Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-01-08
OLIO OF EVENTS

New Hampshire's board of bank COM
misisoners says in their annual report
that there is need of more banks than
now exist in their state.
A seat in the Baltimore stock ex-
change was sold few days ago for ST.
coo. Seats have been sold there preVi-
ously for as much as S10,500.
Steps are being taken to form a
Western club at Columbia university,
where there are over 200 students from
states west of the Mississippi river.
Prof. Sagelcke, of the Agricultural
High School Of Copenhagen, died the
other day. He was the promoter of the
Danish modern system of dairy farm
ing.
Twenty-four and half tons of cop
pers-eQual to e10,905-have been col
lected during the year from penny-in-
the-slot gas meters at Hudders-field
England.
Judge Peter P. Smith, of the superior
court, Pennsylvania has been declared
by Governor Stones medical commits
sion physically capable of performing
his judicial duties.
The latest contributions to the Statu-
airy hall in the capitol at Washington
are bronze figures of Charles Carroh,
of Carrollton, and Senator John Han
son, presented by the state of Mary
land.
Japan is getting a bicycle craze, it
imported S2,700,000 worth of wheels
last year, mostly of the cheaper grades,
costing from $12 to $25. They are
chiefly used for business purposes; also
in the army.
Samuel |. Pickard Whittier's liter
airy executor and biographer, will sell
many OF his manuscripts and books for
the benefit of fund for the restoration
and care of the poets birthplace, at
Haverhill, and his home, at Amesbury,
Mass.
The Office of superintendent Of public
instruction in Colorado is held by
women. She is a Democrat The sal
airy is $4,000. She has been reelected
on the Democratic ticket, though the
state has generally gone Republican.
DR.. Herman V. Hilprecht, the Baby
lonian explorer, has been awarded the
first Lucy Wharton Drexel medal,
which was established at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania month ago. The
award was made by Provost Harrison.
Prof Ludwig Kumlien, who was the
naturalist of the Howgate Polar eXpe-
dition in 1877, and was afterward con-
nected with the Smithsonian institute
and the United States fish commission,
died recently at his home in Milton,
Wis.
The crown prince of Germany will
finish his studies at the University of
Bonn at Christmas, and will then enter
the Cavalry regiment, with the rank Of
a captain, In the body squadron Of the
Gardesc du Corps, doing duty therein
for several years.
william S. Hubbard, of Indianapolis,
has promised to give the last $1,000
needed to purchase the United States
arsenal grounds in that city as a site
for the National Technical institute.
With this pledge, $4,000 Of the neces-
sary fund remains to be raised
1t has just been discovered that there
exists in Rapperswyl, Switzerland, a
fund consisting of nearly 10000,
which has been subscribed by Poles in
various parts of the world for the pur-
pose of waging war on Russia when
Lropitous time shall have arrived.
In his capacity as high priest the
Chinese emperor has to offer at least AZ
sacrifices to different gods in the course
of a year. AS to each sacrifice is dedi-
Gated one or more holidays. which must
be pressed by him in complete solitude,
his time is pretty we'll taken up.
The formation OF British club by
British subjects among the students at
Yale reveals the recent growth of Yale's
popularity among Canadians. There
are now some % or 30 students at Yale
who come largely from the maritime
provinces of Ontario.
The Belgian government has in
creased the Duke of Wellington's annu-
ri income to the extent of 2 shillings
II pence. This sum is to be paid tp
him rs the rental of a small portion df
his land in Belgium upon which the
government has erected tram shelter.
A complete rural free delivery ser
wee OF MAI IldllFl VIII NOSJ dDOuL pAts-
600. 900. The present plan provides for
the completion of the service within
three years, to do which about $1,000
new carriers will have to be employed,
to cover 100000 square miles Of new
territory.
The Chinese of New York are plan
ming to erect a hospital in the China
town of that city where their sick may
be treated by physicians Of their own
race. This hospital, II 1t is established,
is to be conducted on the Oriental plap,
and will be a distinct oddly in this
country.
The car has authorized the raising
of subscriptions throughout the Rus
sian empire for the erection of mOnu-
ment in commemoratlon of "the eleven
months heroic defense of Sebastopol."
The old lines Of defense Of the town are
to be restored as an object lesson for
young officers studying fertilization.
In a habeas corpus suit for the pos
session of a daughter, brought by the
father. Judge Hiham Brownlee, of Indi-
ana. ruled the other day that a mothers
love and care are of more benefit to
child than all the money, clothes OF
support that a father can give The
child in the case was given to her
mother.