Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-01-31

PHILLPsBURG, KANSAS.
THE United States bought over
1900, 600 worth of eggs from Canada
last year.
PRIVATE SECRETARY HALFoRD was
once a newsboy, and he is now earnest
" urging some action looking to a bet
terment of the condition of the waits
of the streets.
NOTHING that has happened of late
in ConstantinopIe has excited so much
comment as the action of the Sultan in
driving about in an open carriage with
the German Empress.
IN little town of schleswig-Hol-
stein there Is a tax exemption for dogs
shat sleep with their masters and mis-
tresses and so preserve them from govt,
rheumatism, and like pains"
THE operator of an electric car at
Pittsburg, Pa, reversed the current
very suddenly few days ago and the
iron work became so heavily charged
that two passengers received severe
shocks.
LADY FORESTER, of London, is a
practical philanthropist. Each week
she sends to the factory girls of Lon
don upward of two thousand punches
of flowers gathered by the servants on
her estates.
A PocAHoNTAs COUNTY CWest Vir-
ginia) ghost in the shape of a woman in
white wearing a belt stuck full of re-
volvers turns out to be nothing but the
shadow of a tree as thrown against a
wall by a street lamp.
A SCIENTIST says that there Is such
a thing as a hoop-snake, but that it
doesn't roll like hoop. It simply
makes a succession of loops, like the
inch-worm, but so rapidly that it seems
to roll around like hoop.
JANE DETHERIDGE, of Kingston,
Jamaica, has refused thirty-seven
offers of marriage. Jane has 81, OOO,-
900, and is an orphan. She does not
think she can afford husband who
cares only for her money.
Mrs. CLIFFORD, of New Haven,
Conn, has given $4,000 to societies
and institutions for the prevention of
cruelty to animals She has endowed
home in Boston with $4,000 for
stray and starving animals.
WHEN clergyman at Pennsburg,
Pa. handed his wife the envelope
which contained the customary present
from a groom, she found it contained
only six cents. The minister had been
called out of bed to perform the cere-
mony.
OF the seven weeds which the tweed
law" of Wisconsin requires farmers,
under penalty, to destroy, only one is
a native of the United States, all the
rest being naturalized importations
from Europe, where they are common
wild plants
OVER half a million "Ietters that
never came" are reported for last year,
all due to careless and insufficient adj
dresses and to lack of postage stamps.
This shows that the public is itself
responsible for a good deal of the fault
that it finds with the postal service.
SECRETARY BLAINE attributes his
good health to the fact that he has
given up his habit of eating meat three
times a day. He eats eggs for break
fast, cracked wheat for lunch, and
roast meat for dinner. Since he adopt
ed this regimen his health has been
greatly improved.
In private letter a New Orleans
teacher declared that the pupils IN
Southern schools obey only when com
PEELED by force or fear, and that they
have little sense of right or honor.
Somehow or other the letters got pub
hshed, and now they are making it hot
for the teacher.
JUDGE MARK BLANDFoRD, of the
Georgia Supreme Bench, is a firm be
lever in the zodiac signs. He lost an
arm at the battle of Mcdowell, Va,
In May, 1862, and he declares that he
and every other soldier who got wound
ed In the arm in that combat recovered,
while all the leg wounds proved NOR
tai. He says he had occasion to take