Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-06-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

into quite thin cakes with the hands,
lay them on gridiron, and broil them
over hot fire.
The Salt Lake Herald says one
marked result of Mormon rule is that
! that city of $4,000 had no debt and the
smallest tax rate of any city in the
United States-fve mills year.
| 1t is believed by many that the seal
fisheries of our northwest coast must be
given up, and the seals destroyed on &C
count of the injury that the seals do to
salmon fisheries, now growing every
year more valuable.
"A little girl who is given to initiate
her elders in words and ways, drew her
self up in dignified manner at break
| fast recently, and said to her elder
brothers and sisters: Children, if you
please, we will suspense with that per-
| diculous noise"
| -Chipinone-"Who is that lordly
looking man on the other side of the
aisle?' Ukerdek-"That is a newspa-
per man." ''Why does he put on so
much style and seem so haughty?' HE
is young one, and is riding on his first
railroad pass. Inter Ocean.
| According to an interviewer, Car
| lyle surpassed himself when first intro
duced to DR.. Joachim. Shaking hands
with the great violinist the sage OBJ
served that he hadn't great opinion
of musicians-they seemed such vain,
wind-baggy sort of people"
Seven of the supposed-to-be sharp
est and wisest lawyers in the country
have made wills, passed away, and the
| said wills have been broken all to fin
ders by heirs and other lawyers. An
ignorant Missouri farmer wrote his will
in four lines on a slate, and it stood
three lawsuits and ten lawyers.
The most expensive thermometer
in this country is in use at the Johns
Hopkins University. 1t is known as
Prof Bowland's thermometer, and is
valued at $4,000. 1t is an absolutely
perfect instrument, and the graduations
on the glass are so fine that it is neces-
sary to use microscope to read them.
"A farmer in the vicinity of st.
Louis, Mich, sent his wife to market
and he went into the fields to pillow.
About noon the good wife returned and
explained to her husband that it was
Sunday. Neither had remembered the
day of the week until Mrs. Golf found
st. Louis people going to church.
Every time General Butler IS asked
for his opinion regarding the proper in
vestment for an enterprising young man,
he says that ''rent-paying real estate
is the safest investment in the world.
He always adds that no man who ex-
poets to accumulate property can afford
to be mean about money matters.
The Young Man (rapturously)-
And now, FlOssie, it only remains for
you to name the happy day. Please make
it soon, very soon, darling" The Young
Woman Tin the kitchen few moments
later Bridget, would it interfere with
any of your engagements if / should be
married three weeks from next Wednes-
day EVENING""
Lottery tickets seem to be very
plentiful in Louisiana just now. The
Southwestern Christian Advocate tells
of brother who got things so mixed
up that he presented a lottery ticket
for admission to lOve-feast. PrOfessed
Christians are coming to be among the
strongest supporters of the lottery, says
a local paper.
"A few days ago three families OF
Finlanders settled on farms in the
northern part of Beadle County, South
Dakota. In one of the families there
are nineteen children, in another seven
teen and in the third nine, the parents
of the last family having been married
but ten years. These families will soon
be Joined by four others, all relatives,
numbering forty-six persons, making
total of ninety-seven persons in nine
families.
"A minister had travelled some dis
lance to preach, and at the conclusion
of the morning service waited for some
one to invite him to dine; but the con-
dispersed without noticing
him. When the house was nearly empty,
the minister stepped up to gentleman
and said: Brother, will you go home to
dinner with me to-day?" "Where do you
live?" about eighteen miles from
here" "No; but you must dine with
me-" answered the gentleman, with
flushed face, which invitation the clergy
man gravely accepted.-Argonaut.
The president of the British Phar-
maceutical Conference is credited with
having adopted and recommended the
following for the happy dispa CHI of
poultry. A large, wide-mOuthed, stop
pered bottle is kept charged with an
Of, IL 81,
has received sentence of death it is held
firmly under the left arm and its head
slipped into the mouth of the bottle.
A few deep inspirations follow, and the
bird, without a struggle, becomes I'M
conscious. Then, holding it by the
legs, it's neck is dislocated by a quick
Dumb Animals.
An intelligent dog in West Chester
plays hide-and-seek with his owner, a
little girl named Amy. She taught it
the game, and they both, it is said find
much fun in playing it. Amy will tell
the dog to remain in a certain place I'M
til she hides. She then calls and the
log starts on the search, finding Amy
every time, no matter where she hides.
Then the dog will wag his tail show his
teeth as though laughing, and HE away
10 the place originally designated for
him by Amy, while Amy hides again,
only to be found in an instant afterward
BY the dog.
"A gentleman who lives not thousand
niles from New York City has recently
been absent from home several months
IN business. Not long ago his wife re-
;eived letter from him, which she be-
ran TO read aloud at the breakfast table.