Ellsworth American., 1876-05-11

| shirt. He proceeds with a business-liks
air to engage In aprize-tight with an imag
mary antagonist; banging himself cruelty
ABOUT the lace, jumping up and down like
| game-cock, rafting the blows upon hi.
! own devoted pate in a surprisingly active
| way. getting an Imaginary head ''in chanc.
cry" under his arm aud pummelng it fu-
| riously, and finally clinching himself in A
| desperate grip, aud lifting and throwing
| himself headlong on the ground with q
duli thud that leaves Il dent in the solid
earth. As he rises, pennies rain upon his
coat from the admlring crowd; one man
takes his flask from his pocket. and tend
ers il to the painting fighter, who remarks
that he drinks his benefactor's health 3.
whereupon rousing cheer from the spec-
tators for the benefactor, at which conven-
tent Juncture up comes Bobby and dispers-
eS the crowd.
gypsy woman with 4 dark-eyed baby
IN her arms begs you to cross her palm
with tsllver, and have your fortune told
on decline TO pierce the future and She
oess CLARITY for the dark-eyed baby, which
receiving she evokes IA voluble blessing on
your own babies at home, quite regardless
OF any possibility that you may have no ba
bies-declaring also, in vein of comoll
ment, that she knows you love the babies
drunken LancaShireman loudly bullics
policeman. aud threatens 10 knock him
down. "Who bl you?" he says TO the otIi
Ger on bi moi servunt. lbe one OF VOW
er marsthers be-, and shakes his clinched
hst within an Inch OF Bobbys eyes, ,Bobbv's
quite unaarmed eyes, one OF which ,yinks
solemnly and knowingly at another Bobby
who is standing near. A striking peculiar.
lty OF the London Bobby at the DERBY is
his quiet, his seeming determination to ar
rest nobody, TO bully nobody. to lay rough
hands on nobody, bus at the same time to
prevent rows as far as he may. During
your stay on the ground you see no fight
Ing. but great deal of drunkenness,
\, an encouragement 10 a ragged bows
ambrion.you buy Of him box ofmatches.
i"u also suy penny doll a. 4 relic OF the
Derby, there being numbers Of fellows
pedd''n2 dolls, IN furtherance of the we'll
AnoWu )croy fashion among roiSteI iug
gentlemen Of StIch,ng them ID their hat
bands Ike feathers. And then Won buy a
basket OF sweet hot-house grapes, the SELL
er asking three and sixpencr for them,
falling immediately 70 three shillings, TWO
ana >INp"ucc. two shilinsS, and then stop
ping tor no other reason, you fancy, than
that yen are already eating the grapes, for
you aIr faint with walking about
soon after this you 60 home by the way
YOU came. ou notice on your ticket the
printed warning that mo particular elias
oi carriage Is guaranteed. On Derby-day
the three class distinctions Of English rail
ways are nblitcrated SwellS, cads. and
laborcrs ride IN the same carriage. as may
happen. The second aud third class car
.ia-eS ar" preferred to first class this hot
DAY Tor "a" nr>t-claS> carriage is cushion
ed in cloth or velvet. while the second l.,
tn leather. aud the third has plain wooden
benches. which are cooler 10 sit on than
cloth. lou rilr back ID London, undrr-
standing the PECULIAR charm OF an English
race-cour,e. II Is picturesque. An Amer
lcAn race cour>" is about "a picturesque as
'iry-GoUd~ box.
NlKT Skis.