The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-06-18
Trinket Sellers OF the Capital.


A threat has been made by the house
committee on rules to clear out the many
little trinket sellers in the south end of the
capital, and to make the approaches to the
house as clear and dignifed as those lead
ing to the senate. There has been quite a
homelike disposition shown all along by
members of the house that is in wide con-
trast to the manners of the senate, and
now a rev olution is threatened AS one
approaches the hall of the house of repre-
sentatives from the senate he is impressed
with the abundance of lunch, candy cigar,
news apple and other stands on every
hand Then there are telegraph offices
and a display of junketry thatreminds one
of the vicinity of a main stand at coun-
try fair. Members stand around smoking,
reading, writing kilograms, talking and
otherwise blocking the way and relieving
the scene of all vestige Of dignity There
is nothing to impress the stranger that
he is in the presence of the lower branch
of the congress of the United States.
The line seems to have been drawn
against but one thing, and that is Tie
vending of newspapers by boys. The boot
black is also excluded, and the cries of the
fakir are not heard, but there are enough
stands to supply q market place. Great
senator's pieces of statuary from the pulp
of paper currency, besides rare bits of
olive wood from Palestine Tor Maine), and
piles of every kind of trinkets which go to
make up the stock of miniature fancy no
ton stores-all right at the Threshold of
the main entrance to the house of repre-
sentatives Now it is proposed that these
knickknack yenders shall be ordered out
of the corridors and given space below, on
the next floor. They have been suffered
to remain where they are for the conven-
fence of members, who, in minute, can
run off the floor of the house and buy
most any little thing needed and be in
their seats again within minute-Wash-
ington Cor Chicago Herald.
The Milk Seller of Santa Fe.
But before leaving the city of "Holy
Faith" one should not forget to visit
"Burro Alley" Here at its very entrance,
is our milk carrier, black-eyed, olive
skinned boy of tender years, at whose side
stands patient, sober-looking donkey,
loaded down with bags of milk. Here at
last is something odd. The boy is pure
Mexican, Indifferent, apparently, to ones
observation, but alive to chance to sell
glass of milk and a master of the art of
putting ON his broad -brimmed hat to give
the most picturesque effect. AS for the
burro, his face, surmounted by long, flap
ping ears is as docile but yet as conceited
as that of camel of Egypt. There are
dozens of the little animals in the alley
and their presence there every day has
given the lane it's singular name Some
of them are loaded with bundles of wood,
others are half-coVered with live chickens
that have been brought into town to mar
ket, and others are straddled by men who
are too lazy to walk, and whose feet nearly
touch the ground, owing to the diminutive
size of the burro. Early in the morning
the strange gathering arrives, and at
evening the beasts and their masters
march slowly off to their homes in the
country.-Santa Fe Cor. San Francisco
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