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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1885
Page
2
A fragmentary poem in prose about a stream from mountain springs to the sea, honoring nature and a quiet steadfast path. It reflects meditative gratitude and contrasts human life with a flowing brook. The piece names Bod dates and The New York press context, with rural imagery and reverent rhythm.
A sharp East Coast passenger on a Pennsylvanian Railway buffet car loaded her order with many items including oysters and chicken salad. After the train left Harrisburg she fled without paying, leaving a surprised porter to report the unpaid luncheon.
An elderly passenger defends a long-haired man in a smoking car when others mock him as a crank. A farmer recalls hiring a long-haired geologist who claimed buried treasure under his farm and led to a costly dig. The joke ends with the reveal that the supposed treasure was coal.
A farmer drove cows past Limerick Station when one broke away and charged the platform. The cow caused chaos as passengers were knocked down and scattered for nearly an hour. It breached a side gate, overturned two vehicles, and smashed a house door before being captured.
A lengthy editorial lauds Postmaster-General Vilas for aggressive Civil Service reform, careful case-by-case removals, and significant cost savings. It credits him with reducing partisan influence, quelling leaks, and raising postal service efficiency, while defending his cautious approach against spoilsmen attacks. The piece notes savings of over thirty thousand dollars annually from a new postage stamp contract and further cuts in postal card costs, praising his leadership as the department recovers from Mahoneism-tinged patronage in Virginia.
A reform-era debate rages over removing Republican officeholders, including the Director of the Mint, to install Democrats. Republicans accuse the administration of partisan firing after long service, while supporters argue civil service integrity demands change. Also reports from visits to strawberry farms and wind usage by Prof John Orden in McIntosh County.
A survey of religious and educational topics notes 29 000 Letter Episcopal clergy worldwide. Moody partners with D B Towner for five-year evangelistic work. Princeton president McCosh cites age ten as ideal for language learning. Hopkins of Williams College remains mentally sharp at 82. Hampton Institute reports 548 Negro and 127 Indian students this year. Butler primary day school had 360 colored children, with over 1 000 pupils on campus. Mrs A T Stewart pledges 314 000 annually to newly transferred institutions. penal bond 2 400 000 secured. Southern Baptists deny women delegates. two Arkansas representatives withdrew amid opposition. De Candolle praises clergy children rising to prominence. Hungarian Episcopacy among world’s richest. minister Treport urges aid for poorer clergy. responses from primate and bishops. University of Strasburg, founded 1567, reorganized 1871, has 5 500 000 spent on buildings, annual 250 000 support, library 560 100 volumes, 73 ordinary and 19 extraordinary professors, 858 students last year.
A collage of pithy quips and cartoon captions from various papers. The snippets poke fun at age, fashion, courts, and everyday absurdities with brisk humor and regional flavor, including lines about a brain operation, a Shylock reference, and a sparrow shoot joke.
A muted asylum tale in New Jersey describes two patients with remarkable quirks. One man, speechless after an accident, mutters a cryptic line about a devil and an inventor. Another inmate, a prodigious lightning calculator, envisions his brain as a moving multiplication table and soaks his head to keep the blocks in place. Time, 19th century newspaper fragment.
A collage of quirky notes: a New Haven youth owns 7004 eggs across about 2000 varieties. a two-hearted man exhibited in Kingston Hospital. bird's-eye opinion pieces from the Chicago Times and Philadelphia Times. mispronunciations of Kabul and Herat. Esquimaux polar habitation theories. tropical gooseberries in Florida. an Australian inventor’s train door mechanism. a Chinese doctor linked to dried licorice for consumption. a Middletown father and circus-saving boy. New Orleans markets sold by eye with no standard measures. a Massachusetts man’s bizarre self-inflicted death plan using brass pipe and gunpowder.
The article describes how Mexican widows and orphans rely on male relatives for property care and their sons’ education. It notes that wealthier widows may not be independent, as property and guardianship pass to male kin. Matrimony often involves negotiation of family property, reflecting social expectations of gender roles.
Grant recalls a Bragg tale in which Bragg, a lieutenant commanding a company while also acting post quartermaster and commissary, issues a requisition to himself as quartermaster. He balks at filling it, indorses his own reason, and as commander argues the requisition demands what he is entitled to, submitting the dispute for resolution.
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