The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A young man in New Haven has .
collection of 1000 birds eggs, en-
bracing nearly 1000 varieties.
"A man with two hearts and two
sets of ribs was on exhibition at the
Kingston (Ont-) Hospital recently.
The Philadelphia Times saws: The
man who expects to get through the
world on the ashes of his ancestors is to-
be pitied more than praised.
The fashionable craze for wild
flowers which made the florists sur
priSed last year has declined this sea-
son, but apple blossoms and daisies are
considereiSf value as decorations
Chicago Times.
-Cabul is pronounced Kawble; Merv
is Mahriv; Herat IS Hermit; Kurrachee
is h rahchy: and the accent of Afghan
istan is on the second syllable. In all
of these words the "a" is pronounced
Is in ''ah. > Chicago Herald.
A scientist has advanced the theory
that the ESquimauX has lived in the
polar country since that hot period. be-
fore the region became ice-bound. This
theory tends to explain why human be-
ings ever sought a residence in that
part of the world.-N. Y. Nail
The tropical gooseberry. which IS
cultivated in Florida, grows on hard
some tree from ten to fifteen feet in
height. The fruit is rather smaller
than the Siberian crab apple, and the
shape liattened globe. 1t contains
one hard seed. The fruit is only mod
erately valuable. but the tree is orna-
mental.-N J. Tribune.
An inventive Australian has de-
viSed an arrangement by which the doors
of railway carriages are closed and kept
closed while the train is in motion by n
lever worked by the motion of the car
rage axle. When the train stops the
device ceases to work and the door may
be opened.
We smile at the Chinese doctor and
call him SuperSt,tiOuS because he i'm
ports dried and smoked lizards tor his
patients. Yet it seems according TO the
HedicGl H'Orid. that the reptiles are ad-
ministered in cases of consumption and
anImia with considerable success, due
to the large amount of azote and phos-
phOruS contained in them.
A certain father in Niddletown at
tended one of the meetings SUNDAY with
his little son. When it was announced
that tbe collection would be taken the
father gave the boy money for that
purpose, but what was his astonishment
when the box was passed to see the
little fellow hold on to the money. Upon
being asked the reason for so doing he
replied: Saving it for the circus. -
Hartford CONN., Times.
A letter describing the markets of
New Orleans says that everything is sold
BY the eve, and there is no standard of
measure. Nine-tcnthS of the hundreds
who sell in the noted French market of
the city do not know what a buSheI or
peck is. They buy Their vegetables
by the lot, and place them on little piles
on tables. These piles are of different
sizes and prices. The buver looks at
the piles, and buys that which he thinks
is biggest and best. Sometimes buckets
and boxes are used to measure. but they
are of all kinds and shapes. " y. Post.
For ingenuity and originality ii
takes down-east Yankee to perfect
plans to shuttle Off this mortal coil. A
Massachusetts man, having determined
TO die, set about his arrangements, de-
termined that there should be nothing
lacking to make it a perfectly original
suicide, unique and complete. He pro-
cured a piece of brass pipe. and firmly
fixed one end of it in the root of tree.
He then loaded this imprOyised cannon
to the mHzle with powder and ball, ap-
Piled q slOw-match, and calmly lay
down with his head in range. The
whole arrangement was perfect, and
he was dead as doOr-nail. but some
what dsfigured, when found. Chicago
IAieF- OccaH.