The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

J the disability law against Catholics still
exists in New Hampshire. No Cath
| Ole can hold Office in that State.-Cht-
cago NeUs.
An electric light has been intro
duced into lighthouse at the entrance
/ to the outer harbor OF Rio de Janeiro.
1t is of 1900 candle power and is visi-
bic distance of thirty-fye miles.
An English aeronaut SAYS balloon
ing has saved his life, and he believes
! that the pure, unadulterated oxygen
which exists about mile above the sur
| face of the earth would be OF immeas-
urable benefit to invalids if they would
Ina ke the ascent.
"A volcanic tree is reported to exist
in the japanese village of Ono. 1t is
! sixty feet high, with girth of ten feet,
and said to be centuries old. Every
day white smoke-like mist issues from
the top, lasting from early afternoon
till evening.
Colorado. Mitchell County, Texas,
offers great inducements to single ia
dies. The Clipper tells Of a young man
who was disguised to find, on going to
call on ayouDg lady, eleven otheryoung
men ahead of him in the parlor and two
sitting on the fence.
The latest indgnity offered to the
memory of Carlyle is to credit him
with having invented the word
''dude." In his journal on July 10,
1888, he wrote: Il seldom read any
dud of book. novel or the like.
where the writing seems to flow
along like talk, without a certain
pain, certain envy"
Birds in Sweden and Norway are
better protected than in any other coun-
try, and the consequence is that they
are tame and familiar. A resident of
Sweden says that evrey morning flOcks
of Sparrows come into the room while
he is eating breakfast and run about
the room picking up crumbs or wash
ing themselves in basins.
The figures produced by Mr. Cham
berlain in his speech in Parliament on
the Merchant Shipping bill show that
in twelve years $4,000 English seamen
were lost; that in each year, on the av-
erage, one seaman out of seventy-two
is drowned, and that taking the aver
age service of q seaman at twentv-four
years, one out of every three must ex-
pect to meet his end in that way.
Many tenement-house cigarmakers
receive from their employers 100 pounds
of tobacco, for which they have to re-
turn l02 pounds of cigars. The difference
( is supposed to represent the water used
in moistening the dry leaf Complaints
are made that when the tobacco falls
short cigar stumps, willow, oak, and
elm leaves are used to make good the
deficiency, and that in some instances
100 pounds of tobacco have thus been
made to produce 200 pounds of cigars.
N. Y. SiGr.
Mr.. w. J. Andres, of Sumter. SC,
killed hog few days ago affected
with every symptom Of hydrophObia.
The hog had been bitten two weeks pre-.
viously by q dog which was supposed to
be mad. The hog became so violent
rs to necessitate its separation from the
other hog, and finally had to he killed.
A farmer living near Bishopville, in the
same county, shortly after killed
young cow, apparently affected with
hydrophobia, supposed to have origi-
mated by the same dog pa sing through
that neighborhood.-St, Louis Post
An Australian squatter. renowned
far and wide for his extreme UglineSs.
had once made an oath that should he
ever come in contact with any one
palmer than himself he would shoot
him. Meeting one day with man he
thought was uglier than himself, he
explained to him the nature of the oath
he had made; then, producing his pis-
tol, requested him to say his PRAYERS.
"|Nhatr' said the man, Fam L uglier
than you?" ''Yes," replied the squat
ter. "Then, for heavens sake, shootr
cried the man.-Sa1a Francisco ar
goRGW.
For some time the Capitol at Wash
ington has been lighted with electric
lights. 1t is now found that the build
ing presents 6 most untidy appearance
owing to the fact that myriads of all
kinds of insects have been attracted by
the lights and have killed themselves
by striking against the dome. Bushels
of May-ilies, beetles, crickets, ear-wigs,
dragOn-fiies, grasshOppers, caddis-tiies,
bees, waspS. hornets. butterflies, moths,
cicadas, froghoppers, plant lice. water
beetles, whirligigs, shippers, horned
midgets, gnats, mosquitoes, and every
species of insect known to the sur
rounding swamps and woods of the
District have met their death in this
way. Washington Star.
When the late Frank Chanfrau re-
turned from California and was the pos
SCISSOR OF a snug fortune he bought hand
some house at Yonkers and then went
to the warehouse on Peck Slip, where
his father was employed as .. porter,
and said: I'D like YOU to step out with
me for awhile" Il can't" replied
the elder man; sit isn't dinner hour
yet. and my employers wouldn't like
it, ..Yes. they would; they are per-
fcctly willing" said the actor, and then
took his father to Yonkers, showed him
through the house and asked him what
he thought of it 1T is verv beauti-
full place" was the reply. We'll. it is
YOURS" said Chanfrau.-N Y Tri6-
aac.