Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-11-17

Oct IL today IN usual liquid form @
choeolaied tablets called oafshsAps'
average cat. and is scarcely capable
of driving a cat away.
When woman opens a closet and |
Ia moth flies out, she thinks as
rule, that the moth has been eating
her clothes. The case Is even on
record Of q young woman who, on
being asked what she had given
captive moth to eat, said; "Oh. ! 4
gave II a bit Of old rag!" OF courset
the creature does its eating in the
grub stage; and its harmless when
lat has become a}flying thing--save
that II will produce ravenous pro-
A geny. /
The pendulum does not make the
clock go. It merely makes It go
Ievenly.
Steam is invisible. What we see
emerging from locomotives and thei
| tops Of tall buildings is steam which
Ihas begun to turn back into water.
/ Nails and teeth Of animals are mot
poisonous themselves. AScratch or
bite from dog or cat may prove 80,
but only because some impurity or
germ has been deposited in the ugly
wound which results. When SER
pent bites, he discharges special
poison which is secreted from glands
Many people think that a soft-boii71
ed egg which has been allowed TO
t cool cannot be made hard by second
boiling. This is not true.
Every time workman falls from
4 forty-story building, there are PEG
e pie to say; well, he probably
didn't feel 1t. when he struck
I There is little or no basis for this be-
8 flief that q person Is dead Of uncon-
a scious at the end Of long fall. Our
\ ARRIVING jumpers from Brooklyn
y bridge prove this, and that a person
Y retains consciousness Is shown ny
Q, ire case Of the English boy who fell
e down pit some ESQ feet deep and
g shouted nBelow!" three times on the
70 way down. One theory 10 that 9
9. person falling would not be able ta
ID breathe; but train at sixty miles
ut an hour is moving faster than ont
wouid, move In falling 100 Or 50 fe' 7
and no one pretends that one wcuif
y die Of suffocation II he put his heat
ch out the train window. Furthermore
q one could fail from the top Of Y
y singer building in six seconds, where
" a. one can hold ones breath for man
!. times that number.
=. The old tradition that drownin
pit person rises three times before b
'er goes down sounds well in Carnegi
Nv medal stories, but Is not true. pei
te- son rises as many times as he ca
lot get 10 the surface which may >
am once or hundred times7-and b
me drowns when he is 90 full Of waite
that be cannot breathe.
I'm
al Ebbing Life and EbbLng Tide,
In Dickens, in David copperfiela
FUR encourages the fallacy that at II
II seaside deaths always occur whe
isn the tide Is going out. The analol
ou- between ebbing life and ebbing tif
ced Is a pretty one; but that is ano'
all there 10 70 It.
Wart lore IL voluminous. II
w said that wart will leave peTst
~ II a lock Of his hair 10 cut from y
~ uape Of his neck without his knot
s pe ,nr ID: that waFt viii result Il
M frog spit on one; that warts may
cGa cured By rubbing them over with
'en black snail, which must aftefwaI
tns be impaled on q hawthorn; that
nee bag containing 40 many pebbles
pen one has warts be tossed over the i
We shoulder II will transfer the warts
: The person who picks up the BE-
" that II one take piece Of twin
pa maize Is many knots on 4 - ne
tos are warts, touch each wart with I
you corresponding knot, ana bury I
Of twlns in a moist place, sayiI
zen eThere Is none to redeem II besl
rom thee.,' the warts viii disappear 3
Ne 50 on. al Infinltum.
~ Lord Bacon ssgiOualS wrote IN 3
~ Of his works how an Inteliisene z
~ Interpretations woman, the wife
~ an Rnslish ambassador, had eul
- hls warts By rubbing them with
''H piece Of neat, ana mailing the n
% On window post IN the syn
these idsas are al absurd.
4 oil course, shd not very cqmmsn Nc
rdiirl but snolkef health failaeF y eEtfei
q ally commoh, though equally ba@i'
- l,.-st- shnf II 4 desirable fol