Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

| New York and Pennsylvania pay
the highest salaries to their Governors
$4,000 each. Michigan. New Hamp-
shire, Rhode Island and Vermont pay
the smallest 900 each.
"A teacher in the San Francisco
schools succeeded in retaining her
position and keeping the fact of her
marriage secret for five years, when
it was revealed by divorce suit.
A Boston woman. telling why she
could not get on with neighbor. said
that there are four temperaments. the
nervous, the physical. the pious, the
worrying, and her neighbor had the
fourth temperament, the neighbor. of
course, being a woman.
MIR. William T. Walters. of Balti-
more. is the owner of the peach blow
vase which attracted so much attention
a few years ago when sold at the Nor
gan auction for $4,000. He keeps it
securely locked up in the safe, and no
one ever sees it.
Some fifteen years ago Mrs. Abner
Purcell, living near Greenville, Mich,
told her husband that if he decided a
/ certain piece of land in a particular
way she would never speak to him
again. He saw his opportunity and
decided the property in that particular
manner. and since then his wife hasn't
spoken to him once.
An English writer on Professional
Beauties" defines the kinds of beauty
now most in vogue as 1.-The weird, mys-
terious, and an9mic type of languid
beauty, and the pronounced, the noisy,
the unconventional, and, we might al
most say. the rude and unrefned type
of excessive youth or absolute giddi-
ness"
"A countryman and his wife were
in room in city hotel. and the Texas
Siftings reports the following CONVERSE
ton: "Abner, what is all this heap of
rope piled up here by this winder?"
Abner-"That' one of these frees
cape things" Now, Abner, do yor
know how to use it if the house ketches
ire?" Abner-@Of course do. You
just tie one end of it to leg of the bed
and then take holt of the other end and
Jump outen the winder."
The quantity of food necessary to
support the colossal frame of the ele-
plant is great. The daily rations of
one elephant have been set down
as follows: A truss and a half Of
hay, forty-two pounds Of Swedish
turnips. and mash consisting of three
pounds of boiled rice. bushel of chaff
and bushel of bran; ten pounds of
sea-biscuit, bundle of straw for his
bed, weighing about thirty-six pounds,
which he usually eats by the morning.
and thirty-six pals of water.
james and John are good names
for boy, yet James appears to be a
better surname than any other for a
candidate for President of the United
States. We have had as many as five
Jameses in the Presidential ehair
within this century-James Madison,
James Monroe. James K. Polk, James
Buchanan and James A. Garfield.
Moreover, the father of President
James Madison was named James Mad
ison and the father of President James
Buchanan was named James Bu-
chanan. After the Jameses the Johns
have panned out next best-John
Adams, John Q. Adams and John Tyler.
"A story is told of q colored
preacher whose church had become
somewhat dilapidated. The minister
succeeded at last in persuading the
people to decorate the walls, but funds
gave out and they left large recess
behind the pulpit unimproved. The
patience of the preacher gave way be-
fore this evidence of want Of proper
respect for the church. and at the close
of his sermon one Sunday morning he
very solemnly announced: "Brederen,
notice is hereby given that the Gospel
will not be dispensed wifi in dis church
any moa until dis abscess behind de
pulpit is fricasseed. christian Advo-
cate.
will the educated woman marry"
is question under discussion in some
of the magazines. That depends. If her
education makes her bright, pleasant.
entertaining and sensible she will
marry, providing man worth having
is within reach. But if her education
makes her critical, dogmatic and
pedantic, she will not marry, for the
simple reason that no man will ask
her. All women ought to be well edu-
Gated. Nothing more requires wise
and well-trained mind than to admin
lister well the affairs of a household.
An education which units woman for
this is not worth the name.-Louisyille
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