Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

The latest railway signal indicates
automatically the time that has elapsed,
up to twenty minutes, since the last
train passed it.
There is an old negro in Quitman
County, Georgia, who has never
owned lock. He has been for years
mailing bar of wood across the door
of his crib every night
"A philosopher on Western paper
finds that only one person in every
go, 200 dies in bed while asleep, and
concludes that it is waste of time to
lie awake and worry over the danger
of that.
"A farmer. residing at New Dig
gins, H., recently put his milk cans on
the woodpile to dry, and the refec-
lions of the SUMS rays from them set
the wood on fire, doing considerable
damage to his house and barn.
In clearing an old swamp at Pleas
ant Valley, Ind, recently. what ap-
peared to be a stone book was I'M
covered. Close inspection showed it
to be a family Bible. bearing the date
177S, plainly lettered. 1t is now solid
limestone.
"A young man of Poughkeepsie
was so overjoyed at his admission to
the bar lately that he lost his senses
for time. He got a brass band of
nineteen pieces and marched up and
down the street ahead of the drum
major, carrying broom. He was ar
ranging for fireworks and other jubila-
tions when his friends secured him.
The oldest pieces of wrought iron
now known are probably the sickle
blade found by Belzoni under the base
of sphynx in Karnac. near Thebes;
the blade found by Colonel Vyse, i'm
bedded in the masonry OF the great
pyramid; the portion of the crosscut
saw exhumed at Nimrod by Mr.. Lay
ard-all of which are now in the British
Museum.
-Grigsley (after offering his box to
Wilkins and both have lighted their
cigars)-'1 like to lie back in an easy
chair like this, Wilkins, and forget the
cares of the day. What a solace is
good cigar. See that! How pleasing
life looks through an azure cloud of
Havana! We've nothing to complain
of. should say, Wilkins" Wilkins
Nothing. Unless it is the cigars. -
Chicago Herald.
Here is a musical morsel that must
have come from Germany. No beggars
in this country would show so much
consideration. The story is that a
man asked the well-known author for
aims. "You have a violin there" said
the man of words, "but you do not play
it." 30. sir. give me penny and don't
make me play. assure you you won't
regret it." Clearly it was impossible
to resist an appeal Of this sort.
There have long existed in Ger
many and elsewhere societies for col
lecting ciger ends-the tips cut off to
permit of suction on lighting, and the
parts left when the smoker dare not
proceed further out of mercy to his
mustache. 1t is customary to have
boxes for preserving these remnants on
the tables Of hotel smoking-rooms, as
well as in private houses. They are
collected at given times and sold to the
manufacturers, who make snuff OF
them, or cut them up after kindly
sleeping for smoking mixtures. Their
price goes to orphan institutions or
other charities.
"A funny case was tried in the JUS
tees court at Jasper, Ga, for damages
to hog by reason of the loss of one
of the hogs feet in a collision with
train. In three hours legal fight the
defendants counsel commended that the
rules of assessing damages was the loss
in weight of the hog by reason of being
run over. which in this case was one
foot, weighing half pound, which at
ten cents pound would be five cents
damages. The plaintiffs counsel in
sisted that the rule for assessing dam
ages was the value OF the hog when
hurt, with the cost of nursing and
medical treatment, together with such
damages as the enlightening mind of
the jury thought proper for the mental
pain and anguish of the hog. The jury
gave the D1aintiff S5