Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

| The largest theater is the new
opera house in Paris. 1t covers nearly
nearly three acres of ground. Its
cubic mass, 4,2S7, coo feet. 1t cost 81. :.
900, 900 francs.
! The name of the White House is
derived from the fact of the Virginia
freestone of which it is built, being
painted white to conceal the discolora-
ton caused by smoke and weather.
1t is related that a Stockton, Cal,
consumptive called upon local under
taker and offered to shake dice with
him for coffin. The astonished I'M
dertaker accepted the offer and lost.
Marriage must be failure among
the Russian peasantry. Upon a con-
Wet ship conveying women only to
Sagalien seventy-five per cent. of the
prisoners had been convicted of killing
their husbands.
A Jersey City Sunday-school super
intendent has organized brass band
in connection with the services of his
school, and it has proved drawing
attraction to everybody except the
citizens in the neighborhood.
A Summerville, Ga, dog disap-
peared recently for week, and at the
end of that time was found in company
with canine companion at the bottom
OF an old we'll. When taken out he
tried to rejoin the other dog in the
well, and was not happy until both
were released.
"A dental school for negroes has
been established at Nashville, Tenn,
with the prospect of plenty of work
for its graduates. When the negro
was a slave and lived on corn bread
and fat meat and went to bed at dark
he had the best teeth in the world. As
soon as he became citizen his teeth
began to decay, owing to his indulgence
in whisky and sweetmeats
"A New Orleans lady sent half a
dozen designs to one of the big cotton
print mills at Fall River for approval.
and some weeks later they were sent
back to her refused. Shortly after
ward she saw the identical designs on
some calico just received in New
Orleans from the mill, and wrote an
indignant letter to the mill owners de-
handing an explanation. In return
she received handsome check for her
work.
The use of diamonds for sights for
firearms has recently been patented
in England. The diamonds are fixed
in the front and back sights, and it is
said enable the user to take a quick
and correct aim even in bad light.
The brilliants are so fitted that imme-
diately the piece is brought to the
shoulder the rays in the gem assist the
alignment, and the eye takes aim with
out the least hesitation.
The cost of drilling a gas we'll is
stated to be about the same as that of
an oil well under the same conditions.
1t varies usually from 800 to Sc, 900,
according to the depth. Where the
productive measures are nearer the
surface, the cost is materially less. The
method pursued is the same in both
cases. A derrick is first set up on the
intended site of the well. and a wrought
iron pipe driven through the soft earth
until it reaches the solid rock, usually
at depth of sixty to 100 feet.
"A distinguished chronologist, well
known in learned circles as the fore
most authority as to the time when
every thing in history took place,
was brought by a guest one night to
the house of a rich man whose knOwl-
edge of science was not great. The
chronologist's friend introduced him:
This is NJ. X. the chronologist.
"The-the what?" asked the enter
tainer. The chronologist. X, per-
ceiving that his host had no idea what
chronologist could be, remarked
quietly, by way ofexplanation: ''Simp-
ly a dealer in dates, sir!"- Youths
Companion.