The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-11-05

SlgnJ becomes interesting and amusino
Inc Englishmen are born drivers and all
seem to have love for animals and birds
The price of good, lively, strong ponies.
averaging from S25 to $50, makes IL an
easy matter for men to possess one. The
price of a sleek, bright-eyed, nimble.
strong little donkey that can trot along
carrying load seemingly out of pro.
$40. "'ou'
Blshopsgate street, Without. is 70
London what the Bowery is 70 Now
York. Here, however, are what are NOT
10 oe seen on the Bowery, number, of
meat, sausage and pudding shops For |
'"o cents you get a large smoking-hot |
'aNeloy sausage and a chunk of good |
Shlte bread, or a large slice of.--t&-:- -
and will give the State ticket FASH
dumpling, or bowl of good reasoup.
For four cents to eight cents you get
tlr-ee large slices Of excellent roast beef,
mutton, veal, or pork, with bread and
vegetables. Many women and children
daily crowd these shops and get Their
twelve cent dinners, which they carry
away in baskets. A twelve cent dinner
is certainly good, plain, ample meal,
which includes great slice Of pudding.
On Sunday Bishopsgate street is still q
busy thoroughfare. 1t is at the junction
of Bishopsgate street, Without, and the
Great Eastern Railroad terminus that the
great throng of men and boys turn into
Anchor street, where, at the junction ol
Sister street, the so-called bird auction
is. This is a rendezvous also fer dealers
in dogs, chickens, geese, ducks, rabbits
and rats.
b But what a show of birdsl There is
nothing like it in any other part of the
world. 1t seemed the morning l was
there as if all the varieties of the or.
astrological kingdom had been assem-
bled together in these long, narrow,
gloomy streets. From one store alone,
which was four stories high, were
hung from ground floor to roof
hundreds of cages. The dingy,
smoke-begrimed bricks were lined with
long rows of cages filed with bright vel.
low canary birds; above were the bril-
liant-plumaged chafinches, goldfnches
and bullfnches, then blackbirds, sand
thrushes, starlings, linnets, skylarks by
the hundred, and nightingales, all war
ranted to sing. This house was sur
rounded by a great crowd, and the pro.
prietor and his half dozen assistants had
all they could do to keep up with the
purchasers. And how cheaply they went
Splendid full-songed, healthy chat.
finches, twelve cents and eight cents
linnets, four cents and six cents; beauti-
full, full-hedged, full-songed Holland
canaries from seventy-five cents to 81
those would cost twice that many dollars
in New York-hen canaries from two
cents to twelve cents each; common
canaries from twenty-five cents t.
siXty-two cents each; splendid,
healthy, full-songed skylarks, starlings
thrushes, blackbirds, cage and all fix
ings, for from seventy-five cents to 81. 81
each; nightingales in full song, cage anC
all, from 81. so to $3.50. 1t was won
derful to see the commonest classes o
men, brcklayers and laborers buying
birds. As the time passes by and tn,
hour for opening the ''pubs" came th,
excitement grew apace. saw one MAJ
buy in twenty-five full-songed, splendiC
canary birds for less than seventy -fv,
cents apiece. He, however, was a deal
er, and he had his assistants and trap, o
open wagon, with him.
Fine, fat rabbits were sold at eightee
cents apiece, and at the close went dow
to twelve cents. Just think what an ex
eellent dinner could be had for the smal
sum of ten cents, as rabbit skins ar
readily sold for two cents apiece. Fanc
rabbits, Topped cared, big, choice-breed
\ ing English hares that would make tn
sportsmen Of Tuxedo Park envious, wer
sold by the brace and the dozen at eS
tremely low prices. A dozen full-size
hares Of great strength were sold for So
The sales in geese, ducks, and othC
poultry was immense, chickens bein
sold at from twenty-five cents to thirty
seven cents ducks for less, and big, Fl
geese from fifty cents to seventy,fly
cents.
Besides the small birds, there wei
large quantities of parrots, cockatoo
and all kinds Of bright plumaged speal
ing, swearing, laughing, singing bird
In another house a dealer had a hant
some collection of baboons, gray an
ring-tailed monkeys. was sorry to ST
many beetle-browed, cruel-faced Italian
around the poor brutes, aud it was C,
rious to see the poor things bury the
little heads in their hands and huddl,
shivering in a corner of their cages, as
in deadly fear of their natural-bol
enemy. Several were sold at pric
ranging from S5 to SIS, according to Il
size, beauty and intelligence az the an
NAL. In no case did the dealer con
down in his prices, and it seemed to n
as if the man himself had a loathing (,
those cruel featured men, even lower an
more brutal in appearance than the mol
keys they bought. It was really sad {
see the little things fairly cry as the
were taken from their companions, wi
In turn would spring to the bars of the
eaueg chattorinU loudlu and l-oon Iool