Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1883-04-28

So. LOUIS, April rs, 1888.
DEAR OLD INrELLIGBNcER: - Looking
over your familiar columns this morning I
am struck with the fact that your type seems
clearer, and that by using small but very
legfble letter you have crowded great deal
OF matter into your recent issues. The key
to success in country journalism It seems to
me should be an open secret, but it appears
not to be. 1t simply means the printing of
every scrap and shred of local news that can
be gathered, sparing only to general news
what space is left after doing so. This course
may render the paper of less interest to the
general public abroad, but it amply compen.
safes for any deficiency In that direction by
making it indispensable to the members of the
community In which it is printed, and to per.
sons who have once lived in it, or who have
material interests there. This is, I be-
lieve your announced mode of conduct
ing the lntelligencer, and congratulate you
upon it.
ST. LOUIS CLEAN.
st. Louis just now may be spoken Of as a
clean city. Its cleanliness, however, is not
due to Mayor Ewing's administration of
affairs, but to the benefcent elements. A few
nights ago we had regular downpour of rain
that turned the streets into lakes and the side
walks into rivulets. The consequence was
the accession to the Mississippi river of enough
conglomerate to form respectable sized
island somewhere down below. This qiles-
tion OF streets is becoming Il serious one here.
There is, it is true, something being done;
granite snd'other pavements being put down,
but the change is made slowly, and every
body who comes here from abroad has some
thing to say about our dirty streets. There
is no doubt that the dust in the air, and the
filth under foot, divert from our business
millions Of dollars every year. haven't any
desire to get mixed up in the interminable
controversy as to methods, but it seems to
me that much might be done by devoting
few streets, east and west, and north and
south, to the very heavy teams which now
grind the macadam into powder. 1 have lived
here twenty years, my dearest associations
are here, but still I can never become accus-
toned or reconciled to the dirt,
THE DUDE AND THE DUDINE.
This is hard time to write letter from
this place that will be of interest, simply be.
cause there is nothing going on. The amuse-
ment season is drawing to close; the legis.
lsture has adjourned, SO that the old, old,
and thresdbare Jokes upon that subject cam
not well be rewarmed and served up as
brand new dishes. Society Is resting after
Its winters debauch, the churches are con-
servstive and quiet, and there are no fresh
scandals: But must say word about the
Dude and the Dudine. OF course the Intelll-
gencer has told Its readers something Of the
Dude, but as the 'chawming cweatue' has
hardly yet reached your town you will per-
nit me to add word Of description. The
Dude was long in coming to ST. Louis, but he
Is here at last, and iI some force. The first
characteristic of the Dude Is that he is a
"masher'-that is, he considers himself ire
sisttble to the fair sex, presumins upon
which he frequently makes unwarranted ad.
Vsnces to ladies' on the street, for which, as
you know, one Of the genus received first
class thrashing by Clay Sexton some time ago,
But to the description. The Dude Is nice
young man, mostly with very thin legs, long
In proportion to his general anatomy These
legs are encased In very tight trousers, which
In too many cases reveal sinuasities and ex-
crescenses which remind one of the usual
makeup ofthe prince in Mascotte. Above his
pantaloons the Dude wears very long vest,
similar, we imagine, to what our fore-fathers
OF two or three hundred years back called
waistcosts. Under this vest is o more or less
ornamented shirt with very tight collar,
which meets In front, and'which is decorated
with faey colored neckcloth bearing q
diamond (nssly Dssts) pin. The coat thar