Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-06-07
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MISCELLANEOUS.


The Kentucky river is 210 miles
long. and there is not an island in it
anywhere.
There is clergyman in England
pamed Straight whose curate is named
Crooked.
A man who was begging in the
streets of Mobile the other day is said
to have lost and paid S75, 700 in wagers
on Tilden's election.
The origin of trusts has been traced
back to Vermont sheep-owners. who
formed combination in the long ago
to monopolize the merino sheep bust
ness.
Mormon Elder (to wife)-.I IN
derS,and that our beloved brother,
Elder Brigham. has an addition to his
family" Wife-''Is it boy or girl,
Joshua?" Mormon Elder-..Seither;
it's a new wife. Epoch.
Never use nitric acid when clean
ing glycerine bottles. A nurse recently
tried this experiment and the bottle ex-
ploded. Nitric acid and glyceriEe form
a lively compound called nitro-glycer-
inc. which won't be pounded with i'm
punity-N T. Tribune.
Chinese pheasants are so thick in
the Waldo Hills, Colorado. that they
have TO be shooed out of the burrows
by the plowmen, so greedy are they in
gobbling up the angleworms. They
are becoming nuisance.
OF lightweight specimens of weeds
described by Mr.. L. H. Pammel. of St.
Louis. as growing in Southwestern Wis
consin and Southeastern Missouri. for
ty-six are of European and thirty of
American origin. One-third of the lat
ter class. and nearly one-fourth of the
entire list, are composites.
The grave of General William
Henry Harrison. ninth President of the
United States, is on a beautiful natural
mound near his old residence at North
Bend, on the banks of the Ohio. fifteen
miles below Cincinnati. monument
marks the spot, and the grave for years
has remained neglected.
Two lovesick Mormon maidens in
New Mexico fought a duel recently
Both loved the same cowboy, hated each
other intensely, and. meeting by ap-
pointment in an obscure place, fought
it out" One was seriously wounded
by the fire of her antagonist who at
once fled from the scene.
The latest Maine romance comes
from Biddeford. where an honest. awk-
ward farmer. who had been pestered for
years with suit for sending indecent
letters to the girl he loved. has just
been able to prove that their author
was none other than her rascally
brother. who hoped, by preventing
her marriage, to keep undivided their
joint estate.
By an ingenious device the man.
agement of the Battle of Gettysburg. in
New York, contrives to watt warm
breezes over the spectators platform
by way of adding to the illusion that
the visitor is standing in the midst of
q wheat field similar to that over which
Pickett's charge swept. These breezes
apparently blow down from the tops of
the mountains.
-"Speaking about clubs" remarked
Mr. Cumso, who had just been elected
a member of the Manhattan. 'they are
the sign-posts of civilization. You
never hear of savages forming them
selves into societies for mutual i'm
provement and pleasure" 20, nom
sense" replied Mrs. Cumson. i've
heard of Indian clubs ever since ]
could walk It'd bits.
Two young ladies' of South Chester,
Pa, went into a store where there was
a galvanic battery, and the proprietor
asked them to try it. Each grasped 4
pole of the battery. and wondered why
no shock was felt. The proprietor sug-
gested that they kiss each other. They
did so, and then there was a shock in
deed One of the young women shr;eked
and fell over backward. The other
made no sound. but tainted. Cold
water brought them both around, none
the worse for the kiss.
"A tramp who was frequently seen
in the vicinity of West Somers, N. Y,
is known as the ''Old Leather Man. "
He passes through the place about once
in five weeks. His dress is entirely OF
leather, made of small pieces which he
picks up in his travels. He never talks
to any one, refuses money or any thing
but food. which he gets at regular
places on his route. which is always
the same. He never enters building.
sleeps in the timber and tramps day by
day through heat and cold and storm.
Where he came from no one knows.