The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-07-05
VIII OF NEWsBoYs,
Sometimes u Little Harsh but Always Full
Of OriginalIty.

of Originality
Esw York Nous,
The reputation, OF the Paris gamin
for rude street wit once led the world.
But his supremacy has passed, 1t has
travelled, like a good many other Euro.
pean speCialties, across the Atlantic
and has settled in New York. The man
tie OF the gamin has fallen on the shout
ders OF his brother, the street boy of
New York,
The most extraordinary thing to me
Is where these youngsters pick up their
ideas, Some are common enough, but
others Rugur an intelligence superior to
all deficiencies OF education, for none OF
them have any education TO speak of,
Their wit Is simply spontaneous, 1t &C.
commodities itself TO its subject, as
it might be by inspiration.
For instance, there is q small boy in
my street who 10 real mothers pet,
He Ia rugged out in the most fanciful
costumes and sports no end OF trilled
shirts, rutlled lawn collars and the like.
He always looks as ii he came out OF
bandbox and had been secured besides,
OF course he does not play tip-cat or
ball with the rude little boys who do,
and whenever he appears on the street
on an eIrand for his mamma he travels
straight ahead, and is naturally IN OBJ
ject OF the utmost scorn and contempt
to them, which they do not hesitate TO
express,
Last summer he was gotten up in an
elaborate Little Lord Fauntleroy make
up, including curls q foot long, silk
stockings, and shoes withsil buckles.
The boys promptly christened him
"Little Lord Cantgowrong," and the
title stuck to him until his dotlng pa-
rents aheared him of his long ringlets
and put him in q less conspicuous cos
tune. During the last snowfall this
year the boys were pelting each other
with snowballs, when this helpless
youngster was started out from homo
on some errand. He became u target
for them at once, and commenced to
beg them by name to let him alone
instead OF taking to his heels Finally
one OF his tormenters yelled:
Let up on her, boys. She wants to
60 home to play with her doll babies"
He was allowed to escape, but ]
greatly fear that ii his parents do n OF
remove him to less profane neighbor-
hood he will, like many superlatively
good little boys, die too young to be-
come Sunday.school teacher and q
bank cashier with q ticket to Canada in
his pocket.
Two newsboys were disputing some
point the other afternoon, and disput-
ing 1t with considerable acrimony.
Finally one wound up the argument by
remarking contemptuously;
"Yahl g'long You give me worms"
Some boys playing baseball in the
street knocked tho ball against the
window OF house and smashed a pane
of glass. The ball fell into the ward,
and one of the urchins started to re-
cover 1t, when woman appeared in the
door and screamed:
"You boys can't have that ball.
You've broken one Of my windows"
The boy ut the gate pulled off his hat
and made bow expressive Of tho most
profound respect.
"We'se didn't do it, LADY," he said.
at was dc ball, seeP t
They got their ball on the strength Of
this argument.
"Can you tell me how l can get to
Harlem, boyP" asked man in country
clothes and with cheap handbag in
his fist, OF small chap at q street cor
ner.
"Cert," replied this juvenile mine of
information, "You'se kin walk or take
ue cars"
Last week, while the papers were
filled with stuff about the Spanish Prin-
cess, chronicling her minutest move
ments and her most insignificant do.
ings, the warships in the North river
commenced to fire salute.
whats that forH" usGed one boy OF
another.
OOH" replied the other, "that's be.
cause the infantile is blowing her
nose"
The strawberry peddlers have been
activein tho resident streets lately. A
man OF high complexion and bibu-
llstic aspect was passing along, when q
juvenile critic remarked;
"That feller has been eatin' straw
berries, an they've gone to his head"
There Is theatrical boarding house
few doors away from me, and at this
season OF tho year it Is always full. One
| Of the boarders is typical old.timer
OF the breed whom you nowadays on
counter on the roads in rural districts
removed from the cities. He is stiff,
with a large development OF abdomen
and extremely potnpous in his manner,
| and on several occasions has given the
boys a raking over for presumingto tip
cats or play ball when he passes by,
which has OF course made him popular
with them. One day as no atrutted
along a boy asked:
"Who Is that old stuff with tho bow.
Window"
boy
"IIe acts the elephant aud carries his
trunk inside OF him"
The effect OF this free criticism, which
was given in a voice loud enough for
him to hear, upon an elderly crushed
tragodian with d ilrst.clasa opinion Of
himself, can DO roadily imagined. HO
has not dared TO give tho boys a blow.
ing up since
worlds Fair Myths
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