The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr.. Winans, of Baltimore, who
rents about quarter of q million acres
of deer-forests in Scotland, has this
season killed $50 stays.
That we are the cleanest people in
the world may be inferred from the fact
that we use more soap per capita than
any other country. Italians use the
| least.
Paper was king in Denver on the
occasion of grand carnival. when all
| the ladies and gentlemen appeared in
clothes made of tina: article Some of
the effects were startling.-DenUer Tri-
6une.
-Porpoise meat is sold in Philadel-
phia as substitute for beef 1t is red.
juicy, tender and of fine grain, very
pleasant and savory to the taste 1t is
known to the trade as dolphin meat
Philadelphia Press.
In France the sale of proprietary
medicines is only permitted after the
formula has been communicated to the
Academy of Medicine. In Germany
the sale of all such articles is strictly
prohibited.
"A rather novel episode in the his
tory of the Washington monument was
in serving a dinner on the top of the
great pile to the workmen recently.
Three large turkeys were carved at that
dizzy height. and the banqueters enjoyed
the good things set before them VASE
ingtOn Star.
"A man OF our acquaintance-in fact
no nnr,-ip Of rn1nnn1 NT.V.n-
drank so much chalybeate water for his
health that once when in jail for steal
ing a cow he opened vein in his arm
and extracted enough iron from the
blood to make a crowbar, with which
he broke his way out of prison.-Ashe-
citle IN c. EryaUigator.
The pride of Savannah, Ga. is her
beautiful shade trees, but they have
been dying in such large numbers dur
ing the last few years, and particularly
during several months past, as to eX-
cite apprehensions in the minds of
many citizens that in few years they
will all have entirely disappeared and
the squares and streets will be left with
out protection from the sun.
"A curious question of jurisdiction
has risen in the case of the sunken Brit
iSh frigate Hussar, which is said to have
gone down somewhere about 1880 in
Long Island Sound with S5.COO,O00 of
gold on board. Recently the Secretary
of the Treasury transferred tie contract
of raising the wreck from a New York
man to Providence firm, the Govern
ment to receive all relics and ten per
cont of tha nyrara1 orI
it is claimed than the State of New York
owns the alleged sunkcn treasure and |
that the National Government has no
right TO NEEDLE with it.-N. Y Mall and |
Express.
"A San Francisco journals. has inst
received an offer to 90 to Southern Cali |
fornia to conduct a journal there The |
proprietor writes: The salary, fifteen
dollars week, may sound small, but |
being in the center of an agricultural |
district, we are constantly receiving
large gifts of potatoes. grapes, delicious
peas, and, indeed. everything in sea-
son. which, sitter being duly noticed.
would become your perquiSites. The
editorial table turns up and makes
capital bed at night, and there is an ex-
cellent stove to boil coffee on. If you
can play hymn tunes there is avacancy,
also, of five dollars month for an or
ganist."
The great old gushers on Thorn
Greek, in Butler County, have caused a
tremendous boom in the prices OF real
estate there. The largest of these wells
are located on the Marshall. BARLEY and
Wallace farms. Six months ago the
owners of the Marshall farm. 352 acres,
could not sell it for $1,000; to-day it
cannot be bought for $4,000 The
BARLEY farm, seventy-fivc acres. was
worth six months ago about $4,000. Yes
terday its owner, hitherto Il poor farmer,
refused $4,000 for it, A school poard,
owning one acre of ground among the
wells, was offered $4,000 for it, which
they refuscd.-PHtSburgh Dispatch.
John A. Glassbrenner. blacksmith
Of Uncasville, Conn, fired the other dav
1t an American eagle, which futtered TO
he ground and was captured without
my serious injury. The eagle meas
Ired seven and one-half feet from tip to
lip. and it is probably one of the largest
American eagles, if not the largest. now
leld in captivity. 1t is said to be larger
han any similar bird at Central Park ,
n New York. Mr.. Glassbrenner keeps
he bird alive in his cellar, and it is not
afe for anyone to approach within
each of its tremendous wings and fully
developed talons, for it shows SIGNS of
-lgorOuS decentralization Post. :