Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-01-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

The value OF lear tobacco exported
by this country in 1890 was 2O,04O, Oo0
"A reputation for good Judgment,
fair dealing, truth and rectitude, Is
itself fortune H. w. Beecher.
Enthusiasm flourishes In adversely,
kindles in the hour of danger, and
awakens to deeds Of renown. Chalmers.
1t is as easy to deceive ones self
without perceiving it as 1t is hard to
deceive others without their finding
II out -Rochefoucald.
In the sugar corn the conversion OF
sugar into starch is arrested at par
ticular point in the growth, the grain
does not fill out, and is consequently
shriveled.
The blood flows almost as freely
through the bones as through the flesh
of very young children, but as age
comes on, the blood vessels in the bones
are almost filled with matter
Popcorn pops because the essential
oil in the corn is converted into gas by
heat, and thus an explosion occurs
which tears the kernel open and causes
singular inversion of its contents.
Hobbies was luxurious in his eating
tastes When told on one occasion that
philosopher should be abstemious, he
said he was not philosopher enough to
deny his stomach anything it wanted.
Cicero ate very little, and of the
plainest food. He had theory that
any disease could be overcome by fast
ing, and often abstained from food for
days at time, drinking only water.
Through the vain webs which puz-
zle sophists' skill, plain sense and
honest meaning work their way; 30
sink the varying clouds upon the hill,
when the clear dawnlng brightens into
day. DR.. Watts.
I'm Siam, when q funeral is passing,
the women take down their hair and
unfasten their beads, and the men
tumble around in their pockets for q
little piece of metal to hold between
their teeth
I'm France a very good gas is made
from the fatty materials contained in
the soapsuds, after washing woods and
yarns. The wash-water of wooden
mill with 10000 spindles will annually
yield enough of this substance to pro-
duce 100000 feet of gas.
-Lottie-"Before Ethel married that
young literary man she told me one day
that her union with him was going to
raise her to higher life" Tottie-
"And did it?" Lottie-"Yes; they are
living in an attic now. "-Somerville
journal.
Superintendent Byrnes reports that
his estimate of the number of men who
regularly sleep in cheap lodging houses
of New York City varies from 10000 to
$4,000 throughout the year. At least
1000 more sleep every night in the po-
lice station houses. These are of a
more degraded class than the others.
Petroleum is found in Sicily, the
north of Italy, in many volcanic isles
In the Mediterranean, at Baku on the
Caspian, on the slopes of the Caucasus,
at Rangoon in Burmah, in the island of
Trinidad, in Ontario, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, New York, West Virginia, Cali
fornia, in Siberia, Tartary, China and
in several places in Africa.
Club life among women holds o
much more important place in London
than in New York. One of the most
typical, the Pioneer club, has luxurious
quarters, including comfortable
smoking room, to which only women
are admitted. Although tobacco is al
lowed, liquors o. all kinds are tabooed.
Mrs. Massingberd, OF temperance fame,
Is the president, and thore are 47o mem
bers, who are more or less l9ted.--
Harper's Bazaar.
"A new carpet for the Waterloo
chamber at Windsor castle, said to be
the largest ever manufactured, has
been woven in the jail of Agra, in
India, by prisoners undergoing penal
servitude. They hope to obtain re-
mission Of sentence for their diligence
in completing the task, (which has
taken them fourteen months. Twenty
eight c0ayicts were engaged on the
work, the carpet measuring N feet by
40 and containing 5s,s400 900 stitches.
in the London Guildhall Liner
Memorandum is paragraph, ~
Latin, which Mr.. Arthur w. Hogg has
translated DIS follows, "And because
Of the great noise in the city by some
,nlav.,rs of large footballs, thrown in
the meS dows of the people, from which
evils might arise, which God forbid:
We command and forbid on behalf of
the king under pain of Imprisonment,
such game to be used in the city for
the future" This was datea April 10
1914, in the reign of Edward II.
"A private letter from st. Petersburg
mentions the mysterious disappearance
of valuable diamond from the crown
of Jewels. 1t is well known that the
Imperial crown of the Russian ear is
set with a great number of very fine
and large diamonds. During the late
cars funeral procession this crown
was carried by high dignitary from
the Nicolajevslii railroad station to the
Castle of Peter and Paul, and during
this time it is thought the jewel was
lost. Great secrecy is observed by the
officials, but still the rumor has spread
An inquiry is known to have been
ordered. A prominent jeweler expresses
the opinion that the stone may have
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