A Smuggler

1895

Some years ago a tame long haired goat formed part of the regular crew of a passenger steamer on service between an English port and a continental one. After a time the customs authorities discovered that it wore a false coat many sizes too large for it. The goat's own hair was clipped very close. Round its body were packed cigars, lace, etc., and then the false coat was skillfully put on and fastened by books and eyes. — Notes and Queries.


Electric Travel Almost Universal

Twenty-four cities in the United States, having a population of from 100,000 to 500,000 each are said to possess between them something over 3,000 miles of street railways. Of those railways 65 per cent are worked by electricity, 20 per cent by horses, 10 per cent by cable and the small remainder by other systems. — From a Kansas City newspaper.

Smuggling in Bustles

1888

It will soon be unsafe for a lady to go on board a steamboat adorned with the dorsal embellishment of the bustle.

From its first appearance the smuggler seems to have marked the dress-improver for his own, and in particular he has been struck by its advantages as a receptacle for contraband tobacco. Hitherto, however, this abuse of beauty's weapons has been confined to ports which the nobility and gentry do not frequent in large numbers.

But on Monday two aristocratic looking damsels, landing at Queenstown, were discovered (by the courteous instrumentality of a female searcher) to owe their "improvement" solely to Cavendish tobacco. It is a sad state of things when an American belle, in full panoply, can not land on our shores without an inhospitable summons to show "what she has got there."

For your general profit and instruction, ladies, mark what happened to the above adventurous maidens. Amidst the great bustle of the custom-house they left the garments of that name behind, as well as the tobacco and its treble value in current coin. — London Life.