Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-02-28

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,PHrLLIPsBURG, KANSAS.
JUG Tavern is the name of a pros
porous village in Georgia.
THE lash has never been abolished
as a means of discipline in the German
penal institutions.
IN 1888 nearly 8,OOO,OOOOOO bricks
we're manufactured in twelve cities Of
the United States About 8O,OO0,0OO
were made in Pittsburg.
IT is said that one of the English
novelists is able to repeat from mem
DRY every word he has written, and he
is the author Of many books.
A WEST VIRGINIA girl has saved
money enough to buy herself gold
watch by trapping muskrats, skunks,
and other animals and selling their
hides.
AT a G.. A. R. fair in SteubenvilIe
recently 1000 of Confederate money,
which was taken from the trunk of JEFF
ferson Davis after his capture, was on
exhibition.
WITH a record of having buried 300
persons, George L. Moore, an aged
undertaken of GuthrievilIe, Chester
County, Pa, has at last been laid under
the sod himself.
A PHILADELPHIA undertaken who has
much use for his telephone, has had it
rugged up on a dumb-waiter arrange
ment so that it can answer a call from
any part of the house.
IT is estimated that the Indians now
living own an average of 466 acres each
of land. That gives the average red
skin too much to farm and too little to
make a successful wilderness.
WASHINGTON people are said to be
apprehensive that the novel which the
widow of Gen. Ricketts, is writing will
portray some incidents in their lives
with rather too much vividness.
IN answer to the question, SIS the
bite of the black snake poisonous %
Scientific american says: The COM
mon black snake of the United States
is not armed with poison fangs and
glands, and consequently is not poi
sonOus.
RUSSIAN officials have decided that
the telephone is dangerous to the
state In Warsaw orders have been
given that telephones be removed from
all restaurants, cOffee-houses, and
iqusr saloons. Similar orders have
been issued in all other large Polish
towns.
The United States has the smallest
standing army of all the great nations,
and yet it spends almost as much per
head for military purposes as Prussia
or Russia. This is explained, of
course, by the fact that we maintain
the most liberal pension system in the
world.
HIS elevation to the Senate has made
no change in the quiet ways of Judge
Moody, of Deadwood, S. D. He is a
pleasant-looking. quiet old gentleman,
wearing a silk hat, and gray hair and
whiskers, and he still possesses the
amiability Of manner to which his sue
cess in life is greatly due.
MARK TWAIN has spent about $780,
600 in perfecting the Page type-setting
machine. and he is the principal owner
of the company that will manufacture
them. The machine is sixteen feet
long, nine feet high in the middle, and.
it is claimed, viii set, justify, and dis
tribute $4,000 ems of type daily.
JOHN McCLosKEY, of San Antonio,
Texas, has been mourned as dead for
nine years. The other night a bearded
stranger appeared at the home of Mrs.
McCloskey. She became very indig-
Rant when he took her in his arms.
1t was her husband. He had been in
the West, and made a great deal of
money.
THEY don't mince matters much in
the untrammeled West. The follow
ing advertisement appeared in Kan
sas City paper the other day: Ply
sician wanted-ImmediateIy, to take