Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-15
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

QUoTTs are coming into favor as an out
door game for women in the country; Ike
wise bowls, which is in highest favor In
Scotland and England
IT is said that the Governor Ames, the
hve-masted schooner recently built on the
New England coast, will bold as much lum-
Der as train of cars mile long.
TANKS with an automatic slot attachment
have been placed in the public squares Of
Philadelphia, labeled drop penny IN the
slot and get cup Of pure water"
A LATE New Hampshire paper advises
young men not to go West to make their
fortunes, but to stay at home and earn
money to loan the people out West on their
mortgages.
TEE steamship Oswego recently made the
run from Mackizaw to Chicago-SS4 miles
IN nineteen hours and forty-fve minutes,
pronounced the best time ever made on the
great lakes.
A CITIZEN Of Hagarstown, Nd, claims that
the inside of a box in his possession was
made of part of the Penn treaty tree, and
the outside of q part of the original CONN Of
Washin gton.
OK the birthday Of a W estern editor who
was fond of writing extremely long articles
he received an anonymous gift Of can Of
condensed milk, with the words "Verb.
sap" scratched on it,
ANEW fashion Is said to be holding sway
this summer among the fair bathers at the
sea shore Light chamois skin masks are
worn, entirely concealIng the features.
This is not done for modesty's sake, but 70
preserve the complexion.
: LIZ lawsuit. in Kentucky the other day Il
was proved that horse which had kicked
three men to death and had run away i've
times was warranted perfectly gentle and
safe for any lady to drive" Now and then
there Is horse-trader who is absent
minded in his statements.
ACoLoRADo man namea House wrote to
the Johnstown bureau of information re-
Gently inquiring about his brother. he said
he had brother in the East somewhere
named Hubert, and be thought be had no
ticed the name Of Hubert House in the list
of the dead. He was informed that ''Hul-
bert House, was the big hotel destroyed by
! the flood
THIS IL the way Detroit paper publishes
the finding Of dead body in the river:
somebody tied some chunks Of boiler iron
about somebody else's neck and threw him
into the Saginaw river. Just when It hap
pened or who it was nobody knows, but
OoOAoAAAO AAfOE ASCyucluS has uBQeQ up
the skeleton To make sure Of the victim,
It seems that pile-driver was planted
through him"
NEW YORK CRY Is a curious place. At
the upper end Of Central Park, between
Sixth and Eighth avenues, and one Of the
most magnificent building sites in the whole
metropolis. il vast area used for vegeta-
BILE gardens and florists. Above It stretch
away for miles streets Of brick and stone
buildings, but there Is no sign of any en-
deavor TO improve this tract Around it Is
fringe Of shantles and second-class hotels
THs farmers around Elderton, Ga know
the worth Of persimnioas, and for years
have made it point never to cut down a
psrsimmon tree. In places 50 many trees
have been left standing that the fields look
like orchards; and indeed they are, persim-
mon orchards, the trees Of which bear fine
crops Of fruit almost a. valuable as corr for
fastening hogs The farmers say that the
peFsimmon tree draws but little strength
or moisture from the soil, and that excel
Isn't crops are grown even beneath their
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