The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

-Scooba, Miss, boasts of an OK seen
on her streets with two perfectly formed
tails.
"A London restaurant, recently
opened, serves nothing but fish, and the
scale of prices is reasonable.
Mrs. Rhoda Howard, who is now
living six miles southwest of the town
of Owingsyille. Bath County, KY, on
State Creek, if the report be true is
probably the Oldest woman in the
world. She was born in Wilkes County,
\. c., in December, 1867. andis, there
fore, 116 years ld.-cticago Journal.
The State Government pays 5000
apiece for Apache scalps in Arizona,
and sharp Yankee was arrested the
other day for selling counterfeit scalps
to hunters. The spurious articles were
made in Massachusetts and were read
ily calculated to deceive. All was per-
feet even to the blood stains. Chicago
Inter ocean.
Lieutenant WisSmann. the African
traveller, who, like Stanley. walked
across the Dark Continent, has left
Hamburg again on another t5ree-year5
tour of exploration in the Congo region.
He has undertaken to furnish the Royal
Museum in Berlin with all the natural
specimens which he may collect during
his travels.
An anxious father in Fort Gaines,
Ga, who was DESTROYS of hearing the
conversation between his daughter and
her dudelot, posted himself in hearing
distance, recently, and listened for two
solid hours. The following are the only
words he heard during that time: He:
''lf LOWE die, what'll dovic do?" She:
''DOvie die, too. "--PhilddelphiG Press.
Cinnamon in this country. and es-
pecially in the West, have been quick
to see the increased value OF their serv-
ices caused by the enforcement of the
restriction act Soon after IFS passage
the Chinese farm la5OrerS in California
demanded and received at least a third
more in weekly wages, and now many
of them are agitating for another in
creaSe.-Denrer TTidane.
Mr.. Paul Delanger, Inspector OF
Cars on the Intercolonial Railway OF
Canada, is the father of thirtv-three
children. He has been thrice married.
His first wife was the mother of nine
teen children, his second had six, and
the third has presented him with eight.
The last two are twins. Mr.. Delanger
is sixty years of age.-NOntreGt VII
ness.
The observatory on the top of Ben
Nevis, Scotland, is now in good work
ing order. and NJ Omand and stat are
domiciled there. The last ascent was
made with difficulty, as the snow was
fourteen feet deep. and a passage had
TO be cut through. The party sank
often to the shoulder. The journey oc-
cuped nine hours. The observatory
will be cut off for months from the
world.
The first living skeleton was Claude
Sewrat, born in France in 1899. He
was tall. and would have been we'll
shaped had there been any flesh upon
him. but every bone in his body could
be seen. His arms were compared tC
an ivory flute, and his abdomen seemed
to cling to the vertebrR. He made a
fortune by exhibiting himself and went
" Ills LdllNC ~ OilI'N Dut
denly expired soon after his retirement.
The fellow who went on a wedding
tour, got broke, and had to leave his
wife behind is solemn lesson. Nine
cases in ten the money expended OF
wedding tours could be better used for
future comforts and luXuries in the
home. A young couple of moderate
means are sensible who marry and set
about arranging the dishes and putting
up the kitchen stove. The expense OF
a single day at n fashionable hotel will
buy good many juicy beefsteaks.-
Chicago inter Ocean.
The officers of the Cincinnati steam
boat Golden Rule have pet cat that
travels the Ohio and the Mississippi &c
New Orleans, and sometimes goes
ashore and stays until the time for haul
ing in the gang-plank. She went ashore
at Evansville once and wandered about
town until the boat had gone; but she
took the next boat up, and was again
in the Golden Rule Il few days later.
At another time she was lost at Port
Hickey. and then she took the next boat
for home CincinHuti Times.