Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-30


found near Pittsburg, Pa. The discoV-
cry Will save the glass manufacturers
of that city thousands of dollars annu-
ally, as they have hitherto been obliged
to send across the Allegheny Noun
tains for their sand.
THE present Harpers are grandsons
Of he'original printers, but they retain
their'adherenee to the craft. They are
still printers, and each one of the fam
uy saat intends entering the firm must
FIRST learn the trade. He starts assam
apprentice, and is not admitted to the
Hrm until he has mastered the craft.
"A PROMINENT Denver man was mar
Gied last week with great eclat,
but he is already unhappy. Helis I'M
happy because an Associated Press
dispatch which announced that he had
married a handsome Colorado woman
was mixed in transmission, and he now
his the reputation of having married
handsome cOlOred woman.
IT is proposed to put the newspaper
reporters of Brussels, Belgium, in uni
form, and a semi-military costume, with
a handsome frogged tunic, is suggested
as the proper thing. The desirability
of the uniform was first made apparent
at the Stanley reception, when they
were hustled about like ordinary NOR
tails because their identity was not
known.
A MAN who has acquired great fame
in other walks of life can generally
make money by literary work" but
the poor fellow who drives away at
literature. is lucky if he acquires fame
enough to make him drawing card for
the lecture stage. 1t is not usually
what a man writes that is we'll paid
for; it is the signature that Is valuable
Or worthless, as the case may be.
BY far the most expensive coffee
brought to this country comes from
Blue Mountain, Jamaica. The whole
product of the region is small and
only a few thousand bags reach New
York. 1t is usually bought by Del
monico at a very high figure. At the
same time the Delmonico coffee does
not contribute to the restaurants rep
utation. Quite as good coffee is served
at half a dozen less famous places.
THERE are in st. Petersburg 73S be-
nevOlent institutions, upon which the
city spends yearly 10000 roubles.
The maintenance of hospitals and mfr
;maries costs 2, 800, 900; poor houses, l.
100000; asylums for children, 2,224,-
200; schools, l., 1877 900; kitchens for the
poor, At 900; warehouses;, $4,000, and
lodging houses, 1000 roubles. The
sinking funds of all these institutions,
besides their respective possessions in
real estate, are estimated at go, 500, 900
roubles.
WHEREVER you find petroleum you
won't find mosquitoes" said an oil
country man. "The internal insects
can't stand the smell of the grease, and
wherever oil wells are plenty there is
no call for mosquito bars. Over and
over again I've seen mosquitoes leave a
new. oil field as soon as a we'll flows.
Whether petroleum applied to the face
and hands will drive off mosquitoes
don't know. But one of the few com
pensations OF the driller is that he's
seldom troubled by mosquitoes"
THE memory of Grant has Just ae-
quiredsa notable monument in Boston.
There is a battery of eightineh guns
on SOmerville Heights, used in the
civil war. They now mark the spot
where Israel Putnam threw up earth
works Immediately after or on the
night of the battle of Bunker Hill, and
II. l.
the enemy was driven from Boston har-
bec. This battery, in working order,
has been named by General Veazey,
the commander in-chief of the Grand
Army, ~The Grant Memorial Battery. 4"
THE Japanesebooks begin where ours
end, the word fms coming where we
put the title page; the foot-notes are
printed at the top of the page, and the
reader puts in his marker at the bottom.
In Japan men make themselves merry
with wine before dinner, not after the
sweets precede the roast. A Japanese
mounts his horse on the right side in
stead of the left. The name of the
animal hangs on the left side instead of
the right; the horse stands in the
stable with his head wAere his tail
ought to be. Boats are hauled upon
the beaches stern Grst. The japanese
saw and plane toward them instead OF
away from them. Keys turn in instead
of out. The best rooms of japanese
house sSze always at the back, aud ar
chitects. when building. begin with the
noof.
A SURGEON on Cunard liner has
been nothing the pecuiarities in cigar
lighting praetfced hY men of different