The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

f- MkSo1GAkxANEOOSs
During a roundup on Tongue
River, Montana, recently, three buffalo
calves were driven in with the cattle.
Victor Hugo thinks the French
could make theirs the universal tongue
if they refused to use any other lam
guage for the space of fifty years.
AN enterprising citizen of Vallejo.
Cal, has been detected smuggling
TASKS of whisky on board the United
States steamship Hartgord by sewing
them up in salmon.-San francisco
Call.
No girl is plain, says Mr.. Ruskin.
who is well bred, kind, or modest. all
real deformity means want of manners
or of heart All real ugliness means
some kind of hardness of heart or vul-
garity of education.
The New York Times says the 10
comotive works at Paterson. n. j.. now
furnish for 5000 and less locomotives
that they demanded and received S15.-
600 two years ago, and business is very
dull at that.
"A Kansas shoemaker stopped work
and began to spend money freely. He
was on that account arrested on suS-
picion of having robbed stage coach.
Then he had to confess and prove that
he was an heir to an English quarter OF
a million Chicago Inter Ocean.
"A Quebec mechanic the other day
stepped upon a nail which pierced the
sole of his boot and ran into his foot.
The nail was new one and clean, and
he thought nothing of the injury, but
in two days he became lame and was
laid up, and on the eighth day he died
of lockjaw.
Some photographs recently placed
on sale in Berlin show that the favorite
residence of Prince Bismarck at Fred.
ericksruhe is far from being the castle
which popular fancy has supposed it to
be. 1t is, in fact, so unpretentious 8
little house as hardly to deserve the
name of villa.
The keeper of the only saloon al
Runck Gulch, Col, got early informa.
ton that two horse thieves were going
to be hanged in the place, and lie
hastily advertised the entertainment by
means of placarGs throughout the re-
gion, thus drawing highly remunera
tive multitude Chicago Herald.
Between the ages of fifteen and
forty-fve a woman can grow about
seven crops of hair. 1t averages about
| four ounces to the crop, and when the
prevailing popular color, brings hand
some price. The total annual crop is
estimated at 100 tons, gathered from
100000 heads.-N. Y. Tribune.
Rattan and cane bedroom furniture
is growing in popularity. The bed;
and dressing cases come in extremely
pretty artistic designs. They are cool
and if properly attended to and cleaned
oncee very six months will last a lifetime
They are sometimes ornamented with
broad satin ribbon, but they look just as
well without this additiOn.-M y.
Herald.
Always keep the love letters you'
husband wrote you before marriage il
a well-locked iron box in the darkest
corner of the attic. Nothing puts a
man in such a temper as to stumble
| across his former effusiOns and read q
few pages of them. Some men under
such circumstances have been known
to kick themselves down stairs and bs
seriously injured.-E1change.
1--WE need right here in the South, =
says the New Orleans Picayu'se, ''mort
than anything else, skilled labor. We
want, more and more, trained archi
tects, engineers and machinists. Tech
.o1 oh Nn IL
applauded and assisted, and our young
men should be taught that the learned
professions are not the only avenues
to distinction and wealth"
Velvet has gone entirely out q
fashion for parlor furniture, and rep i;
seldom seen. Plush is the most fashion
able material. olive greens, peacock
blues and crimsons are most frequently
seen in this material. Cherry and
ebony are the most popular woods a
present used, although mahogany Is
not unfrequently seen. The most fash
ionable suits of parlor furniture have nc
two chairs or pieces alike. N Y. Posi-
The ''heathen Chinee" may be q
poor. deluded son of an effete civiliZa
ton, but he is too ety. to allow trusted
cashiers to get away with the ''boodle. >
Go Slo runs Boston ''washee" house.
Sun Gun. Hop Yu, Chu Gum, One
Lung, All There and Stay There wres.le
with the wash tub. One Lung wa;
footing up the crow tracks on the day
book the other night to see if it tallieG
with the cash, and when asked if ht
was the regular cashier replied: 80, no
me keepee to-day, next boy to-mollow.
Evly day anothel boy, one boy all time
too muchee cheat. All same Melican
man. ."-Boston Globe.
The Medical Record makes the
startling statement that looking glasses
are responsible for mercurial poisoning
In two cases given, of man and his
wife, the cause of the trouble was in q
looking glass hanging in the bedroom,
the wooden back of which was dotted
with thousands of minute globules oI
mercury. The apartment was heated
during the night. In another Instance
the source of The poisoning was a mir.
ror, forty years old, whose back had be-
come weak and from whose face the
quicksilver freshness was fading. The
aged culprits having been summarill
removed, their victims speedily re
covered.
Our Precocity.