The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-11-11
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


beer and liquor bottles.
Sir Richard Sutton, the English
breeder of Short-horned cattle, has lost
his valuable herd of Jerseys through
that fell agency, pleuro-pneumonia.
The sting of humble bee contains
only one-fiftieth part of a drop of poi
son, and why boy jumps up and down
and takes on so about it is more than
medical science can explain.
The proprietor of celebrated res
taurant out West is described by
local journal as being, in appearance
and dress, combination of an English
lord, United States Senator, an Am
erican poet and French painter.
Daniel Webster's Marshfield estate
is now owned by Walter Hall, of Bos-
ton. 1t contains four hundred and
fifty acres and supports fifty cows, five
horses, two yoke of oxen and several
head of young stock.-BOSton Journal.
"A new poet sings ''The Whistling
Buoy is Anchored at Sea" The
whistling girl, however, continues to
float about in fancy free to the envy
of the boys who can not properly
pucker to whistle tune Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Archibald Ford has met nine diff
ferent Kings and Queens, but when he
walks up to peanut stand with his
nickel he gets no better measure than
those of US who have simply gazed on
the cOat-tail buttons of United States
Scnator.-DetrOt Free Press.
Probably the largest grape-arbor
in Central North Carolina is a Soup
pernong arbor on a plantation in
Sumter County. 1t has seventeen
hundred posts, covers nearly an acre
of ground, and every year It bears an
abundance of Scuppernongs.
The Boston Record throws off the |
following editorial enigma: IF five
generations fed on canvaSs-back and |
terrapIn are required to produce a |
Maryland beauty, how many centuries |
OF beans and brown bread are needed |
for the evolution of a Boston BELIEF"
"A spotter in Guelph, Can, swore
that he had drank ginger-ale and
whisky in a certain saloon. At the
trial the bottle was produced, the wit
ness tasted the contents and swore that
they were ginger-ale and whisky. aud
then the defendant proved that the
drink was ginger-ale and pepper sauce
and was acquitted.
People who are quick to ''take up
remarks and to resent supposed insults
are kept pretty busy by the world. An
old man, who was before Judge Cow
ing in New York, day or two ago,
admitted that he had been arrested
about one hundred and thirty times on
charges of assault, and explained that
he was ''not going to let anybody call
him names. N Y Mail.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the burial
place of Washington Irving, which is
directly across the Hudson from Nyack,
n. T., has become so crowded that the
adjacent property has been purchased
to enlarge the grounds. The addition
is forty-one acre lot on the north
side, and cost thirty thousand dollars.
The cemetery is visited by thousands
ot strangers every year.-TrOy Times.
Samuel Gilbert, of Georgetown.
n. j., stored one hundred and fifty
bushels of potatoes in the attic of his
little house preparatory to barreling
hem. The other night while his fami-
y was at supper the floor gave way
md the potatoes came down on them,
breaking Mr.. Gilbert's arm and Mrs.
leg, fracturing her shoulder.
md injuring a daughters arm so that
will have to be amputated.-N. Y
Sun.
"A laborer while digging a well at
\ : L |
md became fastened. He called for
lelp, and ropes fastened to a windlass
we're lowered, but rs they pulled he
rIed that they were tearing him limb
rom limb. He was finally rescued by
means of graphing hooks placed un-
Ter his feet, a crib having been lowered
-rOund him. When extricated he had
'een in the quicksand seventeen hours.
Herald.
There is valley in Chautauqua
county, n. Y, called 'No-God hol-
ow, and this is the way it came by
is name: An evangelist went into the
ALLEY and worked very earnestly for
ONE weeks, and apparently without
my good results. One day in speak
ng to one of the residents of the place =
lie said: Il do not believe there is
iod in Chenango valleyr' This was
'icked up, and since then the place has
'een known as ''No-God hollow. -
5ufdlO Express.
"A siXty-year-old widower, of
Albany, n. Y, who has selected a
oung woman of twentv-siX wears for
lis second wife, was chaffed so much
y friends about the great expense he
vas liable to incur in taking so Young
wife that he thought it would not be
miss tosound the mind of his intended,
nd did so. She named over the num-
er of dresses she would need and
apped the climax by insisting that the
rst two years must be spentin Europe.
he match is now off.-Al6Qay Jour
al.
Gratifying evidence OF the advance
woman in England appears in the
tatement that of about thousand
tudents, from the Liverpool region,
in science and art at South
more than two hundred
ere women. Two young girls passed 4
magnetism and electricity, twelve in b
chemistry, and two in agri- 4
allure. One lady, who passed the e
examination last year in
lachine construction and drawing,
as again successful in a more ad-
anced stage of the same subject.
Certainly there is no accounting
II tastes. Did you ever suppose any
uman stomach could crave currants
nd milk, or that nature was SO per-
erted as to eat grapes dipped in milk, 7
: as ordinary mankind partakes of l.
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