The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-20

mems manufactures, and they nave
little use for it.
Mr.. Lumholtz was travelling in the
Interior of Queensland, Australia,
where he met many natives who had
never seen a white man before. One
day a crowd of natives were IN the
white mans camp carefully inspecting
the explorer and his baggage when a
newspaper happened to drop out OF
his pocket. The natives unfoided
and spread it ont on the ground.
They decided that it must be an
article of wearing apparel and one OF
them tied it on. He wrapped 1t
around his shoulders like a shawl and
sat down on the ground, arranging
his covering this way and That M
Watching the faces of the crowd TO
see what they thought Of his elegant
garment, covered as it was with many
thousands of curious marks.
Presently, however, an accident nap
pened. While the savage was
ranging his shawl and trying to bring
the corners together in front OF MN
the garment began to tear at the nape
of the neck. A howl from the crowd
called attention to the disaster, The
blanket, or whatever it was, was EVIL
IDENTIFY made of the poorest sort OF ma
teriai. The savage took his covering
off, examined the mischief he had
wrought, made the tear a little longer,
and then with his finger poked a hole
through the paper. That settled n
fact that the article was worthless.
The newspaper suddenly lost all IN
terest for the natives, who turned then
attention to less destructible objects.
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The Belle of Paradise Park.
A most charming picture of metro
politan life was seen in Paradise Park
last evening, the occasion being the
weekly concert by Billy Bayne and
his band. The concert began at
eight o'clock, just as the moon rose
over the tall tenements and lit up a
crowd of about 5000 persons.
Ranged around the railing OF a circu-
lar platform in the centre of the park
sat the musicians under three electric
lights. Before his stand, in the centre
of the platform, stood Leader Bayne,
bending and swaying in unison with
the brazen music.
There were more pretty girls pres
ent than IN could shake a stick at,
representing all types and national
tiles. The most pleasing type of
beauty was seen in the commingling
of Italian and Irish blood. But the
belle of the occasion was Miss Nellie
Kelly, of Madison street, who sorts
metal in a Beekman street type
foundry. Miss Kelly wore a dress of
some light material which accentu-
ated the curves of her graceful figure,
Around the ivory tower OF her throat
was a dainty lace collar of cobwebby
lace. There were no rings in her ears
and no circlets of gold upon her
fingers, but the coil of hair which
dropped upon her neck was wound
about with a band of yellow metal
which was certainly gold upon the
outside. Black lace mitts covered her
hands, leaving the fingers bare. There
may have been a little powder upon
Nellie's face, but the pallor which lay
upon her blonde features may have
been caused by the moonlight, A
bashful young MAJ stood beside Mel
lie, and there came an added glow in
his eyes when he looked down upon
the trim young woman at his side.
Even Sergeant Mulholland, despite
his stern dignity as an officer, admired
Nellie from a distance. When the
band played "Some Day. Nellie
hummed nnder her breath a vocal-ac-
compartment to the music. She
seemed to be very happy. Indeed,
everything seemed to be propitious for
happiness. There was the giddy
moon, the delightful music, and the
good looking young man.
To tell the truth, Nellie did not
seem to take special interest in the
cornet solo, sweet as it was, neither
did she go into ecstacies when Kreut-
zer's might in Grenada" was played,
but the Burnt Cork Minstrel Extrav-
aganza'' affected her materially. In
time with the witching strains her lit
tie feet stole out from under her skirts,
keeping time, time, time, in a sort of
twinkling rhyme to the melody of the
sad trombone.
Then came the closing, Home,
Sweet Home" and Nellie wandered in
that direction on the arm of her esr
cort. There is no absolute certainty
in the matter, but it is suspected by
many that Nellie and her beau stopped
at an ice cream saloon on their way
home. She had been known to do so
before.-Epeaing Sun.
Sensibility Is a Nuisance.
An English writer has recently sug-
gested that we were wont to give excess
sive praise to the faculty of se~nsibiIity,
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