Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-06-02
ITEMS o INTEREST.
The first theater in the United
States was opened in 1852.

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States was opened in 1852.
The word squirrel is from two
Greek words which mean shadow tail.
Ali the swing bridges across the
river within the limits of the city of
Chicago are operated by means Of
electricity.
The first labor paper in the United
States was 1.-THE Workingman's Ad.
vocate," published in New York, about
seventy years ago.
Spain has a debt now of $1,000 0O,-
900, with an interest charge Of $685.
100000 and a national income Of
about sl6O,OOO,OOO.
It is said that the patterns on the
finger tips are not only Interchangeable
through life. Lut the chance Of the
finger tips of two persons being alike
is less than one in OO,0Ov,O0O.
A grain Of strychnine will impart a
perceptible flavor to 1,75O,0OO grains
of water, and in each of these grains
Of water-though containing but the
l,75O,O0Oth OF grain of strychnine-
the favor of strychnine can be dis
tinctly tasted.
A rope seven miles long and four
and one-half inches incircumference,
weighing nearly sixty tons, has just
been made for use in a district SUBJ
way in Glasgow, Scotland 1t is said
to be the biggest rope ever made for
haulage purposes.
The majority of the people Of Swe-
den still cling to the use of the good
old-fashioned tallow candle, though
electricity has been introduced in the
cities. In one year one Swedish firm
manufactures 21,0O0,OOO candles of all
sizes for use in that country almost
exclusively.
There are said TO be 100000 cats In
London, of which half are "unattach-
ed" and live largely on refuse. In
one district near a very large and
famous brewery in London the sport
Ing cats 60 regularly as soon as the
brewery gates are open to hunt rats
In the brewery Stores"
A novel flower has been found In
The Isthmus of Tehauntepec. In the
morning it is white, when the sun is
at its zenith it is red and at night it
Is blue. The red, white and blue flow
er grows on a tree about the size OF
the guava tree, and only at noon
does it give out any perfume.
An odd tombstone has been placed
in cemetery in Lincoln, Neb. 1t
marks the grave Of James Jacobs, q
butcher, who died in 1891. The de-
ceased was of a rowing disposition, SO
his father mad valise modelled in
marble and placed on the grave. The
inscription, in addition to the name,
date of birth and death, is Here Is
Where He Stopped Last"
The greatest number of deaths oc-
cur during the third quarter of the
year and the smallest during the
fourth quarter. The other two quar-
ters have nearly the same proportion.
Estimates vary as to the time of day
when the most deaths occur, some
claiming the hours from midnight to
s a. IN. as the most fatal and others
from 6 a. m. to noon. More deaths
occur during the first half of the day
than the last half
Elephants in the Indian army are
fed twice a day. When meal time ar
rives they are drawn up in line before
a row of piles OF food. Each animals
breakfast includes ten pounds of raw
rice, done up in five two-pound pack
ages. The rice is wrapped in leaves,
and then tied with grass. At the COM
mand Attention." each elephant
raises trunk, and package is thrown
into his capacious mouth, By this
method of feeding not single grain
Of rice is wasted.