New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-12
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.
GOSSIP AROIrT TOWN.

CASTLES IN THE AIR-PoLiIChL VIM
ABOUT THE "PRIMATE" -
9Maryantha," said i, what IL s''u VI '"'
statue of Admiral FarTagutF
aTbev cav the teller that made the pedestal re-
,,;od n,ya,ILe sour. was named Bonbprooi"
aWbv do they call him BombproOfP
a. Rscouse they say he must have been magazine
kiver." -, ia
at "a oueer. Mary Ann, amt it-all that oao
spelingi Instead of Farragut they have caileu nun
rARRhGvT and he did not die at Portsmouth ou' az
PORTSMOUTH, lie was not born III iool oul nm ~
MDCCCI and did not take New-Orleano III
but in MDCCCLXII. It's good deal saiu ioi''O
4iyely. as if went up TO customer WIN po''
ora instead of saving: Boss, here's panses gerah-
INN and moss pink for this here buttohhoie' 's'
instead: .Monseigneur, here be rod u'c0'or, pear
coriura capata and phtor subatdtd for your oou'o"
uieer Wouldn't he hand me over to the ponce
"Oh. | loves the antique" exclaimed my oe''
,0ur old rugs. and bugs. and bad spelling anu
the hunintelligible. Anything peculiar Is ""iu"S
awful" III;
Morvantha took stitch in a McrOvingan char
cover and told me a story of little glrl VINO bought
O cherry cabinet.
CABINET.
The neichbor, were all buying ebony cabinets
tmade of stained cherry to initiate ebony each CAD
;net with n door or lid Of thick, transparent glass
Some cabinets had a small glass door, some hau :.
par of glass doors Others had long narrow oo"i VI
glass. and in the street where the little CROOK
hacked girl lived the rage for cabinets passed. even
that former rage for Skye terriers, KISSING
md twenty.cent bracelets. Every ianiiy h"u 1"
ooh;pet except the house where the little crook
backed girl lived with her widowed mamma VINO
was An inlayer of engraviugs for rich geh'leineh
and worked from daylight almost to midnight upon
Nw,,,, .tnf
@ niece of zinc and photographic stone, trimming
down edges splitting newspaper columns do"h INC
tissue 80 rs to make two sheets ont OF one anu
literally tear the back of newspaper, and ruling
sepa borders around pictures and extracts making
old ufeless books leap into life and beauty Poor
otbcr cot only five or six cents per picture for all
This and if She finished forty day-and the worK
was mover steady-it was tho height OF her
,trenoth for every hasty nlaying came back on her
hands with rcprmand. The prnt-sellers charged
twelve cents where she did ali the work Tor hNe.
Weary to the bone and with eyes so sore she cotlu
hardly Sleep the poor mother looked out oI her
window one day and the little crook-DackeH g'rI
heard her say: " wish it were mine or hers y my
Godw The poor little girl saw her mothers eyes
fastened upon q beautiful cabinet III passing
glorious carriage all waving with plumes OF white
al will grow strong and work and give one 10
mamma she said TO herself. Mary Ann comes
round with flowers, and she sha4l sho" hc "Heio ~
buy it,"
So Maryantha took the little girl walking ana
showed her all the styles of hanging cabinets in the
furniture store windows, from seven dollars up To
twenty in price but none of them pleased the child
like that she had seen in the beautiful carriage till
one day. passing gloomy store the child clapped
her hands and cried: =" / see it! That is what l
shall give mamma! And put my doll in 1t to look
ont through the crystal door so beautifully" Mary
antha took the little crook-back home and whls-
pered to her mother and Maryantha asked her If
nothing but that one cabinet would do No. l
shall cut the pictures and money too. and give
the beautiful cabinet to my darling mother"
They gave her some pictures and the SCISSORS TO
make believe and she thought she was inaying Ike
the rest and Maryantha gave her money. pretend
ing to buy them. but it stimulated the child too
much. One night the tired fingers closed upon the
scissors. the little head fell the photographic
stone. and the little crook-back did not waken.
Maryanha went to the house two days after tha''
and at the door stood carriage with dark horses
and white pumes. With an appTehensive heart she
entered the poor dwelling and in the small parlor,
let TO sub-tenant, laid beautiful cabinet with
sweet satisfied face beneath the crystal lid.
our PRAYER is answered, mother" said Mary
antha.
"Yes." said tho mother, al shall never think OF
her rs in the ground but set in heaven and smiling
from her Fathers cabinet"
THE AIR LANDLORD.
British sea captain said to a gentleman return
ING to New-York: - You are going TO have the most
effective looking city on the globe, because you are
multiplying those enormously high buildings which
raise your city into the air and make it look ggan-
tic from the surrounding shores and waters"
ayes" said the American, and it is all owing
10 the elevators Before they came in use high
buildings were uninhabitable above the third or
fourth story Consequently the beautiful is here
direct offspring of the practical just a mountain
is the result of the hole through it, where the vol
cano spouted or certain beautiful shells the mere
shafts through which the auimal assembled and de-
scended."
aOr the Irishmans cannon" said I. standing by,
switch he said consisted Of taking round hole
and wrapping brass around it,"
After ALL said the sea captain. it is one of the
trumphs of wire cOrdage without which you could
not raise your elevators and it is but little over
three hundred years since England learned from the
Germans of Nuremburg the art of drawing wire,
which is itself like the elevator, pulled through
series of openings till the proper thinness is OBJ
tained.'
Yes said the American, blessed be LudOlph,
of Nurcmburg the inventor of wire-pulling every
where except in politics! Mr.. Longfellow did not
enumerate him with Albert Dtrcr and Hans Sachs,
but he was greater artist and saved the shoes Of
Sachs and takes many Direr TO his celestial
studio Blessed he John Rocbling. too, who began
the greater manufacture of wIre-cordage in our
country"
ADO you know said the captain Z" that a
fathom of steel wire rope little thicker than your
cane and weighing half pound foot, will pull as
much as a hemp rope half foot thick and weigh
ing POM and half foot Y
81 have known piece Of WIRE cap" said l. " no
thicker than straw, to draw a man weighing two
hundred pounds the whole length of Broadway"
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