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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13
Scientific Phenomena.

There are great many strange ideas
brought out in our larger chemical and
physical laboratories, many things
theOries-that, while appearing pIausi-
BILE to those within the scientific circle,
partake of the marvellous and approach
the supernatural when placed before
the people outside this ring For in
stance, the chemist viii tell that those
dry shingles on the roof in the hottest
sun for a month or more contain one
half their weight Of water. We very
naturally become skeptics, and ask for
the papers. Then the physicist viii
read from his records that, with the
most economical methods known Of
making steam and applying power,
over ninety-hY6 per cent. of the fuel is
lost in friction and imperfect combus-
ton; that the cost of making the
steam that passes through the escape
valves during twenty-four hours is
more than our national debt. When
both of them together viii ask US to
believe that if an ordinary person was
subjected to sufficient pressure to dis
pei all the moisture of the body the
substance left would be smaller than q
pea, we are almost staggered and turn
incredulOusly away; but all Of these
propositions are absolute facts, and the
smallest fraction of the wonders of ma
ture have not yet been told.
When we stand by these pale-faced
gentlemen, among their retOrts, acids,
salts and gases; among their technical
appliances with such extreme accuracy
that the smallest mote, even the faint
scratch Of a lead pencil, can be weighed;
with massive machinery turned with
such accuracy that all joints run noise
lessly; with such perfect fits of jour
nails and bearings that they run with
out vibration. and the hand placed on
the metal VIII expand 1t to that extent
that It VIII refuse to move; argue with
instruments and tools of such deIicacy
and sensitiveness that even this little
expansion and contraction is meas
urabIe, and that estimates are really
based upon their results-We are not
entitled to q doubt; but all should be
humbIed that the world knows so lit
tie in comparison to what it should
know.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13
The Einel Tower.

Although the erection Of the Eiffel
Tower was merely financial venture,
as we all know, and proved veritabIe
bonanza to its projectors, the results of
its standing there during the EXPOSE
ton may be highly advantageous to
science and hygiene. For instance.
meteOrologists found the air remarka-
bly, pure and wholesome at the top, and
a British savant, an authority on air,
proposes to bring down, by means of a
high tower, a continuous supply Of the
article, which can be introduced at an
agreeable temperature into all the pub
lie buildings, hotels, theaters, dwell
ings, and the like. If the theory is
practicable, and there is no reason why
it is not, it is to be hoped that this viii
be done.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13
What COmrade Jim Would Say.
BzLP. PRICKETr.


They are talking Of a monument to those who
Where the iron hail Of battle fell, and, weltring
In their blood,
Lay the msangled forms of comrades dear, who,
marching at our side,
Stricken down by deadly missiles were, and,
like true patriots, died,
With prayr upon their pa1lid lips that We
might e'er be true
To our country and its banner-stars In azure
True to Freedoms cause and Freedoms flag, to
Justice and to Right;
InaU the sun OF Freedom neer might set In
Wrongs eternal night.
Yes, they're talking of a monument in every
To the memory Of those who fell in battles
And to those old crippled heroes who were
mangled in the strife;
Who to country gave all men could give, except
Well It's meet that grateful hearts, agIow with
Should appreciate the sacrifice Of those who felt
the steel,
And vent down in smoke Of battIe-wrote in
OF life to Freedom sacrificed, a life to coun-
try's glory.
There was Sergeant James Dewater. better
known as Sergeant Jim"
Who was stricken down at Gettysburg-you'7
not forgotten him
How he bravely bore his sufferings, and trust
ngIy would say
That from homes he'd wrecked his life to save
he'd ne'er be turned away;
That, though a mere human wreck, he'd ind a
home among the free;
That soldier, manned in Freedoms cause,
would ever welcome be
At the homes his sacrifice had saved the doors
would open wide
AS the portals Of that home above would open
when he died.
Swiftly few the passing years, and wars dread
horrors all were Ger;
Crippled, manned, a human wreck, poor Jim
was turned from door to door
He who braVed thousand perils that our
country might Oe free,
Died poor, neglected pauper, in the pOOrhOuse
that you see
Over yonder on the hilltop, and the grasses nod
and wave
Ger the unmarked spot that holds his dust-a
herO's unknown grave.
Sleeps he in a lOwiy, unmarked grave by pau
per hands twas made,
And the haIOwed spots almost within that
monuments deep shade.
Well, if Jim from his lone grave can see upon
the scroll of fame
Cut upon that granite monument his own I'M
hOnOred name
That a grateful % people placed it there upon
that tow ring spire,
Jim would call unless he's changed in DEATH
that monument q liar.
Ask you, 'cOnrade, what poor Jim would say, if
up there near the throne,
Where he's ever now on duty, ne could see this
gliJtTing stone?
Well, if @cuss-WOrds" are permitted in that
realm Of brightest day,
III not hesitate in saying that's what Comrade
Jim would say.
ALBION, Ind.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13
Curious Facts About Pigeons.

Pigeon fanciers all know that pig
cons lay two eggs almost invariably,
also that the birds resulting from their
incubation are quite apt to be pair,
male and female. The more scientific
breeders of pigeons have made a great
many experiments for the purpose of
ascertaining which of these eggs, in
their order of being laid, produces the
male and which the female bird, and,
though no rule can be imagined that
has no exception, it has become an
established fact virtually among fan
ciers themselves that the egg first laid
produces the female, the second the
male
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13
Suspension Rrfdees.

1t is said that dog trotting across a
bridge would do more injury to the
structure than a loaded car. The sus-
pension bridge connecting Brooklyn
and New York City is probably the
only. suspension bridge in the world
over which horses are allowed to trot.
There seems to be no restriction
this Is the case no one appears to be
able to explain nevertheless, the
bridge, still new, Comparatively speak
ing, begins to show deterioration. En-
gineers say if trotting is not stopped
the structure will soon be unsafe.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13
EyeIess Fish.

1t is a strange provision Of nature
that when any of the animal senses are
not needed or used such attributes
soon become aborted, and eventually
disappear altogether. In Santa Rosa,
California, there is a we'll from which,
in drawing water, myriads of eyeIess
fish, from half an inch to six inches in
length, have been taken out. There is
evidently a subterranean or cavernOus
supply to this water, the same as Nam
moth Cave. All animal life there
cTickets, fish, crabs. snails, lizards,
etc-is eveIess
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

orally it could not be obtained at any
price. Slices of ham, parched brown,
made a tolerable coffee. Drowned
wheat, also, and corn were tried; but
the best substitute discovered WIS the
seeds Of the Okr8 plant, which, when
carefully parched, made a coffee that
could be drank without a WY face. As
for tea, they tried the leaves of the
raspberry, blackberry, and buckle
berry, all of which made tea which
some people found it possible to drink.
A good many of the ladies made a dis
covery still more valuable. They
found that they could do without both
tea and coffee, and all the substitutes
for the same, without the slightest in
jury or even inconvenience after the
first few days.
Sugar and molasses very soon be
came unattainable In the extreme
South, where the slaves had always
been accustomed to raise little sugar
cane for their children to suck, the
sugar cane was extensively planted,
and toIerable sugar was raised from it.
One ingenious woman, left alone upon
a farm, made a notable discovery. She
lived IN the watermelon region of Ala
bama, where the fruit grows to great
size and excellence. She conceived
the idea of boiling down the water
melon juice INTO syrup, The expert
ment was brilliantly successful, the
syrup being fully equal in quality and
favor to that which was made by her
neighbors from the Juice of the sugar
cane. Next she made sugar and candy
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

the hospital. AS passed the long rows
Of sick veterans, my eyes rested on q
sick lad, q mere boy, whose pale face
and sunken eyes told of his sufferings.
His name, he said, was Arthur Perry,
His home in Ohio, his mother a widow.
The child said: Sometimes L was so
cold and hungry that I thought I would
never see home again; but I viii, won't
I, Lieutenant? p I assured him that he
would, and after giving him a clean
pair of blankets I departed. The next
morning I called again and he seemed
much better. He said he was captured
and wounded while with an ammuni-
ton train. He talked freely Of home
and mother in the early part of the
day, but the latter part of the day he
became reticent and did not seem
aware of my presence, and he said in
tones that almost broke my heart: I
know what it means now, Lieutenant
I shall never see mother again He
begged me to take him in my arms,
which I did, and there in the deep twi-
light, with one arm around my neck
and the other over my shoulder, the
brave little fellow was summoned to
the better home on high.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

MoRsE's SCHOOL szoEs-m7de IN ow
large Shoe factory at Omaha, Nebraska
Ask your dealer for them. Refuse to take
any others. If not kept in your town write
as asking where to get them. They weas
longer and TT better than any other shoes.
Shoes have always been made too narrow.
We make them vide. A reward of Fifty
Dollars in gold paid for pair of cur own
make of shoes that contain a particle Of
shoddy, or anything but solld leather. We
make enc hundred and fifty styles Of We
mems, Misses and Chndren's Sewed and
Standard Screw, Grain, Glove Kid and Don
COLA. Elegant styles, wide and good fitting
We also carry one hundred and ffty styles
Of Meas Goods, Rubbsrs, etc.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13
BY PROF. j. z. ELsoA.
Largest Forest in the World.
Giant Oysters.

Large oyster shells are often brought
up by the dredgers. There was one
on exhibition in Louisville, Ky, a few
years ago, that held nearly sixteen
quarts of water, though the largest
edible oysters in the world are found
at Port Lincoln, South Australia. They
are as large as a dinner-pIate, and
about the same shape. An oyster
twelve inches across the shell is by no
means a rarity there, and the bivalve
fits his shell so perfectly that he leaves
little margin.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

To those of our readers wishing to buy a
Piano or Organ We can heartily recommend
to them the old reliable house of 4 II. Whit
ney Co., Quincy, i'll. Purchasers can rely on
this firm to do just as they promise in all
business transactions. Write to them.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

is on the increase. The Union Pacific is the
only line through without a change. Remem-
Der this before you purchase your tickets. A
through cOlOnist car for Portland daily. No
other line has such service. Call on or ad-
dress H. B. Harrington, City Tiki Agt., 525
Kansas Ave, Topeka, o T j. T. Gwin, Depot
Agt., for full information.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

Co. PhiIada.. Pa. to any onein ybe 4. s or
Canada, upon receipt of p Dobbins' Electric
Soap wrappers. See list of novels on circu-
lar around each bar. Soap for sale by all
grOcers.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13
THE BLUE AND HEGRAY
BRAVE MEN WHO MET UPON TIE
FIELD OF BATTLE.

Thrilling Stories Of the RebeIIion-OId
Soldiers and Sailors Recite Interesting
"Reminiscences OF Life In Camp and on
the EfeId.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

MANY CURIOUS. USEFUL, AND INTER
ESTING FACTS.

An Enormous Forest Resting on a Bed Of
ICe-A Wonderful Ohio Cat-EyeIezs Fish
Giant Oysters suspension Bridges
Habits of the Pigeon.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

THE earliest Druidism seems to have
admitted neither of covered temples
nor seulptured images Of the gods.
Jupiter, indeed, is said to have been
represented by a lofty oak, and Mer-
curry by a cube.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

Vixen Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Csstoria,
When she became Miss, she clungto Castoria,
When she had Children. she gave them Castoria
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

A Natural Supposition.-Ted: One of the
dime museums advertises a phantom hen.
Ned: What does she do? Ted: Lays ghosts,
slDDOse.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

Never put on airs. If your wife finds one
on your coat collar, and the color isn't just
right, there'Q be trouble.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13
Southern Women During the War.
BY JAMES PARTON.

)HE ladies found
it very hard to
do without tea
and coffee, and
they put forth
con tinuous eff
forts to find sub
stitutes for them.
At a time when
the wages of me-
chanics were
thirty dollars a
day, it required
sixty dollars to
buy a pound Of
coffee: and gen
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13
A Modest Request.

Ii through
the summer
of 1868 the
hospitals at
@ a u t 0 n ,
Miss. were
Gro " d e d
with sick and
wounded sol
diers andthe
ladies visited
them daily,
c carrying
W 1t b them
delicacies of
every kind.
and did all
thew could to
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

Still waters run deep. Shallow waters run
dry frequently. Both these reflections are
eminently wise.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

The two great wants of the day-better
vice at home.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

Perhaps it Is because silence is golden that
the silyermen are seldom silent.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

The only genuine original package was
filed, not with liquor but with original sin.
And it is still doing business at the old stand.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

N writing of the
poetry of the war
I do not refer to
the songs. There
was much good
and stirring mu-
sic born of the
struggle, some of
which viii be like
~ to outlive all
t h e participants
in it ; but the word
d" GOOD" is usualIv
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

Everything goes. Yes: everything ex
eeptthe horse you've bet on.
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cheer and comfort the suffering. On
one occasion a pretty miss of sixteen
was distributing flowers and speaking
gentle words of encouragement to those
around her, when she overheard a sol
der excIaim, 90 my Lord!"
Stepping to his bedside to rebuke
him for his profanity, she remarked:
Didn't I hear you call upon the
name of the Lord? 7 am one Of his
daughters. Is there anything can
ask him for you? ?"
Looking up into her bright, sweet
face, he replied:
81 don't know but there is.
well, said she, "whab is it 2"
Raising his eyes to hers and extend
ing his hand, he said, ~PIease ask him
to make me his son-in-law."
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

Shoe Manufacturers, Onaha, Eebrasks
Wales Goodyear Rubbers are rhe best.
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to be applied only to the tune and not
to the words. The latter were merely
the pegs upon which the music was
hung, and were often very poor stuff,
sometimes hardly escaping the cOndem-
nation of nonsense. To this rule there
were of course exceptions. Among
the multitude of the sentimental and
pathetic songs of the war, the words
of the widely sung "Lorena," begin
ming,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

None equal ..Tanzllrs Punch" Sc Cigar.
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A Drummer Boys Sad Death.

URINGth
early part
of 1868 the
Union forces
were e n
'cannped neal
WiImin g.
ton, n. c.,
says a cor
re S pOndent
of the Phil
adelphia
Press.
"Partly
sympathy
and partly
curiosity led
me to visit
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13
The Poetry of the War.

BY JAMES FRANKLIN Fits.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13
The years creep slowly by, Lorena,
Ihe snow is ON The gross again.

The snow is on the grass again,
are at least of a respectable order of
merit. Among the patriotic songs of
each side, recall one, the words of
which have real strength and poetic
expression. One is Mrs. Julia Ward
HOwe's Battle Hymn Of the Republic, %
commencing:
Mine eyes have seen the glory OF the coming of
the Lord,
intended to be sung to the strong and
measured chant, "John Browns Body. &"
But alas Mrs. Howe's good verse
never suited the Union soldiers at all
never reached many of them. When
they wanted to sing the air it was al
ways with the original familiar words,
and their endless repetition:
'John Browns body lies moldering in the
grave" etc.
The other instance that I have in
mind was "My Maryland" The author
of the words of that old tune wrote
much that was good before and after
that effort; but as a mere poetic ex-
preston he never exceeded 1t. IN
popular and even hated as these verses
were at the North, they had a ring and
a stir in them that were rarely found
in war songs. Take the concluding
stanZa:
hear the distant thunder-hum,
Maryland, my Maryland
The old-line bugle, fife and drum,
Maryland, my Maryland.
She is not dead, she is not dunno,
She breathes, she wakes-sheu come, she'll
come,
Maryland, my Maryland
But even this eloquent logic had but
a brief run as Confederate war-cry.
After the summer of 1862 it was rarely
sung at all, and its purpose was spent
when "My Maryland" failed to Join the
"wayward sisters"
My purpose, however, was to call
attention to the poetry Of the war,
that which was not meant to be welded
to music, but which was expected to
live by putting the passion, the. patri-
Otism, the pathos and the action Of the
war into expressive numbers. And
the melancholy fact that viii impress
any one who tries to recall the real
poetry of the war is that there IS so
very little of it
There was certainly an immense
quantity of alleged war-pOetry written
between 1861 and 1865; during the
quarter century that has since elapsed
verses to commemorate everything that
did happen and much more that never
happened during the conflict have been
published by the ream-but little
enough of it all has survived. It is
hard Judgment; but I suppose that the
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u. y. M0RSE 3 @
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-05-27
LEGISLATIVE MATTERS,

To-day at noon the Legislature will
adjourn.
The House passed bill increasing
the pay of guards in the penitentiary
to $50 month.
The bill making it unlawful to adver-
tise lotteries has gone to the Govern
or for his signature.
Tho nominations of the new officers
o. the Western Lunatic Asylum were
confirmed some days ago.
The Legislature has at last passed
the bilfappropriating $4,000 to con-
tinue the Geological Survey.
The redistricting bill went through
last week and will become law. Nc
change is made in the Second.
Both houses have passed the bill
requiring supplies for eleemosynary
institutions to be furnished by con
tract.
The Senate passed the bill requir-
ing insurance companies to pay the
full amount when the loss is greater
than the insurance.
The Senate has been going through
the farce of investigating the "mon-
keying' with the Ohio & Big Sandy
Railroad bill by Mr.. Langley and
others.
The penitentiary trouble was ad-
justed Thursday by the withdrawal OF
the Governors resignation as a sink
ing fund commissioner, at the request
of the Legislature.
The Tax Reduction Bill vetoed by
the Governor was passed over the
veto by the Senate last week, having
previously passed in the House. 1t
reduces State taxes from All to 42l
cents.
Representatives Farmer and Bent
ley, two Republicans, had set-to in
the rotunda of the State House Fri
day and the same day two lobbyists
had scrapping match in the Capitol
yard.
Among the items of the appropria-
ton bill for the session are: For
ministers of the gospel, for opening
the meeting with prayers, 800; Guy
Barrett, for daily newspapers, $500
Daily Capital, 500; enrolling clerks
$40 per day; assistants,SS; sergeant
alarms, So; House and Senate clerks
and assistants, SO; doorkeepers, 81
assistants, 81; pages, S3; janitors, So
assistants, So; Speaker pro tem., S.
regular Speakers, 81 and mileage.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-05-27
THE CRAFT.

j. Fletch Marcum, of the Catletts-
burg Democrat, is candidate for
Clerk of the Boyd County Court.
E. X. Shultz will soon begin the
publication of the "Ohio Farmer" a
Farmers Union paper at Beaver Dam,
Ohio county.
Editor John Goff, of the jackson
Hustler, has been nominated for Con-
stitutional Delegate by the Breathitt
county Democrats.
Mr.. j. Guthrie Coke, senior editor
o, the Russellville Herald, is a can
didate to represent Logan in tho Con-
stitutional Convention.
DIR. Z. E. Hoss has been elected
editor of the Christian Advocate, at
Nashville, since DIR. Fitzgerald was
elected bishop. Itwas not consid
er ID irreverent to bring in another
Hoss.
Stuart Cam, who formerly pub
lished paper at Frankfort, is now a
resident of Ashland, and boomer.
He was thrown from buggy few
days since and had rib broken.
He thus describes his experience to an
Ashland Ne,cs reporter:
ut is my sixth rib in the left side
that is broken" said Mr.. Marion
Stuart Cam, yesterday, as he lay
propped up amid pillars in his room
at the Aldine. On table were three
beautiful bouquets, sent to him by
sympathizing friends. "This," he
continued "is the fifth time that same
rib has been broken. When / was a
small boy fell over fence running
away from watermelon patch where
| was not wanted, and broke it; once
baseball bat slipped and broke it;
then Bolivar, the big elephant in
Forepaugh's circus, swung his trunk
once at boy who had given him to-
bacco, and missed the boy, but broke
the rib again. The fourth time it
was broken by my falling out of a
tree at Birmingham, where | was
roosting to report a secret meeting of
a council committee. The tree was
near the window, and as it was a dark
night, l climbed up there to hear the
meeting. One of the committeeman
came to the window and threw u ci-
gar stump out. 1t fell in the pocket
Of my sack coat and escaped imme-
diate notice. 1t kept burning, how
ever, and soon had my coat-tail on
fire, and then began roasting me. In
my surprise | lost my hold and fell
out of the tree. | hope this is the
last time it will get smashed. | shall
get new rib il it keeps up"
If the bouquets mean anything, they
mean that MIR. Cam can get new
rib" without much trouble.