The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

Look at any long line of freight
cars and see the unequal build OF them.
That is what renders safe coupling de-
vices abortive and smashes so many
brakemen.-N. Y. Times.
I'm Stockton, Cal, few DAYS ago,
two policemen arrested an old man for
stealing an orange. One of the police
men ate the orange, and the old man
got twenty-five days in Jail.
An entire company of the Twelfth
Regiment, New York State Militia,
took the pledge few days since to
abstain during life from the use of in
toxicating liquor as a beyerage.-M-H~
Times.
Engineer Prince. of the Boston Sc
Providence Road, has seen thirty-nine
successive years of service in his trade.
and has never had fatal accidents
happen to passengers during the entire
period.-BOston Transcript.
"A quack doctor, who was giving
testimony in San Francisco court, was
asked if he had ever performed the
Office of decapitatiOn. 20, yeS," he
said; 81 have done that often" SAL
ways successful" ''Neverlost a patient
under it.
While preparing catalogue of the
Anglican library st Rome, the librarian,
it is reported, has discovered a manu-
script containing fifty letters which
have long been overlooked, and which
upon examination are believed to have
been written by the great Augustine.
MIR. Evarts tells of 3 lawyer, being
often interrupted in difficult case,
stopped, and facing the bench, said:
Il have told your hOnors that this is a
puzzling case, and am afraid that it
will be made even more so if your
honors put questions more puzZling than
the facts themselves ~. Y NeCS.
AS Mrs. James Dalton, aged seventy
| five years, was attempting to obtain
water from a cistern al, her residence
in Rochester, n. Y, the other day. she
| fell in but was rescued. About an hour
later her husband. aged seventy-eight,
carpenter by trade, in attempting 10
repair the eistern, was precipitated
into it by the breaking of plank and
was drowned.-ROctcSter Er ;reSS.
1t is useless to inveigh against the
criminal recklesSness of 4 person who
will point q pistol or gun at another
and as long as there are people who are
so careless as to put away n gun with
| load in it where other careless people
will get hold of it, death will iinger
around waiting for the two fools TO
come along, when he generally claims
one for his own.-PhilHdeiphia Times.
1t is generally supposed that the
term ''dark horse" is of American
origin. But Thackeray used it in his
adventures of Phillip" before it
became current in this country, and in
exactly the same sense as we employ
it. "Well, bless my SOUL" Phillip is
made to say. referring to some mys-
terious candidate for the House of
Commons, ''he can't mean me. Who
| is the dark horse he has in his stable?"
st. Louis GtObe-DemOcrGt.
-Nort0n's ntelligencer revives a
poetic squib written in 1907 by James
Monroe, who was afterward President.
as applicable to some of the votaries of
tobacco at the present day-yOung men
who ask permission to smoke in the
presence of ladies, knowing that re-
luctaDt consent may be expected:
'Tis evening now; beneath the Western star
Soft signs the lover through his sweet cigar,
And fills the ear of some cOnsenting she
| With puffs of smoke and vows of cOnstancy.
We have struck new scheme. On
| the green shade we wear over our eyes
when reading proof or grinding out
copy we have printed, Il am busy"
When a man that we don't care to talk
to comes in we stOop still lower over
the desk so that he can see it and take
the hint, but when the other kind of a
man. good jovial fellow, comes in, we
push the shade up over our bald spot
where he can't read the legend, smile
| benignantly at him and open the con-
versation by asking him for a cigar
Louisville Argus.
When the fire companies arrived at
the scene of the fire yesterday morning
they found that their services were not
needed, and when the water was turned
| on the nOzzlemen sent the stream flying
into the air. Making graceful curve
it fell with ''swish'' on the roof of
little cabin near by, and ut the end of
about five minutes a plank window in
the cabin was pushed open and the
lady of the house stuck her head out to
expostulate. Hi. dar. you mems what's
er frowin' dat water, stop dat" came
in plaintive tones. ''My ole mans
frustrated in bed wild de rheumatic and
de roof leaks and you is drowin' my
chillen." The firemen with sweep of
the hose turned the water in another
direction, the head was drawn in. the
plank shutter closed, and the inmates
of the leaky little ark were left to their
repose. Charlotte IN. C.. Observer.