The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-03-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

banished from Washington society. Tea
and coffee take the place of the intoxl'
eating draught.
Brigham Young's body lies under
14,0OO-pound inscription stone and
there are three feet of solid masonry
around the grave.
Il have noticed one thing about
tobogganing with Boston girl, ne
said, (which never fails" "What is
that?'' "If the girl falls off the young
man goes. too" IN 7. Sun.
"A New Orleans dispatch announces
the probably fatal illness of the Hon
Charles Gayerre He is the oldest liv
ing ex-United States Senator, having
been elected in 1885, when Jackson
was President.
Old Mr.. Bently-I hear that the
Cadwalladers pay thousand dollars
year for their pew in the Church of the
Holy St. Swell" Old Mrs. Bently-
Goodness! They must be very religious
folksr'-Puck.
The Dayton (Ore.) Chronicle gays
that petrifed man has been discov-
cred by a farmer in a lonely gulch nine
miles from that place. The man was
leaning against small bluff of rock.
and upon examination was found to be
completely turned to stone.
Scientists say that shutting the
eyes makes the hearing more acute.
| This explains why man can't sneak
into the house at midnight and crawl
upstairs as noiselessly as feather
without being heard by his wife, who
is asleep. If women were to sleep with
their eyes open married men would
have more fun at the lodge when there
is protracted ession.-NorristoWn
Herald
In the Chinese language, coutsil,
spoken with q rising infection, means
trousers; with falling infection, fruit.
One day new missionary gave din
ner to some of her foreign friends, and,
among other things, ordered her native
servant to have coutsil for dessert. The
dinner proper passed off pleasantly, but
what was the lady's horror at the close
of the meal to see her servant enter the
dining-room bearing on a large waiter
three pairs of her husband S trousers.
When the first vessel completed the
passage of the then new Erie Canal, in
1925, there being no such thing as a
telegraph in those days, the news was
communicated to New York and to
Buffalo by cannon placed within hear
ing of each other all the way along
from Albany to each of the other cities.
The signal was passed along in this
way from Albany to New York City
and back again to Albany in fifty-eight
minutes This is quicker than a tele-
graph message can be sent over the
same route and answered nowadays,
considering the time usually consumed
in the delivery at each end.
"A Colorado farmer recommends a
somewhat novel method of preventing
the loss OF water by evaporation from
open tanks or ponds. 1t consists in
giving the surface of the water a thin
coating of oil, and was successfully
adopted by him during the unusual
drought of last summer. He demon
strates the correctness of his theory by
filing two vessels of equal size with the
same depth of water and pouring few
drops of oil on the water of one. In
due course the water in the other YES
sci viii entirely evaporate, while the
one that was oiled shows no loss.
YES" said the parson at the tea
table; young Jones was out driving
with Miss Penelope the other evening,
and his horse ran away. They were
both thrown out and the buggy was
smashed to pieces. 1t was 4 Providen-
tial escape for both of them; but l can t
understand how the young man came
to lose control" He must have been
driving with one hand" tlippantly sug-
gested the minister's eldest son, gay
youth. ''Or perhaps he had the reins
around his neck" said Edith, a shy
young beauty of sixteen, with modest
mein. And then every body exclaimed
in chorus: "Why, Edith!' Cambridge
Chronicle.
One of the oldest Gees in the
world. and probably the largest, is
situated in Mascoli, Italy. near the foot
of Mt. Etna. 1t is called the Chestnut
Tree of Hundred Horses" Its name
arose from the report that Queen Jan
of Arragon, with her principal nobility,
took refuge from violent storm under
its branches. At one time it was sup
,, posed that it consisted of a clump of
trees united. but on digging away the
earth the root was found entire at no
great depth. Five enormous branches
arise from one great trunk, which is
PIP feet in circumference. A part o.
the trunk has been broken away and
its interior is hollow. and is large
enough to contain flock of sheep or
two carriages driven abreast through
it. 1t still bears fruit. Collectors OF
relics have built hut within the
trunk.
EXPENSIVE FLOWERS.