“THE RAGPICKERS. ELEMENT OF THE POPULA- TION OF A GREAT CITY. Blue Blood Owners »f Horses and Wagons Aristocrats of the Hand Cart Rummagers of Morning and Night Life Near the Dumps, Ragpickers form a very important ele ment of the basy population of a great city like Brooklyn, and a careful observation of their methods will reveal some curious and interesting nots, They are properly di- vidod into four distinct classes, each having a soparate fleld of action and seldom ine fringing upon the territory of the other divis- jons of the fraternity. The first class, who could quite properly be called the upper ten of ragpickerdom, includes the itinerant deal ers who conduct their business by means of dated looking horses and wagons, They aly indignantly resent their ordinary ragpickers, but me to name them ch, prnnual Homss fee of £3 for g the city’s rubbish, her price for goods than wl the handearts, and fro i 3 of their own for assort- rsomt oud storage of thelr purchases 1 genarally carry ona thriving business, & from lon and acquaint know chotcest 11 wivioub Aas ¥ [S41] nd perience Annee gre found, iar dates for calling on small ynents in order fo SOCUre I trimming y 100 by pickings of su r houses, manuf Hiner este the re ashes ver 200 (8 carted lots South Brooklyn and elsewhere in miserable hovels neans the loast, 65.000 | #1 , and to Year ¢ jow which 34 It is near these dumps last, but by mw great family of ragplckers dw: up betimes in the morning await the vit the com rival of ash carts like as m with more a froury A per OW wet tl VOR down to in suppose thet litle remand in the ashes after the kers, lian 1 chil Fatmmaging street pi Dua en by the hp ba and basket fire Cel coal sentties, pots, ket t 1 ro cn , hats, cepv, baa sthors ara men, women af row yori with sunrd LF 4 L rocker at y stories of aid a postal Luffale, “and in my time 1've irked pretty long ones myself, hut I never b | of anything that equaled one that we bad the other afternoon, Our peo- ples are building » Hine from the terminus of the Cansdala Pocilie to "Frisco, aml 1 I Vice-President Henry Rosetier tall free with Preaident Chandler in his offien, In dir. Rovener wim gt Jo® GO eralon Mew York eit Voest minsfer, which fs on the Paclile const just opposite Vincouegr idan, warn talking sorrow the oontivent, By that routs 18 Is about F000 miles, f the wire was made up via Buffalo, Toronto, end the Canad oils, Every fow mila wien I coukl hear oo icine Hat chip in, and nll slong the clreuit the operators wore ‘on,’ It wos & wonder t0 everybody, nnd {ho ine prety wore working as clear nae a boll on thet Jong conper wire," wUhiiongo Times, 0 Lixy When a hapoy thought comes to a bilious tian ho ought to shake bands with © and make it feel nt home, New Orleans Pica yo, they wore | Again they who Ww But lect fit MANUFACTURE OF BOGUS WINES, “Imported” Brands Made in 8 New York Dasement=Distillation of Halslns, There are several old Frenchmen in New York who have made almost national repu- tations as wino dealers and experts, They have about retired from business, but, with the proverbial thrift of thelr nation, they still find time to tend to their shops a fow | hours duly, Bome of them have large restaurants in connection with their whole | ! sale and ritall wine trade, and favored cus- ' tomers are often given an opportunity to smack their lips over some rare old w ne, whose label is too dust begrimed to be legi- ble, and as they hold the wine to the light they become enthusiastic over its color, flavor, and Souquet, and probably order soveral dozen bottles of it sent to thelr homes, Now this wine may be old and it may be new, It may have been imported from France, or perchance it was pressed ont on the sunny Italian hills; but it is more than probable that the old Frenchman, unless he knows that his customer has a trained and delicate palate, has given him somo that is but the partial product of the wine, and was concocted under the skilled eye of monsieur in the of the very estab: lishme where it is wi wile sub-basement drunk, should one pling of his own that of another, exactly on the label rep of a ju indifferent ntary in ¢ labor outcome varieties blend be an American nder false colors \zenuity y without some small $0 this element rems worst of productions ufactured fornia wines, ores vi wines They are the distl with logwood inls of . a Good Fighter, for is Salary. 2 county. The lead letter guaranteeing that and would pay ones of these ¢ him hand letters which churches noted for not paying will write, He went and served them a whole year ac coptably, meockly n fact, asf patience The his salary that was dt tondshed to meet a man take just what t fit to give him voluntari! they had wl hiv pet debits on the strength of the prot made by their official members, and those debts had to be paid. He went into court, produced the letters written by t! fei al members, obtained judgment and col And he did right. Rev, J, H. be- Democrat, anlar and patieotly nished at his he demanded all of Wore f ne not willing to church had sect he told them can ont Lb] Goede y In ft What Might Paris sees Hole bays Have Neen, atten of thw hive f hanted back to Octavia, and the divore court lawyere-'‘decree quietly secured; no publicity «would never have made a cont from him. Had Dante seen Beateico ire a half brick at the vandal hen which pros pected for sovde in ber flower bed spring, it is again safe to say that Le have sont back her notes, her whik pen wines, the i) ok s passed nerom the st f rocky courtship whic! i ¥ eolobrated In a poem esdied *T0 "wel fiero Inter-Ovean be a Bristasn Inferno Ensy to do Right, The Connt de Densujenncy, who fonchos French for “anmsement’ and a high con Sderation, Is very thin apd very pious, Ha wes soos coming out of Mar, Preton's church the other day by Joo Howard, SEs very cary for him to do right," eid the veteran journalist, "we have the world, the devil and the flesh to fight; he has the only the world and the devil.’ There ore $6,000 women rolls ns widows, dependonts or deconsod soldiors, relatives. of : QUAILS AD NAUSEAM. 4 MAN IN CHICAGO EATS THIRTY BIRDS IN THIRTY DAYS, - wo A Gastronomie Feat Sald to Be Une equaledeScones at the Final Feast. How a Wager of $1,000 Was Won. tnough. John C. Mann ate his thirtieth quail in thirty consecutive days the other evening, at ex-Alderman Jonas' restaurant, and his backer, George R. Clark, wins $1,006 from Alderman Hildreth, A little over a month age Alderman 1.000 as a wager that Mann could not eat thirty quails tn thirty days, one cach day : a quail to be eaten between the hours of 6 and 7 o'clock in the evening, The money was covered, and the contest of J. C. Mann vi. his stomach commenced on the evening of Dee He at ones put himself under the care of Dre, Bryden, of Chicago, and Mit chell, of Minne to thelr vice has diot © ments supper each well until he re ved for the month on a I for breakfast and light cold wer, winding up with his quail He got along whed his twenty evening of evening Very all this oo h iL on tu eu 31 iin casi i hie } nd stay per wns NE £7 and it in the atten This il h with only after a hard strogele, pected that he would fail consume his thirtieth. belief was hened by the fact ; y Mil t 10 f streagt lor, a res rugged eater but he was ores with his handsome tex ms a dillcult one. As r with the final act a man wen entered the restaurant, pressed his way up to the table, and commenced a | sort of speech with the evident inten gickening the eater. He referred to the that Mann should now be able to the % as he must § time be rou ¢ acauain . and bones, mnscles, of Dr ordered the it wae hard | intro for ho was about tin the » Put Mann YRS or twice, but by ¢ oted his stomach He gulped once salt and ox last fibor Mahoney anid Lo ery aul tossed Lhe ever | ' f th ¥ victory, though many have attempts Youne Mann is a fine looking follow of about twenty medin deed, rather fleshy, ¢ a handsome face amd pleasant manned kas for some time boon en gad in restaurant badness in Louis vill ) The latter city is at pred He ate his thirtieth quail fn « 0 ininotes and LY me On bs veal dosize 10 tho rout nut soon after worl It was believed that he would part with his winning suoper Yefore it was hal an hour oll, At all events be has had ol the avall bo desires for a liletine “If yo man hankering alter quail,’ in fw, Te] a great conned find ony sald, cx he bid the peporter good night “plas tall im that he may have my shave from this oul Chiongo Herald, A AANA A Hard Conl Base Durner, Pl fhr2x hard vonl base barner stove waa taken to Deadwand, D, T., recently, Authere 8 10 hand coal out there to urn én it, the importer of the curiosity thinks of convert ing it {nto su jee cronm (rover, et dee rte { than {evolved by a process of evolution. feame into existence a quarter of | PACS first Hildreth offered to put up | { that ihe ar end a clipped d { were heard { Haven college's 'Rahs with a long howl on { the a, | after, as Princeton came into athletic | tions w J we aceording | The Peculiar Whoops and Fhouts Adopted by Differsnt Students. One of the college papers has compiled a list and history of college cheers. Accord- ing to it the original shouts of the colleges wore a repotition of the name of the college. This gave an advantage to the colleges which had sonorous names, and as the con- stant aim of cheering is to make more noise the other checrers, new yells were These n century ago, when Yale and Harvard had their boat on Lake Quinsizamond, the "Rah! "Bah! thrice repeated was heard, Harvard the "Balm full, and added Harvard," pronounced so all that was added to the New when 'Rali! sonnded wor ‘Yale Princeton's cheer was developed soon + rela th the took the Hd Lot" as i ome of the Lan must the ship in a scaway Gravitation in the Moon. n writer treats « TRY The Last Year's Tea Palace. The structure of the Bt Paul io last winter wos of rectangular or ground plan, 180x154 foot, wi h pring tower 100 fect high, surroundal by of towers, ole, piving very beaatifnl and plete architectural charactor to the baildls Tho § pal entranee was andor a ares of ten foot span amd wendy Live foe Bi te Lioeks of which tho palatns w © i ro twenty two inches by fori) forse barbers by twonty docks, the latter being the (ehaes of the fee. They wers marked ont on the surface of the foe on the Misis spp river, and sawed at once to thee distendons, which were unchanged after: ward, cxerpt where, in round towers, ete. woe trinuning with axes was required. The blocks were raised in place by ive tongs and tackle ope by fle by The Blocks in walls and arches wore comontad with water, which, at the existing tempera. ture from almost Immediately -<Doston Budget, Wolves are very numerous fn the Texas Panhandle, : . 4 wan we " “ WO — LIST OF COLLEGE WAR CRIES, | de : With chivalric A LOUISIANA BALL. HOW THE CREOLES OF THE AT- TAKAPUS PRAIRIE ENJOY LIFE, 1859-1986 A Fen Frolic at 8 Lone House on the Prairie, Pleture of Village Hospitality. A Lively Soenes'"Gombo'’ and Chivalry. The Old Peddler, Across the rolling mall cavaleade trotted, appar hurry to reach its destination The natural gait of the little Creole ponios was an easy or cantor; therefore it was tl frregular 14 trot of the & PAL Ing pli ut the heavy in the party, all ex In tho comes of th to be Great Reduction Attakapus prairie n ntly in no lope’ 3 arin Geni Th ' ra They socrned or thelr hearty isu in French, oll ial : g tEN el PRICES! ! GROCERIES Lower Tan the I ow est. viest in anos! | Q La a Call. Give u We Guarantee Satig- faction. | Gwir freadom from the a | Countrv Prodvce swat their yepast until the ix porved lappy In the enjoyment of the lovely danos and gay conversation, the guests for pot this paliop of the hours, and when the ing began to stead over Ow ity did they realize that New vd coane and another your was Charles BE. Whitney in Times On band, and Wanted at all times. vshwred in Detvocrst., A Beroen from a Hares, i In Washington dwell two young women who own so much bricadwac that they have moved into a larger house $0 accom. | maodate it. Among other rare things ia a | soroon, euch as is weed in eastern barems, | wade of carved wood, with curious little | windows which opon and shut lke doors | Chioaro Times, alt am SE MiSsbgnant The late Sir Moses Montefiors was ons of tho Jest persons in London who went about 1 4 werdnn chair, with four bearers. C. U. HOFFER Allegnes y se. , Belletonte, Po RA
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