Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-07
AT THE
Haps and Mishaps ON the Coast.
SOUTHAMPTON, LONG ISLAND,

An island is a body surrounded by
water-a boy in swimming for in
stance. Long Island is a long body
surrounded by water, just south of
Connecticut. New York State is a
part of Long Island. Southampton
is a beautiful little village on the At
lantic ocean, about 80 miles from
New York City. 1t is great ''wash-
ing place; thousands from New
York pass the summer in this bcauti-
full little city. They spend the sum-
mer bathing, and fishing, and enter
tanning mosquitoes. A good, healthy
seaside mosquito is about the size OF
a jay-bird each one carries q grind
stone under his wing, and when you
are not ssbored" to death with his
sting he entertains you by giving you
a little hand-organ music. A young
mosquito is very industrious, and
will stick closer than a friend who
wants to- borrow money. For the in
formation of our readers-wishing to
inform them on something they should
all know-we have made a complete
estimate of the weight of young mos
quitoes. There are:
162...............in one unc
2,562...........-....in n pound.
259, 2OO.........in a hundred weight.
5, 1S4, 000........................in a ton.
Paste this up in your bed room and
imagine how you would feel with a
ton of mosquitoes ''boreing' you at
once Bathing is the principal occu-
patton. The result is heart-rending!
If you have a girl, don't look at her
after she comes out of the water.
Standing on the beach last evening
we saw a most beautiful, finely form
ed blonde, clad in her bloomer cos
tune, enter the surf. In q few mo-
ments she came out. What a trans
formation! Her hair-oh, where was
it? Ask the fishes of the sea. Her
beautiful, rosy cheeks and cherry lips
were no more. Ashy pillows and
clammy hills were all that was left to
tell the tale. That fine, noble form
what of that? Why, you could have
dropped hat girl into a double-bar-
relied shotgun and still found room
for her feet, which had lost none of
their original size. l say, boys, take
our advice don't go near the water
when your girl is in bathing. ioa
have no business to know how she
looks. When not ''stopped up" it is
a beautiful sight to see three or four
hundred people, in becoming cos
tunes, go IN bathing, but they all
look alike when they come out
drowned rats don't express it. The
New York people, while down here,
try to wash off the city dust, forget
business and throw off all their bust
ness habits ; they don't always sue
coed. This morning we overheard a
Wholesale hardware merchant talking
to a wild young fellow he had heard
swearing, as follows: "My young
friend, l will guarantee that if you
give up your wicked ways and join
our church, you will not only find it
the best in the market, but it will
take you through without any further
inventory. Try it once, and if not
satisfactory l will take back your re-
ligion and refund your money"
Talmage is a very popular minister
among the ''tone' of New York, be-
ing the only evangelist who can twist
his leg up over his shoulder and use
it as a neck-tie. Some portions of
this Island make good farming lands,
while other portions remind us very
much of the ''Ruggles grant, in Tex
as. "A good place for a store"-no
one to buy goods; "a fine opening
for a newspaper"-no n to read
ga fine farming country''-all it lacks
is climate and soil. If there was the
right kind of climate and good soil in
Ill it would be a good farming
country but the temperature is en-
tirely too warm. r. Nj. w.
We insert in our columns this week
the proceedings of a citizens meeting