Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-17
miscellaneous.

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tourists Is thoroughly searched at New
York now for dutiable articles, and the
result has been large increase in the
amount of duties collected. In May this
year $40, 4e6 was collected from passen.
gers baggage.
Attention is called to a prophecy
which writer in Harper's Magazine
hazarded in the year 1856. This dreamer
predicted that in the year 5000 men
would be able TO attach an ear tube to a
! wire and hear Conversations two miles
away:
1t is common sight in New York
to see well-dressed men running or skip
| ping the rope in Central Park. Exercise
is the chief aim of these simple diver
sions; which are practiced mostly by
brokers, lawyers and club men who are
becoming stout
Other things being equal. it will be
tolerably safe to give the preference
to the hired man who sings at his work
AS for the whistler, there is room for
argument. If he knows how, and can
whistle tune decently, the fact is a
mitigating circumstance. If he doesn't
know q bar of music from pair of bars
in the fence, and creates tune and time
as he goes along, still determined to
whistle, he may yet be of some use, as
guinea hens are said to be-to scare
away the hawks.-Hartford Times.
A Spanish woman's mantilla is held
sacred By Law, and can not he seized for
debt, says the Dry Goods Chronicle.
There are three kinds of mantillas
which form the toilet of the Spanish
lady. Tho first Is composed of white
blonde, used only on state occasions,
birthdays, bull fights and Easter Mon
day. The second is black blonde,
trimmed with deep lace; and the third,
for ordinary wear, is made of black silk
trimmed with velvet
While the Indians, of Eagle Valley,
New, were at 4 fandaneo one day re-
GENTLY, they left in camp an aged buck
named Teekaboo and his squaw. Teeka-
boo was quite infirm, so his spouse dug
hole in the ground, put him in up to
the neck and filed in the dirt solid
She then left for the fandango, first
placing q cup of water near the buried
buck: lie was rescued by some sheep.
men after sixty-five hours confinement.
The WAYS Of the itinerant vendor of
deliCacies of the season are often anus.
ing if trying. Through a suburban
street toiled a cart, whose driver yelled
"WatermelOns! Nice ripe watermelonsI"
in the tones of stentor. Called to
halt by housekeepeF, he Confessed
that he had ti0thing but potatoes to sell.
"Why did you call #atermeloIis; then?"
was the indignant rejoinder. '"T6 at
tract attention, mum; everybody has po-
tatoeS."
Among the rules of a prominent
livery stable, where the animals of maily
wealthy men are kept, says the New
York Sporting World, are the following:
mo man will be employed who drinks
intoxicating liquors. No man shall
speak loud to any of the horses or in the
stabls where they are: Horses of good
blood are nert6usj AHA l8ud; excited
conversation is felt by every horse Who
hears it, and keeps them all nervous
and uneasy. No man shall use profaue
language in the hearing Of horses"
"A tanner in Coburg, while cleaning
AL old oil-painting which he had lately
purchased, found concealed between
the canvas and the blackboard, a docu-
ment to the following effect: ''Lucky
individual, whoever you are, who reads
these lines, act with prudence and fidel-
ity. In time of calamity l had four
thousand thalers in silver in this room.
They will be found in the floor under
the stove. You are to distribute two
thousand thalers among the poor and
keep the rest for yourself. May 1t
bring you JOY and happiness. Alexander
Won Rotheneck. Written in the year
1852 at Coburg." Where is that money?
Echo answers, "Where?"
1T doesn't pay" remarks the Ken
nebec Journal, Ito be too grasping in
this life. Several years ago Richmond
man refused to allow the Maine Central
posed to be his land. A survey showed
that not only the land in dispute, but
several rods more, belonged to the COM
pa1y, and when the line fence was built
it took off a slice of the citizens door
step. A similar case happened in Show
hogan recently. A citizen objected to
staging poles being set in his garden to
shingle the car house. A survey showed
that generous slice of the garden was
the property of the railroad company"
The Lewiston (Me.) journal tells
of Maine man who is a Selectman, As
SCISSOR and Overseer of the Poor in his
town. He is also school agent and high
way surveyor in his school and highway
district. 1t is said that the town pays
him 81 per day for the board of his
and that he has hired his
own daughter for the school teacher.
An ex-soldier, he draws nice sum each |
month as a pensiOner. He carries on |
farm and speculates some in farm pro-
duce and stock. He also owns build !
ing that is the headquarters of poker |
club, and he is leading as we'll as |
successful member thereof. 1t should |
be added that he does not teach class |
in Sunday-school.
Joseph Duvuette has been in the |
Michigan prison for thirty-two consecu
tive years. He was convicted of MUIR
der in Saniiac County in 1858 and con-
demned to solitary confinement for life. |
For anumberof years chow many he him
self can not tell he was isolated from
any thing in the shape of ahuman being.
He never saw human face or heard |
human voice for long, weary months at
a time. His food was brought to him
on a tin plate and handed through
wicket. but he never caught glimpse
of the convict who waited on him. For
thirty-two years the only sight of the
sky he ever got was from within the
four great walls. He has never stepped |