Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-07-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

Florida promises to become a large
producer of opium. Sixteen plant:
viii produce an ounce, and an acre o
peoples will yield $1,000 worth o
opium.
"A recently published Dictionary
Of Furniture and Decorations" show.
that the grandes danes of the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries re
ceived while in bed.
A parrot which died at Poughkeep
sic recently was quite a linguist, being
able, it is said. to talk in the English
Dutch and Portuguese languages. Il
was valued at $500.
The Government ornithOlogist a
Washington estimates that the surplu:
in the United States treasury would
not suffice to pay the bounty for exter
minating the English sparrows in New
York State.
"A curiosity noticed in Portland
Harbor lately was large schooner
yacht, which was bound for Ohio
Thirteen fresh water yachtsmen from
Ohio bought her in New York and were
bound home by way of the St. Law.
renee. Not one of them had ever beer
on the salt water before.
in the old days, when forgery was
punished by death, an English Judge
in passing sentence upon convicted
forger, remarked that he chopped the
prisoner would find that mercy in
Heaven which a due regard to the
paper currency of Great Britain made
it necessary to deny him upon earth. ,
Lightning recently at Hallsville
near Centralia. Mo-, struck the smoke
stack of a mill. On the window o.
the mill the stroke OF electricity plainly
photographed the numerals 1888. Be.
tween the figures was zigZag line
On the wall opposite hung calendar
for the present year from which the
photograph was supposed to have been
copied.
"A dog in Davenport. Ia. having
seized a young sparrow that had
dropped TO the sidewalk, was instantly
set upon by half a dozen of the grown
birds with ferocity that not only made
him drop his prey, but sent him of
bowling with the blood flowing from
several places where their sharp bills
had struck him.
Three tailors established them.
selves in the same street in Glasgow.
The first wrote on his sign, The best
tailor in this town." The second
adopted as his motto, The best tailor
in the world" But the third. who was
cleverest of the lot, got away with
all by putting on his sign, The best
tailor in this street.
"A New York art dealer has in
vented a novel picture frame. 1t is OF
broad oak, with real bars half an inch
thick, colored to. look like iron. SET
across it from side to side. Imitation
hinges on one side and Il very real
looking paddock on the other increases
the resemblance to the barred door oil
a cage. With the picture of the head
of a lion or other beast behind it the
effect is very startling, if not strictly
artistic.
1t would be mistake to suppose
that meteorological ecceutricity is pc
culiar to this day and generation. The
weather was just as erratic long before
the Signal Service was dreamed of. In
the Buffalo Weekly Republican of june
"a, 184l, appears this paragraph: 1.-The
night before last we stood by good
fire and it was comfortable. Yesterday
we stood by "a good thermometer and it
was decidedly uncomfortable, being at
SO. ''-Bw6ato Courier.
A Berlin merchant who advertised
for wife lately received 277 answers.
OF these. 81 were widows varying in
age from twenty-five to tifty-twO; AZ OF
them had no children, and 81 possessed
fortunes entirely under their own con-
troi of from $500 to S20.0 Four ladies
who had been separated from their
husbands also wrote to express a desire
to try their luck at marriage for a
second time-one of them for third
time. OF the remaining 1876 only 2
gave their age as over thirty; Is OF
them protested to be just turned six
teen. Seventy-one photographs were
inclosed. and 81 of them are said 10
represent remarkably pretty girls.