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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1887
Page
6
The piece, from the Abilene Reflector, presents a humorous verse about a sweetheart kept at Buzzard's Roost. It blends affectionate longing with playful mockery of rural spelling and verse craft, contrasting refined ladies of cities with a homebound romance.
A suburban cottage fire place inspires a haunted tale of murder in a New York lodging house. Leclair reveals the crime after a night of dreamlike clues, with Mrs Winter dead from a pistol shot and Leclair claiming temporary insanity and a tragic motive. The coroner rules, and the narrator confesses shifting interpretations of the events.
A letter recounts how many figures near Washington’s era remained active and connected to the U S through generations. It cites Burr, Webster, Lafayette, Hamilton, and Cameron among others, illustrating that the republic remains young and living through those who met or heard those early leaders. A second item recalls English legal practice. A barrister is paid only when a brief is handed to him, and anecdotes describe fee disputes and odd lawyerly tricks in old and distant times.
Nellie Bly reports on Mexico City transit and funeral customs. Streetcars run in trains from Zocalo with two drivers per car to deter theft. Senor Gayosso built funeral cars using city hearses, creating grand black coffin trains drawn by horses with canopyed cars. Women largely barred from funerals, while all social classes show respect with hats doffed and prayers.
In a fall court in New York City Evarts, Southmayd & Choate defended. After hours of argument he posed What is their answer. A peddler shouting Brooms caused a roomful of laughter. Evarts recovered and warned the reply would be equally frivolous.
A party of young ladies and gentlemen played ringoal a new game near Central Park West drawing spectators. The game uses heavier hoops with leather coatings and batons, a rule based code, and aims to catch a flying hoop on the baton. It suits small spaces and urban floors, developing eye coordination and chest and shoulder muscles.
The text traces how Anglo Saxon surnames arose from moral traits and animal likeness, physical features, nicknames, patronymics, local residences, and national origins. It notes occupational names like Smith and Clark, and how place signs, inns, and signs shaped latter surnames, with examples from English and German origins and peculiar backwoods American town names. It closes with examples of double names and firms like Hook & Ketch and Fox & Crane.
An 19th century familiar essay offers aphorisms on virtue, folly, friendship, effort, and judgment drawing from proverbs and behavior. It notes the thin line between wisdom and folly and contrasts lazy haste with steady cultivation, citing garden yields and proverb references. A closing farm note links a table bird to cuisine and farming practice.
A New York fashion note highlights copper velvet gowns with copper plumes and diamond pansy, white crepe de chine wedding dresses trimmed with orange blossoms and ivory satin, and elaborate gray hair styling. It details gloves in bronze green and old pink with white stitching, long basques, Parisian bodices, morning caps, lace veils, and accessories, reflecting late 19th century couture trends.
London Queen notes the latest table decor trends with gilded brass mountings and delicate center pieces combining multiple flower receptacles. Lighter modern crystal rivals heavy 19th century patterns, with corner vases, claret jugs, candlesticks, and glass platters bound by brass. Some fear fragility, nudging collectors toward new pieces while valuing historic cut crystal for its past.
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