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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06
The Moon.

The age of the moon cannot be
told accurately. Scientists have
some idea Of the age of the earth,
and it has been believed until lately
that the moon was older than the
earth because she is not now inhabit-
ed, nor does there seem to be any
water or vegetation upon her-only
vast mountains and deep valleys. The
inference is that she is a dead world"
that she has lived through all her
prime when she was green and beau
tiful and teemed with life, and now
she is only useful to light up our
planet, around which she revolves
once in every twenty-eight days, max
ing our months. 1t is now thought
by some scientists that the moon was
once part of our planet, and that it
was thrown off from our earth when
the earth was soft molten mass.
This would make the moon more than
q, 900, 900 years old. The earth, ac-
cording to geology, has been in exist
ence 21,000,000 years, counting only
from the formation of the primitive
soils,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06
erS, This is Baby's rocking horse,

ers. This is Baby's rocking horse,
and after his nap he will ride.
"The rocking-horse stands In the
shade OF chestnut-tree. Burrs
grow on the limbs. In the picture q
burr Is opened, and some nuts have
dropped out. They are larger than
common chestnuts, and are called
horse-chestnuts More horsesl How
Jollyl say Paul and Elsie, picking up
the glossy nuts At dinner time Paul
said to Elsie, There's a horse on the
table Elsie answered, 1T isn't
Jolly, and you must be careful with
him or he will make you cry They
ate a little of this horse on their
roast lamb. Guess it Is named horse
radish cause it's so strong, said they;
but 1t would soon be weak If not
bottled up
"Their own horse came near the
window then, whlsking his tail to
brush away q fly. The fierce insect
that horses dread looks as In the
picture. Papa Brown said, 1T is q
horse-fy wanting to bite jolly And
the jolly young Browns asked in
chorus, Can horse-hy?" Little
Men and Women.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06
KANSAS CHURCHES.

The Methodists of Ionia will build o
new church. They have several hundred
dollars subscribed.
Kansas City Gazette: Bishop Fink
has been confined to his nome at Tenth
and Tauromee with an attack of the
grip. His condition is not such as to
cause serious apprehension among his
friends.
Topeka Capital; Topeka can soon
boast of a new religious edi6ce "a
structure estimated to cost $4,000, to
be built by the Third Presbyterian con-
gregation. Their present church, at
the corner of Third and Hancock, has
become too small for their rapidly
growing attendance; and this, by the
way, is the third time the same thing
has occurred in the history of this
church in Topeka. They have been
building additions to their place of
worship from time to time, but new
church has now become a necessity.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

ANENT the superstition that the
number 10 is an unlucky one, the
New York Sun calls attention to the
numerous repetitions of the number
on the new 25-cent piece. On one
side of the coin there are no less than
ten repetitions of the number 49,.
There are 10 stars, 10 letters in the
scroll held by the eagles beak, IS
marginal feathers on each wing, 10
tail-feathers, 10 parallel lines in
the shield, 10 horizontal bars, 10
arrowheads in one claw, 10 leaves on
the branch in the other claw, and 10
letters in the words quarter dollar. 1"
1t remains to be seen whether any
body will be afraid to take this coin
on account of its bearing so many
marks Of ill-luck, but the probability
is that most men will esteem them
selves unlucky if they fail to get a
good pocket-full Of them.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

If you are parent and have a son
who is dear to you, bring him up in
such manner that he will never be
speechmaker. The most tiresome
man in the United States to-day is
the one who is always watching for
an opportunity to make a speech
The worst of it is that the man who
wants to make q speech is never a
good speaker. He generally has u
wheezy voice and yellow teeth, and
in nine cases out of ten he says "eye-
Their" and "nyether," So, if your boy
develops a weakness for speaking,
lead him out to the woodshed in the
still, dreamy cleaning and hit him
with two cords of green elm.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

POSTMASTER WANAMAKER rallies
to the defense of his Columbian
poster-stamps He thinks the pict-
ures are real nice, and seen through
a microscope produce a fine artistic
thrill. Yes; but how about those
whiskers? On one stamp a beardless
Columbus is discovering America; on
another Columbus bearded like the
pard is making his first landing on
American soil. Prithee tell us how
such a majestic beard grew on the
old Admiraps face in the few hours
intervening between discovery and
landing? The unities! In art you
must observe the unities.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06
A Herd of HOrses.

Instead of working out the ex-
amples his teacher gave him the first
morning Of school little Paul Brown
turned artist. "It's poky work after
vacation, he complained. AID rather
draw, enough sight" "A herd of
horses" Aunt Vinie said, when Paul
brought her his slate. "Come here,
children" she called. "You must
look at this while 1 tell you the
story, and she held up Paul's slate,
and told them to pay attention to the
different drawings while she talked.
Said Aunt Vinie: "If you look that
way you may see the Brown family's
brown family horse. He is as good
as he is handsome and more so. His
name is jolly, because he makes jolly
times for the children. Jolly has
come home from giving Paul and
Elsie ride. Instead Of going toward
his pasture on being embarrassed, he
trotted into the back yard, neighing
as If he smelled another horse. Mr..
Brown was saving wood there, by
the help of horse. When Jolly saw
that this horse had no head or tail,
and only very thin body, he did not
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

Literature fairly brlstles with ag.
gressive proverbs on women as sweet
hearts and wives. To mothers, the
epigram makers are kinder; it seems
fair to suppose, therefore, that they
belong to the class who have found
love, before or after marriage, fail
ure, "A deaf husband and a blind
wife are always a happy couple"
writes sarcastic Dane. But that is,
hardly more severe on marriage than
Shakspeare's declaration, "a young
man married is man that's marred,"
which may have inspired Bacon's
words, ale that hath wife and chill
dren hath given hostages to fortune,
for they are impediments to great en-
terprises, either of virtue or mis-
chief. And to these sentiments the
Dutchman mods sagaciously "Whoso
is tired of happy days let him take a
wife" Few Of the proverb makers
believe in the prudent wife men
toned in the Bible. One says, AL
are good maids, but whence come the
bad wives?" another declares posi-
lively, "A man without wife is a
man without care" That Hanging
and wiving go by destiny" all the
proverb-makers agree. an buying
horses and taking wife shut your
eyes and commend your soul to Cod"
says the italian, piously and resign
eddy. The pugnacious German, how
ever, is not disposed to submit his
fate without a protest, for he urges:
"In choosing a wife, two heads are
not enough" while the Portuguese
agrees with his Italian neighbor, say
ing: Every man sings as he has the
gift, and marries as he has the luck"
Intellect and beauty in women
seemed alike undesirable to some of
these Observation-Disclosures. "There
is nothing a man of good sense breads
In a wife so much as her having more
sense than himself" wrote Fielding.
Euripides set the fashion when he ex-
claimed: 81 hate a learned woman"
you have married beauty; so much
the worse for you," sympathizes an
Italian with his brother, and Yoru-
Das, the African corroborates the
truth of the assertion, declaring, "He
who marries beauty marries trouble"
"A brilliant daughter makes brittle
wife," chimes in a Dutchman. "a
handsome woman is either vain or
silly" whispers an unknown some
body, while too indulgent German
who evidently has married
spoiled beauty and been worsted in
many conjugal controversy, informs
is plaintively "a handsome woman
S always right" There is one com
Tort in all this for womankind how
9ver; as civilization advances, mems
words become kindlier toward women,
Ind the degree of a country's civiliza-
lion may be told by reading its
on this subject
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

If Congressman Turpin can find
that pensloner whom he accused on
the floor Of the House the other day
Of drawing nineteen dollars monthly
from Uncle Sam "for total deafness, 4"
while he is at the same time tele-
phone tender in the Pension Office in
Washington at $1,000 a year, he
should bring him before Congress at
once. The National Legislature
should order gold medal to be struck
and presented to that pensloner for
furnishing the best example of
American cold cheek on record.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06
zone. Two, Three"

] zone, Two, Three"
IL was an old, old, old, old lady,
And boy who was half past three,
And the way that they played together
Was beautiful TO see
she couldn't go running and jumping,
And the boy, no more could he,
For he was thin little fellow,
with thin, little, twisted knee.
They sat In the yellow sunlight,
Out under the maple tree,
And the game that they played I'll tell Won
Just us 1t was told to me.
1t was hlde-and- go-s seek they were play
ing,
Though you'd never have known 1t to
be-
With an old, old, old, old lady,
And boy with u twisted knee.
The boy would bend his face down
On his one little sound right knee,
Ana he'd guess where she was hiding
In guesses one, two, three!
"You are In the china closet!p
lie would cry and laugh with glee-
1t wasn't the china closet,
But he still had two and three.
"You are up In papa's big bedroom
In the chest with the queer old Seyin
And she said, "You are warm and warmer,
But you're not quite right said she.
ait can't be the little cupboard
Where mamma's things used to be-
So 1t must be the clothespress, grandma!D
And he found her with his three
Then she covered her face with her fingers,
That we're wrineied and white and wee,
And she guessed where the boy was hiding,
With one and two and three
And they never had stirred from their
places,
Right under the maple tree
This old, old, old, old lady,
And the boy with lame little knee
This dear, dear dear old lady,
And the boy who was half past three,
-Scrlbner's Magazine.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

THE fascination of a great city is
as mysterious and as potent as the
force which drives the meteors into
the sun. Nine years ago John c.
Emo, President of the Second Nation
al Bank, Of New York, fled in dis
grace to Cana1a Warrants for his
arrest were issued, but for nine years
he has been living safe and in COM
fort in Quebec. He had a beautiful
home, wife and family and many
friends in the Canadian city. In new
York the prisoners dock and almost
certainly the prisoners cell awaited
him. In Quebec he was free and ap-
parently happy In New York he
would be deprived Of his liberty and
made wretched by vivid conscious
ness Of guilt. Yet John G. Emo sur.
rendered himself to the New York
authorities to stand the trial he has
for nine years delayed. The moth
came back to the candles flame.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

the rage down east-when his tram
pulled out, giving him only time to
catch onto the rear end OF the last car
but he found the door locked, and rode
for twenty miles hatless and coatless.
He finally succeeded in attracting the
attention of passenger and thu SILVER
ing young man was lot inside. At
BeIleville the young merchants caught
up with their hats and coats.
ElDorado Advocate Pattison G. Son
received a carload of egg cases knocked
down and baled like shingles. This
firm last week paid out $1,25O for but
ter, eggs and poultry, and shipped one
day 2lO cases Of eggs, the cases con-
tanning thirty dozen each, or $4,000
eggs This made three dray loads and
filed half car The car in which
these eggs were put was half filed with
the same kind Of fruit at Augusta, and
1t was billed direct to New York. The
American or Kansas hen is getting in
her work.
From Newton; Patrick Norton, one
OF the most prominent citizens of New
ton, is dead. He was 70 years old. He
was born in Ireland and came to Amer
lea when q years old. Most of the
years OF his residence in Kansas were
spent on farm three miles southwest
OF Newton. He took delight in farm
and in the growing OF
stock. Always a working man, he yet
found time to gather by reading fund
OF information such as but few save
professional men possess. Through all
his life he was Catholic. His son, 4.
j. Norton, is correspondent of the Kan
sas City, Mo, Journal.
Topeka Capital; Judge Mcdonald,
of the state board OF pardons, suffered
a severe accident while alighting from
an electric car in front of the Chester
field. For some reason the car did not
stop whore the Judge wished to alight,
and IN getting off he lost his balance
and fell heavily to the pavement, strik-
ng his left cheek bone. He was at the
oflice when most men under like cir
would have been in bed.
The left eye was swollen almost shut.
The Judge passed very painful night,
out he is full Of Scotch grit. The
wound was all the more painful owing
% the fact that Judge Mcdonald re.
'eived a severe cut on the left side Of
lis face from sabre stroke, during the
var
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

How HOLLOW are the royal preten-
sions of friendship among the ruling
powers of Europe is well illustrated
in cynically worded dispatch that
comes from st. Petersburg. Owing
to defects in the new supply of rifles
turned out by the Government facto-
ries in Russia, half of them were re-
jected. The rearming of the Cars
infantry will thereby be delayed, it
is stated, three years. These details
throw new light on the recent visit
of the Cars oldest son to the court
of Germany, where he was given an
apparently most cordial welcome.
And the situation is still more
brightly illuminated by the closing
words of the dispatch referring to
the defective arms and their result
on the military forces of the Mosco-
vite monarch. They were that a
knowledge of this state of affairs is
believed to have influenced the Car
to assume more friendly attitude
toward Germany" Royal amenities
in Europe to-day are things apart
from ordinary human actions.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06
VQ~/O~
care much about him. After all, it

care much about him. After all, it
might be his master that Jolly
smelled, and not the saw-horse you
see in the picture.
"In the porch Mrs. Brown was iron
ing She was using a different horse.
What you would be apt to notice first
in her kind of horse is his naked
ribs, as seen in the picture. But
when Mrs. Brown had put on him the
children's garments one after another,
these ribs were covered, and the
clothes-horse looked almost as Jolly
as jolly himself. In front of the
house stands the jolliest of horses, as
his picture shows. See his tail curl
up, he feels so gay. He wears a little
saddle. Is he running race? What
ave those under his feet? OH rock
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

NEW YORK JOURNAL: Great Scott!
an East Indian rajah who has an
annual income of six millions is COM
ing to the Worlds Fair! Think how
the Chicago shoDkeepers will descend
upon the man who has half a million
month of spending money! Fancy
his hotel billsl Reflect on the as
saults which the wild and woolly
Western promoter will make upon
the Rajah's hoard! If the potentate
from India knew the trials awaiting
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

A YOUNG woman in Plttsburg who
weighs 200 pounds, desires in the in-
terest of science to fast thirty days
Several weak-minded people have al
ready done this, and while the opera
tion brought their ribs into spectacu-
lar relief, science did not seem to joy
particularly in contemplation thereof.
Still, If the young woman Is anxious
to subsist on her own fat, she seems
to have a good working capital and
can afford to overlook the indifference
Of science.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

New diseases are discovered now
and then by scientists and other oh.
servers Some of them are remark
able. Bertha-My talking doll is
very sick since she fell downstairs.
She doesn't say mamma" or papa
any more, but just "mapamapa."-
Salt Lake Herald.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

AN army Lieutenant who knows of
the hardships Of war only what he
has learned in the bathrooms of Wash
ington, has been made paymaster
with the rank of Major aud S4, 500
salary Objection to his advance
ment is met by the confident asser-
tion that the Lieutenant wears the
finest military coat in the capital,
and this ought to silence the carpers.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

A MAN in Lincoln, Neb., ap-
preached woman from the rear and
cruelty beat her with a club. The
woman was stranger to him. In
court he solemnly made the averment
that when he had hit her he was un-
der the impression that she was his
wife. The court, while forced to
coIcede the novelty Of the plea,
could not discern in it ground for ac-
quittal-a circumstance that sur
prised and panied the defendant.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

BUFFALO BILL isn't very well
pleased with the manner in which
Secretary Noble has sat down upon
his scheme to engage fifty Indians
for the Chicago Exposition and feels
that he has been treated scurvily.
Possibly so, but Mr.. Noble thought
that the rival committees of the show
could raise all the war-whoops needed
to make the affair a bowling success
without Colonel Cody's assistance.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06
He Knew What War Was.

"Pop," said Philadelphia lad,
whose father is an officer in the mill
tia, did you ever see a battleP" mo,
my SON." "But didn't you ever see
any real flghting?" eyes, my son;
some years ago l umpired game of
basel ball"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

ONCE more the lawless band that
follows Apache Kid has been scat
tered to the winds, Kid escaping
alone and distressingly whole of skin.
This little episode happens with so
rigid a regularity that it may be said
to have become habit. 1t is either
this, or fiction.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

IT is stated that in Mashonaland
5000 acres Of land may be obtained
for $25. There can be no fault found
with the price, but it will be hard
work to convince people that land
worth no more than this would be
worth taking ASA gift.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

A CHEERFUL youth in Santa Ana
Is said to have undertaken the task of
papering his room with Cancelled Co.
lumbar stamps, The only thing that
need trouble him is the paste. The
rest ought to be inexpensive and easy.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

A DEFENDANT came into a San
Francisco court drunk, and was there
upon excused from the inconvenience
of being tried. All he has to do to
evade the clutch Of justice is to re-
frain conscientiously from any lapse
into sobriety, course that will per-
NIT him to thriftily combine business
and pleasure.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

The crusade against kissing is dy-
ing natural death. When young
people feel like INDUCING in such lux
urles, it is not the fear of disease
contamination that will restrain
them.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06
Which?

Some of the portraits which appear
in the newspapers are unlattering to
the originals.
al see they had your picture in the
paper"
81 don't know" replied the victim.
whether the picture was mine. or
whether the name under it was a
misprint. "-Washington Star
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

SIR RICHARD OWEN, the natural
ist, left an estate valued at $l75, 900.
He first came into prominence
through his work in the prehistoric
department Of the Crystal Palace.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

EX-SENATOR INGALLS, is never so
happy as when talking, but a team Of
oxen could not draw an opinion upon
the crinoline question from him.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

KATHERINE e. CONWAY, of the
Boston Pilot, is now one of the police
commissioners Of Massachusetts, and
has great influence with her col
leagues.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

KRUPP, the great gun-maker, pays
a tax of 1872, 400 upon his income of
81, 095, 600. Great guns How does
he spend it all?
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

him in the Windy City he would stay
at home. And when he learns all
the risks attendant upon the wearing
Of that ten million diamond en-
broidered coat, he will faint.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06
LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS.
THIS is THEIR DEPARTMENT OF
THE PAPER.

Quaint Sayings and Doings Of Little Ones
Gathered and Printed Here for Other
Little Folks to Road.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06

HAS it occurred toanybody yet that:
Pittsburg has its rolling mill
Minneapolis has its -four mill ,oroiros9
and i'N"it'''
NJ England has its cotton mill
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-04-06
KANSAS.

DON'T attempt to drown your sor-
row in drink; you will find that sor-
row can swim.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-09-14
An Aged Mans Amusement.

Henry Russell, the veteran com
poser Of Cheer, Boys, Cheer" passes
half the day in making miniature
chests of drawers They arc in every
respect work of art, each drawer
fitting with truly remarkable exact
ness. The dear old gentleman has
room on the ground floor of his
charming house especially set apart
for his work, and therein may be
seen all kinds of tools and nails, two
benches, tins Of paint, glue pots and
large planks of wood.
He nove- attempts to make any
thing else but these little chests Of
drawers, and he often sends them to
charity bazaars, where, if his auto
graph is on them, they have been
known to fetch Us much as e2 or e%.
Thus lie provides himself with an in
nocent amusement and does good at
the same time. London Tit Bits.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-09-14
Offensive and disappearing Expire ssions.

Offensive and ESaSperatinS tXpress1Ohs'
In our own opinion the use of
common form" jocularitics is most
offensive in those who think of them
as wit, though most painful in per-
sons who use them unconsciously and
as mere methods of expressing their
meaning. We feel that those who
try to force laugh out of such ex-
pressions as my downy couch
or committing matrimony," who
eauirm into a smile rs they ask if
there isn't room for little one" or
who speak of "japanning their trot-
ter cases, might fairly DO shot at
sight.
When some excellent mother Of a
largo and heavily facetious family
catches up and uses almost uncon-
sciously such phrases as getting
outside a square meal, =" "the clerk of
the weather." she's no chicken" or
put on your warpaint,' and when
even the father mechanically talks
of performing his ablutions," the
sense of pathos overcomes all others.
London Spectator.