Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-10-15
OR Wy CUSTOMERS.
The "a 5s7 TALKS OF mEN w 10
EI1s QUEER HOBBIES.
Yacht Ear ng and BaSe Hall Apparently
In the Lead Collecting Horse
liza r., Raby Photographs aud
FTeig It car Numbers
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indeed. We have cray customers most
every day. over there sits a crazy mar
nuw-the one ia the third chair. Well,
we got there. says he to me the Other
day, SAYS he as | took the lather brush
away from his mouth What got there!
inquired [. Why. the Puritan. says he.
We heat the bawsted Britisher, you
know Then he went on talking about
the yachts lever heard such lingo OF
stutf-spankeUs ibis booms luifs. spin.
makers, gait top sails, port lacks, point
inc. heeilng over. and about 1000 more
Awful lot of gibberlsh. Crazy OIL the
yacht race. you see, and there's lots just
like him.
~The very next man to sit down 10 my
chair up and says We'll, were gittln
there. w hat a giitin' thereg says l.
The Chicagos, of course, says he we
beat the BOstons yesterday, aud New
York went down before the DetrOits
The way Flint took in that foul ny OIL
Nash stick with one hand was corker.
And then he went on with big lingo Of
base hits, errors, gruunders. drives.
forces, stops, chances, putOutS, steals,
sacrifices and what not. era y on base
ball. you see That the way il goes
Some are wild over yacht races. others
o er base hall, some on horse races the
aires. music, billiards, wheat. stocks.
pools. politics. 1t S hard TO mud man
nowadays who hasn't hobby. The man
without craukism of some sort q curl
osity.
uvE.R HOaiHs.
Oldest thing I've struck lately,
though was one day last week \ Gus
toner Of mine pulled out of his vest
pocket little piece of paper and care
fully unwmpped il. - We found 1t al
last he said got il right here. What
is ity' inquired. "A green hair from q
horses tail, says he have been Il oking
for il Cor three years Amt il a pretty
one I've got the incest collection OF
horse.ail hairs in America-eyery color
imaginable. but this is the first green one
| wouldn't take so for it
Another customer Of mine lives in
the suburbs. lie usually comes in
for shave Just before starting
home. Several times I've seen him
glance at the clock after getting
out of the chair, aud noting that he had
q few minutes to spare sit down and take
out little book full of figures These he
would run carefully over with his eye.
Hard working business man. thought /.
Strange that men cant leave their shops
behind en-, and have TO take the office
along on the cars to their homes But
one day cidently discovered that il
wasn't business at all that made so many
figures IL was crankism. That man
had deliberately started out to find freight
cars numbered from one up to 80, OU0.
He had been at work morning and night
for several years on his way in from
home OF out from the city. He's now
al work filling up the vacancies He has
most Of EN- in his mind. I'll bet be
dreams Of figures and | have noticed that
his eyes sort Of dance around as II he
were all the time looking at freight cars
as he whizzes by on his suburban train.
ALWAYS ON TIM.
Il know a man whose hobby is regu.
larity. Precisely at noon Wednesdays
and aturdays be walks into the shop for
his shave AS the board of trade clock
strikes the first stroke Of II he can be
seen coming down stairs lie will shave
with nobody but me. and ! am always
waiting for him Once my clock was a
little slow, and failed to have my chair
empty when he came in. Ii made him SC
mad that he walked out Of the shop
followed him up aud apologized livery
other saturday he has haircut Once
a month he takes q shampoo along with
his haircut On Saturdays he has his
boots blackened, and every other satur'
] day he gives the boy quarter
Il used TO have customer who was
crazy N the subject of silk haudkerchiefs.
| He doesn come in any more. and | ex.
IanIBarnhfaf htNGfnaaG glrApa him
either to the asylum OF TO the poor. house.
He never used any other kind than silk,
/ and every time he came in he had new
one lie would never buy handkerchief
| like any that he had before, and he did
have some odd ones Perhaps the variety
| run out on him and he died OF chagrin In
having to use an old one
BNai PHUTOG3'PHs.
~One Of the prettiest hobbies know of
Is that of west side customer. lie ID
making collection of baby photographs.
He goes around to the galleries and makes
arrangements for extra negatives. and I've
known him TO come in here boasting Of
having picked up some little one on the
street whose face pleased his fancy, aud
taking her to a gallery, there paying for 4
dozen photographs keeping one himself
His specially is little girls, from baby
hood up to or q years. but he takes boys
up TO 3 years lie has a collection Of
several thousand photographs, and Ill bel
! $1,000 wouldn't buy Il
~There are any number Of men who
stick to one kind Of hat, necktie or coilal
year iD and year out all their lives, nc
matter how much the seasons change.
And there are also any number who
stick to one brand Of cigars for years
We have one customer who has been
shaved BY one barber regularly for nine
years The barber has worked IN about
! fifty shops-hes a regular scene. shifter =