Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-08-27
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


Owing to the generosity of the Ca
madam government and the New York
state legislature, Niagara falls can now
be viewed without charge from the new
suspension bridge to point on both
sides of the river half a mile above
them.
"A fiveyear-old boy fell into deep
water from bridge in Seattle, Wash,
and it was twenty-five minutes before
men brought him to. the surface with
graphing irons. He was rolled over a
barrel, and at the end of two hours
was pronounced out of danger.
AT Augusta, Ga, a negro aged 70,
was bantered to butt down the door of
saloon for a drink. With two or
three lunges he drove his head against
the door like a steel hammer and the
panels were splintered. He then took
his drink and walked off as uncon-
cernedly as if nothing had happened
There is a tract in Levy county,
Fla, in which three holes have been
dug thirty feet apart, and each excava-
ton has laid bare parts of the skeleton
of huge animal The diggers take it
for granted that the bones all belonged
to the same creature, and are wonder
ing what sort of beast it was whose re-
mains underlie the county.
"A stick of timber III feet long and
four feet square has just made a safe
railway journey from the state of
Washington to Chicago. 1t weighed
nearly 10000 pounds, and three fat
cars, each thirty-four feet in length,
were needed to carry it The once fine
tree will be put to the base uses of a
beer counter at the worlds fair.
"A hive of bees swarmed in a corset
that had been hung out to air in North
Atchison last week. The owner of the
corset tried to coax the bees off by
beating a tin pan, but they settled
down to business, and she had to go
without her corset until her husband
came home at night and smoked the
invaders off.-Atchison Globe,
The population of Chinatown in
San Francisco is said to have fallen off
nearly five thousand in the last six
months. The streets once crowded
have become deserted, and the many
business firms located there have either
retired from trade or have removed
elsewhere. The Chinese attribute the
change to diversion of trade to Seattle
and Portland and the rigid enforcement
of the Chinese exclusion act. A further
decline of the noted locality is antici-
pated.
In Bodiga, Cal, not long since, a
man lassoed a wild COW, he being on
horse back, when the animal broke the
lariat and made dash for liberty. Not
far off there was a large house, with
the front door wide open. She rushed
through the door, up the front stairs,
through a narrow hallway, into a bed
room, out of the window, on to the roof
of the porch, from which she leaped to
the ground, striking with such violence
as to break her neck-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The ocean tug Britannia engaged
in chase after Maine vessel that is
floating on the ocean with twenty
thousand dollars worth of mahogany
in her hold That vessel is the Wyer
G. Sergeant, owned by William G.
Cover, of Sedgwick, and abandoned in
a storm last March when about eighty
miles off Hatteras. Since then she has
drifted over two thousand miles, cross
ing the gulf stream three times. At
one period of her wild cruise she went
five hundred miles in twenty-one days
When last sighted, June 10, part at
least of the cargo was yet on board
"A young lady gave the following
reason, says a Chicago paper, for rising
very early on a railroad train: "Well,
You see there were three other women
on the car; I noticed that last night,
and l knew if didn't get up before
they did I'd never be able to get into
the dressing room for hours and hours,
and would probably miss my Breakfast
When one of them gets into dressing
room on a sleeper, she locks herself in
and Just takes her time, no difference
how many may be waiting. I've been
there before, and l just made up my
mind to have the first chance at it for
once. My! but weren't two of 'em mad
when came outp'