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when rocked to and fro, right and left,
in such an embrace, it can long with
stand the efforts of It's assailant.
1T yields, the roots fly up, the earth
is scattered wide upon the surrounding
foliage, and the tree comes down with
a laundering crash, cracking and snap
ping the brittle boughs like glass.
Then the coveted food is within reach
and the megatherium reaps the reward
Of his more than heruclean labors."
Another prehistoric brute was the
dinotherium. This creature resembled
an elephant except that his tusks, in
stead of turning upward, bent down.
ward. The purpose Of this was to en-.
able him to tear up the ground and
fight his enemies by downward move.
ment Of his head.
The macrauchenia roamed the woods
Of prehistoric days and is now extinct
He resembled a gigantic horse.
Professor Marsh has shown that there
likewise existed an eight-toed horse
which inhabited Cuba, and there ia
reason to believe that species of tiger
was alive that had tusks bending down.
ward from Its upper jaws.
The mastodon exceeded any elephant
in size. He had four enormous tusks
In his head, two in the upper and two In
the lower jaw, and he roamed all ever
the North American continent.
Remains of some of the largest mas.
todons have been found In this state
A giant tapir-like animal lived In the
eocene period and great bird Of prey
called the Herperornis RECALLS is made
known to us by many fossil remains
found in cretaceous strata in North
America.
A curious thing about all these ami
mails is that in spite of their vast size
and great strength they should have be-
come extinct. The smaller and weaker
animals survived. Perhaps the giant
monsters killed each other off in some
great battle of prehistoric times, and
this theory has more than once been ad.
vanced to account for their disappear
ance.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07
CURIOUS FACTS.

The Esquimaux give the doctor his
fee as soon as he comes. If the patient
RECEIVERS he keeps It; otherwise he re-
turns 1t to the family.
The Coliseum of Rome was built to
accommodate one hundred thousand
spectators. 1t covers five and one-half
acres Of land, and was 100 feet high.
Florida Is noted for its rivers and
lakes. The St. Johns river is nearly
four hundred miles long. The Indian
river is salt water lagoon, 165 miles
long and from one to six miles wide,
and Is famous for its oranges and pine
apples.
National flowers have Deen adopted
in various countries as follows: Greece,
violet; Canada, sugar maple; Egypt, To-
tus; England, rose; France, fleur de lis;
Germany, corn flower; ireland, sham
rock; Italy, lily; Prussia, linden; Sax
ony, mignonette; Scotland, thistle;
Spain. pomegranate; Wales, leek.
It costs more to send a ton Of goods
from London to the west of Ireland
than to Japan. A ton Of wooden goods
can be forwarded from London to New
York for 81; to Chicago, one thousand
miles inland, for 81, and to Japan for
$40. The same goods sent from Derry
to London cost S14, aud from Gweedore,
seventy miles inland, S24.
According to prominent London
physician the dangerous habit Of rmok-
Ing green tea cigarettes Is rapidly grow
ing and becoming more in use with the
women of England, many of whom It
is now claimed smoke their five o'clock
tea instead Of drinking it. The effect
of the abuse of the cigarettes upon
their nervous systems is said TO be eT-
tre
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07

ly arrives at Roses home on her we'd
ding day and tells Morris of his err
rand, who recognizes the locket as hav-
ing belonged to his child and shows
Manly the other half He has had hi6
suspicious about Farren and now rec
ognizes him as his former secretary.
The marriage ceremony is interrupted
by Morris, who says Rose is his child,
and then exposes Farren, who rather
than go to prison shoots himself. ST
Kidder is engaged to Ruth, Mrs. Man.
lys daughter, and having come into
the possession Of oil land buys back the
old farm. He low says he has dis
covered that James Hammond was the
man who robbed Manly and tried to
drown little Ned. Manly then says
that he learned that Ned was Ham
monds own child. Hammond is over
come with grief, and is allowed to
leave. Morris says there will be a wede
ding after all, and 81 Kidder says they
Will make it double one. The cast:
Tom Manly, Frederic Seward; William
farren, H. T. Swayne; James Ham
mond, Thomas C. Medinger; Uncle
Dave Morris, Cecil j. Lionel; 81 Kid
der. Charles G. Marquette; Rev. Mr..
Medhurst, Will F. McNulty; Little Ned,
Master John Seward; Mrs. Manly, Kate
Medinger; Ruth Manly, Carrie New
comp; Rose Prescott, Minnie Seward.
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bolts on his back, four powerful feet
and short but very strong tail.
The ant-eater of Australia is by some
supposed to be a descendant of this re-
mote ancestor, but good, live anomo-
don't could have whipped a dozen ant
eaters Of the present day. Naturalsts
are so puzzled as they study the fossil
remains Of the anomodont that they are
at loss to know definitely whether he
was reptile or a mammal.
AS the creatures were known to lay
eggs, the former supposition has been
most popular. When the remains Of
these creatures were found in the eigh-
teenth century, they were so large that
people could not bring themselves to
believe that they really were bones of
monster which once had lived upon the
earth. The skeleton Of one Of these
creatures not long ago unearthed in the
Karoo strata Of South Africa measured
nine feet in length, without the tail.
When all the flesh was on, and the crea-
ture alive, he must have been nearly
twice as big
The megatherium was, perhaps, the
most powerful Of all these brutes. His
strength was superior to that of any
animal now alive today, and his size
greater than that Of any whale or ele-
plant.
Yet the megatherium, as his fossil re-
mains show, could move about with
freedom and ease, and could even give
chase to other animals and fight for his
life If attacked. His head was compar-
atively small, but his bones were stu
pendous.
This gigantic monster is supposed to
have been at home in forests of enor-
nous trees like the huge redwoods OF
California. But the strongest tree
could not, 1t is believed, have resisted
his ferocious strength when fully
exerted. Desiring to break down such
tree for its foliage, this giant would
settle himself upon his launches, and
fold his enormous arms about its trunk.
THE massive frame of the megathe-
rum Is convulsed with the mighty eff
fort" says an eminent paleontologist,
describing such scene, every vibrat-
ing fibre reacting upon its bony attach
ment with the force of hundred
giants; extraordinary must be the
strength and proportion Q, tree u,
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Several men with clubs would be
required to dispatch the creature, and
the removal Of its body would entail
considerable labor.
The dinosaur, however. was far DIFF
ferent creature. The dinosaurs we're
an old family with several branches.
One OF these families of dinosaurs had
small heads with big horn. Their
cousins had the huge body Of the dino
saur, but long head like that of a
horse.
The horned dinosaur was equally at
home on land or water. The animal
was armed with tail Of immense
strength, and he had shin bone over
three feet In length and nearly foot In
breadth at the upper end,
A singular thing about the bones Of
this animal, which have been SO often
found and articulated for exhibition in
museums, Is that they are all hollow.
This afforded both lightness and
strength, says the New York World.
i This monster is supposed to have
Deen a great swimmer, and on land he
Is believed to have proceeded somewhat
after the manner Of kangaroo. Scien-
lists examining rocks for traces Of an
tediluvian creatures have found i'm
presslons of the tails Of dinosaurs as
they walked along or stopped now and
then TO rest.
Another extinct animal with huge
tail was the hadrosaurus. He had
heavy scales down his back and was
vegetable feeder like the iguanodon. 1t
has been held by some scientists that
birds ere derived from the dinosaurs,
being much reduced in size during the
countless generations which have in
aervened. This theory. however, is not
correct, according to Huxley and other
modern scientists who have studied the
bones of these monsters, and who held
that both were derived from some COM
mon ancestor.
! Whales are undoubtedly descended
from some former land animal, and the
whale remains warm-blooded animal
70 the present day. Some scientists
believe that whales are the dinosaurs Of
the present day.
The dinosaur with the horses head
was herblvorous animal. This crea-
ture is Of peculiar interest to New
Workers, as, in remote times. he Droha-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07

A most horrible execution took place
IN Havana last week. Five Cubans were
taken into the open court in the citv
where machines had been already flxed
TOR choking them to death. The troops
were drawn up in hollow square and
the torture began. This consists in
making the victims sit in a chair with
a high back From this high back q
band and screws are arranged to be
frightened till the neck Of the Victim ia
broken or he dies of strangulation. In
this case the event was more terrible
than usual, as the executioners bungled
and the prisoners were put to death so
slowly that their sufferings were great
ly increased, Their cries and with
ings made the spectators and even the
soldiers turn pale.
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Stage Nntea.

Marie Engel will be the prima donna
OF the Abbey and Grau comic opera
company next season.
Katie Putnam, the veteran soubrette,
has summer home in Benton Harbor,
Mich, that cost her $4,000.
Mascagni is said to have written a
farce on a subject drawn from his ex-
periences of theatrical life.
Anthony Hopes new play, "a Man
In Love-" has for its hero a United
States naval officer in London.
The expenses including rent, of run
ming theaters in New York varies from
$1,000 to $4,000 a week. The larger num-
Der cost from $1,000 to $4,000.
In Paris ballet called the Bourse,
the fluctuations of the Stock Exchange
are shown by ballet girls sliding up
and down immense blackboards.
Henry Arthur Jones, the dramatist,
is the son of an English farmer and
was taught in his early days to look up
on the stage with Puritan horror.
M. Claretie, of the Coincide Fran
caise, has followed the custom of the
English theaters, and forbidden ladies
to wear any hats or bonnets in the
stalls at that theater.
Nine. Janauschek has retired from
the Great Diamond Robbery" and will
devote her time to the completion Of
her memoirs, upon which she has
worked at odd times for several years.
Verga's drama, "The She Wolf" has
been produced in Turin. He wrote it
in Sicily, and collected there musical
elements with view to making 1t into
libretto which would be a sister
piece to "Cavalleria Rusticana."
Sir Henry Irving has just entered his
59th year, and forty years have elapsed
since his first appearance on the stage.
His connection with the London Ly-
ceum began in 1874, and since Deem
Der, 1878, he has been sole manager of
that theater.
Miss Bessie Hatton, who will be re-
membered as member of Mr.. g. S.
Wizards first company in this coun-
try, and as the first Lady Eve of Jul
dab" here, has just issued volume of
graceful fairy tales, entitled "The VIII
lage of Youth"
OLIVE THANET.
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The latest Bnoch Arden case is a
curious one, the various scenes of
which have been played in New Ha-
ven, Conn.,, Granville, Mass, and Fitz-
gerald, Ga. The lady in question be-
lieved her first husband dead and mar
ried again, but on recently discovering,
after a lapse Of twelve years, that her
first husband was alive at the latter
place, she has procured a divorce from
No. 2, and going to Georgia, has re-
married No. /.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07

NAMED for two seasons. She was prl-
ma donna with lines band for one
season, and for several years was first
soprano with the Ladies' Schubert
quartet OF Boston. She has
likewise had considerable experience
upon the dramatic stage, having played
leading parts in Frank Daniels Lit
tie Puck" 1.-THE Professor" Mary
Shaw's "a Drop of Poison" Bishops
"Mugg's Landing" Upside Down"
"a Turkish Bath" and Dads Girl"
having starred in the last named play
for two seasons. She appeared in opera
for twelve weeks with Marie Jansen
at the Boston Museum, Oakland Gar
den, Boston, and at Peake's Island,
Me. Among the operate roles she has
filled are Josephine in "Pinafore," Ser
polette in "The Chimes of Normandy"
Bettina in LA Mascotte" and the title
role in Patience" She has also ap-
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what to do with such a monster, ard
science tells us that he might be dan
gerous.
Even the pterodactyl, which was in
many respects the most delicate Of
these products of remote age, would
not have made decent soup. The size
Of these beasts was such that they
could afford only poor kind Of sport.
They were 80 big that the worst marks
man could not help but hit them, and
after they were killed they could not be
removed.
The sportsman who shot dlnosaur
would have no fine pair of antlers to
take home with him for the ediflcation
Of his friends, while the dodo was an
ugly bird without any ornamental
feathers that would have looked we'll
In a woman's hat. This monster was
an absurd creation, being able neither
to fly nor to swim, and was extermi-
mated in the seventeenth century, much
to the general relief.
The dodo displayed neither activity
nor intelligence, and its name is a syno-
nym for stupidity to the present day.
Captain Van West-Zanen, of Batavia,
has left 1t on record how a dodo cap
tured by some Of his men could not be
eaten by the whole crew, so great was
Its size. He also tells how the dodo
made such display Of stupidity as to
merit the contempt Of his men.
A dodo walking along country road
at the present time would scare all the
horses and block up the passage.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07
JESSIE OLIVIER.

peared as prima donna with the Hun
garian gypsy band. Miss olivier, who
has received most Of her musical train
ing from Lyman Wheeler, of Boston,
Mass, has made special study of
ballad singing, and not only has won
much fame in vaudeville houses
throughout the country, but has also
won renown by reason of her ability
to make perfect record on the phono-
graph. She spends several hours each
day filling cylinders for a Chicago firm
by whom they are sent to all parts OF
the country.
Home, Sweet Home" a comedy
drama, in four acts, by Frederic Sew
ard, was acted for the first time on
any stage at the opera house, Millville,
N. j., recently. The story: Dave Nor
ris, wealthy merchant, who made his
fortune in California, while returning
east by sea with his infant daughter,
his wife having died, is pushed over
board by his private secretary, Will
liam Farren. The latter, believing that
his employer is dead, steals his money
and settles down in small seacoast
town in Massachusetts,. At the open
ing of the play Morris daughter has
grown into young lady and is known
as Rose Prescott, and believes Far
rem, who goes by the name of Squire
Hammond, to be her guardian. Nor
ris himself is also now a resident of
the same place, having been picked up
by a passing vessel. He made fruit
less search for his daughter, and at
last gave up in despair. He resides
with Mrs. Manly, the mother of Tom
Manly, brave young fisherman. Man
ly and Rose are lovers, and finally be-
come engaged. Farren wants his son,
James Hammond, to marry Rose, so as
to make himself secure in case any
thing should become known about her
parents and the manner of her fathers
death. He fears to tell his son the
truth, but says to him that if he would
have to return the money placed in
his hands in trust for Rose he would
be ruined. James promises to try and
win Roses love. He finds that Manly
has strong hold on her affections.
Farren forecloses q mortgage on Mrs.
Manly's farm and drives them from
their home. Little Ned, waif, who
was cast up by the sea and adopted
by Manly, is presented with a lottery
ticket by Manly. who received it from
81 Kidder as settlement Of loan of a
dollar. The ticket is a winner, and
the Manlys receive $4,000, which
comes too late to save the farm. Manly
acts as lighthouse keeper for a short
time, and while there gets the lottery
money, which is stolen from the house
by James Hammond. Little Ned comes
into the room while Hammond is TAX
ing the money, and is chloroformed
and thrown into the sea. Manly comes
on the scene and rescues the boy and
Hammond escapes without being recog-
nized. Hammond gets Manly a posi-
ton in Boston in order to separate him
and Rose, He forges a letter and
sends it to him, in which Rose is sup
posed to break off their engagement,
and then tells Rose that Manly is dead.
He then induces her to enter into an
engagement with him, as her guardian
desires it, and day is set for the
wedding. Little Ned dies from the
shock he received and makes Manly
promise to return to Rose a half a
Iooket which she ha" given him. Man
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deceased miners 1t was customary to
place a brief inscription reciting some
virtue Of the departed. On one grave
stone were the words: 81 never drank
whisky Another inscription read: 4
always paid my debts These and
other commendable characters were
outlined on the various stones in the
cemetery, on one Of which, however,
was the following philosophic and
unique reading: James O'Brien, I dun
my damndest.
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Depew's Latest Story.

Chauncey Depew has picked up new
story which runs something like this
I'm one Of the mining towns Of the west
1t was customary for the miners to have
elaborate funerals. The more lowly
the miner, the more ostentatious was
the funeral. On the tombstones of the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07

The little city OF Ellis, Kan, has
chosen a woman as mayor and elected
a council every member Of which is a
woman. The issue ON which the fair
sex was thus put in complete control
Of the municipality was the enforce
ment Of prohibition. The man who
gets tight in Ellis during the ensuing
year will have very slim show foT
his white alley.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07

The latest charge made against Re-
corder Goff OF New York by his enc
mics is that he overcrowds his own
court with prominent cases because he
does not like to transfer TO any Of the
other courts star cases which are like
ly to confer glory on the man who tries
them. But certainly he should be the
best judge Of how hard he Is willing to
work himself.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07

London has a female H. H. Holmes,
who has been arrested charged with
numbering six children in the most
brutal fashion. Letters were also
found from about twenty persons
with whom she was negotiating for
their children, destined to the same
fate, and the letters prove that the
parents were aware that the children
were to be killed. Degeneration!
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07
JOSEPH OPPENHElMER.
A Successful Caterer to the Patrons OF
Vaudeville Theaters.


Vaudeville Theaters.
Joseph Oppenheimer, the well-known
road manager, was born August 10,
1868, at Washington, D. G. He entered
theatrical business as the general adj
vertising agent of the late Daniel Her.
zog, who at that time controlled Lin
coin hall, Washington, D. c., the Van
Wyck Academy, Norfolk, Va, and
and Academy of Music Richmond, Va.
Later, he was transferred to the Rich
mond house as treasurer and from there
he was appointed treasurer with James
L. Herman, at his Baltimore
house. He was with Leavitt's
Minstrels, in 1887, as representa-
tive. In 1890 he organized the Fay Fos-
ter Burlesque company and for five
years managed and owned that COM
pany. At the commencement of the
present season Mr.. oppenheimer Or
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07

II, as stated In the dispatches from
Constantinople, the sultan has acted
upon the advice Of the Russian ambas-
sador in resembling his decree against
the missionaries, It may be taken for
granted that Russian policy will not be
unfriendly to the United States. 1t
seems almost incredible, however, that
the Russian ambassador should be the
SSdvisoE q the sultan. -. ,,.,..
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07
EXTINCT ANIMALS
IF THE MAMMoTHS RETURNED
TO EARTH ONCE MORE.
Dinosaurs and DOdOS Would Cause Con-
sternatiOn Among Present Day AMI
mails, Human as Well rs Brute-A
Realistic Picture.

T is a good thing,
on the whole, that
the extinct animals
are extinct, because
a dinosaur, a dodo,
or a megatherium
returning to earth
at the present time
would create mora
trouble than he
would be worth.
Nobody would know
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07

Higher citizenship is only another
name for the intelligence to know and
the courage and honesty to do the right
as 1t is given us to see 1t. Think OF this
when you stand at the ballot box
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07
THEATRICAL DOINGS.
INTERESTING GOSSIP ABOUT
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
The Sto-y OF Jessie OllIvIers Stage Life
Sings for the Phonograph-"Home
Sweet Home" A New Play just Pro-
duced-Other Notes,

ESsIE OLIVIER,
the prima donna,
whose portrait is
here printed, made
h er professional
debut at the Grand
opera house, Chi
cago, as Phyllis, in
Dorothy" S h e
subsequently Joined
the Bostonians,
with whom she re-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07

JOOEfd OPPENhElMEh
ganized his present big success, Zero,
or Trip to the Pole" and this organi-
cation stands among the leading COM
panies playing in the vaudeville houses.
Next season Zero" will be on a still
larger scale, and Mr.. Oppenheimer will
also place his first love, the Fay Foster
company, on the road in a first class
manner.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07

Cy Warman, the author of Sweet
Marie" lives on Capitol hill in Wash
ington. Mrs. WGtxaan is the original
Sweet Marie" and persons who know
her declare that she is worth all Of
the praise the song gives her
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The x ray has been used to trace the
origin Of that tired feeling which casts
pail over the more timid harbingers
Of spring.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07

A brother and his two sisters, aged
respectively so, SO end 70 years, all
died on the same day Of pneumonia at
Pompey, N. Y. All had lived their long
lives in the same house, all unmarried
and the two sisters, despite their ad-
vanced age, had never seen a railroad
train.
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1t is comforting to know that Mr..
Judge, the grand high-muck-i-muck of
the theosophists, did not die, as ordi-
nary mortals die, but was killed BY
thought waves" There is no lodging
"hat kind Of fate. it seems.
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John Bull is SO amiable over the Ven
ezuela business that we shall have to
fight to keep him from hugging us to
death.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07

Conversation generally results In q
person saying something that is re-
GREETED afterwards.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07

Too many men and women imagine
that one Of their rights is to have every
body get out Of their way.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07

The world would be sadly dlsappoint-
ed in a man II 1t accepted him at his
wife's public estimate.