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PROFESSIONAL CASUS. J. N. SM ITH. M. D., PHYSICIAN AND 8 U E 0 B 0 N NEW PRICES. NEW GOODS. Do yon know you have naked for this price less thiiitf As a child might have asked for a toy— Demanding what others have died to win With the reckless dash o boy? Dallas, Oregon. 0 1 « on Mill S t , North M Court B oum The Largest Stock and Cheapest Goods ! ! DR. W. H R U B E L L , D E N T I S T , You have written my lesson of duty out— Manlike you have questioned me; Now stand at the bar of my woman’s soul Until I have questioned thee. Dallas, Oregon. A I am fair and young, but the rose will fade From my soft young cheek one day; Will you love me then ’mid the falling leaves, As you did ’ mid the bloom of May? LL WORK DONK IN F U S T -G L A U ST Y L E O lio# on® door aurth ®f J D. L®® a Whito ' Brick JOH N T D A L Y N L BUTLER D A LY & B U T L E R , F or P eople the of P o l k C o u n t y ! Is your heart an ocean so strong and doei> I may launch my all on its tide? A loving woman finds heaven or hell On the day she is made a bride. A T T O R N E Y S A T LAW , M L L PRO M PTLY AT T EN D TO A L I. LE G A L huamees entrusted t® them Odio® ob Mill 8t •ppoclto Court House, Deilas W ' I take pleasure in annouusiag to the publio that uiy E. J. DAW NE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, and Notary P u p llc - ^ F E C I A L ATTENTIO N G IVEN jTO COLLECTING . I had loaning money. Always prepared to loan from $1M te I3.M0 on personal or rsal astate security Ofllee in Griswold's building, opposite the bank, Salem, Ore- SPRING STOCK ! Is now open and ready for inspection «•» J. H. TOW NSEND, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Tn M!y In d e p e n d e n c e S to r e Dallas, Oregon. IT1C1I ON M A IN STREET. OPPOSITE On” -«i House. Collections ma.’.e a specialty. 0 e T b . s k i p w o r t h THE You will find the FIN E ST GOODS and the L A R G E S T ASSORTM ENT of , GENERAL MERCHANDISE ATTORNEY AT LAW, -A N D - K e p t on the Went Side of the Willamette, outside o f Portland. Notary Publ'o, Albany, Oregon, P RACTICE IN A LL THE COURTS IN THE U r ILL •tate. All business sntrusted to him promptly at- »•ndsd to OfBc* lu O'Toole's Block, Broad Albln 8t., M L Ptuee Dalli Qes. W . Balt, Iaclspan-lance BELT My & PIPES. ATTORNEYS AT P. LAW, T n m y P e r r y d a l e DALLAS, OREGON. GENERAL M ERCHANDISE P r o m it ! A tt e n t io n P a id t o B u e lu r t s . Suitable for the Country Trade. O r r ic * -O n Main Street, two doors north o f Tustoffloe You will also find a L IN E of Millinery of the Latest Styles! DR. J. B. JOHNSON, o u t l s t - Haring returned to Indepeudence to permanently locate, is prepared to da all kinds of dental work. Filling and treating a specialty. Office in vanduyn & Smith's new brick, up stairs.- TITJTTT. Produce taken in Exchange for Goods at Market rates. U. A. JO H Give me a call before purchasing elsewhere, and SEE MY GOODS T R U IT T &. JOHNS, and G E T T H E P R IC E S !! Attorneys-at-LaTT, EZRA D ALLA S, OREGON. FFIOB ON House. 0 s t o r e Yon will find a CO M PLE TE ASSORTM ENT of SULLIVAN, Attorney at Law, X D Department Is complete in every reepect and in the hands of u oompeteut Milliner. £W~ W ill practice in all the Courts ef the State. Office up stairs in Court House. OHAS. Millinery M ILL STREET, NORTH O FOOU R hUffltS DR. I. T. ALL I ASK MASON, R E S ID E N T PO PPLETO N. D E N T IS T . Dallas, Oregon. Is that you do yourself justice by buying goods where you can get them the cheapest. (Late o f Eugene City and Sheridan.) Nltro Oxide or Laughing Gan administered. *■ stairs over H. ’ Butler's store. D a l l a s , Nov. 17, 1882. Ofllee A E. SCOTT, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Latoof Oakland, Cal., has permanent! j located in I know it is the practice among a great many merchants to sell a few leading articles at cost, but they must make it up on somethiag else. I intend to strictly adhere to very LO W PRIC EP in everything I offer for sale, and in & DRESS FANCY GOODS, DALLAS, OREGON. Will be found Drag Store. at CLOTHING all times at B. M. Smith’s Z. T. DODSON, M. D„ PHYSICIAN, SURCEON. A N D - OBSTETRICIAN. Hasbermanently located in Dallas, Oregon. Ofllee in Hyde's drug store. noylltf. W Furnishing Goods, Etc., Etc. H HOLMES. at Law, There is no doubt, or question but I shall sell them very much lower than the same goods have ever been offered in this market. S a le m , O reg on - Please to call and price the goods and you will see that I am in earnest jo h n M c D o w e l l Attorney and “7 Counselor M. M. E L L IS , Real Estate Agent, S u c c e sso r to W . C . B r o w n , I) 1I.LAS, OREOON. D A LLA S , OREGON. MARCH 8.1883 P A R T IE S D ESIRIN G TO B U T OR SELL REA L estate, will do well to consult me. Office two deors west o f Jap R. Miller’s drug store. BURNS J. L. C O L L I N S , Attorney and Counselor at Law * M O B R IB O N , LIVERY AND SALE STABLE. D a lle s , SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY. • reR A «. H. I. LINES & LAWRENCE, M AM CrACTLRIRS AND D 1 A L 1 M IN rrR xrrrB R » s p b ix c * b i d ». And a ll kinds of AS B IE N IN P RACTICE OF HIS PROFESSION la this place for abeut tweaty-five years, and will attead to all business O S s t e p p o s i te ths Dallas Hotel, censer e f Mein and swrt sveet. Dalles, Polk Coaaty. Oregon H O BB ES. C A R H IA O E 8 A N D L 1 V K B Y H WILSON ft BAY. At U . M ost R a a m b a U C o l t . y .A C . o f « « m m .r e l A l m e B eta s ! a a ip A -n L ltf. BURNS A MOBRIBON, Prop'rA. Drap, Patent . ^ S T A T IO N E R Y , TRE B ELT HOUSE ! P E T E R C O O K . ................................... Pmeraiarua. Perfumery, Fancy and Toilet Articles. O r f f .n . CIOABS AND TOBACCOS. P ERK Y D ALE. OEEOON T ROW ELL & SON, B la ck s m ith s , H o rs « » changed hands an o will b® rua M • trat elea# I heus® In BV®ry ra®p®®* he belt ha DALLAS CITY MILLS, DALLAS, ORE BON, WILSON & HOLMAN, PROPRIETORS. D ALLAS, O R E G O N ,, A RE NOW HEAD Y TO DO A L L K IND S O f A Bleoksraith work in their line o f business in the beet style end on the lire end let live plea. You will ta d them at their shop whenevsr work is wanted, day e r a g h t Oar shoe is at the Elk hero sign, one door south of Burns A Morrison's lirsrj stablu W s thank you for yotir custom in the rest end hope yea will eonttane the seme in the fntoee. W e ere yours truly, R O W E L L » BON Dai lee. November 34, 1883 w Giva us a call WILSON A HOLMAN D a l l a s . O regon, J a n 5. 1883 LOAN I One to Ten Thousand Dollar*. Tim® fcFrom on® to tv® year®; D a l l a s O m in o » « ILL A i n S D TO BIS HL W.1 ERM IS pA r, off lA o # o m n ,f p r o m p t l y , Promptly and ia a aatitfactor? manner W® have mon«® to loan « And County Surreyor. am , C ris t and C u s to m W ork M ONEY T C P. WRIGHT. A U C T IO N EER W H avin g purchased th® above m ill«, w® are now pr®! pared to d o all kind® o f m *0 l i Truitt iifwt ik im A* Tana® Johns. Bai I reuuire all things that are good aud t.roi All things that a man should be; If you give this all, I would stake my life To be all you demand o f me. A RÏM ARKABLK PARROT While walking past u pleasant cot tage at Ocean Grove one day last August, I heard a voice calling, “ Good-morning!” I paused a moment to see who it could be who had spoken, and heard the salutation repeated, with f name udded, “ Good morning! good morning! Polly wants a cracker!’’ Looking up. I discovered a parrot in a cage suspended from a tree, the foliago of which nearly concealed the bird. Whenever I passed the place after that Polly greeted me with “ Good-m orning!’’ and if I returned the salutation she would laugh. Some years ago I saw a number of cageB with birds in them exposed for sale in a bird store. A bright little parrot was swinging in her cage at the door, and as I looked up, she said, “ Do you want to buy a bird? Take me! take me!” I found that Polly repeated this question to every person who, in passing, manifested any interest in the contents of the cages. Many times the bird was sold, the cage taken in, the bird removed and placed in a traveling cage nud handed to the purchaser; but no sooner had ho disap peared than another parrot was hung out that began to talk in the same manner. At last the trick was discovered und exposed. The salesman had many parrots which closely resembled this one in size and color. He had taught one of them to talk, and the words uttered were all tho bird could say. By deceiving bis customers be sold them the other birds, and retained the one that could talk to help bim iu his sales. The most remarkable parrot I ever knew was a beautiful green macaw, brought from Brazil. It could talk both Spanish aud English, and sing songs in both languages. I often heard it sing "Yunkeo Doodle” and a part of “ Star Spangled Banner.” The latter tune soernod too long and too complicated for it to remew ber. It would sing about three lines and then branch off into a medley, which consisted o f talking, singing and laughing all together. The parrot was owned by the next- door neighbor, and swinging in the cage on the porch opposite my win dow for months iu tho pleasant weather, I had a rare opportunity of listening to it anil observing it. It not only imitated sounds, but soemod to really understand the meaning of much that it said. I remember tue first time I entered the house, us I was going up the steps leading to the entrance, Polly called out, “ Mother, Mrs. Clark is com ing!’’ I was astonished and amused beyond measure. My friend met me at the door. Laughing heartily, she said, “Ah, Polly 1 you are mistaken this time. It is not Mrs. Clark. "Polly always calls me. mother,” she said. “ I suppose it is because she hears the children, and she imi tates them in everything possible. I have a friend,” sho added, “ who visits me often. Her name is Clark. She dresses in mourning, and as you are dressed in black, and Polly Las novor seen you before, she thinks yen are Mrs. Clark.” Some months after this the lament ed P. P. Bliss, the sweet singer and author of so many of our beauti ful hymns, who was killed at the Ashtabula disaster, was with his wife at our home. We were prepar ing for a concert. In the evening many of the vocalists came to our house for a rehersal. My friend had asked me to bring the singers, tho next time they met, to try Tier elegant piano. As she lived so near we went over. The servant answered the bell and opened the door. As the company entered, Polly cried out- “ Bridget, kindle a fire in the hack parlor! Bridget, a fire in the back jxir/or! A UPHOLSTERED WORK. ALBUM PICTURE FRAMES. WALL BRACKETS. AND WINDOW SHADES. PIBE IN THE BACK PARLOR!” A laugh went round in which Pol ly joined. Polly’s mistress, laughing heartily, exclamed, “ Well, well, Polly! JE KE EP A COMPLETE STOCK IN OUR LINE and will call a® elr.aap a® Ut® Baia® goodB can b® I am astonished!” W go ia Portland D « net taka our w®rd ®r ®thar p®®pla® Turning to us, she said, “ I am sur w®rd for It, but eom® and bm our «*®4s and learn oar pris®® prised! I never heard Polly use those A l l k in d ® o f W o r k in o u t 1 1 a « d o m « words before. We only have fire in o > A b o rt M otto«. the back parlor when we have a large company, and Polly evidently thinks We aio® keep • ¡arg® and wall B®l®«tod «lo ck ®f we need one this evening.” Oaaketa and Oases on hand, But the funniest thing o f all w a s , as soon as the singing began, Polly W bl«b we will furnish a* R®du«®d Prioes joined in, and s a D g so boisterously asrootn on M A IN STREET, tws door® north of that we could not proceed until the Vaaduyo A Start». cage was carried out. Mr Biiss was I S D E P E R D n C E . O R E I .O V greatly amused, and asked if he could engage her to perform at the concert. Polly had learned to imitate the voice of each of the children so per fectly that even the parents were often deceived. Sometimes she would cry out as if some fearful ac cident had happened, and tho mother o r some other member o f the family wonld come running almost breath lessly, only to find it one of Polly's tricks. The youngest child, a beautiful golden haired boy, less than three years of age, had long ringlets. The nurse was not always as gentle in H E A D -S T O N E S , combing them as she might have been, and the little one wonld become Executed tn Italian and American igry, throw itself upon ttle floor id cry. I have seen Polly lie down Marble. npon the bottom o f her cage, kick ing. flapping her wings, sobbing and AIA» « « , W M » -< O e M , u 4 » « e « (M M f u i crying and saying over and over O m i«, » w » . t m é « A m i t» A»rt»l M A f m - again: “ I don't want my hair combed. ■ m e w m u t o s m m a va . o e v * *— WM. 8TAIGER, Monuments, Tablets It pullar Sometimes amid her sobs she would y, “ I don’t want to go to schoolP’ When the cage was nung so that she could overlook the dining-table, she would often ask for favorite dish es as they were brought in. At one meal I was seated with the family wbon some custard was placed be fore us. Polly immediately said, “ Mother, I want some custard!” She was always encouraged to talk by having all her requests grant ed. if it was possible to grant them. She would call the poultry, “Come quick! chick! chick!” and the hens and geese would come running to got their food. Nearly every day she calls the dog, “ Carlo! Carlo! Carlo! Here! here! here!” Then she would whistle, and tue the dog would run to the door, ex _ ixpecting to find his meal in readiness for him. When he discovered that it was only Polly, he wronld stand upon hia bind feet, and, looking up at the bird, howl with vexation. Often during the warm weather Poll was allowed to come out of the cage. Holding the branches with her bill, she would pull herself up, until she nearly reached the top of the highest trees in the garden. She could not come down again without aid, and for this purpose a long pole with a cross-bar at the top was used. If, when hold up, this pole reached her, she would quietly get upon it. and allow herself to be lowered to the ground; but if it lacked a few inches of reaching her, she would laugh most heartily, “ Ha! ha! ha! Ha! ha! ha! until all within the sound of her voice were irresislibly compelled to jr.n in the merriment. Then, as if stopping to take breath, she would exclaim, “ Oh dear! Yon will kill mo! I shall die a-laughing One day Polly was laughing at a j unusual rate, and 1 called my ser vant girl to the door to hear her. The girl had been with me but a day or two. Opening her eyes to their widest extent, and raising her hands in amazement, she said:— “ Indeed, mum, that’s no burd at all a talking that way!” “ Why not, Bridget?” “ An’ shure, it’s the evil spirit in the burd that does be talking!” ‘Oh no, Bridget: she does not say anything bad.” “Och! not whin he makes fun of a body that way? If I had the kape ing of him, shure I ’d bate him on the head wid a broom and stop his laughing!” Polly had many friends, particular ly children, who loved to hear her talk, and were anxiouB to pet her and to share any delicacy with her which she could enjov. And when I left tho town I tLink I missed Polly quite as much sr any individual whom I left behind me. SMOKING FOR TW ELVE HOURS. I’ll bet money I . can do it,” was the remark made by a brawny Soot a few days ago to a crowd of men rep resenting nearly all nationalities. The men wero standing in a saloon conversing on the recent pipe smok ing match in S t Louis. The result of the talk was a match being made for $25 a side. The contestants are John Anderson 'and Philip Cunif, a native of the Emerald Isle. A room on Blue Island avenue was select ed, and 10 o'clock tho hour The men were to smoke twelve hours, the* one scoring the greatest number of refills when time was called to be declared the winner. William Johnson was chosen referee, and promptly at the appointed hour the singular match begun. Ander son selected a light colored cut-plug tobacco and a French clay pipe; Cunif chose a medium dark, long-cut leaf tobacco and a common clay pipe. Both pipes held about 36 grains. Anderson bad his pipe filled first, and taking a match from his pocket drew it quickly across his hip; fhe match ignited, he applied it to the weed, and began puffing like a locomotive, sending out a small cloud of smoke. Cunif’s first broke, delaying bim a second or two. He was more success ful with his second lucifer and was soon under way and smoked all the faster to make up for lost time. In just twenty minutes by the watcli Cunif finished his first pipeful aLd loaded up the second time. Ander son took plenty of time in using up bis pipeful, drawing his last whiff in a minute after. Cunif had com menced his second. Cunif started off too rash, smoking at the rate o f a pipe ful every twenty minutes on an aver age for the first two hours Between tho sixth and seventh he took a rest for eight minutes, and thirteen min utes at the end of the fifth hour. A longer rest was taken at 6 o’clock to allow for supper, at which time twenty-one minutes were consumed. Itesuming after supper Ounif puffed with greater rapidity for awhile, but soon began to call for water, with which he riused out his mouth sever al times. His tongue was beginning to be sore, but he uttered not a word of complaint until he had finished his twentieth pipe, when he remarked that the tobacco was too strong. He continued, however, until the twenty sixth pipe had been smoked ont, and then tnrew up the spong at 9 o’clock 53 minutes and 34 seconds. —| St. L ou is Republican. ----------- C rushing a D upe —A young wo man riding in a Boston horse car bar) endured for ten minntes the fixed gaze o f an impertinent dandy, when a simple way o f getting the better of him occurred to her. Assuming nn expression of horror which gradually relaxed into amusement, she looked steadfastly for a moment at a point on bis coat collar just be low his ear, and then with a i qniet qr smile turned her eyes away. Ne was the complacency o f a young fool more completely disturbed. He fig ettad iu his seat, went through dread ful contortions, and almost rolled his eyes out o f their sockets in the effort to extend his range o f vision to the point below his ear; brushed softly, then eagerly, then frantically, the suspected spot, and at last, in an agony o f apprehension, rnshed ont of the ear and into an adjacent bar room in search of a mirror.—[New kork Tribane. ----------- ^ « —i ■ —------ The noblsat mind Lite boat eonMmi meat has The npward tendency of real estate New York, as exhibited in the increasing altitude of new buildings a curious freak of life in the metropolis. There iB one large and noble building in St. Lonis, on the corner of Third and Pine, seven stories high, and the recently erected Belcher refinery is eleven stories high. But there is too much ground to erect buildings on in St. Louis to _ irmit these dizzy altitudes to become he rule. With a river front o f fif . teen miles, and a western limit seven miles out, in a beautiful undulating country, affording one o f the most at tractive suburban environments in the coiiquy, our city will spread rather their tower. But New York is strictly and severely hedged in by bouudar:?f3 that cannot be overlap ped except in one direction— and this requires that the metropolis shall make up in height what it lacks in breadth. Seven and eight storied houses have been common for some time, and now we hear that one dar ing landlord is preparing to erect nn upartmeut building—the apartment arrangement is growing in favor in that city—fifteen stories high. This will carry the occupants o f the up per apartments up in the air on a level with the point of church steeples. It is enough almost to make one’s head swim to think of it But peo ple soon grow accustomed to novel ties, and, no doubt, if this fifteen- story edifice shall have the good for tune to escape burning for a few years, the striking picture it presents of success in laying off valuable town lots in the fenceless fields o f upper air will tempt, other landlords to imitate it, and even surpass it. What is to be the limit o f altitude for futnre New York houses? Who knows but that, as ground in that city becomes more and more scarce and valuable, and hoisting apparatus grows more and more perfect, the gilded Gotham youth of to-day may come to dwell in the clouds in houses twenty, and even thirty storie* high? The New Yorkers have been talking for twelve years about rapid transit Rapid transit, indeed! What is there rappid in n jogging journey o f twenty minutes to a half hour to the upper end of the city when compared with a five-seconds flight iu a nimble elevator to a serene elo vation of five hundred feet above the street. The elevator has already lifted stone, brick and iron buildings three to five stories above thero old altitude, and is drawing them sky ward still. It seems to bo accepted in the metropolis as the coming in strument for solving the population problem on Manhattan Island. Anti quarians tell us that nearly every large city in the Old World stands on the site of three or four dead cities buried in tiers below it; but who can say that three decades from now New York will not present tho picture of fifteen living populations covering the same ground nt the same time, and the languid elevator boy grand chamberlain of the aerial arrange ments? THE MANY THINGS INTO WHICH PAPER IS MADE. A tall man with sharp features and a thoughtful air, sat in a small study and gazed gravely at a brewn object that lay at his feet. “ It is a paper railroad cross tie,” he said. The reporter raised it with Hume difficulty. It was of very close fibre, and ao highly polished that it re resembled rosewood. Ita inventor tapped it with his nail, and said: “ It doesn’t look much like paper, does itt” “ It seems more like iron. Is it possible that it is made of paper?” “ Oh, yes, almost anything can now be made of paper. A paper ball can be rendered so solid that nothing will indent it but a diamond tool. Car wheels are now made of paper. Ita strength is astonishing. You can suspend 339 pounds from a Bank of England note and it will not part. Bath tube, pots, plates, knives, folks, cooking Btovee, printing presses, steam engines and chimneys are made of paper nowadays, and there is absolutely no limit to the nse to which it may be put.” “ Have paper cross ties over been used?” “ Not yet. The cross tie is my in vention." How did yon happen to think of it?” “ Well, I didn’t happen to think of it, exactly. 1 started out deliberately to invent a substitute for the wooden cross tie or sleeper, and I kept steadily at it nutil I was successful. I thought of paper. There are scores of mills in the country where paper, Btraw, prairie grass and other fibrous substances are converted into straw board. The process is simple. The straw is reduced to a pnlp and run ont into boards. These straw boards are sold all over the country as substitutes for wood. My inven tion ntilizes straw Iwant. The cross tie is constructed of sheets or layers of paper or straw board, laid one npon anotner. cemented and com pressed into molds. It makes a per fect cross tie It is practically water anil tire proof, as it is mannfactnred under 5<X) degrees of heat Atmos pheric changes have no effect on it. It can be made as cheap as wood at the present time, and will last at least twenty five years.—N. Y, Him. This touching little incident Is from the Rochester Poet. On# ri from it* perusal witL mixed feelings; “ A beautiful yonng girl was about to be married to a bachelor o f savanty years of age, but very rich. On the eve of her marriage she learned that his wealth had been suddenly swept away, leaving bim a penniless old man. Did the noble girl desert in this hour of trouble? She did. indeed, and her parents helped her, loo, because they promptly recog Bi.rel the unfitness of suen e match ring o] up we Most men are mealy-mouthed about three times a day. The only person you can take sauce from is the cook. The favorite game with black smiths is said to be old sledge. Men go to sip beer, but the trouble is that women gossip about it. If you wish to know the cents of the meeting, pass around the hat. “ Vertical travel” is the latest euphemism for dynamite explosions. Don’t be in a hurry. It is all uon- f ense to look for a needle iu a haste act. The enveloped muff is the latest dodge. Hhe is «'ways r°ady for the next male. Histopr can never do Fitz John Porter justice while his back pay is withheld. Let those without sin cast the first stone and there will be no windows broken. Any musician knows that no one but a natural would take a flat for a sharp. Cheek in a man is decidedly ob jections]; but in a woman, who ever saw enough? The Irish will be light-hearted. And so they make game of their landlords. His name was Foot. He was a grave-digger. One foot in the grave. D o you see it. There is just one man who finds life worth living for—he has a free ticket to the theatre. Winter is going, and so is egg-nog. Therefore, you will not find so many bowl-egged men. The man who smokes will come to some bad en d; that is, if he pulls on a five cent cigar long enough. “ I love the Summer,” said the boarding-school girl, when she eloped with her arithmetic teacher. The man who insists that there is novor anything lost is respectfully r e quested to bring back our umbrella. A Madison-ave girl who is expert at handkerchief flirtation thinks she ought to be chief o f the signal ser vice. The editor of tho Jersey City Journal is about to publish a book en titled “ The Wages of Sin.” How o f ten we find men writing on a subject of which they know the least nbout. We never heard of an editor writing a book on the “ Advantage of Wealth.” In the opinion o f the Boston Globe it is sad to observe how many youths of 100, 102,107, 112,118 years old, re spectively, the pargraphers are kill ing without interviewing them as to the quantity of liquor they have con sumed, and thus been hurried to per mature graves. The mashed poet declared there was nothing softer than a woman’s heart. He K n e w nothing of tho head of the dude who got away with the heart. “ It was Pi pitched without,” said clergyman i having liavim Noah’s ark for his theme, and an old base ball placer, who had been calmly slum! boring, awoke with a start and yelled “ foul. The first bass from the choir come down aud put him ont. The typical New York shop girl is unique in many ways, and is as un like the Brooklyn, Philadelphia or Boston shop girls as th* differs from the strawberry, speech, dress, habits and mod® living are peculiar to herself. It estimated that in New York alone about 10.000 girls earn their living ae shop girls. They generally o f Irish American or German parent age, and attend the pnblie school* np to the age o f 15, or perhaps 16, and then enter a store, if in lock, either at Macy’s or Ridleys’. Here they remain, first cerrh.,; ;t a small no tion counter, and il bright ble soon rising to the laoe or room. As a general thing these girls are good looking and some o f there are really beautiful, with arched in steps and long taper fingers, that many a millionaire’s daughter stand ing on the other side of the counter may well envy them. They also dress neatly, some o f them in excel lent taste, their hair being especially noticeable. So many fashionable women complain that as soon as a becoming way o f wearing the hair is known every shop-girl in the city catches at it And why should she not? I f she can make herself beau tiful by rich attire, she certainly de serves credit for trying to appear as pretty as possible. Ip walking through many o f oar large dry goods stores last week the Journalier was greatly pleased by tho general appearance o f the girls. Almost all of them wear the hair in the Langtry fashion—that is, twisted in a small knot in the nape o f the neck with a curled bang in hunt, al though many still cling to the straight bang, which* gives a not highly re fined countenance a bold look. Thefr complexions me good, though pal® from indoor confinement, and uery few use paint or powder. One h«!>rs a great deal o f talk about “ fellows” and “ hims” and “ ljee,r ‘ it is generally harmless, ’ worse, except perhftps in - _ cal construction, than th e'em indulged in by Fifth avenue Most shop-girls have very sharp tongues and unick.. tempers, and woe * Aide the fidgety or hard-to please shopper. Many timid ladies are art? iinlly afraid o f shop girls, and quake in their boots while asking in a meek voice to be allowed to see some laoe. Then the girl wants to know “ how wide, what kind, what price,” etc., in stead o f delighting the heart o f Hie shopper by bringing down all the lace in the store and letting her choose her yard or two from it The affability off the shop girl and her willingness to show ana give opinions on her wares will bring her a sure trade, and has more to do with the popularity of a store than any other thing. Now York shop girls are divided into two classes. One class who think they are Badly abused creatures, and that every lady who sits down at their counter is their natural enemy, and therefore should be treated with as little couriesv as policy will allow. This class of girls are loud in their talk, as well as exceedingly slangy, and one hears such vulgarisms as: “Oh, what cheek!” “ Do yon hear the talk of that one?” “ Cash, hurry up or I ’ll box your ears,” etc. They are fond of walking on Sixth avenne and flirting, and use much bandoline on their hair; seldom have clean finger nails or teeth. Clarence Fitz-Herbert sends us a beautiful poem beginning, “ I will wait for iny love at beavven’s gate.” We think you are about right, Clar ence. People who write that kind of poetry seldom get any further than tho gate. You’ll probably continue to wait there long after tho rest of us have passed on inside, unless yon re Tho other .class are gills o f con form and quit writing poetry and siderable refinement, who are dainty learned to s|iell heaven with one v. about themselves, pay a great deal W ife (who has been sitting up for of attention to keeping their hands delinquent); “ Are you crazy? Have white and their collars and cuffs ir you been going about the streets with reproachable, copy the manners and your umbrella up this starlight expressions of their most elegant night?” Weary husbund: “ That's customers, study the arts of pleasing just it dear. It’s the stars—perfect and patience and keep far aloof from avalauche of 'em,—couldn’t dodge the other class of girls. These two put—up ’em, so put— np i umbrella. Thought classes heartily detest each other, the ink I was intoxicated first uamed referring to the latter people would thin ife: “ If you didn’t class as “ them girls wuo try to put on if I didn't W if airs,” and the latter elevating their ‘Tired” one: “ Dun no.” what?” chins when passing the former to An “ unmerged” woman at the show their utter disdain. West, who applied for a position as Both classes are warm-hearted and driver of a »treet car, was asked if she could manage mules. “Of course loyal to their companions when in I can,” was the ready reply, “ I have trouble. They have their quarrels like all other girls, generally about had two husbands.” lead pencils, account books, or some There is hope for Boston. A bright, girl’s carelessness in folding np or fashionable and elegantly-dressed putting into place goods recently dis worn in of that city announced the placed. They are also great critics other day before a good many people and talk freely among themselves o f that her grandfather was a Boston the actions of the proprietor and his tinsmith and stood well profession managers. Any partiality is quickly ally! noticed, and a prejudice against a “ I don ’t want no rubbish, no lino floor walker or other d ig ital? ia sentiments, if you please,” said the quickly formed, whether for liking widow, who was asked what kind of or not liking, and held to against all an epitaph sh« desired for her hus odds. band’s tombstone. “ Let it be short A New York shop girl can tell a and simple- siiinetlii.'g like this. from woam b<, M M \\ illiarn Johnson, ag.nl 75 years, j q n ic k ly ¿ d a , tru ly aH an y o l d ¿ ¡ , h The good die young.’ woman who has lived with th* Mr*. Mountjoy Berassis (after sev “quality.” Many o f the ordinary eral collisions): “ It strikes me, Mr. class o f shop girls marry; but the Rudderford, you’re much more at majority of the better claas remain home in a boat than in a ball room!” single, because tbe men they may Little Bobby Rudderford, tbe famous marry are not refined enough for Oxbridge coxswain: “ Yes, by Jove! them, and the men they w ould marry And I'll sooner steer eight men than never ask them. one woman any d a y !’’ A stranger would oftentimes find it difficult to distinguish our shop girl gru from our fashionable belle, but there Cemetery dp tes is something indefinable about a New on the Main J Jewish c back to 1272. York shop girl that to a New Yorker Tho pneumatic plan of clearing distinguishes ber from all othar the Fan* sewer* i* »aid to have been :1a attended with excellent result* to health. A man who owes a little een riser Mr. .Sergeant Ballatine, who viniled ¡1, off in a very little time, end if he Ctah i* credited with the opinion is a prudent m an, Will| that polygamy ia an institution emi man, who, by long n eg lig i great deal, despairs o f ava nently »mtod to a new country. Queen Victoria has conferred a to p a y , a n d therefore baronetcy npon Mr. T. Spencer Well», into his a cco u n ts at a ll.- “ di*tingui»ha^ London surgeon ident o r the Royal College