Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-04-09

IN st. Louis who has named her pet
rooster after him
WITH the new picking machine, the
field work on each bale of cotton costs
$3.50. Before the introduction of the
machine the field cost was $40 q bale.
THE largest order for single adver-
tisement in one paper, before the war,
was given by the Fairbanks Scale
Company to the New York Tribune,
and it amounted to $1,000.
IN these days of so many alleged
cures for consumption, oysters are
commended and given to consumptive
patients because they contain iodine.
The treatment is quite common in tho
South.
SOME of the Alaskan natives acquire
very respectable fortunes in the fish
ing trade. A Nicholas Bay Indian
has been known to pay down 81, 900 in
hard cash for blankets and trinkets
for one potlach.
In the Wheatstone automatic method
OF telegraphy, when transmitting at
the rate of 600 words a minute, there
are $4,000 currents per minute sent
out, each having a duration not ex-
ceeding .002 of a second
HEancestral home of the Washing
ton family is Sulgrave, an insignificant
village in Northamptonshire,E England.
The family lineage has been traced
back as far as Sir William de Hert-
furn, knight of the twelfth century.
Mr. WALFoRD, the English anti
quarry, has started q subscription to
pay for recruiting the inscription on the
tomb of George Chapman, who trans
lated Homer and who is buried in the
old Church of st. Giles-in-the-ields.
London.
LAST August there was fall of
mama in Asia Minor, which was baked
for bread after the manner of the
biblical tradition It has been exam
med by Frenchmen of science and iden-
titled as ichen of the family IecanOra
ceSttle9td.
SWALLOWS in dry, clear weather fly
high because the insects which form
their food are high in the air during
such weather. When the weather is
cloudy and damp the insects settle
nearer the earth, and the swallows of
course follow them.
KING KALAKAUA's coffin is made of
koa and kou wood of about GOO pieces
even the handles are made of wood.
No metal of any kind is to be seen ex-
cept the inscription plate, upon which
the crown and the Hawaiian coat-of-
arms are engraved. with other suitable
inscriptions.
For every acre of high and healthy
land in Africa there are twenty of
morass and pestilence. For every
mile of valley there are three of noun
tains- For every acre of grassy plain
there are fifty of forest so dense that
1t would take small army q year to
clear off fair-sized farm.
In Warrensburg, Mo-, lives a light
ming calculator who has done, in three
hours, work that would have taken six
ordinary accountants six days. He can
also, at any period of the day or night,
give the exact meridian time in hours,
minutes and seconds, though he can
not tell time by looking at a watch or
clock.
An excellent and abundant substi-
tute for India rubber is reported as
having been discovered at Goa. 1t is
the solidified fluid which issues from
\
and is generally used for hedges.
Though white when it flows from the
tree, in its dried state it is of choco-
late color, closely resembling gutta
percha.
BLAcKsNnTHs viii be apt to view
with alarm the introduction of paper
horseshoes just approved for use in the
German army. They are made of
layers of compressed parchment. ce-
mented with preparation of turpen-
tine, Spanish white, lac, and boiled
hnseed oil The separate layers are
stamped out, cemented, and CONSOLE
dated by hydraulic press. When dry
the shoe is rasped to fit each horse.
FoRT DoNELsoN was taken by Gen.
Grant on Feb. I6, 1862. when Gen.
Buckner, commander of the fort. wrote
to Cen Grant offering capitulation.
Grant replied that no terms would be
accepted except an unconditional sur
render, and that he proposed to move
Immediately upon their works These
expressions came to be much quoted,
and u. s. Grant has been often said
to signify Unconditional Surrender
Grant,
TEE power of endurance of the Chi
nese coOlie is marvellous. A mission
airy from China tells of an instance
that came under his own observation
Of men voluntarily travelling forty-six
miles before breakfast, bearing heavy
load most of the time. In another
case he met with some men who. after
having gone twenty-seven hours with
out food, and having carried heavy
burden in the meantime, yet had still
strength enough left to carry q man
fifteen miles further.
A HIBERxArNe woodehuck is a very
funny creature. A Ledyard boy dis
covered one in a heap Of leaves in an
old tree the other day and pulled him
ont. He was eurled up Ike ? 4woolly