The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A North Carolina youth who re-
Gently stole locomotive wound up his
career of crime by shooting himself.
"A Vermont man has parrot that
he has succeeded in teaching to recite
nearly half the Twenty-third Psalm
Rutlafd Herald.
The United States is invited to par
tieipate in an exhibition of dairy pro-
duets at Munich, next October.
"A whale sixty feet long and thir-
teen feet high has been killed off Beau
tort, S. c. Sixty barrels of oil was ex-
peeted.-S. Louis Post.
Since the recent Southern cyclone,
the enterprising citizens of the section
through which the storm passec have
heen industriously at work digging
refuge caves.
"A farmer of Fall River, Mass, has
recently sold a pair of fowls, dark
Brahmas, for forty-seven dollars, to 90
to Auckland, New Zealand. The dis
tance is nearly seven thousand miles,
Boston Post.
"A series of prehistoric mica mines
have recently been discovered in Louis
lana. The surrounding vegetation
shows that at least 500 years have
elapsed since they were Abandoned
n. o. Times.
Miss Phebe Cozzens, of st. Louis,
is arguing the question, "What An
swer?" and is pushing it with all the
earnestness allowed by the female per-
quisities of leap year. If the timid
will be, ASK ma. ."-D3trOI Post.
One of the latest cheats is tobacco
paper. The stuff is such an exact imi-
tatiOn of the natural tobacco leaf and is
so well favored that it takes magni-
flying glass to detect the deception.
Cigars made of this tobacco paper have
a good flavor. burn well and hold their
white ash firmly.-N. Y. Tribune. q.
The old tramp who was "Michi-
gan fire sufferer last summer, will 60
on the road this spring as an ''Ohio
flood sufferer" He thought once that
he would have to appear as Java
earthquake sufferer" but the floods
have fortunately rendered this rather
farfetched excuse unnecessary.-NOr-
riStoWn Herald.
John Griffith, of Frederick, Nd,
received $4,000 for drove of cattle re-
Gently and in the evening started for
home. He had not arrived next morn
ing and was found by the roadside dead
by murder; but he had deposited the
money in the bank, so the plumber for
which he was killed did not reward his
murderers. Baltimore american.
According to c. A. Broadwater, q
prominent capitalist of Helena, Mon
tana, that Territory is not anxious fol
admission into the Union. rs the people
think that the benefits derived from the
admission would hardly counterbalance
the heavy expense incidental to the
maintenance of State Government.
-"Yes," said the boy, Il had Q
beautiful dream last night. | dreamed
that saw a big monkey plaguing cat
He'd take her by the tail and swing her
then he'd grab her by the scrutf of the
neck and hold her over the fire, and
then he'd clinch her by the small of the
back and squeeze her. The cat yelled
awfully. o, it was bully dream. -
N Y Mail.
1t is stated that dark haired women
are preferred to blondes by marrying
men. To uphold this theory a Chicago
physician has recently published stats.
tics showing that in the area covered
by his researches blondes are generally
admired by poets and painters, but bru
nettes more frequently capture the
wedding ring than do their light-haired
sisters. Chicago Herald.
The Utica IN. ", Herald has fig
1red out the following: The statement
that James 5. Sherman is the youngest
man ever elected to the Utica maVOr
atty is enough of an error to be an er
ror. Mr.. Sherman was born October
"a, 1855, and elected Mayor March 4
1884, at the age of twenty-eight years
four months and ten days. Roscoe
Conkling's record is better by eigh
days. He was born October 80, 1929
and was elected Mayor of Utica Marcel
2, 1858, at the age OF twenty-eight years
four months and two days. That wa,
twenty-six years ago"
Some hunters near West Bridge
water, Mass, recently started a fox
to which their dog gave quick chase
the party soon losing sight of the pair
A week later, the dog still being miss
ing, was given up by his master, bu
members of the party happening to &C
to the field which had been the scene o.
the chase, found n fox hole. The dog
had tried to follow the fox into thi:
hole, and had dug down about twie,
his length, banking up so much eartf
behind him, however, that he could not
get out. The poor brute, from whom
air had never been cut of, was soor
liberated and was found to be very
hungry and very happy after his sevel
days of confinement" ."-BOStoR Tran
ScriDt.