The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-02
NISCELLANEOUS.

According to the annual police re-
port of England, recently issued, l2.4ll
children under ten years of age were
ost in that country last year. Only six
we're recovered.
A picture of Meissonier, called
The Rise" purchased a quarter of a
century ago by Napoleon Ill. for -. 0OJ,
S now valued at $4,000. 1t is owned
" Queen Victoria.
The Southern darkcy has belief
hat amounting the ewes of a shying
,orse with water in which a chameleon
las been boiled. will cure the horse OF
he bad habit. -LOuiSCjile COurie:
Journal.
Some of the cleverest detectives in
Sew York are women. They are OF
he different types of beauty and mind
calculated to gain this or that mans
confidence and learn his sccrets.-N T.
HcrdLd.
Two little boys planted a third,
standing, in the sand on the beach al
Long Branch so eff'ectually that when
the tide came up they couldn' I get him
,ut. and but for timely aid he would
aave drowned. IN Y. .Sua.
The bonnet of the day is described
IS a handful Of beads and the business
end of feather This is better bon.
net than that of last season, which re,
,embled an embroidered dishrag.-
Chicago Inter Ocean.
"A married woman in Connecticut
writes the New York Crematory Com.
oany: "Can You burn man before
ne dies? Ii you can | will be pleased
to give you n Job on my husband, who
IS of no earthly use to me or any -one
else. "-Harttord Post.
1T was amicably arranged" re,
piled the Texas gentleman to the Coro-
ner. Il called him a liar, and he de-
manded an apology with a six-shooter. y
"And did YOU make one?' asked the
Coroner, 81 did, sir" "Was it ac-
cepted?" s.Yes. sir" Glow was il
then that you shot him?" Il had to do
so to make him understand my apol-
9gy.-TcrGs SiitinJS.
I. H. Lardner. Secretary of the
New Orleans Water Works Company,
claims to have clarified a great reser-
voir of Mississippi River water con-
aiming 12,750,0O0 gallons in twelve
hours, at q cost of one cent. per 10G
gallons, by continuously pouring into
the stream of water running into the
reservoir a solution of from. q.
Times.
in Massachusetts, there are twenty
trades In which the women and chill
dren preponderate over the men by 4
large majority. They are the making
of awnings and tents, buttons, dress
trimmings, carpetings. clothing. cotton
goods, wOolens, fancy goods, tax and
linen, hair work, hose, rubber, mixed
textiles. paper, silk, sporting goods,
straw goods and worsteds.-B0stOn
Post.
One of the Concord philosophers
is credited with lucidly remarking that
life means feeling, and feeling means
the presence of principle in all its to-
tality in every portion of an extended
whole; only such presence could con-
stitute an extended or continuous
whole. since an extended whole which
was not all at once present to some
thing unextended could not be extended.
Such life must be worth living.-Har-
pcT'S Ba=dr.
"A new danger threatens society,
and it comes in the shape of the bicy-
Gle. The bicycle is almost noiseless on
a good road, and young men driving
their sweetheartS would do well to keep
a sharp eye in the rear, as some very
funny things have been witnessed by
wheelmen riding behind huggies. l
heard how one whcelman rode behind
a buggy for some distance. quite I'M
decided as to whether the p. city girl
in the buggy, all dressed in white, mad
a black sash on or not. He tried the
experiment Of riding close up and blow
ing his whistle. and the black girdle
disappeared as if by magic. She was
wearing Il coat sleeve with an arm in it.
Letter IN ST. Louis Spectator.