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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-09-01
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

Hotel street is being regarded.
There was a police drill this after
noon, Captain Parker in command.
Schussler, the irrepressible, was fined
81 and costs to-day for being drunk.
The Warrimoo took eighteen cabin
and nine steerage passengers from this
port.
1t is reported that James Fl. Boyd
will resign from the Board of Fire
Commissioners
The bark Velocity. which sailed fer
Hongkong yesterday, took away
seventy-two Chinese.
Pastor lsenberg will preach in Ger
man on Sunday next at IL A. NJ. in the
hall of the Y. NJ. c. A.
In the case of H. Kealoha, charged
with assault and battery, nolle prose-
gnt has been entered in the District
Court.
Messrs. Carter & Carter, the we'll
known attorneys-at,law, have moved
into their elegant new offices in the
Safe Deposit building
Harry L. Austin has been appointed
an agent to take acknowledgements to
labor contracts in the district Of Hawai-
hau, island of Kauai.
The Hawaiian Band played at the
departure of the Kinau for Hawaii this
afternoon, in honor of President Dole
who was passenger.
Judge Robertson was engaged in
civil business at the afternoon session
of the District Court There were
nineteen cases on his civil calendar.
The full text of the Act appropria-
ting an additional sum for assistant
guards under the Bureau of Customs
appears in our By Authority column.
The horses attached to the carriage
which took President Dole TO the
wharf became frightened at the music
and started to run away but were
caught in time.
On Saturday, September goth, the
tenancy at will of the store on King
street adjoining the Chinese theatre
will be sold by the Minister of the In
terror, at public auction.
A large number Of pineapple plants
were received by the Warrimoo from
Sydney They were examined this
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

The Kansas City, PittsburS q Gull
railroad, the short line between Pitts
burg and Kansas City, was opened for
business on Saturday, June 10.
Caldwell News; Tho Rock Island
shipped out eight full trains of stock in
two days from the territory and Texas
points. Assistant General Manager
w. l. Allen accompanied one Of the
trains with his special car, also with
General Freight Agent ID. Atwood, and
expressed himself as well pleased with
the movement of the trains.
From Argentine: The men in the
shops here have heretofore worked and
been paid for ten hours, but it is said on
account Of the dull season and scarcity
Of work, the working time has been re-
duced to eight hours day and eight
hours pay. The force Of men employed
in the shops and mechanical depart
ments has been reduced more than two
thirds and the main part Of the shop
work is now done at the Topeka shops.
The Santa Fe is getting ready for the
expected strip opening. Plans have been
drawn for new depots at several points
in the strip, and the cost is now being
estimated. The depots will be of the
regulation Santa Fe pattern, 16x4O or
24x6O feet, waiting room, telegraph
and ticket Office and freight and bag
gage department. The new stations
running west from Kiowa in the order
given, about nine miles apart, and the
first nine miles from Kiowa, are Warren,
Alva, Eagle Chief, Waynoka, Curtis and
probably Shattuck and Whitehead.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29
STOCK AND FARM.

Mankato Review: Jake Stofer, one Of
the prominent farmers and stockmen of
eastern Jewell county, shipped five car
loads of cattle to the eastern market,
which brought him $6,600.30 Just a
short time prior to his shipment of cat
tie he shipped sixty-eight hogs which
brought him $1,6OO.75. Mr.. Stofer says
that as near as he can figure he made
about $4,000 in this transaction, and still
has two car loads Of hogs to ship
Tribune Western homestead Dick
Milford came to Greeley county from
Illinois last August, located on a home
stead and purchased team in October.
Since that time he has plowed and seed
ed over so acres Of ground. He says
that if he had been told of the possibili-
ty of doing such an amount of work,
mostly in winter time, he would have ac-
cepted the statement as Kansas monu-
mental lie, but now he has not only seen
but accomplished the work.
Tribune Western Homestead: G.. II.
Fie and son, late Of Clayton, Jefferson
county, N. Y, stopped at Astor, Greeley
county, Kas., in October, 1891, for the
purpose Of staying over winter, on their
way east from Colorado. They were SO
well pleased with the country that they
decided to locate and fled on homesteads,
making their living by blowing for other
people. They lately purchased three 70
inch Solid Comfort gang pillow, with which
they are turning the sod at the rate of
seven acres day with six good horses.
They have contracted for $50 acres of
blowing, Of which 80 acres are already
broken. Messrs File claim that their
pillow not only saves them the work of
one man, but does better work than a
walking pillow, and works in dry soil
when it cannot be done with a lighter
pillow. They also contract for seeding
ground, owning sixteen 20-inch disc and
drill combined, 8 feet wide, the largest
in the county. Their homesteads are in the
best state Of cultivation, and many of
the older settlers could take few point
ers from them. They hope to clear $500
by the LIST Of October since they moved
in this county, besides having a fine
farm each.
The Pleasanton Observer tells Of two
farmers who are selling 800 of straw
berries every week; each having less than
one acre Of them. They ship their ber-
ries to Kansas City.
ElDorado Republican: Mr.. Burdette
informs us that his crops are in good
condition. He has 40 acr, Of oats that
are tip top, that will average forty bush
els; 100 acres of wheat that is fair and
will make good two-thirds crop, and
so acres of corn that is in first-class con
dition and is growing nicely.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

WOMEN are having things all their
own way just now and the poor, mis-
cradle bifurcated blpeds who have so
long passed as the lords of creation
are singing very low But the bright
ladies Of the Women's Congress must
not let the enthusiasm Of their hour
of triumph carry them to extremes
of statement or betray them into
Misrepresentation. Mrs. Lille Dew
ereaux Blake's eloquent plea for
proper recognition Of our foTemoth-
ers, for instance, gives a wrong i'm
preston. 1t was no doubt man
who first discovered that the Ameri-
can eagle was capable Of laying eggs
and who fastened to give the infor-
nation to the world. Isabella of
Spain, despite Mrs. Blake's implica-
tion to the contrary, has been lauded
to the skies by male historians and
poets AS for the pilgrim mothers
and the brave women OF the revolu'
tionary period, who has failed to dc
Justice to their courage and virtue?
In praising the pilgrim mothers the
women of to-day must not take toe
much credit to themselves. The
finest and most frequently quoted
tribute ever paid the pilgrims was
written by Mrs. Hemans years age
and has been taught by every New
England pedagogue for the last sixty
years. Mrs, Blake could hardly pay
higher tribute to our foremotherS
than this:
There were men with hoary hair
Among that pilgrim band;
Why had they come to wither there
Away from childhood's land2
There was woman's fearless eye,
Lit by her deep loves truth;
There was manhood's brow serenely high
And the fsEy heart Of youth,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

The ancestral home Of "The Father
Of Our Country" still stands in En-.
gland. 1t was in Little Brington,
Northamptonshire, not far from AL
thorp Park, that Laurence Washing
ton, the Observation-Disclosures
Of George Washington, lived. The
old home Is now the mcss-grown cot
tage Of laborer, and the plaster has
here and there fallen from its stuc-
coed sides. Its roof, once of thatch,
has long ago been replaced by shin
giles, but the old-fashioned windows
are the same, and the cottage has not
been added to in the way Of improve
ments since Washington's great
grandfather was born in it, not far
from 300 years ago. The house is of
yellow sandstone covered with plas-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

MEN like to play soldier nearly as
we'll as the boys do, and taxpayers
bear the burdens Of a heavy militia
tax with lamb-llke resignation. The
Legislature Of Washington lately APP
propriated 800, 900 for its soldiers,
and $4,000 to protect the State
against fruit pests But what careth
the atm soldier" whether or not the
bugs get away with the peaches, SO
long as he can march up and down at
the beat of the drum before his
sweetheart munching peanuts on
the next corner?
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

The era Of huge ships is evidently
upon us. That a craft only eighty
feet shorter than the famous Great
Eastern should suddenly smash all
records Of fast voyages on the Allan
tic route from west to east is a fact
of capital Importance, which cannot
fail to influence the shipbuilders of
the day. The Campania aad her
twin, the Lucania, are each $40 feet
long. This is as far as the Clyde
builders have deemed it prudent to
go. But now we may look for some
levlathans from our own shipyards
We, too, must build vessels which
can beat the records Of the New York
and Paris, and we are certain to do
it, The time is not far distant when
American steamships will cross the
ocean from New York to Liverpool
or Southampton in four days and a
half. Uncle Sam will build and
navigate express steamships larger
than the Great Eastern.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29
HIs English Isetrayed Him.

The following story is told in Eng
land of the Rev. John Sheepshanks,
who was recently made Bishop of
Norwich: Zone evening a young
Cambridge man, afterward head mas
ter of a well-known grammar school,
but tutor for the nonce to a Russian
prince, was smoking cigarette in his
rooms in ST. Petersburg when a SER
want announced that a moujik wanted
to see him very urgently. The I'M
known visitor was shown up and ap-
reared in the well-worn garb from
which Brian O'Lynn derived his sim
pie but practical sartorial notions.
To his hosts utter bewilderment this
uncouth being addressed him in re-
fined English, and presently explained
that he was a brother Cantab de-
sirous of securing his good offices.
The man, in short, was the Rev.
John Sheepshanks, who, having
landed some six months before near
the mouth of the AMOR River, had
made his way alone and on foot
through Tartary, Turkestan and 81
IBERIA to the banks of the Neva."
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

Topeka Capital: The First Presby.
terrain church has placed very pretty
flower garden in front of the church.
Holton Recorder: There were COM
munion services at the Presbyterian
church, Sunday 18th inst, and ten
united by profession and three by GER
tificate.
North Topeka item: The Congrega-
tional orchestra on Sunday the 18th
inst, was quite feature Of the services.
There were four violins, three horns and
one cello.
Kirwin Globe: Just after prayer
meeting was out at the M. E. church,
one of the chandelier lamps exploded
illuminating the Interior of the church
so much that the crowd outside raised
the alarm of fire which soon rallied a
large crowd. 1t was extinguished be-
fore any harm resulted.
A committee from the United Breth-
rem church is looking for a location at
some point in Kansas for the foundation
Of college for the use of the states OF
Kansas, Colorado, Arkansas and Okla
homa territory. The committee visited
Wellington and agreed to build the col
lege there if the citizens would donate
100000 and ten acres of land.
Topeka Capital: L. L. Roby, cores
ponding secretary Of the Y. P. S. @. E.,
went to Oklahoma to see if the fifty del
egates from the new territory to the in
ternational convention at Montreal
would not accompany the Kansas special
train. Mr.. Roby says he expects Kan
sas to send 200 to the convention which
meets from the 9th to the 9th of July.
Kansas sent 1913 in special train to
New York last year and it is thought
this number can be materially increased
this year. The party from Kansas will
stop at the worlds fair ON the return
trip.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

A CURIOUS story of perverse illustra-
tion of perpetual motion comes from
Columbus, Ohio. The wife of the
inventor Of perpetual motion ma
chine-as alleged-stepped on rusty
nail and is likely to suffer tetanus.
One son an hour later fell through
the plastering when playing in tn
attic, broke the dishes in the dining
room and inflicted severe injuries on
himself. Shortly after, another child
broke leg in an excavation. 1t
would appear as if the imp impris-
Oned in the machine had managed
to break loose and wreak some ven.
geance on his imaginary jailer.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

We all make and we all meet with
many amusing literary blunders. The
worst Of it Is that we readily forget
them. Every one should keepa book
of these delightful things, which
please US with sudden sense of
superiority. Among misprints is
knises "Some swing on hooks, some
run knises through their hands, said
an article in the Edinburgh Review
Here every one would amend by
knives or krlsses-knives was the
real reading. In "The Monastery"
Scott wrote about nursing evil pas
sions." This was printed "morsing,"
and the verb ito MORSE" was de-
Tended by writer's in Notes and Que
ries.
1t has lately been pointed out that
in the Surgeons Daughter" Scott is
made to say that the "Nautch girls
perfume their voluptuous eastern
domes," whereas the real reading
must be perform their voluptuous
eastern dances" But we are not
aware that the coquille has been cor
rected In "Pendennis" a boy is said
to excel in running and pumping"
This must mean "jumping," though
the actual competition would have
it's merits. There are no rulings in
Yorkshire, triding is the right word;
but there is a "World Riding" in Mr..
Morris "Heimskringla - London
Saturday Review.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

Everybody knows what picnic is,
but most folks would find it hard to
say how it got that name, and yet it
is simple enough when you come to
learn it. When a picnic was being
arranged for, the custom originally
was that those who intended to be
present should supply the eatabies
and drinkables A list of those ne
cessities having been drawn up, it
was passed round, and each person
picked out the article of food or drink
that he or she was willing to furnish,
and the name of the article was
nicked, or licked off the list. The
open-air entertainment thus became
known as "pick and nick" The Gus
tom is said to have dated from 1902,
SO that the picnic is wholly an insti-
tuition of the nineteenth century.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

The New York Evening Post does
not print any pictures or illustra-
tions, which is all right, if the editor
and his readers want a paper made
that way. But the editor OF the Post
grows rather childish when he says:
"There is as gross absurdity in hay
ing pictures and learned editorials in
the same paper as there would be in
running a pack-horse line alongside
a railroad, They belong to different
stages of civilization. The rude
picture is the earliest attempt Of the
child and the savage to give express
sion to mental images, while a mare
clausum or bonos mores article APP
peals, when Ineligible, to the more
cultivated understanding of the sage
and the moralist." If the editor of
the Post is publishing a paper for
"the sage and the mOIalist" alone he
could afford to drop the pictures, but
so could he also drop the report of
the Brooklyn Handicap" the "Mur-
der on Broadway" and the News
paper Waits" or jokes which are run
on the editorial page 1t is true that
crude pictures were "the earliest at
tempt of the child and the savage to
give expression to mental images, :"
and it is equally true that pictures
represent the highest development Of
art in the nineteenth century.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29
MOONLIGHT masquerade picnlcs have

MOONLIGHT masquerade picnics have
been very popular in Mississippi Of
late, The participants entered into
the festivities with a zest that usual
ly resulted in the death of few nom
participants. This style Of amuse-
ment has been checked by an austere
Judge, who, much to the scandal of
whitecaps, is sending them to the
penitentiary as fast as they can be
caught. Mississippians may be forced
to resort to the more simple daylight
lynching when suffering from ennui.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

MANY hard and unkind things have
been said Of Columbus since our
memorial observances have com
menced, but none of them, we be-
lleve, would have so appalled, him as
some Of the poetic eulogies that have
been fred at him during the last six
months. If he had known that he
was to call them forth it is more than
likely that he would have turned
back and declined to discover us.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

A PHILosoPHIC observer processes
to have noted a touch of seltlshness
in clergymen when travelling, and
that, too, without regard to denomi-
nation, He finds explanation for this
in the fact that clergymen, like wom-
en-, are accustomed to be treated
with special consideration, and so ac-
Quire the habit Of exacting courte-
sizes usually yielded as a mark Of re.
spect to the cloth.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29
Great Mons Jol,os,

Great men have often been denc-
TENT in the sense Of humor. This was
markedly the case with Napoleon l.,
whose sense Of humor, If he possessed
1t, was of grim sort 1t Is recorded,
however, that he had certain SYM
pathy with pun; and several Of his
minor appointments were actually
made because the appointees' names
seemed to indicate their fitness for
the place He made Monsieur Bigot,
for instance, his minister of public
worship at one time; and when he
was looking about for governor Of
the pages In the imperial palace, he
could think Of no one so appropriate
for the place as General Gardanne,
whose name, in French, signifies a
keeper Of donkeys.
When he came to make Marshal
Victor Beau-Soleil duke, it struck
Napoleon that the opportunity was
an excellent one to make a sort Of
reverse, or "back-action" pun on the
marshal's name. Beau-Soleil signi-
fles beautiful sunshine" so the EN-
peror created the man the Due de
Bellune-which was very much as If
he had made him the Duke Fine
Moon.
Prince Bismarck, on the other
hand, is one great statesman who is
remarkable for the possession OF a
keen sense Of humor. This he has
often shown; and it appears in the
contents of the youthful memoran-
dun book which Bismarck kept at
college. German students are some
times presented with a blank book Of
this sort, in which they are expected
to make daily entry of some thought
or reflection. Prince Bismarck, at
twenty, filed up book of this sort,
the contents Of which have lately
been published.
Here are some of the sage renec-
tions which young Bismarck put on
record in this book:
wealth does not bring happiness.
Oysters, for instance, obtain very
little real Joy from the jewel-case
which providence has sarcastically
placed in one corner of their cradle"
"Idleness is the mother of vice. If
Eve had been busily sewing a flg-leaf
coat for her husband, she would prob
ably not have heard the whispering
of the serpent"
"The spectacle of a dentist suffer-
ing with an aching molar is rare but
consolatory. 1t is a sight which is,
perhaps, vouchsafed to us but once in
a lifetime, but it's charm remains
with us for long years."
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

IT is reported that the annexation
lists of Honolulu have considerably
decided to subside for the present and
await the action Of the United States.
TITS well, 'Twould be unseemly in
deed for Hawaii to annex herself to
the United States sans ceremonie,
even as the impudent Jersey mos
quito annexes himself to the neck Of
the lank Jerseyman.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

If textile fabrics can be woven
from spun glass, it may be possible
to spin ordinary wood pulp or cellu-
lose into yarn and weave that into
textile tissues. A Hungarian in
ventor claims TO be able to do this
and to make a fabric eQualing the
best cotton goods in durability, ap-
pearance, and fastness of color.
Furthermore, it is said the process
can be applied to every sort Of short
flbrous material, such as rags, scraps
Of cotton and linen goods, and the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

DENVER Cinnamon in doctorlng an
ailing relative punctured his abdo-
men, and the sick man perversely
died after all. The incident illus
trates the stubborn and contrary ma
ture Of the Chinese that the Geary
law had already made quite plain.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

AN old saying in new garb is sug-
gested by circumstances. Some peo-
pie are born poor, some achieve
poverty and some have poverty thrust
upon them by the misfortune Of be-
ing heirs to large estates that en-
deavor vainly to pass through the
hands Of lawyers
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

fiber can be dyed before being spun
into yarn. If this be true the new
treatment will not only supersede the
felting process, but Is likely to cause
a complete revolution in the textile
industries
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

WHEN Napoleon overran Italy his
attention was called to number Of
silver statues Of the apostles which
had decorated an ecclesiastical insti-
tuition for centuries. "Take them
down." said the great conqueror,
"and coin them into currency, that
they may go about doing good, as
did their Master"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

A KANGAROO that puts on the
mittens and spars quite ably will
never excel as prize-hghter 1t
possesses the necessary intelligence,
an excellent reach, and great powers
of endurance. But it can't talk.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

BALLooNIsTs who have acquired a
habit of tumbling from the skies
ought to be made to reform. Some
day one of them may fall upon a
useful citizen.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

THE man who never bushes has so
much to blush for that he knows
there is no use in trying to do the
matter justice.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

The young men of CORN, Mo-,
foBmed Society Of Woodchoppers
early last winter. The object of the
society," which has been constantly
carried out, is the visitation of the
woodpiles of the widows of the town
and the conversion Of cord wood into
stove wood.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

THE grand old Liberty Bell, as an
attraction, is everything it is cracked
up to be.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

A WOMAN with the lockjaw is said
to be the saddest case encountered in
the science of surgery,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29

THE fish that Is biting most read
fly is the green goods sucker.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29
PhiIlipsburg Herald

pmLLIPsBURe, KANSAS.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-29
KANSAS CHURCHES.

Topeka Capital: The First Presby.
terrain church has placed very pretty
flower garden in front of the church.