The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-04-25

Ant dere's pone for de leetle toy.
That's thoughtful. Where's Mr.. Bergh?
We should have been apt to have forgot
ten dog so pretercaninely meek as that
one.
But Bowery has other types than these
and yonder. striding wistfully, if some
what proudly, past stall and stand, is one
who hardly seems at home. Unmistaka-
bic, with his head of long Aaxcn hair, he
has student written all over him, and he
has not been in America long enough to
have received any other superscription.
He may be senator or governor yet,
and he has faint look of Carl Schurz a.
bout him but now he has decided on ten
cents worth of Bologna sausage, incom-
parable Wand, which demands no fire, and
has no tantalizing waste of bones to mock
the record of its purchased weight.
What pity Dickens had not been for
few weeks Tompkins Market butcher,
or, at least, had been forced to do his
marketing here until he had photograph
ed the groups around us If he had gone
out by the south door, as we are doing he
would have found at the street side, a
little lower down, that kroken line of
empty truck wagons and ON the last of
them that queer-looking lot Of genuine
Bowery 'gutter-snipes' oil boys, brimful of
mischief and all mrthful antics now, but
destined to grow up into-who shall tell
what L? And that other lot-iour of them
-dickering with the squat old cake-wo-
man on the curb.stone for their evening
lunch of cakes and fruit. That is Bow
cry band and the young gentlemen from
Italy muster three fiddlers and harp.
1t can hardly be disadvantage that the
instruments are about as large, musically
speaking, as the brown-faced performers.
What tune from the banks of Styx or
Arno can that be Oh, they are turning
up. and no wonder the crowd is puzzled
to catch the air Let us move on.
'Coffees, teas, wines, liquors, wholesale
and retail You can buy almost any
thing you want there, and u good many
things you ought not to want, and the
place is full, but it is worthy of note that
the Germanic type is in a large minority
among the customers. Can it be the lager
has any thing to do with that? Perhaps
we shall see. Exchange We have
noticed several signs like that. "No
doubt the Germans bring with them heaps
of outlandish coin, and these small bank
ers are necessary provision
Not bit of it These are the perni-
cious dens of the lottery-policy dealers,
and they are fewer here than elsewhere,
in proportion to the population. So are
the faro hells,of which Bowery maintains
a few tenth-rate specimens. The Ger
mans gamble, some of them but it is not
their national vice, and they are much
too shrewd to invest their hard earnings
largely where the investment is sure to be
so sadly permanent
Here are other features, however which
offer powerful proof that the pawnbrokers
ought not to be the enemies Of the poor
and if it were not for our miserable laws
these evidently Aourishing establishments
would be replaced by the Monts-de- Piete
whith which these people from the Rhine
land were familiar beyond the sea. Satur-
day night is the regular period for the
redeeming of pledges. Even if scant
wages or vicious expenditure will surely
bring the household treasures here again
before the week is out, ,still lingering pride
and hope Of better things will carry them
homeward once more. 1t is sad to see
the shadowy doors open so frequently
but there are more mourntul Testimonies
in the glaring windows yonder, where the
'unredeemed pledges are offered for sale
Jewelry of everyshape and ce,medals
Of merit, jeweled 'orders, musical instru'
ments, weapons, chess men, battered plate
antiquated time pieces -heir-looms of q
more frugal or more fortunate ancestry
Somehow-who shall guess how ?-ior all
these sad collaterals the appointed day
went by, and here they are, each with its
untold story. There is dull look on
some of them, discolored spots and cor.
rosions tears will rust away anything
If there is any feature that is more
characteristic of the Germans than theil
love of home, it is their sociability.-
Americans are at once gregarious and ex.
elusive-witness the crowded solitude oi
our immense hotels, and the swarming is.
olation of our watering-places. English
men are neither one thing nor the other
being merely insular, and as much in.
sulated as the condition of their iudivid.
ual pockets will admit. A shrewd look
around us, and up aad down few Of
these parallel and side streets, will give
us tolerable notion of the several de-
scrigtions of homes supplied by the civic
geography of this quarter, and the per
centage of them is by no means large il
which one would care to spend the even,
ing, more especially Saturday evening
in summer. What is TO be done, then
Shall the multiiudinous heads that peer
out of the windows, as if reaching for air
remain there all the evening? Some o.
them will, if they can not help it. Shal
all the human bees of these hives swarm
around the narrow stops aud entry ways
They are crowded with chattering coter
les Of beings of all ages, and yet but q
few are there. Promenade these narrow
and ill-smelling streets? Yes, that also
If it does not rain but that is indeed .