The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

Physicians in the Sandwich Islands
have come to the conclusion that the
only way to stop the alarming spread
of leprosy is to begin vaccinating with
leprOSy microbes. They think the op-
GRAFTON will be a success.
The African elephant will be ex-
tinct in another hundred years unless a
stop is put to the indiscriminate mas
sacre now going on. So SAYS Josef
Menges. the great importer of African
wild beasts. and probably the most en-
inent authority on such subjects.
Dennis Butler. 4 swimming master.
on wager of $3.50. swan the East
River. from New York to Brooklyn,
with his hands and feet firmly tied.
The distance was little over a mile,
and the time was nineteen minutes
n. !. Sun.
There are no hod carriers in Ger
many. Bricks are passed by hand. The
higher up the SricklayerS are. the more
men are required TO toss the bricks.
Two men to story is about the aver
age, with enough more to lead from the
front of the building TO the place where
the bricks are needed.
According to the statistics of the
past year up to the age of fifteen more
males die than females. From the age
of fifteen to fortv-five more females die
than males. From forty-iive to ninety
more males die than females. At ninety
the mortality of males and females is
the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The tropical gooseberry. which is
cultivated in Florida, grows on hand
some tree from ten to fifteen feet in
height. The fruit is rather smaller
than the Siberian crab apple, and the
shape a flattened globe. 1t contains
one hard seed. The fruit is only mod
erately valuable, but the tree is orna-
mental.
"A fraudulent mineral spring has
been exposed in Austria. Chemicals
were introduced into an underground
stream a considerable distance from its
exit. The properties of the dOctOred
water were commended honestly by
physicians. and the enterprise had en-
tered upon a career of prosperity,
when skeptical visitor dug out the
truth.
The word cOnsOlS is an abbreviatiOn
of the term consolidated annuitieS. The
English conSols differ from our national
debt in this way: The principal may
vary in amount, but the interest never.
They constitute perpetual obligation
Of the United Kingdom, bearing three
per cent. interest, and representing an
irredeemable principal.
The story is told of Mr.. Evarts that
he once sent a donkey up to his farm
at Windsor, Vt, and about week
afterwards received the following letter
from his little grandchild:
DEAR GRANDPA: The little donkey is very
gentle, but he makes Il big noise nights. He
Is very lonesome. | guess he misses you. /
hope you will come up soon, and then he
won't be so lonesome, MINNIE.
"A snake twenty-five feet long, four
feet in circumference. and bearing
eighty-nine rattles, was killed on Boston
Common recently, after a desperate
fight. When killed, it was placed on
scales and found to weigh a trifle over
twenty-five tons. \. b. We are tired
of base dependence on Southern ex-
changes for snake stories. l-BOSt0n
Transcript.
Many hooking birds are shipped
from Atlanta every season to the North
and West. The young birds are caught
by the hundreds by small boys who
peddle them ut fifty cents each. They
are kept in their native cline until they
are four or five months old. and then
are sent by express to ali parts of the
country. A good bird, four months
Old. is worth from three dollars to five
dollars. They sing well when year
old.-AtlaRta Constitution.
There has been steady increase
in the number of convictions in En-
gland for smuggling during the last ten
years. Ten years since-that is, in
1S76-the total number was LII,
whereas in the financial year just ended
it amounted to l $50. The authorities,
however, do not attribute these facts to
an increase in the practice of smuggling,
ments in the system of guarding the
coast.
Minute instructions are given to
the officers of the Salvation Army how
to behave, what to read. what to wear,
and as to marriage. They may not
marry or court the first year, and NAV
not become engaged at any time with
out the consent of the General. As to
reading, they are told that is better not
to read secular newspapers, but if they
do look at them, it is to be only look.
They are to read no novels, to avoid all
the ordinary religious books, all the
twaddle and trash and goOdy-goody,
milk-and-water stuff. and to confine
themselves to the Bible, general orders.
the hymn book and the War Cry.-N.
J. Sun.