The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A Maryland negro, born with two
teeth, has never had any more. -Bali-
more San.
"A Georgia train cut off the heels OF
4 drunken mans boots and left him I'M
harmed.
"A storekeeper in Toronto, Ont,
| has been fined twenty dollars and costs
for selling chances to guess the num-
Der of beans in bottle for prizes.
They had '.feather-picking"
match on alarm near Kansas City, Mo-.
recently, and one OF the contestants
stripped a chicken clean in twenty sec.
onds.-CIicqqo Il raid.
"A lady in the neighborhood Of
Hawkins lie, Ga. IS the proud posses.
sor Of filty-fve bed quilts, all the work
Of her own hands, and she can quilt
two week.-EIchaHge
The most rapid speaker in the Sen,
ate IS Mr. Beck, OF kentucky, who i
often rivaled by Mr.. Frye, Of Name.
The fastest speaker in tie Hous. !, Mr..
blackburn, OF Kentucky Washington
star.
George, son of Prof. Allen of the
Pennsylvania Normal School, at Mans
field, deserted from naval training
ship at Newport last July. audit is now
discovered that he sUic dcd by drown
ing from the vessel efyqU Post.
The natives Of M2da~a scar have
taken cleyerly to the manufacture OF
firearms. They have accurately imi-
tated the French mitraiiieu,e. and call
The German engineer, who has shown
them how to make dynamite, Father
Gunpowder."
The first mulattO child born in
Greene County. Georgia, is now living
in Morgan County, and vet bears the
odd name, "Sin.' The child was born
on the place of Mr.. John L. Dawson,
OF Greene, and, being a mulatto, she
was named Sin. She IS now known to
he III years, and probably Older
Chicago Times.
The Portland (Me.) Transcript adj
mits that soon after Artpmu, Wards
death it started movement for fund
TO erect monument 10 bis memory.
1t collected in all So. Discouraged at
last, II turned the money over to Mrs
Browne, the humorist's mother. and
she expended it in procuring the stone
which marks. his grave.
-Corbcll, an employment agent at
Montreal, sent one thousand men to
Lake Superior to work on the Canadian
Pacific road. They have since made
their way back with complaints of i'll
usage. One of the number recently
sent a bullet through the brain of the
agent as he sat at Il hotel window
Ciic1Go Times.
Peter Gi!Sey. the grandfather Of
the present generation Of Gilscvs. in
New York, and the founder of their
great wealth. landed in this countrv
from Denmark pennile>s. lie was
piano-forte maker by trade. but after
ward opened . ci~ar store on the
ROwery. whore he and his wife built IN
a fortune Of s.. 100000 by peddl,ng out
penny cheroots.-N. J. Times.
"A woman of twenty-five appeared
at the Liverpool ASHES on q charge
of bigamy, when in her own defense
she stated that her husband soll her
for a quart of beer, and she supposed
this transaction allowed her 10 marry
again. The second husband contended
that he ''bowt'' her and the first nus
hand that he sold her, so his Lordship
declared them ali guilty of bigamy.
A farmer of Warrcntown. Ga. who
for sometime past has missed his usual
supply o. hens EGGS. stool watch over
his pHltrv ward the other day. shotgun
in hand. with view of diminishing the
numerous supply OF DOGS in that yicin-
itv. He was SURPRISED. however. to
see half-@rowG heller walk leisurclv
up to one of the nests and eat lis con
tents. shells and all. He cXOneratn. .
the dogs from al CHARGES Of egE-s,eai-
ing now.
According 10 Rabbi Sonneschein. OF
ST. Louis, the American jew can keep
Christmas without in the lca~t violating
his religious convictions. The Ra.b
says that the 9th ot December was
celebrated b. tAa pagan world as the
TN when the .onge,t nj c't miyeS wav
TO the len@taeniag Of The day. and
that the early Christian Cnurch, which
ha! cri Einalav celebrated .he natal day
Of Is founder in the spi:r~. accepted.
at the end of the fifth century, the IA
gan festival, transferring It's celerra-
ton cf Chri~t'S birth 20 December.
Moreover, the Narcabean priests inst
tuted festival on tie 18th Of kislar.
the corresponding Jewish month. to
take the pla"e o. this pagan FEAST,
when they had, ~ defeating e Syrian
king, driven oct Greek iiolat.y.-St.
LCaiS Gi0Jc.