Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-28
A Royal Good Slide.

From the Fores6 ana stream.
 have forgotten details, but the gist of it was that during one of those periods of deep winter snow in New Hampshire, when, as many of us can attest, there sometimes come some hours of rain and sleet, and then freeze, leaving crust of glare ice over everything strong enough to hold up an OK team, some young fellows conceived the idea of having some coasting extraordinary. They dragged from door-yard, and with much effort and pains, 8 large lumber sled and took it far up slope beyond the house. They mounted the sled in high spirit and ''let her go," intending to bring up in the door-yard from which they had started. So great was the weight of the sled and it's load, and so slippery the surface, that they attained a terrific speed in a few moments, and not only dashed through the door-yard, but clean through an open barn and down long slope beyond, finally bringing up in 8 meadow many rods away, not, however, without adventure en route.
 There happened at this time to be an old white horse standing in the barn and quietly munchipg hay. Quick as flash the dartiDg sled knocked his legs from under him and landed hira on the sled, half killing the as- tonished and helpless boys, and carrying them all to the foot of the hill. Nor was this the end of it. Up that hill on the icy crust no horse could come, and for nearly 8 week he had to be supported on hay carried to the meadow by the boys.
 THE STAMPEDE EoR STAMPS. Some Queer Studies in Human Nature
 at the Postomce.
 There is a broad and fertile field In the foAG for f6oco uhn rua to b n character studies, says the New York Tri- bune. A man has only to stand near one of the stamp windows for few minutes to see more odd specimens of man, perhaps, than are to be found in any other one place in the city, and that means in the country. One has only to watch the hurrying, nervous, pushing line of people rushing in one door and out another to realize what peculiar world this is. There is the dapper young lawyers clerk. He knows what he wants and hew to get it with the least trouble. He falls into line, impatiently tapping his feo until his turn comes. Then he puts down dollar, says shortly. "Fifty twos." snstshes up his stamps and darts through the crowd Behind him, perhaps, is an old, bent, gray 1 haired man dressed in a jumper and pail of oyeralls. He asks for one stamp, ane when this is laid down before him on tht thick pane of glass he gees down into hi' pocket and pulls forth a greasy, dilapidated' looking leather wallet. He hunts around il this fer couple of pennies, and finally when he has found them, takes his stamp and goes off to the side carefully to paste i on the letter.
 The office boy comes in like fash, buys great roll of the little green, hidesus things tears it rapidly into strips, and skillfully l running his tongue along the under side O tearing each one from the strip with quick | ripping sound. Some girl hovers on tht outskirts of the crowd for a while, and then | watching for clear field, goes mp to tho | window. ''Whsn does the next train leave for Farmingtons' she asks.
 Don't know; this is stamp window. 7 She blushss and begins to stammer. ''Couldn't you find out for me?" Crime table over on the wall," gruffiy and sine goes over to look at the schedule which no living man conld figure out Meanwhile the short man in 6 silk hat with large glasses across his nose, has besr snorting and fussing about "women." It makes his purchase, follows her ever to tht wall, and, casting 6 whitening look at her grunts out, "Hum!" He slams the dool in disgusted manner behind him, stil muttsring about "women."
 In ten ainusss the girl comes back tt the window and says timialy: '1 can' find Farmingten."
 "Wsn, that ain't nay fault. is it." say the man sharply, peering over the slass a her. She fees in dismay.
 And so they come asd go, men, woner and children, not more than half of then knowing how to buy stamps, and one slow one delaying dozsn mere busiasss-likt and energetic people. The reporter asked the stamp clerk to tell him some of th' more amusing experiences he went througt in the course of week.
 IA wesks' he said, grimly; "I couldn' tell yoR all that happened in a day. Die you notice that little shuffling man, whos' head scarcely comes up to the windews H, never oomee here less than six times a day | and he never buys more than one stamp at time. I asked him ence why he did not gs | twenty or thirty in a lot. On he said, witt | a shrswd air, people like to borrow then 1 toe much He is the aaesrest one of all tn qaeor ones who come here. His office is sev eral blocks away from the postofiee, and ye | he will hobbls down here again and again i 1 a day rather than take more than one stamp I have tried to get him to buy more, but b | won't think of such 8 thing. He alway
 comes to nay window. I have seen hina g
 to the end of line of ten CT twenty bsfor
 my window when there were not five at th
 
 or off duty when he wants a stamp he zoe
 out and comes in agsin every minute or tw
 until I return. He is 8 queer ons, he is.
 "Then," he went enc, "thers is ths spscis | delivery stamp. That makes good deal (
 trouble. Only one man in ten can remembe
 the name of it. I have had it called th
 hurry up stamp, the get there' stamp, an
 a quick, rush. special, extra stamp, an
 . dozen other names. but seldom the rigt
 one, while about twenty times day son
 fanny man comes in and asks with big gri
 for a P. D. Q stamp. I have got so tire
 of that stale old joke that I always preten
 not to know what he means. I can stan
 anything but that. Oh, yes, this is & goo
 place to sec strange people, but it isn't wort
 your while to listen to me. Just stand hel
 and watch them for yourself"
 Manners and Success.
 From London Truth
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