Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-11-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

The genius of America is stepping
high about these days. The average
number OF patents issued weekly Is
over three hundred.
High water and consequent foods
are often a boon to Southern towns.
The Augusta Chronicle of Georgia says
that the years after the freshets have
always been the most healthy, and that
that city is to-day one of the cleanest
in the world.
In Delaware little theft is severely
punished. A man who stole a door
mat was sentenced to pay for the mat.
to receive ten lashes at the public
hitching post and then was sent to Jail
for thirty days.
"A $50 bill came into the hands of a
banker with these words written in a
bold, legible hand on its face: This
is the last OF 100000" The sentence
epitomizes the story OF spendthrift, a
Spectator or debauchee.
The most original suicide comes
from Yadkin County, n. c., where one
Rufe Revis broke into his neighbours
still room and putting one end of a
syphon in barrel of whisky and the
other in his mouth, got so entirely full
that he had not space for breath.
Scientists rank the habits of bees
the most reliable of all weather prog
nostications. They become restless
and irritable before a storm, and in
eight or nine instances within three
years their indications have proven
correct when the barometer has failed.
Ma" said a little student of natur-
al history, do frogs go to Ireland in
the winter time, when every thing is
froze up?" mo, my dear; what makes
you ask such a question:" Because
teacher says they always hibernate in
winter" was the reply of the observing
young hopeful.
"A man of Brazil. Ind, who died
suddenly the other day, had a most
curious mania for stealing women's
shoes. A few years ago he was ar
rested, and forty or fifty pairs or shoes
and slippers were recovered. After
his death over sixty pairs of women's
shoes were found in the hut where he
lived alone.
An amiable young female peda-
gogue residing in the Mohawk Valley
prides herself on the close relations of
trust and confidence which exist be-
tween her and the many little ones in
the primary department. One day a
little fellow made his way to the teach
er's desk, and, with many bushes and
much embarrassment, finally managed
to say: '.You don't care, do you, Miss
-, if my pants don't match my coat?"
The following paragraph appeared
the other day in the Sharp County
(Ark. Record: 1--WE want within the
next sixty days, delivered at our sane
tum, east end of Main street, or at our
wife's residence, south side of town,
within legal hours, $1,000 good and
lawful money of United States, eighty
one gallons of first-class sorghum, 100
bushels of prime wheat, twenty bar
rels of corn in shuck (no stalks needed),
], 800 new subscribers, orders for fifty
more new business cards and advertise
ments for our columns which would
show that business men appreciate the
home paper.
Probably the first prohibition petit
ton issued in this country has been dis
covered in the State archives of North
Carolina. On May &c, 1856, King Hag-
Ter, of the Catawbas, thus petitioned
Chief Justice Henley: II desire a
stop may be put to the selling of strong
liquors by the white people to my peo-
pie, especially near the Indians. If the
white people make strong drink let
them sell it to one another. or drink it
in their own families. This will avoid
great deal of mischief which other
wise will happen from my people get
ting drunk and quarreling with the
white people," The Chief Justice, as
appears from an Endorsement, prom
ised to bring the matter to the Govern
or's notice.