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y7 WUd flower di whm warm slow Uadr
Autxr irgue tm too eer eize:
. ,w joy, that would wt free like these. '
Tonch gently he fine f.i n,iM
"Wjl thonirht limu 1.1 tA
a uiwai I rum
wings . ' -
Tint ooylv fnh w'. .n. Kr.' 1 1
T.. i i ,. . . r
uwiCOk UUUIL in (lllfiBt ,
st year, dniinir an extended nil.
gnougaiq, the miliar rilonTl hap-
."Iry10? England, on, a
morng , Long ef0re; the
t -pubhfi house was roaehai.- T
aitma fltai Ji- .
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p Saturdflv." No siwh Mjoiafemn.
evengr cJiaractwizea the " off Satur-
ttay."
' Id addition to the fortnightly pbuni
ositv, tUae.iay th nadditional
to hadltfeferi.aikingith, fialie
Ll8hman six enocesaive "Sandayneets "
Wflat WeVcastIe. nn'd to-dnv th
M!1.' tl long' ft row" of
PPW&ow was nd diffloulty .ih
iliWeiingiho; Wsidence 'of the1 bride
mi esse. A motHI of nrchina BurrouPded
uw aoor, ftud were glowing Tplhall the
optical, oworatlco3min,1.crSrii,J
. saooo'; ten a. m., the prooeasiao jHnerged J
joveu coupics, each 4asaie ' lining J
bride haked ,r with the grooihsniau.
There was some bnree cheering on the
p.ftrt x)f.the miscellanoona mob when the
" ea'i'Uly-dres.sed party - triumphanUy
-- fittmm bl brange-blossonis and fur
VA098 of. white ribbon were Aranted, in
' the sunlight; m&r the silks that oom--:j
Vosedthe drepiea of the brido and hor
-uaHtnrtei There was more velvet about
m J VVflft nl his ffift' tharf I ever
. .ambEi to'lie,Meii"-dh'tne vks
oven persons before: and thflm
Irnoro watch-chain distribntft
-: seven velvet veBt3lhan I ever expect to
'j;ffy-tlLe !Quab."Iiiahman) the
; Undo s fatlier, and an old acquaintance
vt mine, was present in an official ca-
- anu ii ma tioi
' fressing-invitation to :
I uuTy termed, and I walb
smvuji anu ii ma -not require a verv
induce me i to
:MM"SJramil-
walkedbehiud and
Asidw.frou 4hehynronoal prdtesaion. We
' liffift B.,?9'Vie?V by- a. motley crowd of
Tag-fAg-andbobtnil muiketeera, armftd
- j ' ftu shot-guns of every conceivable de
flcription and possible antiquity. The
.rigeohmatcli gun of , to-daf ,marchod
i'chfiok-by-jowl witn the Brown Boss
I hat had lain behind the lines of Torres
Vedras, or banged- away at Waterloo.
There were about fifty gunners, besides
ifourtcen firn tin 1 ' 1 .f
two O)inos. who worn wViita.onfin
rge as srncers, attached to their
oatlappeLs.
The genius of disorder seemed to per-
nw JtfrylindiTiluia in that qrowd.
tTWbanM.ttis 'yells, he purposeless
profanity entirely devoid .of malice
vere aljabliiWy A-Hounding, ' A stranger
meeting the procession would have as-
wodjy jumped' ovef the hedge, nnder
r - im .aa . h i . .
mqirci-Muu umi ne saw a company oi
scapoa runMun. On two or three oc
casions Mr. Lisliman uttered a fearful
impreontion at hisfcwn eyeD.and reouest
ed the crowd to stop their blaarin';'
lut tho admonition seemed to encourage
mner than repress their vociferous
merriment.
hen nra reaohed the church, My
the seven couples of the bridal party.
" Old Lisli'and myself, were permitted
to cntor." The two major-domos would
Iain have been admitted: but the old
clerk , was inexorable. " I've seen you
haps before," said he, as he slammed
the iron-etudded door in their faces and
, locked jt. t
t slmostJoipoMiblo to obtain
silonoo when the curate took hut place
tlMibtl tb WW fails. ', The bridesmaids
talked and giggled; the groouwrocn
whiRpered and nudged each other and
theuj iiartnora.. , Treeently a whisper ran
round, '"Kan's bubbling;" and shortly
itnr s murniurod' imprecation having
- iwfwioe-to-ttHj speaker's eyes, tlmt
i Ball's fainlpd" JJure aeongh, she was
tiprawimg pa im fiavsaioat; but it was a
Ltraosparsnt inos ol acting that uoul.l
leoeivetiJoly. Ir, Luhman watchsd
r contortion and her f bringing to"
tli mnch saibifaclioh. lie evidently
UWiglil' hW oanghUf bad achieved a
liikoiiihi for Im reaurlMtd diMctlv to his
l atiiUiuliraeair to nts. thatWr vobi
Birtlisrrttlo.,
1 4- 4 y. "Cioxgjmaa.
' i
- Clerk (whispering in Oeordiea parp-
.. v. . n ill.
UeOBdie . (flrmjyj-j.'' Awwnll-oer.
tniy;'BurV-aw ouni liere a-pnrpose."
Wergyman (to Sallie) "Wilt thou
i have this mnu"
vuuu
tig)
6wU immediately.,, iateitupi
Clerk (raising' h hand, Imploriiiely)
j)-"to bfc thy
wwided hBBband refb
.. 3 . Ill . .
oauie quiCKiy) " ITye please, hur.
Bailie "I will, but." !
to be married to this man?" - j ;y
- Mr. LiaTinian nodded his head af the
par8on,tand then winked onq eye myste
rionalv several tim(i. 1 ' f
riousiy several times. '
Tnetomimiq feai was followed bx;Wjik he ImyOOMdfWJtaS JW-
ly rebuked by the curate, . The rud war
tttea demanded, Ueordie producing it,
neatly seootred, on ha end of v brhsh
handle. lAt. this, , another smffawlwaa
evoked fron Jbe six men, andlcouvul-
sive titters irom the, six maids, j Byt a time.'
wis time i pould appreciate the clerk's
sagacity in' keeping the other crowd but-
when tlie names had been reris(Jred
in the vestry, and the usual fee paidj the"
procession was again formed in the aisle,
the newly-married couple " linking ' and
leading the Van.; The clerk then turned
the key in the rusty lock, and peered
out. Instantly the howls and veils of
the 9utside crod filled the air, and sug
gested tne idea that it. was a turbulent
riot, instead of a matrimonial rite, that
dbe-ciebrftW4,,,;;,h';,t-
. . Through-, the church portals the bride
and groom emerged. In front of them,
just butsiae1 the porch door, the " petting-atones"
had been erected. This
singular relic of nymeneal antiquity is
oomppsed of ..ilree stone" 'piUatsl each
about thirty inches- hiirfi. Two are
placed upright,? about two feet apart,
while the third ia placed as.a cross-piece,
connecting the tops of the two; ! As the
uutuu yf. y w Mru wm viuuMtn muiio 14U1'-
dle, the two favor-bedeoked major-domos
darted uem each side of the doorway,
and very unceremoniously clutched her
one by either arm and hoisted her clean
over the " petting-stones." Then he on
the left kissed her, whilo the oher re
ceived ' firing-mouey " from the groom.
Simultaneously there was a deafening,
indiscriminat ng volley of, jubilant
musketry outside the churchyard, that
vexed the nerves and the tympanum.
The bride and groom then " linked "
and marched toward the crowd. Two
other pit-laddies jumped at the first
bridesmaid, caracoled hor over the
" petting-utoneef'1 kissed her, and black
mailed her partner as before. And so
the -process was repeated !tilt all the
tflies had been hoisted ' over. Borne of
the girls straggled, Boms- giggled and
jumped, while the seventh, a blushing
naiad of two hundred pounds or so,
stood and submitted to be lifted with
sullen resignation. - Coarse jokes circu
lated when two slender pitmen made a
frantic attempt to elevate her avoirdu
pois; but it was a signal failure. They
upset the stones, dropped her, took a
hearty smack at her lips; and the lifting
was over. k 'As each pair loft the church
yard, a handful of pennies was pitched
into the air, to. be soramblod for by the
boys, and the way these young ruffians
mauled and tore ach other was a cau
tion to see.
Amid the firing of guns and the cheers
of the crowd, the wedding-party entered
the "Blue Boll" parlor, while tho
shooters and their friends entered the
kitchen. Half a dozen half-gallon intra
of ale were soon circnlliMsg among the
uproarious fellows, and the noise, inter
mingled with occasional musketry, grew
fast and furious.
me men wno naa oiuciatea at the
',' petting-stone " rites now entered amid
great laughter and approval. They had
come for the bride's garterspa extra
pair, -of blue-silk ribbon, worn in tho
bosom, for the occasion. The m join
ed tlwr companions, Waring aloft tho
silken trophies. Before long the pro-
cession was again lormeu, somo oi mo
crowd following, othors remaining to
makeadayof it. V ' T
When the bride rcachod her father's
boms, a female .rslstivs met bur with a
plats of bride's-cake, cut into small
squares. A white napkin was then
thrown over her hat to protect the
orange-blossoms, and the plate and cake
were pitchod over her liad, the chil
dren scrambling for the piooos of cake.
i After the substantial portion of the
wedding dinner had been dispatchnd,
Mr IJidiman rose with a glass in 14s
I hhiUilr filial
" Awl druilvall gu.le healtlis and
Bailie's too.ird -Uat her ducks U
p"Un; tnt, nnfortnflat4!ly,-it mmiurtsj
(led
Oeordis Foster's uuclo ofN story, that
.,'. T. r -t' r 7 7" i 1 '
he proceeded to relate, accompanied by
mues)ajetMiefloiifltnrata & pari
of the author of the toast Said oldafi
Toeter: "When tAiah iaa iuA,
began to Keep oocks and hens, hejnsed,
to wlrtclrthent eatithfrhour togithrfi
He kenn'd nough. abont poultry tfiBnT
butyen dayJte bouglbta deuk (dufk) at
Newcastle maike, f nd, aamed it Han:
proud as a piper. After puttiugjthe'
new-ivsl amonglfa kens, ie wen anil
got their bait out, od scattered a tand
ful of oats among'thsnt: The hens jxffifi"
pecked, but the hungtyeuk laid itrtat
biU on 'we' ground and, running V
along, soopped up,its grub in the whola-' '
oola foot,!.. JL.1 ? , .
o iiiuuu u ueuiLs in general. yani
now,' said Jhe fftjey, SaUie, to the! new
bird, 've mnnna nlntfiar it in U.V
. w.mw .w u.c iiuav.
But still, the. hungry deuk .went' em
' Cum out wrye,' cries yer father; gaa,
seuwi'a shovel like that.' The" aeBTt' ,v ; rT " "V
eat away.-howev,,, and 'Lijah he tuSSiri S JJ2
it under his .arm, took out his pooket
knife, and out its bill to a ahum r.A,vt'
Then he threw the deuk down. crvdnV:l
'There, WW, gnwn, fair play, one" oaU
Alter dinner the seven couples again
paraded the street the bride and the
groom leading the van. A tremendous
pjley pf oWshw BlipprsajaMieaher
besoms, Vas thrown after her as ehejlef k
her father's house. They now proceeded
up the "row " to see the newly-furnished
house, preparatory to repairing to the
"Cross-JCeys," where the wedding dance
was to be held. There were about thirty
couples at the ball? .The ladies' plied
their feet gayly, They double-shuffled;
they one-two-thsae-and-hopped; they
J0!6 .".IJigh-cJt;" and they ex
hibited the intricacies of the Highland
fling. The .bonnie pit laddies doffed
their coats and jumped and hallooed ind
beat time, until the 'perspiration ran
from them in trickling streams. The
fiddler ' scraped away at a breakneck
pace. His body swayed to and fto, and
his foot banged away, marking time as
if he meant to' burs't dliole in the floor
-djftJEEJteMk.Knil-l
there were jnai.jxuas.-ot--" Squeak the
fiddle 1" when a .horrid .kind of cater
wauling was produced, upon hearing
whiclLfivery .Jaokey. kissed his Jenny.
lhe wedding ball wound up with "Joan
Anderson, 4r' the cushion , dance "r-fy
peculiar performance where , there 1 n
alternate kneeling by nien befor womeh
and women before men, ad infinitum, '
and kissing ad nawram. poor
bride thus was oompellod to kiss every
man in the room. . .'.';; ' r
At eleven o'clock", Mrs. Sallie Foster
was escorted home; by her six brides
maids, undressed, sewed in a sheet, put
to bed, and left.'-. After he bridqemaids
left the bride, the "groon'nd his men
came alongX With many etood wishos,
khey left' himt the door. jrhen they
sang some ribald verses, an$'went home
to bed. y. V r '
Sold Him Oog, J
Dipk Lazybones was the owner of a
large dog, which oost as much to keep
as two pigs; and the dog wad worse than
useless, and greatly annoyed Dick's
wif , ," PHiuge; "take- tha'dogf cried
sue. - jir. .uazyDones, 1 wish you
would sell him, do something or other
with him. I wonder you keep such
useless animal" " Well, well, my dear,
said Dick, " say no more about it.
will get rid of him one of these days.
This was intended as a mere " get off
on the part of Dick ; but, as Ida wife-
kept daily dinning in his ears about the
dog, he was at las, compelled; to ; take
action in the matter. 'HVellj wife."
said he, one day, "I've sold Jowler.
" Have you, indeed " she cried. " " I'm
dreadful glad to hear it." How muoli
did you sell him fori" " Fivs dollars."
"Five dollars t What! five dollars for
one dog f How glad I am I Bntwhere's
the money, my love!" "Mcmevf re
peated Dick, tuking a long pipe lozily
from his mouth. "I didn't get sny
money; I took two puppies at two dollars
and a half a piece."
A'Oallia hero observes ths following
as the only way to deal with, lions and
lionesses not to be. afraid of them
" Look here, I who speak to you I make
Haida' fetch my whip or handker
chief like a dog. Ton have been her.
Don t believe she acts through affection.
Baida loves me note Oft, raising her
head to lick my chocks, I read "ia Jicr
look a oonooalcd wrath and an indecision
possibly fatal to me. It is in those mo
ments that X donooutrate alt ,tfy aoorgy
in my eyes Icajiss all my will to flow
into my brain, and there emanates from
me a fascination that run be bcliovod
irrcsiHtiblc, and 'Bsida rtweutes her
us miHiortuns to exLibit the leant sp
prehnHsiow IwinMv'injmnml.'' Bo
speaks niUl, the fufihionsbj? ysrishin
tnenngpriiit, who has to be bolder than
a liun In his business.
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PFt'. Me,
..ilhA
r" ) m. ' ods
i. " wmw.t nwCTmi mwm in raw
' t lv6 jeaeailyiys a resident of Bait
iS'iniFnlinrrwuntyfWtfeTOat ail
artiele from) Sdotb J)ybar with this cap
tionV " Personal F.mflrixnnn nf k fUli
fcfjt ?aJ5'pT,ar.V,.T?f aW
mt siwiarticlevfrom 4heLos Afageles
Ilirald densiiVing la the strongest
Uoeiiitgtks aforesaid letter, and promt
fafaf Ma.' lloulct, U jislt tha, Angel
City,",' "rids on the raggei edge of "a
three-cornered Vail t& the tune of the
yguVMarck. iX I: i
L .(This we eall strong language for 1876,
and has a strong savor of lawlessness, if
not of barbarism. I also consider it good
f6ol that 'your correspondent told th
exact truth" hit the nail on the head.
never, makes men winoV after
our oVnexpirienof andj that of others
wno have spent sometime in southern
cjifiargosa t ionnxm-ftll'thft'' your
porrespondent has said. , . . j I
k It is ai truth that cannot' ldhg be con
oealedt ilifOt tjie - wOrld fa being terribly
deceived in, regard to . southern Cali
fornia both as respects its being a para
dise for invalids and for fruit growers. I
-hatt seen many articles in its praise. All
the, newspapers here, howevef -much
they differ on other points, agree in ex
tolling it in the strongest language, as if
liferja. tel heavenly oonntry". itsolf ;
and every poor, invalid who reads thttm
thinks that if. he can only reach here he
Oii hardly .fail 1 a speedy jeeovery. As
a ooDsequenoe, many, are selling home
aud homestead at a great sacrifloe, and
arf ooming toj ha y sunset land," and fn
Sfny if. not in oi majority ol instances
sc6ming'he're to aie. '
TheihTercTfmate hereTs indeed very
different from that of New England and
the Northern States. There are no snow
stdrms, hb days of pinching told. There
iff tonch beautiful weather, The beauti
ful perhaps predominates. But it is no
Ederi, ai many would have' us believe.
rafige.1 iffe nights are often Taryohill,"!
while at midday the sun soorohes. , It is
land of fogs and. frosts, and. what is
qually bad, of fierce "northers," which
are as bad to iocs as a .driving storm,
raising, as they do, thick clouds of dust
that must' be as damaging "to a consump
tive as the-worst New England dtfmp'
We say, therefore, to taw invalids who
contemplate ooming to this " New
Italy," take all reports of its marvelous
heal thf ulness at a large discount;- other
wise you will be sadly disappointed, as
hundreds have already been. Few can
afford to die here, and the boat place in
which to die is home. Think4 twice be
fore yon start for , this new Eden.' Con
sider every laudatory account as rose
colored. ' The probability that you will
not be benefited y' coming is greater
than that you will be. )
And that southern California is a para
dise for f armors and fruit growers is all
moonshine. jNincttonths of the land, if
not more, is mountain and desert. Next
to good society the greatest want is
water, and 'not an orange, fig, grape,
peach or fruit of any kind can you have
without irrigation. And irrigation means
money and hard work, and the man who
can purchase a good ranch here or fruit
orchard of any size can live comfortably
withrhrt coming here. The foothills and
plains are already beginning to turn
browa for the look of moisture, and, re
member that no rain will fall until next
fnlhor wtptor.A ?. ; .
' This is also a torriblo land. Exocpt a
few cottonwoods found on the river bot
toms there, are no trees but such as ths
human hand has planted. Whoever,
therefore, oomes here thinking to make a
fortune by raising somitropical fruits or
in any honest way without -hard work
and patient waiting, is sure to be disap
pointed. Before, theroforo, you sell your
paternal acres at a sacrifloe and come to
thin lamed land, think twice or you will
repent but onoo. ' Ilnndreds already here
heartily wish that they had remained iu
the "Staid, and gladly would tbey
re turn, if they .could. An acquaintance,
past Bieridiaa, -who loft a good Lome In
the East, thinkAig from the glowing ac
counts h had read too country that
he could live here with less work and
make more money, says: " Words will
not express the greatness of my disap
pointment." - Many of tho people f
that ths oountryis actually suffering
from the shamefully falirj statements
that arf cirouktod far and wide oottoern-
lngit. Water i indeed scarce, but
truth is scaroor.
Ws have said nothing in malios of Mas
woadstf ul country that has m ivea us so
ranch grain and gold. Wo Write to pre
frti aWrttrt Lri frofir Wtag-dedPftod by
rlimste, and the hngs fortunes to be
found in fnu'( ratiinK, ihivii Tuporfef are
Ix'ing stuttered through all ths Eastern
aud Northern Btatea by inUroskd
:i "5
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4rfies f-and If this, article' slialf b the
means of pvnWrig'ihy'Tiohi'"dlng
here Without proper oB8kUration and
qarefiil inquiry, wa shall be glad. "
avs no doubt the wife of Lieuten
ant Fltoh thinks it" "a little moon" that
she cannot have !her hecklaoe presented
by4h Khedive. ?It Is four" "hionths it
has been at the custom hansS and there
it is likely to, bet unless removed by 'the
payment of regular duties. . The Resolu
tion merely authorizes the' acceptance of
the present trom a foreign' potentate. It
is by asms supposed thaf the treasury
did allow, or that Congress passed a reso-
.ution permitting the. diamond necklace
tojje delivered to Mrs.4Fitcb; ,fre 0f
dnfy. , Such is not the fact. H may seem
a little odd, but It is nevertheless true
that the necklace "has not been appraised
by our officials.. Nor 'do 'the' owners
evince any great curiosity to ascertain its
actual value. This is perhaps attributa-
uio to uisorenon, ana cans to minu tne
famoiis Porjugueee. jugtf dlamoiut ex
hibitedTin the palace at Lisbon. This
diamond, though it is as" large as a hen's
egg and weighs over 800 karats, has
never seen subjected to the tests of Cut
ting and polishing, simply because there
is a doubt about it. , For there are ex
perts in the trade who pronouuee it tobe
grely a very fine piece of chrysolite,
alf the charm of the Khedive's present
would vanish if this celebrated necklace
were tested by the appraiser's ark The
Jewel-en's Circular - gives an exoellent
drawing of the necklace, and says of it:
The estimates of the value of these jew
els have been 'exaggerations beyond all
precedent, and 640,000 really represents
the most: liberal valuation that -oan be
put upon them, the number and size of
the diamonds are so counterbalanced by
their off-color , i; ,
The Khedive has probably never seen
the neck'laoc,' and he would hardly be
pleased to learn that those who were in
trusted w'tii lhe order in, Paris had an
eye to quantify rathor than to quality in
"1 - - 11 ' M I
a seven or eight karat stone to some as
small as ono-twelf th of a karat Ths og;
8reK!'.LJ50jghkjCtlJtho .diamonds is at
least three k hundred u Karats; bnt the
quality is what is kupwn as Cape Bywa
t(r, a quality ,of ; diamonds technically
described as being " off oolor," and they
are well paid for at 00 per karat, oost
of sotting and all included. The duty at
twenty five per cout. on the jewels would
at the utmost only bo $10,000. w
-
Much lias been, writtonof the 'awfully
grand soouery of the Colorado river.
This remarkable stream has terrors qut
of sight more improssive thou its canyon
walls, and more dangorous than its
The; Ooloradq 'liver , notod for
swirls," so-called. They occur every
where, but only at high stages of water.
A bnbblo rises from the ' bottom, and
breaks, with a slight Bound, on tho sur
face. Tho watjr at the point begins a
rotary motion, so small that au inverted
teacup might cover it. Larger and
larger grews the circle, till a surface-of
forty feet in diameter is is motion, spin
ning round a f uunel-shaped holo in the
center, two or three feet across at the
top, and coming to a point in the depths
below. . .
Often a large tree, floating. down the
stream, is caught, and its foremost end
thrust in the air twenty or thirty foot,
while the other paiios underneath, the
exposed end to be slowly drawn down
again, aud to disappear. Throe soldiers
deserter from Camp Mohave passing
through tho ravine in a skiff, immediate
ly below tho fork, suffered their craft to
run into a rwirl -
Ofie of the crew, at the .first iutlma
tion of danger, threw himself -overboard,
beyond tho charmed circle; and as Jie
swam away ho, turned his head and saw
tho boat spin round and round nutil,
one end being drawn into the vortex, and
the other nphuaved in tlie air, it slowly
sank,1 ai it revolved, into the turbid
bosom of the river, its human freight
to .be seen no more ; for the' Colorado
river does not give up the deed no
oorpses lodge on its shores.
A London manager was tolling rather
a poor aneodoto, without mnch point In
it, to ths mcmlwrs of hi company as
sembled in the green room. Mot tf
them sycophants, they U laughed
loudly at tho fnebU Josi X beg pardon,
all bnt one. The dull , dog who refused
to lough, and who looked profoundly
mUrnjjlc, as. a! Jaas nidged by his
companion, "Why dotf'r 704 lartgh.
flTjkjt'-rwh't ih-ttLian is ash I Iko'l
youesetiiegewraor Is louHing ai youi
"Lot ldni .look, yon fool," was the an
swer, " don't you know I'm going to
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' All the taransactlon'i in Wall Itreet,
says ths Sun, are carried on wilhoVt any
oontract exoept the mere word ca man,
and a case of a dispute) being bonght
before an arbitration committee in an x-
oeedingly-rare oocurrenoe. True, peoes
sity compels people Here be" faithful
to their word,' for ii any formality fn the
shape of a written ecu tract had been in
troduced, the dealers' would sot be able
to transact one-tenth of the sbiisiness
they transact now. It might accordingly
be argued that this kind, of honesty is
not of a very high sort, since people ore
honest simply because they ctmnotifford
to be dishonest. : -' : tut
.The community of stock and".-gold
brokers is quite a brotherhood. . Exoept
cases when some personal quarrels may
nave taxenpiaoe, me Droners are ail on .
terms of exoellent fellowship with' each
other.: The youngest of them look very
much like schoolboys. All sorts of frac
tiooJ jokes are indulged in while business
is g(ng on. Very seldom will you.hear
any one called by his family name;' it is
all "Jim,1 "Jack," ""Ben,H or ."Char
ley," and the moment two fellow work
era become well aoqualnted, - there is
hardly any service that they would re
fuse to each other, i . , - . , c ,
- Like every other class of ;men, the
brokers may be divided into respectable
and vagabond classes. The respectable
ones have plenty of money, large -offloos,
several clerks, and always require -from
a customer a very heavy, margin, while
tlie vagabond boys do business ill aree
lance kind of style, aud will satisfy theni
selves with a gunrantoe of $100, where a
solid and respectable firm would require
$1,000. V ; ''
Like the brokers themselves, so also
the stocks may be divided into respecta-.
hie and blackguard uues. : The respecta
ble stocks will allow you to sleep quietly
at night, but very seldouTis there Vny
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no means safe thiuga to carry over night, "
will give you ample chance to gain or : .
lose hundreds of dollars in a few hours.
' All von can exnect to make in specu
lating iu Rook Buand, Now York" Cen
tral, New Jersey Central, or any similar
concerns is about one dollar a week, un
less you Kse that ailm and have to pny
the commission lesides; while vagabond
stocks will make yon lose or win hun
dreds, possibly thousands of dollars iu
the same period of time and with lhe
snnie amount of oapital - 4
The physiological and anatomic, con
dition of the body of brokers is nut a
very easy subject for luvestigatiou, the
great brotherhood being composed 01
members very differently constituted
and situated. There are altogether about
1.3G0 brokers in tin Gold ami Stock
Exchange, and of these barely C00 ore
in a state to buy to-morrow t new suit
of clothes. The vast majority of them .
are much like briefless barristers or doc
tors without practice, the only diffcrWieo
being that both tho lawyer and the doc
tor are pretty sure to go onward 9ce
they get a start, while the broker is con
stantly going up and down hill, partly
in cousequeuoo of the nature 01 Ms
business and partly because easily-made
money is easily gone. "
There is a large number of dealers, iu
stocks and gold who are married men -of
the most quiet and domesticated dispo
sitlom Tlie other day, for insUnoi on
seeing a man who had never lofore
touched anysgabond stock, buy a" few
shares of a fluctuating oonocrn, I asked
what was the matter with him. - ,
" Oh, spring i coming, and J want
some flower seeds for my wife's garden,"
answered he, " so I'm trying to mako a
f.iw dollars to cover the expense. An-
other will In the same wsy buy a few
shares of Atlantic and IViflo telegraph
to pay tlie cot of a new dress or a sliawl
for his spouse.
The younger and as yet unmarried
generation of brokers is, perhaps, not
quite as properly behaved a body of per
sons. Ia fart, a yiung Wall street
broker aud a fast man are almost syno
nyms,.' But this fastness of their ia
greatly attributable to ths nature of their
oocuiation, "Brokerage both iu stocks
and gold Is exciting. A man must be
very quick and bervom to rvt along at
all here, and the development of both
these characteristics naturally ' intlu
AuocSlhe whole of his life' , i
k Vast Bad CniSAHiH. Judge Wil
son bad a case of " very bad Chinaman"
la his court at Bun Diego, One Mongo
lian charged another with atralitiB;
several hundred cigars flora his itorv
add denounced the kvumhI fii "truii
oroe thing like tho; " lis Viy 'll
Chinaman; he lived b'tuy houw I'O
week; be eat my grub, pay me not oi
dolls; he bummer, no good for work, at
a same as Mvlioaa msu,"
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