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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1887
Page
2
A fragment from a poem in the Abilene Reflector describes a girl of about five years with eyes like forgotten menots and lips made for kisses. Her hands hold flowers as fragrance scatters and she speaks with merry glee.
A frightened city girl Daisy Pratt loses her grandfather in Grand Central. Boys Jinksey and BillyMock help her, plan to raise funds for a homeward ticket. Daisy is placed with Granny Brown, then found by her grandfather who rewards Billy. Billy reforms after Cedar Farm.
A London lecture on ants explores their intelligence and social structure. Observations include care for injured nestmates, lack of quarrels within a nest, long-lived workers, and a queen ant alive since 1874. Experiments show mutual recognition not by a password but via social cues, with whisky-induced drunkenness used to probe responses.
The Old Brick Church founded in 1632 at Smithfield Virginia nears completion after a restoration using two thousand bricks from the Bay Church. The project adds twenty one stained glass windows honoring Pocahontas Rev Hant Colonel Parker and others with aisles and memorial slabs.
An analysis of imperial and royal finances shows the Emperor receives no indemnity and relies on private income for representation costs. The Reichstag funds pensions for Franco-Prussian War invalids, leaving about 100,000 marks for the Emperor. Prussian royal revenues total about 12,250,000 marks, with annuities pledged on domains and forests and the rest voted by Parliament.
A catalog of contemporary silverware features including a card receiver on a four-legged silver plate with cupid center and two figures as handles, a toboggan ink-well with a sliding girl, goblin dance etchings on cups and mugs, repousse corn husk padding-dish, frosted silver plaque with two oxidized pheasants, a two-bear-skins backed toilet set, a four silver-ball topped cizar-box, and an Egyptian grounded standing mirror in silver, copper, and oxidized silver.
A mid-19th century caution on warm beverages, arguing tea and coffee aid population growth in warm countries, warn of excessive heat harming vitality, and advise limited use for the young and the ill. It favors warm drinks for the elderly in winter, warns against overheating teeth, and condemns ice water and extreme temperatures.
A historical note on selecting houses emphasizes sun exposure, ventilation, and ground conditions. It advises thick concrete layers to block ground air, proper damp proofing, solid walls of hard bricks or stone, and moisture control through cement coatings. It warns against porous materials and emphasizes health through dryness and insulation. It ends with a quote about music on Sundays and a Ledger remark.
A Farm Field and Stockman warning notes a New York City counterfeiters gang sending circulars to country recipients. It urges readers to burn any materials and avoid replying to avoid trouble, describing the scam as fraud and crime.
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