The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A pile of 100000 one dollar bills
would be forty-fve feet high.
New York is said to have the largest
Catholic population of any city in the
world.
Windsor, Conn, has rogue detect
i've society. embracing in its member
ship $50 of the most influential men of
the town.
A commercial paper in Boston
prints Credit register" which ex-
poses the names of those who do not
pay their grocery bills.
Letter and note paper, either in
gray or palest blue is conceded the best
form at present Heraldic devices and
names of places either in solid colors
or illuminated are newer than mono
grams.
"A woman makes the surgical in
struments used by the most skillful
operators on human flesh in New York
City. She has been in the business
nine years, and both makes and sells
her sharp-edged wares.-N Y. Herald.
The mules used in Salt Lake City
street cars rejoice in pet names given
them by the drivers. One pair is known
as Moody and Sankey, two others are
called Molasses and Cream, and two
others as Sin and MiSery.-DenUer
Tribune.
Rev. John NJ. Steiner. the retired
minister of Fishkill, n. Y, who had
been missing from his home in that
place for several weeks, was found re-
Gently in distant town in Pennsylvania.
His mind had become deranged by the
recent loss of his wife.-TrOy Times.
Patti seems to have carried off all
the money in San Francisco. A sad
looking citizen of that town the other
day carried to the express office an old
and battered silver dollar which he had
found in the street, and asked to have it
sent to Nine. Patti. He thought it must
belong to her, as it was the only money
he had seen since she went away.-Chi-
cdgO Inter Ocean.
There are, it is said, but two author
lied dynamite factories in France-One
at Banville, the other at Honfleur; and
the utmost supervision is exercised over
these establishments. The names of the
manufacturers have to be entered in
special register, a deposit OF fifty thou
sand francs is required of them, and the
formalities relating to the sale or trans
mission of explosives are numerous.
A correspondents in an agricul-
.ural paper asks, What is good for
canker worms?'' After considerable
experience in the matter, we can sug-
gest nothing so good as an apple tree.
1t appears to be particularly healthful
for the canker worm, and we were
not aware. until this correspondent sug-
gested it, that the canker worms were
not entirely satisfied Herewith. -BOSte9s
Post
While Antonio Morie, an Italian
bOotbla ok, was shining pair of boots
belonging to marketman in New York
CITY he found roll of bills amounting
to seven numbered dollars in the leg OF
one of the boots. The money had fallen
through a hole in the mans pocket
into the boot, and the man did not
discover his loss when he took the
boot off. The boy returned the money
TO the owner, who gave him as reward
five cents for the shine.-N. Y. NeoUS.
The United States is the only Gov
eminent which imposes no burden on
commerce for the support of the light
house and buoy system. At present
there are over seven hundred light
houses on the American coasts and riv-
erS, and also twenty-five floating-light
stations, the total annual expense being
s., SS9,017. In addition to the above
there are nearly six thousand buoys and
beacons, which mark danger of less
character.-C Chicago Times.
The few gymnasia for ladies in Bos
ton and the vicinity are about to close a
very successful season, showing that
gymnastics, when properly conducted,
are beneficial. 1t is little surprising,
however, to see at the eyhibitic ms young
girls of fourteen and fifteen climb rope
to the ceiling hand-uver-hand, vault
bars higher than their heads, and turn
in the air on flying rings.
One is inclined to believe that the old
Greek DAYS have returned, and that we
shall soon have Spartan mothers.-Bos
ton Herald.