Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

PHILLIPSBURG HERALD.
PHILLIPSBURG, KANSAS.
THERE are five New Yorzs, nine
Philadelphias, and twelve Bostons in
the United States.
RUBBER pavements have successfully
been tried on bridge in Hanover and
a street in Berlin.
PHILADELPHIA ladies are boycotting
merchants who refuse to regard the
comfort and health Of their sales
women. a very good argument it is,
too.
SOME remarkable caves have been
discovered in West Australia. Two Of
them are said to be large enough to
afford accommodation for 200, 600 men
each.
@. LoNGFELLow, druggist at Ma
chias, Ne, inserted an advertisement
of his business in the first issue Of the
local paper forty years ago and has
kept it in ever since.
A CITIZEN of Taunton, Mass, says
that he knows woman who, for several
years, made from 1000 to /, 200 pies
year for a family of three persons, and
one member has eaten more than two
thirds of them.
CHINA, with a population in the
vicinity of 38O,OOO,OO has only three
newspapers at present. Considering
that an editors head is chopped off on
the slightest provocation the wonder is
that there are even three.
COLONEL NoRTH's dog-house, at Lon
don, is a perfect canine palace, filed
with costly animals. The best dog
cost 1920. There is a dressing-room,
and cIoak-room filed with dogs coats,
and fresh shoulders of mutton make
the dogs daily dinner.
FIFTEEN years ago Henry Hill, of
Council Bluffs, swOre that he would
not shave until Susan B. Anthony was
elected President. The other day his
whiskers, which were three feet long,
became entangled in some machinery
and were mostly pulled out by the
roots, and he is probably pretty well
cured of his foolishness.
IT is becoming the custom for busy
and wealthy women to have young
ladies for private secretaries. The
feminine private secretary keeps the
run of the visiting list, answers notes,
and makes engagements and excuses.
Her duties require an excellent educa-
ton, high bred manners, and the great
est tact and delicacy.
THE hangman in New South Wales
is looked upon with such horror that
he recently found himself completely
boycotted on reaching Wagga- Wagga
to perform an execution. The cabmen
refused unanimously to drive him from
the railway station. the porters also
declined to carry his luggage, and the
unlucky executioner was obliged to
trudge off on foot, struggling with his
various traps.
HERE is something new in Journal
ism. A New York paper offers a prize
Of $3.50 for every person found dead
with a copy of the latest issue of the
paper on his person, thus guarantee
ing to amuse and instruct a man while
he lives and provide for his family when
he is taken away. For novelty and
originality in schemes to build up a
circulation this one seems to deserve
early recognition.
FRED HAUN, a Collinwood COhio)
man, was taken prisoner at Kingston,
Ga, in '64, and was stripped of ac-
couterments, among which was a cap
box with his name stenci1ed upon it.
He escaped and thought no more Of
the cap box until it was found by a
Miss Kerns in a coal shed near Collin
wood last week. How it gravitated tc
its owner during twenty-five years
wandering IS mystery.
SAN PEDRO MARTIN, in Lower Cali
fornia, it has been ascertained, is not
as has been generally supposed a chair
of mountains, but single one. 1t is
about 100 miles in length and from ter
to thirty in width, containing abou-
1000, 600 acres of land, one-haIf o