The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-08
MISCELLANEOUS.


1T is estimated from statistical
point of view that loss of appetite
among young people On account OF
love annually saves to this country
s1O0,000,0O0.-M Y Graphic.
Sturgeon says he never had any
faith in luck e cept that good luck will
carry a man over a ditch if he Jumps
well, and will put a bit of bacon into
bis pot if ne looks after his garden and
Keeps a pig.
Henry Richardson, leading member
Of the famous vigilance committee in
Brown County, Idaho, which hanged
fourteen horse-thieves in three months,
mas himself been lynched near his OWL
aome.-DenUer Tribune.
Formerly women could not legally
marry until they had spun couple Of
sets of bed furniture; hence the term
spinster, which is still in use. If thai
rule prevailed now. preachers wo Ildn't
get rich on their wedding fecs.-BoSlOn
Gl0Je.
Munro Adams, the New York law.
yer detected few weeks ago in giving
out forged divorces, had a business OF
nearly three hundred cases a year, the
Reraid says, which netted him abou,
$4,000 a year, after all expenses hai
been paid.
New York policemen moistened
their uniforms with salt water to make
them look bright and clean for inspec-
ton and avoid the order TO buy new
ones, but an Inspector noticed the damp
ness, marveled and had things dried.
n. Y Sun.
-"SOme business men are constantly
in fret" observes the Cincinnati CT
zeite; ''they worry while awake; they
worry in Their sleep, and when they
have worried Themselves into three Or
four chronic diseases they find they
have something to worry about"
The --latest story of needles trav-
els comes from SOuthboro, Mass. A
Mrs. Hebron of that place drove a
needle into her left hand thirteen years
ago and was unable to extract il. a
few days ago she discovered the point
protruding just above the right knee
and drew it out.
Texas has cattle queen besides
her numerous cattle kings. She is the
wife OF an eX-MethOdiSt preacher named
Rogers, and lives in NeViceS County,
where she owns and manages ranch
of 10000 head of cattle. while her hus
band attends to his duties rs a member
of the State Legislature.
The latest trick of the emigrani
sharp is to sell the foreigners who land
from the steamers railroad passes at a
great reduction, which are worthless
One fellow got rid of ninety among Il
party of Italians, selling alleged tickets
to Pittsburgh for three dollars each. He
escaped with the booty Chicago Her
aid.
One of the most interesting of the
specimens of counterfeit notes liz the
possession of the chief of tho Secre.
service division is a twenty dollar bill
OF good appearance, accurate in size
and perfect in general effect when
viewed at short distance. A very
close inspection OF the note reveals the
fact that every line in vignette, lathe
work, seal, lettering and bofder, is the
stroke of pen or paint-brush, and the
note is entirely produced by hand
Boston Herald.
The natives of the Chloe Islands
make use of a curious natural bar
Ometer, 10 which. from its having been
first noticed by the Captain of an
Italian corvette, the name .'Barometre
Araucano" has been given. This novel
weather guide is the shell of a crab
of ho III Nf
genus LtthodeS. 1t is peculiarly sensi
tive to atmospheric changes. 1t has a
color nearly white in dry weather, but
as soon rs wet weather approaches
small red spots are exhibited, varying
in number and intensity with the
amount Of moisture in the atmosphere.
In the rainy season it is completely red.
Some interesting and extraordinary
data have been compiled respecting the
Mississippi. 1t appears that it boasts
tributary streams with total length of
navigation of 1871 miles, or about
two-thirds of the distance round the
world. Even this, however, represents
but small amount of the navigation
which will follow when the Federal Gov
eminent has made the contemplated
Improvement in the Upper MiSsis-
sippi, in the Minnesota, Wisconsin
and other rivers, in which it is
now engaged. But while the Missis-
sippi has 1851 miles navigable to
steamboats,, it has 20, 221 IN les navi
gable to bargeS. This ma legation is
divided between twenty-five States and
Territories Southern Manufacturer.