Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-01-29

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twenty minutes he had been committed
for grand jury action, and in forty-five
minutes he had begun serving a SEN
tence in jail.
BILL NYE complains of being COM
PEELED to pay for the rich food he gets
at the public banquets by making
a funny speech. Does he wish to gorge
himself for nothing? The price he pays
is infinitesimal
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has
issued a book of regulations ordain-
ing, among other things, that "the dis
lance between the rows of gold lace
on a field officers sleeve shall be
277. $50 of an inch.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is the owner OF the
largest pencil in the world. It is the
gift of a pencilmaker at Keswick and
is thirty-one inches in length. In place
of the customary rubber cap it has
gold cap. It's distinguished owner uses
it for walking stick.
IT is not so well known as it might be
that Cincinnati-has an industry which
is now the largest of the kind in the
world, VIZ, that of woodworking ma
chinery. The products of the various
firms engaged in it are shipped to
every cline and nation.
A Boston paper proposes that the
death penalty be inflicted by means of
chloroform. This shows the kindly and
humane instincts of Boston, but it is
curious that it hasn't suggested that
the pleasantest death is good square
clip by its eminent citizen, Mr.. Sulli-
van.
EVERY stone in the tower and spire
of st. John the Baptist's Catholic
Church, on West Thirtieth street, New
York, was hoisted to its place by der
rick the motive power of which was an
old white horse. The congregation is
going to see that its last days are its
best days.
ANOTHER American girl is to wed an
Englishman of title, and the wedding
will be one of the social events of note
in New York. It may be said of the
girls who wed English titles that they
at least generally get one that is real
though that does not imply anything
regarding the man.
THE log cabin in Washington Coun-
ty, Ky, in which, it is said, Abraham
Lincoln lived as boy, and where his
father was married, has been bought
by a committee from Chicago. The
structure will be taken down and re-
moved to the Worlds Fair grounds,
where it will be regretted.
THERE is a little newsboy in Atchison
with large babyish eyes who can wiring
nickels out of the biggest miser on
earth. All he does is to cry and trump
up the old story about a mother beat
ing him. We have noticed that the
Lord usually gives large, pathetic,
soulful eyes to the biggest hypocrites.
IT is gravely announced by Partisan
savant that nine-tenths of the birds of
the French capital are suffering from
influenza. If the disease is fatal and
contagious there should at once be
subscription started to pay for its intro
duction here with a view to the thinning
out of the detestable English sparrows.
FRANCE will not permit consign-
ments of the Koch lymph to cross her
frontier. Perhaps it is feared that Ger
man ideas may secure a place In the
patients who may be charged with the
lymph between the shoulder blades. 1t
won't do to permit German influence
to sneak into France even through
syringe.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has taken to
playing upon wind instruments. The
young commander is evidently deter
mined to leave no stone unturned in
preparing for a conquest in Europe,
but the laws of humanity ought to de-
ter him from planning to annihilate ar
mics by murderous and wholesale pro-
cesses.
SOME practical improvements in div
ing apparatus have been effected by
NJ. Albert Marcelhacy, French engi-
neer. Instead of the heavy electric
hand lamp hitherto used by divers. he
afixes a light but powerful glow lamp
on the top of the helmet, so that the
divers hands are both at all times free
for work.
at is calculated" says one of the
New York Telegrdnl's exchanges, that
q man walking day and night could
make journey round the earth in 42S
days" This is the sort of information
the people pine for, although it may be
months before we can find q man cap