The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-10-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A man in Franklin County. Tenn.
wears beard six feet nine inches in
length. He keeps about four-fifths of
it wound about a cardboard and car
ries it in his coat pOcket.-LouiSrittc
COHrier-JournGl.
The popularity of Southern Califor-
mia as Sanitarium is such that there
are over 200 cottages, worth from 5000
to $500 spiece. in course of cOnstruc-
ton in Los Angeles and suburbs.
The crop of beet-root sugar (most
ly Germany for the coming year is es
timated at 2.505. 900 tons. while of cane
(moStly Cuban) the yield is put at
100000 tons. The beet outdOes the
cane.-N J. Herald.
In front of Yankton. ID. T., where
the channel of the river ran twenty feet
deep five years ago. there are now one
hundred acres of land six to eight feet
above low water mark. The river is
shifting to the Nebraska side.
"A Philadelphia journalist owns the
best Holstein COW in the world. She is
4 fine type, nonpareil in all her points,
perfect form from muzzle to twist. her
milk goes to press daily and her cheese
is rich.-C Chicago Herald.
"A druggist of Lancaster. Mass, has
taken contract to keep the stately old
elms of that town free from canker
worms for year at twenty-five cents
per tree. There are about four hundred
of the trees in all, and if he does not
succeed he is to get no mOney.-BOSt0n
Herald
The Misses Green, of Atlanta. ladies
of literary talent and artistic culture,
are making a collection of negro songs
and setting them to music. The music
is composed as the songs are sung by
old fashioned darkies, and will perpetu-
ate accurately the strange and weird
melody of the old plaatatiOn.-Atlantd
Constitution.
1t was hoped at least that these Uni
ted States mi ght claim the invention OF
the great American game of poker. but
now turns up a mythial MIR. Ben
jamin, fresh from Persia, who asserts
that from time immemorial the game
that it was played in Persia centuries
before Columbus discovered America
n. T. Tribune.
Mrs. Rider, whose name has beer
widely mentioned in this State as a re-
markable instance of the faith cure,
died recently at Grass Valley, and q
post-mortem showed the presence of &
large tumor in the abdominal cavity
and badly diseased condition of both
H,o., Il
iclf.
In the ancient graves in Tennessee
are found human skulls that are some
inches larger than any modern human
head. Within the last forty years there
has been a very marked diminut;On in
the size of heads in Philadelphia. Old
and experienced hatters in this city and
New York. says the LedGer, will cor
rOberate this statement. Somebody
writes to an exchange to ask: us there
asimilar change taking place elsewhere,
and what will be the RESULT"
A fresh aesthetic movement has
broken out in Dresden. German artists
have been lamenting over the pictur-
esque costumes of the Middle Ages
icing replaced by practical modern
garb; so the Dresden painters have
formed a society to promote a return to
medieval attire. Over eighty of the
members have adopted the medieval
German artist cOStume-black over
dress, with tight velvet-trimmed sleeves
over white under-sleeves lined with red
satin, and black wooden close-fitting
neither garments reaching down to low
shoes.
1t is customary" says the Scien-
ttfc AmcTicdn. Ito use ammonia fOI
the purpose of neutralizing acids that
have accidentally or otherwise de
stroyed the color of fabrics. This must
be applied Immediately or the color is
usually imperfectly restored. After
careful use an application of chlorOform
will bring out the colors as bright as
ever. Plush goods and all articles
dyed with aniline colors faded from ex-
posure to light, VIII look as bright as
ever after sponging with chloroform.
The commercial chlOrOfOrm will answer
the purpose very well.
Florida is perfect elysium for the
ruit lovers. who may have an unbroken
Tear of fresh varieties. Commencing
with January. they have Strawberries
hen and until late in June. Japan
,DlumS from February. Mulberries are
ripe in April and last until August.
Pineapples are ripe in June and last
nearly all the year. They have guavas
rom July until late next spring. OF
the various berries s-dewberries. black
berries and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. any
quantity. Peaches from May to July.
Melons from June until late in the fall.
Oranges the best of the kind-from
October until the next June. with lem
Ons and lines. LeCOnte pears. per-
simmons. pOmegranates, grapefruit.
grapes. shaddOcks and u number OF
other fruits. -Philadeiphia Press.