Yankee Motions.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7080, 28 February 1893, Page 3

Yankee Motions.

“ There was an American in the railway carriage to Liverpool,” writes George R. Bima in the Referee. “ This gentleman interested me greatly. He was dark and dressed with elaborate care, and kept os • producing instruments of a remarkable character from hie pocket. He was a man who was thoroughly equipped for all the oontingences of every-day life. A bine* bottle got into the carnage. and he pro* duoad a fly paper, on which it promptly settled and died. He wanted to smoke, and he took out a pipe . with seventeen distinct ■ and separate patents in it. He filled it from a pouch which was absolutely remarkable for its ingenuity. He put the tobacco ia with a patent spoon, he rammed it down with a metal stopper, then he put a skewer, which be wore attached to a silverchain, up the stem, then he stabbed the tobacco with a stilletto to make the pipe draw more easily, and then he kindled a light by means of an elaborate arrangement in six compartments, wh c'i took about fifteen minutes to fit together. After that he hung up his bat by a patent hat-suspender, pat on his < gloves with a button hook, squirted himself all over with a ■cent spray, cut bis newspaper with a paper cutter that was also a railway key and a bootjack, and wrapped himself in a patent rag, which, by'pulling various strings, could be made into an overcoat, a macintosh, a bed quilt, a life-belt, a tablecloth, and a shroud. Finally ho went to sleep, after setting a pocket alarm to wake him up in an hour, and putting a patent catch on bis watch chain in ease either of us should be taken suddenly with kleptomania.”