The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-10
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MISCELLANEOUS.

There are eleven States in which
women vote for school directors. Most
people will be surprised to learn that
Kentucky is one of the States.
"A monstrous meteor passed over
the town of Clarksville, Tex, one night
recently, exploding with sound equal
10 battery of heavy guns, and emitting
light brighter than the sun.
One of Davy Crockett's old hunting
knives, with four-inch wooden handle
and six-inch blade, with silver band
around the handle, has been presented
to the Tennessee Historical Society.
the Canadian Pacific Rail
road is finished, the builders and man
ayers of that road will own about
everything in the Dominion that is
worth owning. Chicago Journal.
1t is no longer correct for young
ladies to say papa and mamma, The
good old fashioned father and mother
have actually come in style lagain.y
Occasionally gleam of sense shines
through.-E Y. GraD1ic. y u ti /
Petroleum flowing from break in
the pipe lines of the Standard Oil Com
pany at Pompton Lake, n. J.. killed
twenty y7nine swans belonging to DR..
Rogers. Money indemnitywas refused
and the company sent to their London
agent and had thirty-fiye swans sent
DR.. Rogers. .'' ~'t'H''
David F. Whitmer, still living in
Missouri at the age of eighty, was one
of the three witnesses who in 1880 pub
lished certificate declaring that they
/ -,,,- -, oD,,,o Il Io,,-,, 10 cold
en- hook which Joseph Smith. the Mer-
mon, pretended to interpret.-.St. LOUIS
Post. H' f
a Jealous Providence husband be-
came so indignant at fellow passen-
ger in street car because he gazed di-
rectly across at his wife that he got up
and slapped him in the face. just then
the car stopped and little, thinly clad
girl assisted the offender OF the ear. He
was stone blind.-Proridene Or. ~
Journal. ..#.......s ...,f
1t has been noticed in Washington
| that all the deaths which have taken
place among members of the House
| during the sessions since the FOrty-ffth
/ Congress. on both the Republican and
Democratic side, have been from the
middle fourth row. That row has, there
fore, been called Fatality Row.
Washington Post. t.-E.J ,8ElA
Quite a number of new enterprises
have been established inY and around
Hawkinsville, Ga, within the last few
wears, but the most novel industry yet
has been inaugurated by Mr.. Thomas
Chancey, who has gone into the 'pOssum
. | l. cnala nn6
poses to raise these much sought var
mints for the market. His ranch is To-
eated about a mile from Hawkinsyille,
and is enclosed with wire fencing.
The relations of woman are I'M
doubtedlv broadening when many are
devoting themselves with energy to the
higher education and to professional
training. 1t is well that this is so, for
there are women who have no ''calF'
to marry, and are happier alone
Easily troubled people are sometimes
perplexed at this state of things, and
wonder what will be done for wives and
mothers in the future; but there is
really no occasion for alarm. The old
ideal of the happy home and purely
womanly duties will always lead all
others, until the very nature OF woman
is changed.-N. y. Post. ''' '.
Father Imoda, who has returned
from one of the Indian missions in Mon
tana, where he has been isolated from
civilization since 1869, says the greatest
trouble he had to contend with was
polvgamy The Indians, half-breeds
and whites, especially those devoted to
hunting, all wanted more than one
wife. Among them aWife is treated as
slave, going with her husband on his
hunting expeditions TO carry the game,
build fires and attend to preserving the
meat 1t was not until game began to
grow scarce and the hunters hadn t
much use for slaves that they could be
made to see the sin in having q hall
dozen wives. -CiicH 20 Tribune
The first lady ever placed in charge
of telegraph Office was Miss Emma
A. Hunter, now Mrs. Smith, of West
chester. 1t was in 1851, whenfthe trSt
line was built from Philadelphia to that
point. Her salary was liked al Fifty
dollars wear. but was afterward raised
to $50. At the end of the first year
she was presented with purse of $50
by the managers for her e1ieiency-
The presence Of q lady on the line had
an excellent effect, as it put stop to
operators sending vulgar messages to
each other. The next appointment Of
this kind was Miss Ellen A. Laughton,
a bright girl of fourteen, who was given
the office at Dover. n. HI She is now
the wife of G. w. Thompson, a leading
citizen of New BedfOrd.-BOstors Her
aid.