Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-07-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

$1,000 percussion caps.
The electric lights of Detroit are
so often seen rejected on the clouds at
Ann Arbor, Mich, that they interfere
with astronomical observations. In
deed. all operations have to be suspend
ed till the electric lights are put out.
"A tarantula escaped from the bot
tie in which an embryo naturalist was
bringing it away from Hot Springs the
other day, and for an half hour or more
was decidedly the most important pas
senger on crowded car.
Young Physician to patiently
''What you need is exercise. sir. You
should walk more" Patient-(reach-
ing for his pocketbook)-"How much,
young man? | walked all last night
with the baby. ~. Y. Sun.
MIR. Gotham-..Would you like to
see 'Pygmalion' tonight. Miss Por-
cine?" Miss Porcine (of Cincinnati)
Yes, very much. Mr.. Gotham. l
believe in encouraging any thing con-
nected with the great hog industry"
Puck.
The maximum cost of feeding a
Chinese passenger from China to San
Francisco is twelve cents day, but the
Canadian Pacific steamship Abyssina
recently brought over 1.50O Celestials
at an averags cost of 4s cents day. 1t
was mostly rice and not much of it.
The eldest house in Indiana, the
old Moore mansion, situated on the
Utica pike, near Four Mile Springs,
was rccently torn down. 1t was built
in 1900, of stone and brick, and for
many years past has had the reputation
OF being haunted.
OF all the mean things said by men,
to and about women, commend US to
that grabbed parson who told the sis
tiers of his flock that Christ appeared
first to women after the resurrection.
jest so as the news might spread
faster"
Scientists are of the opinion that
the newly discovered cities of Arizona
are those sought by Cortez and the
early Spanish adventures in their ex-
petitions after gold. The cities are
seven in number, and give evidence Of
former civilization and wealth.
-'.Humph," said Mrs. Grimby con-
temptuonsly. as she closed a volume of
poems: Il don't see what that poet
wanted to say o for a lodge in some
vast wilderness for. as if there wasn't
enough of them right here in town now
with John out lookin' after sick men,
bers four nights in the week. | don't
see the sense of it.-Merchdnt TrGreter.
"A speed trial between the tele-
graph and telephone from New York to
Boston was lately undertaken at the
San Office in New York City. The con-
test lasted for ten minutes; $50 words
were delivered in Boston, ready for the
printer, by the telegraph, and 346
words by telephone. But many of the
telephone words were incorrectly re-
ceived. So the telegraph was the win
ner.
Within the Antartic Circle there
has never been found a Towering plant.
In the Arctic region there are 762 kinds
of flowers; fifty of these are confined to
the Arctic region. They are really
Polar flowers. The colors of these
Polar flowers are not as bright and
varied as our own, most of them being
white or yellow, as if borrowing these
hardy hues from their snowy bergs and
golden stars.
Brown (to Dumley, who has had
bout at billiards with RObinsOn)-
"What do you think. Dumley, of Rob-
inson's game?" Dumley-''He's fair
player. but mighty lucky" Brown Ga
little later, to Robinson)-"What do
you think. Robinson, of Dumley's
billiards." Robinson-"He plays fair
game. but is one of the luckiest men l
ever saw" --Drake's Magazine.
Omaha man-"Think law is a use
less relic of barbarism, eh?" Enthu-
siastic Socialist-''It's worse. it is
curse: there should be no law; men
don't need law, and they would get
along much better without it. But |
am in hurry; have an engagement to
meet the committee tonight" What
.ommittee?" 1.-The committee to draft
oath-bound, iron-clad. obey or-die laws
TO govern our SOcialistic Organiza-
TONS "-OmGhd World.
Don't be clam is a warning
that meets one very frequently now-a-
days. Well. why not? What's the
matter with clam? He's all right. If
he fulfills his mission and makes the
most of himself, what more could be
expected and what more could any per-
son do? The clam is as well born, as
we'll bred, and as respectable as the
oyster. yet nobody thinks of speaking
of the oyster. What has
the clam done that it should be made
term of derision? Nobody ever heard
Of a clam getting drunk. lying. cheat
ing at cards. abusing dumb animals.
putting little dogs eyes out. or doing
any of the thousand things by which
men distinguish themselves from
brutes. The clam is yet to be heard
from. Perhaps he would say. Don't
be man" Indianapolis Journal.