Thomas County cat., 1889-12-12

and telegraph instruments. presume tnAa
neGhing makes Q newly-mafried President
uafder, as may say, than while stroanno
about the grounds ct eventide, locking y
into the clear and quiet sky when tho 1uH
orbed honeymoon scoots across the heavens
suddenly to stumble over telegraph wire
connected with q great paper.
But we were speaking Of Staten Island
Probably Staten Island Is, to the majority
of the residents, even of New York, tesTa
fnaoontta. It Is also Q terra to the pohee
sometimes for being thirteen miles and
half long BY seven and three-Quarter miles
in width. Nine policemen have great did
Guilty in being on the ground when trouble
occurs, especially when the roads are bad.
So the Staten Island policeman's life Il not
one Of luxurious ease as one might suppose.
NY heart has not been 80 touched for years,
as last autumn, while strolling through the
beautiful woods which are engaged in
clothing the hillsides Of the island. The air
was crisp and exhilarating, the blue sea
glimmered through the red and gold Of the
autumnal foliage. Suddenly I thought ]
heard q sob. Ever ready to comfort the dis
tressed, provided itdoes not cost any thing,
always on hand to ask the suffering it it
still hurts, and If so, where it hurts, aud en-
gage the sufferer in pleasing conversation.
I climbed the fence and penetrated still
further into the ods, where found po-
liceman. Tears were in his eyes I can
bear any thing better than the sight Of
policeman bathed in tears.
enquired the cause of his anguish. He
said that it was SO quiet and lonely on his
beat that he had strolled OF into the woods
and in an unguarded moment he had
thrown his club into chestnuttree toknock
down few nuts, not having had chance
to knock down any thing else for long
time, and the club had remained up there.
He dared not go home or back on the beat
without his club, for it would be a disgrace,
and besides that, he might be attacked by
some one on his way home and have noimeans
Of defending himself. 1t was q sad case.
Later on, however, bad boy, by turning
States evidence and getting a promise
from the policeman that he should be free
from arrest for five years, went up the tree
and returned with the Billy do.
Staten Island has nineteen post-ofdces
and fort. Fort Wa6sworth has an excel
lent site for fort, but there is so little
fighting to be done lately and there is such
close competition that it is not self sup
porting. l am told that if influential
friends at Washington did not do some
thing for it every year it would have to be
abandoned.
South Beach is now getting to be the
Coney Island Of the approaching season.
Excursionists can ride from Harlem to
South Beach for fifteen cents, which, on the
round trip, gives each excursionist twenty
cents advantage over Coney Island. This
amount, which is generally carefully in
vested in beer, will in one season yield
large returns. Added to all this, South
Beach has water front, large number Of
erry-go-rounds and fresh baked pea nuts.
Beer can be had by approaching only au
thenticated parties in the proper way.
Many people are benefited every year by
sitting at the seaside where they hear the
pillows burst On the strand, while they
quaff some more beer. I knew a man once
who went to the seaside living skeleton,
but by patiently and regularly watching
the other people battle every afternoon, his
pores were opened, and by drinking beer at
odd times whenever the idea occurred to
him he became SO healthy that it was al