Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-04
ALL ABOUT A BONNET.
HoW Several Mammoth Trunks
Caused Unpleasant Foreign
Complications
A Miiliner Gets the Best OF the
Custom House, with the
Aid Of q { society Lady.
How His E~xcellency's Baggage Was
Landed.

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He was standing IN a steamboat
pier near the foot of Canal street,
leaning against a pile of boxes ano
loo king at the Custom House officers
getting ready to examine the baggage
Of q steamboat about swinging into the
dock. He had his hands in his peck.
cts, and his coat collar was turned up
over his ears. His face was shaded by
a huge sombrero, pulled down over
his nose, and In his mouth-the only
part of his face visible-wss q fat
cigar that he pulled vigorously, en-
veloping the upper part of his body in
q cloud Of smoke. Now and again he
would look up the street as If waiting
for some one, but waiting without the
slightest anxiety. As Journal re.
porter was making his usual round of
the docks, he casually asked him What
steamer was getting locked. This
led to a conversation during which
the reporter asked about smuggling
I amt good ct ghost stories, and I
gue.s l won't tell you how a bonnet
came mighty near breaking up our
friendly relations with a big foreign
country, and how silk was imported
In barrels and marked oat meal, or
how a box as big as q barn got to be
as small a. pound. candy
box 'twixt the pier and
the pubic stores, and how
"Yes. ! know what I am saying. Il
came near to being q foreign var about
q bonnet, and the job was put up by a
woman, too, one Of those French mill
liners what comes from Ireland. This
one was a corker, and don't you forget
it. She landed barefooted at Castle
Garden, and now the country amt
good enough for her and the kids.
"Right you are! They 90 to school
In Europe; that is, they did, for they
are gown now; but the kids got moth.
ing to do with the story. They are
having a livly time working them
selves into Knickerbocker society.
They sometimes get there, and then
some old customers of the Msdame'a
blows on them.
i "No! Iain't drinking here. Tain
good enough. l takes my liquor in
the purser's room. Nothin' NEAR
about a purser, you know; he viii
slfhg q bottle of the steamship com
paty's brandy at you as soon as lool
at Sou.
THE DELUsIvE MILLINER.
"Oh, yea! Well, you sec, this MILL
ner is one of tho creamery kind. 1
won't do to walk into her shop with
out coming in Q coupe; and chang
won't do, either, you must have
Doodle, or nixy bonnet you got out @
that place. Well, this one goes I
Paris twice a year, and when she is o
the ocean she remain s in her cabin tn
entire voyage, putting up the mos
internal rackets to be sprung on tn
Custom House.
GIN the gpod old times, when "
could pick up o stamp on the dock
she would skip on the piers like
fourteen. year.old kitten, and waltz u
to the man as had her goods in a hov
do.you.do my. friend sort a way, an
she would give him more taffy In
minute than my girl IA get ava
with in week. Her broker-an al
fred sp1 one he was would shr
his let ye and stand picking h
teeth ell, the end of that woul
be N.Y. duty would be paid on ii
l6apdk e and the broker would div
- lie of hundred in a friendly BET
around the corner.
MEM days are no more. Yo
get a tip of a couple of sovs. no
10 you got q handful of doub
s3les then. The old woman grieve
I'D when the old game was playe
and next time she crossed al
~ put her head In soak and who
GSSe reached Liverpool she had ever,
thing arranged, and she worked i
too, the queens taste.
CUNNING TRICK.
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