The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

Switzerland abolished capital pun
ishment few years ago. but the effect
was bad, and the penalty was restored.
In Mexico they eat salt with their
oranges, both because they prefer the
latter so seasoned and because they are
considered to be more wholesome with
salt.
Sitting Bull has sent the Pope q
present. magnificent buffalo robe
covered with paintings, one of the
scenes represented being the fight with
Custer.
Chief Chemist Bradley. of the
Brooklyn Health Department, has dis
covered pickle manufacturers who use
copper sulphate. or blue vitriol. in color
ing pickles. Three small pickles are
equivalent to a dose of sulphate of
copper.-BrOOklyn Eagle.
In the city of Trinidad, Mex. a hen
has died which, according to her owners
statement, first saw the light in 1857.
Maria Francisco, her owner. has re-
celved from her since then 6,371
chickens, of which 2,427 grew up to
oe mems. ri
Big fish swim the waters If the
Pacific coast. The Port Townsend
Argus says that halibut was recently
caught in Scow Bay by an Indian which
weighed POP pounds and was six feet
eight inches long, three feet ten inches
wide and fourteen inches thick.
Can one man be a mob? A Yonk-
erS, On. Y. man was ordered to dis
perSe," and upon refusing TO do so was
arrested. The legal experts decide
that the law applying to a mob or riot
GUS gathering does not apply to this in
dividual, who seems to have been JUS
titled, therefore, in not dispersing.-N
I. Herald.
The Chinese regard an attack of
epilepsy as the occupancy of a mans
body by the spirit of an animal, usually
pig or a sheep. They try to keep
such spirit by stuffing the patient 5
mouth with grass, for if it leaves before
the return of the mans own spirit
which must be absent during the fit
the man will die.-Sdn francisco
Chronicle.
There are more subscribers to the
telephone system in New York and its
neighborhood than IL the whole of
Great Britain. notwithstanding that the
charge in New York is about double
what it is there. The number of trans
missions by telephone in Great Britain
last year was about II, 000,000 and the
average cost per message little over
one cent.-N Y Tribune.
The action of dynamite in ex-
plOding is very simple II has no
preference at all as to the direction in
which its force shall be eXerted Its
explosive power depends, rs in the case
OF all other explosives. on the sudden
formation of a large volume of a gas
eOuS body, whose immediate recon
densation causes the air to rush in
violently to fill up the vacuum formed.
Philadelphia Press.
Among librarians and book-pub-
fishers no word is more often used than
the term, ''Cataloguer. John Winter
Jones, librarian of the London Muse
um, uses this word four times on one
page. 1t occurs frequently in the re-
ports of the proceedings of the In
ternatiOnal Conference of Librarians
at London. and vet it is not
given in Webster's or Worcester's or
the Imperial Dictionary. 1t has GER
tainly been in use for thirty wears among
well-educated men, vet every one of the
diet Onary makers have either missed or
ignored it.-BOStOn Journal.
Il Al
in the Union, but she boasts of being
first in respect of manufactured prod.
ucts according to population. Rhode
Island makes S373.07 worth of manu-
features for every one of her inhabi-
tants. while Mississippi makes only
1864. or in the ratio of 81 to 500. IS
Taking the area instead of the pOpula-
ton, the contrast is even greater.
Rhode Island produces S79,7j7.75 per
square mile. while Mississippi produces
only 1859. 43-about 800 to l. Rhode
Island may congratulate herself upon
being so small that there is no room for
waste land within her boundaries. -
PhiiadeLfhia Ercning Bulletin.
The Pembina Cd. T) Express
observes this incident, which can best
be understood by one who has seen the
half-breeds and their primitive teams:
"a novel sight was witnessed here last
week. A half-breed living on the mount
aims came to town for hog. with his
pony and Red River cart. He found his
two brothers in town, both rather full
of profanity, whisky, and combative-
ness. After considerable difficulty he
loaded the two into the cart. in which
they soon fell asleep. He then got the
hog and placed it carefully between the
other two, and began his journey for
home"