Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

1 GENERAI IN lEIlIiENCE.
THE yield of hops throughout the
world for 1889 is estimated at 1,70o, 00o
cwt
TIE empire OF Brazil composes one
fifteenth of the land surface of the
globe.
THE United States sent ten million
dollars worth of machinery to Mexico
this year.
FISH in the Gulf of Mexico have been
reported dying by thousands of an un-
known disease.
The New York bar proposes to cele-
brste the centennial of the United
States Supreme Court in February next
LECTURES on secular subjects in pub
lie halls and theaters are becoming very
common on Sabbath evenings in New
York City.
CANADIAN customs officers calculate
that the United States Government is
defrauded of nearly s., ooo, coo a year by
opium smuggling from British Colum bia
across the border.
A FEW of the feuds for which Ken
lucky is noted are these; The Hatfield
Mccoy, the Sewders-Turner, the French
Eyersole, the Howard-Lewis, the Null
ins-Taylor and the Brumfield- Runyon.
THE discussion of the advisability of
colonizing Vermont and New Hampshire
with Scandinavian Immigrants has di-
rected attention to the fact that Maine
made successful venture of this kind
twenty years ago.
PRIOR to 1929 all ballots used through
out the States were written. The first
printed ballot was used in Massachusetts,
in 1859 by David Henshaw, and was re-
fused. 1t took a decision of the SUI
preme Court to establish its validity.
THERE are about II, 0O0, 900 or IL, oO0,-
900 of colored people in the whole of the
United States. OF these, at least Z, 0OO,-
600 are to be found in the Southern States
of Florida, Louisiana, the Carolinas,
the Virginias, Alabama, Georgia, Missis-
sippi, Maryland and the District Of
Columbia.
AMBITIOUS Young novelists may be
interested to learn that under the pres
ent conditions in America, If one took
ten writer's of novels whose books have
fine sale, and ten mechanics who have
steady work at two dollars and a-half
per day, at the end of two years the
mechanics will have earned the most
money.
THE Pullman Palace Car Company has
built in year one hundred and forty
one palace cars, costing nearly two and
one-half million dollars. 1t Is now
building sixty-four more. During the
past twelve months it has turned out
cars worth nearly nine million dollars.
1t employs 11,063 hands. The last year
wages amounted to IS, 10000.
IT is rumored that an experiment will
be made with vessels of the Boston and
Atlanta type in carrying fresh water in
the space between the outer and inner
bottoms and then, if possible, use fresh
water in the boilers only. This plan is
about to be carried out in several of the
new and even with some of the old ships
of the British navy. Salt water is too
ruinous in its action to always remain
in vogue.
THE biggest edible oysters in the
world are found at Port Lincoln, in
South Australia. They are as large as
a dinner plate, and the same shape.
They are sometimes more than a foot
across the she'll, and the oyster fits the
she'll SO well he does not leave much
margin. 1t is new sensation, when
friend asks you to lunch at Adelaide, to
have one oyster set beside you fried in
butter or egg and bread crumbs. But it
is a very pleasant sensation, for the
flavor and delicacy of the Port Lincoln
msmmoths are proverbial in that land
of luxuries.
SIMON PoKAGoN, chief of the Potto-
watomie tribe of Indians, which inhab-
tied Northern Indiana and Southern
Michigan when first settled by the
whites, will shortly receive for distribu-
ton among his people the sum Of
two hundred thousand dollars from
the Government for the settlement
in full of all claims of that
once powerful tr ibe. The dis
tribution will probably take place in
Pokagon, Cass County, which town is
named for Chief Pokagon's grandfather,
who signed treaty with General Cass
in 1925 between the tribe and the
Miamis.
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