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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1887
Page
6
A fragment from the Abilene Reflector presents a satirical scene of a woman making and receiving social calls. The speaker complains about tiresome visits, overbearing etiquette, and the exhausting cycle of social duties, ending with a reflective note on womanhood and perpetual calling.
A midwinter tour of Sing Sing led by Warden Brush details the prison layout, staff, and daily routines. The visit covers the governor’s greet, the punishment room, workshops with 1000+ convicts, prison life, notable inmates like Ferdinand Ward and McQuade, and the abolition of contract labor affecting maintenance and discipline.
A Texas Siftings cartoon caption shows a milkman and customer discussing blue milk. The milkman explains the calf weaning has made the old cow feel blue, offering a humorous, lighthearted reasoning.
A Norfolk woman sought remedies for worsening cataracts after hearing an elderly local healer’s suggestions at a street corner. Medical authorities caution against unverified treatments and urge professional eye care.
A long excerpt extols carbonate of soda as an essential household item with wide uses from baking and emergency flour mixes to improving vegetables digestion, coffee, and stock. It recounts a dramatic home remedy for a crying baby and notes soda’s claimed medical aids for dyspepsia, bites, burns, and venomous stings, urging prudent use and Gracious care.
Carl Dunder muses on living twice, debt, envy, and human nature in humorous rural aphorisms. He notes a better chance to work off debts, jokes about neighbors cabbage size, and mocks flattery as grease for the world turning. He reflects on marriage, luck, and social pretenses with a wry, folk-voice tone.
Graphic Sunday Magazine account describes a temple known as the monkey temple in Benaras. It details feeding monkeys, the Naubat-khana drum, sacrifice rituals with a goat, the inner shrine to a hideous goddess, masked priests, and garlands. A Lucknow pilgrim seeks alms. a priest rebukes him and a traveler offers bread, facing disdain.
The history traces geometry from Egyptian need to reestablish landmarks after floods to Greek and later mathematicians. It credits Thales, Pythagoras, Plato, Euclid, Apollonius, Archimedes, Hipparchus, and Ptolemy, with Descartes introducing analytic geometry and Newton calculus. It notes a medieval lull, then revival by Vieta, Kepler, Roberval, and Pascal, culminating in Mange’s 1799 descriptive geometry. It also cites a separate study on centenarian habits showing gendered smoking patterns.
Robert J. Burdette presents a humorous reminiscence on moving back to domestic life. He recalls unpacking hammered china and crackle glass, the chaos of storage tales, and odd discoveries like a lone stave leg. The narrator jokes about misadventures in a warehouse, a sister’s moth finds, and a barrel misadventure ending with a punchy note on restraint.
A discussion of Egyptian and Oriental bargaining habits shows the slow, ceremonial price contest between merchant and buyer. In Cairo, buyers insist on a higher price, then bargain down as they share a pipe and coffee, with the merchant easing demands until a middle ground is found. A North Atlantic currents note reports slow drift of experimental debris at two to six miles per hour.
A collage of brief, dated quips and dialogue bits from Punch and other papers. Jokes about fires, lectures, handkerchiefs, coquettes, timepieces, college economies, sleighing, romance, thermometers, and a child misusing the word presume.
Uniform Arctic dress governs survival as predators and prey blend with snow. The article explains how snow white coats on bears hares foxes and birds like ptarmigan and ermine evolved to avoid detection and ensure extinction-proof adaptation. It notes natural selection favors those most camouflaged in winter conditions.
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