The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

From thunder shower to zero wea
Their within twenty-four hours would
offer fine illustration of American
climate. Y Post.
The town of Lexington, Mo-, has ar
"Old Mems Club with twenty-foul
members, to which no one is admitted
under seventy years Of age.
"A horse at Woodland, New, virtu
ally committed self-destruction one day
recently, by walking up to the railroad
track and lying down in front of g
moving engine.-DenUer Tribune.
The Burlington (Kan.) Patriot re-
Joices in the almost unparalleled pros
perity of Kansas last year. and says
that the farmers entered the holiday
season with light hearts and full peck.
cts.
"A cloth saturated in cold water
and laid before the bed at night is sug
gested by a writer in a Cincinnati pa.
per as sure cure for a somnambulist.
1t is calculated that the victim will ster
on the cloth and wake up.
ION Wall Street." writes a New
York correspondent, Gould is an 90.
ject of alteration and admiration; Van
derbilt IS looked upon as lucky doc
and a good fellow; Sage as a miser
keenc as typical gambler - Chicago
Journal.
Chinese slavery in American cities
is not, the San Francisco Chronicle
SAYS, a new discovery made by the
lady who recently addressed the East,
ern press. 1t exists in that city in an
exaggerated form, and even the court,
are pOwerless in their efforts to draw
out the truth. The slaves dare moi
tell it.
The boy who fastened the rope OF
his sled to spoke in the hind wheel OF
a milk wagon was a little shaver who
had never travelled, but since he came
down and was picked out of the slush
by kind-hearted man he has been
heard inquiring for various works Oh
the subject of gravitatiOn and natural
philosophy.-Detr0tt Free Press.
During her soiourn at a hotel a
lady broke an article belonging to a
china toilet set. On leaving the house
she was charged with the entire set. As
remonstrance was unavailing she paid
the bill, and pleading the excuse of hav-
ing forgotten something, returned tC
the room and broke each and every ar
tIcle of the set for which she had paid.
And some people say women are not
clever Chicago Tribune.
DR.. Barnum, founder of Barnum' :
Hotel, Baltimore, left $50, to his
al. I i.
not take orders in the Catholic Church.
If he did the property was to go to the
McDOnough Institute. Frank became
a Jesuit. There has been a fight over
the will. The heir claimed that the bill
of rights guaranteed religious liberty.
The Judge decided in favor of the insti-
tute. He said that the bill of rights
did not take away the liberty of the
maker of will to say what he wants
done with his property Baltimore Sun.
Colonel A. S. NJ. Morgan, of Pitts
burgh, Pa. has in his possession an
autograph letter written 20 his mother
in 1922 by Thomas Jefferson. She had
sent him the prospectus of 4 society, of
which she was founder, whose object
was to encourage American manufac-
lures by pledging ladies to wear only
American-made dress goods, and he
wrote: The effort which is the subject
of your letter is truly laudable.
No one has been more sensible than
myself Of the advantage of placing the
consumer by the side of the producer,
nor disposed to encourage it by exam
pie. "-PtttSburgh Post.
Ladies will wear waistcoats pre-
cisely like gentlemen this winter.
This will cause fearful trouble. For
instance, when married man goes to
bed he will have TO put chalk-mark
on his waistcOat. or next morning he
may slip on his wife's and not discover
his mistake until he inserts his thumb
and fore!inger into his right-hand pocket
for that ''half crown" and finds bent
hairpin or dress button. Then, no
doubt, he will suddenly remember there
was Il sovereign in the left-hand pocket
Of his waiStcoat and n iive-pOund note
in his watch pocket. and then YOU will
see him do a mile in about one min
ute and fifty seconds.-LOnd0n Truth. /