenting the death of his farmer.
The meanest man yet is a Pittsburg
doctor. He is German, and his vic
Tins are newly arrived German girls. !
AO mCSbo 1nOL4s bo11S tASn he nGSuS an |
assistant in his business, proposes mar
riege, and then borrows what money
and valuables they have and is seen no
more. He does not propose to more than
one girl at a time, but managed to en-
gage himself to two each day until the
police nabbed him. His excuse was that
he needed money.