Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-21
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PHILLIPSBURG, KANSAS
BELvA A. LOCKWOOD has announced
that she viii again run for President
in 1892.
BOsToN CoBBETr, the slayer Of John
Wilkes Booth is in the Kansas insane
asylum.
ACCORDING to the american A1t
Printer, there are 125,OOO printers in
the United States.
AT Tucamche, in Guatemala, the
boys in a school recently seized the
master and hanged him in the school
house.
TIE prices of camphor and gum
promise to rise. The German govern
ment is making gigantic purchases of
these articles for the manufacture Of
smokeless powder.
SEPARATION from his wife is sought
for by a Chester, Pa, man, and he
backs his claim for it by the statement
that she danced. for Joy when he
chopped his fingers off.
New York uses annually about 280,-
600, 600 quarts of milk. To produce
this supply requires about 100000
COWS, worth $40, 900, 900, and the farms
necessary to keep these COWS are worth
about $40, 600, 900.
JUSTICE LAMAR thinks that Justice
Matthews died from overwork, and APP
prehends that others will break down
unless the Supreme Court can be re-
Iieved from some of the strain to which
1t is constantly subjected.
A MICHIGAN man buried his wife,
put up a headstone, repainted his
house, married a second wife, and dug
five acres of potatoes within seventeen
days, and yet he says he can't begin to
hustle as his father used to.
THE Armours, in Chicago, did a bus
iness of $50, 900, OOOO last year, St, OOO,.
600 in excess Of 1888. Six thousand
men were employed, and paid So, OOO,
OOO The firm killed 100000 hogs,
800, 900 cattle, and $50, 600 sheep.
FROM the year the patent Office was
established up to the present time
$500 patents have been granted to fe-
males. The first woman patentee was
Mary KEGS, who invented a machine
for weaving mixture of silk and
thread.
THERE are three Roman Catholic and
eight Protestant missions in the Congo
territory. They support twenty-eight
stations and ninety-fve missionaries.
The Protestant missions are sup
ported by Americans, English, and
Swedes.
A SQUIRREL was killed recently on
its way from grain field in San
Joaquin County, California, and on ex-
animation of its pouches they were
found to contain $40 grains of wheat,
which go to show how much damage a
few of these animals can do.
NELLIE AND HATTIE Cook, aged IA
and Is years respectively, daughters
of Lyman Cook, of Smith County,
Kansas, husked l ZOO bushels of corn
for their father last fall, for which he
paid $25, having agreed to pay them
% cents a bushel for all they would
husk.
A WRITER in an Eastern iourIna.
talking about church choirs, saws thev
have become the training-schooI for
the comic-opera stage. The good
deacOns may not believe it possible,
but a glance at the history of the most
popular soubrettes and prima donnas
shows that they graduated from church
choirs"
ANTOINE FRATUs, of Provincetown.
Mass, selected his pillow as a safe
place for keeping money, and there de-
posted $500 in an envelop. His two
year-Old child found the enveIop and
showed it through an open CRATE into
the fire. There was $3.50 in bills, which
were destroyed, aud so gold piece
was found in the ashes.
A CURIOUS circumstance is noted by
the Tampa (Fla) Nelcs. An orange
grove near that place was abandoned a
long time ago. The cars pass the grove,
and it is said that the row of trees next
the car track has healthy, vigorous
appearance, while all the trees beyond,