The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

| spfalned MS ankle while cunning
lately had to crawl on all tours dis
sance of eight miles to the nearest
house.
The man who advertises counts his
money at the beginning of the year
The man who does not will be equally
bssy counting his stock on hand.-Chi-
cagO Inter Ocean.
The Indians call Boston Mess-atsoo-
sec-hence Massachusetts, They who
do not find this satisfactory can fix up
something of their own.-LoUeH
Courier.
Baggage may now be checked, ac-
cording to the American plan, from
New York to Liverpool at the rate of
fly cents apiece. This includes the
cost of delivery in Liverpool. r
Sun.
Uncle Sam has just run his hand
into his long wallet and counted down
ten thousand blinking dollars, and all
for hole in the grounds one thou
sand five hundred-foot artesian well at
Mare Island, Golden Gate.-San Fran
cisco CaU
Parents who can't give their chill
dren decent names ought not to have
any. The other day young man died
in this city burdened with the name of
Philadelphia Careless. and boy named
Prosperous Crammer was run over by
wagon Observation-Disclosures Bulle-
tin.
"A well-dressed lady with her dress
securely fastened by two shawl-pins to
the frock of her little girl, attracted
attention in a New York dry goods
store the other day. The careful moth
er was from the country, and she had
struck upon this plan to keep her
daughter from being drawn away from
her in the crowd.-M 7. Mall.
"A colored prisoner in Jail wrote
the following letter to his father: Dear
Father will ask you if you please get
up the Money to BY me out Because
see tina VIII find me guilty in spite of
all the lies we can tell first thought
could lie out of this But now don't
think can get up all the Money you
can if you don't am gone up. "-Chica-
go Times.
The Crusader is the name of a
large brig which has been equipped for
carrying oil from Philadelphia to Liv-
erpool in new way. She has forty
FIVE tanks, which hold III, 900 gallons
of oil each. These will be pumped full
in America and emptied on the other
side by a large pump run by twenty
horsepower engine with which the ship
is equipped Philadelphia Press.
Every mechanic should remember
that there is nothing better for burns
and scalds than the white of an egg.
1t is soothing and easily applied. 1t is
the contact with the air which gives
the extreme discomfort experienced
from the ordinary accident of this kind,
and anything that excludes the air and
prevents Inflammation is the thing to
be at once applied. Chicago Times.
"A man writes to the Philadelphia
Press from Oxford, Pa, to inquire in
regard to the word "elmidical" We |
can tell the man all about the word. |
1t was coined by an enterprising poet |
who was in search of rhyme for gid |
dy gal. 1t would have appeared in
both Webster and Worcester but was
crowded out of both dictionaries owing |
to the pressure of their columns. 1t is |
but county rights are for sale
at prices to suit the times.
When a man gets ''good and rich,"
as the darkies just over the Delaware
line say, about the first thing he does is
to build big house. Such is the case
with the millionaire electrician of |
Cleveland, Charles F. Brush, who has
about finished for himself the finest
house in Ohio. The building, which is
Of Amherst buff stone, glorifies the glo-
rious Euclid Avenue up by the lake. 1t
IS probable that Mr.. Brush will not
burn tallow dips in his new house
CLerela'ad Leader.
AN eminent citizen called upon an
eminent physician the other day to con-
suit him about his eyes. "They seemed
ali right up to three or four days ago."
said the eminent citizen, "but then I
noticed that the left one was falling"
DO you wear glasses?" asked the
physician. 80, yes" "Let me see
'hem." They were passed over and
after a brief inspection the physician
burst into hearty laugh. 1.-THE trouble
S with the left eye, eh?" he queried.
yes, sir" mo wonder. Look at
your glasses" The left-hand glass had
been lost out.-DetroI Free Press.
An Eastern paper says there is
only single instance of one man rep
more than one State in the
United States Senate, and he was the
ate General Shields. He was first
elected for full term by Illinois, but
declared ineligible because not natur-
alized the necessary period, He was
reelected, admitted and served his
term of six years. Some years there
after he served an unexpired term as
Senator from Minnesota, and his last
official service was very brief term
Is Senator from Missouri.
Time out of mind big white stone
/, Woodstock, in Talbot, down on the
EASTERN shore of Maryland, has been
lsed as carriage block in front of
noss-covered dwelling. The other day
along came geologist, playing a tune
Of JOY upon the stone with his mallet
md astonished the townspeople by
ciling them that Agassiz would have
gone into ecstasies over the prize. For,
indeed, rs the geologist said, the stone
$ piece of white rock picked up by
IN iceberg in the Patapsco River and
md carried clear across the Chesa-
oeake to the Eat lands of tidewater
Talbot
Robert Garrett has at Mount Clare,
hear baltimore, a school for the train
ng of apprentices in the employ of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company.
0f the five hundred apprentices on the
inc, forty are now in the school.
These pupils are taught the common
English branches, algebra, geometry,