Our Man About Town

L uotice the atair way )eadin iuto the basement of the Arlington house has been covered. This is a wise precautiou as I have of ten thought in passing there, thst it would be a bad place to fall into. I heard a good thing the other day which I know the readers of the Democbat will enjoy. One of the superintendent of thepoor.so I am told.sent a young Wmm to the oounty house aml requested ka per McDowell to et bananas whentTer ahe wished for them.. Whether the bananas were gotten I was not informed, but 1 rather sruess Mr. McDowell laughed when the request was made. The tramps in and about the city are getting to be a regalar nuisance. I heard of one who was begaing for food, some time ago, but who was willing and anxioes to do some work for it. After h good dinner the lady of the house gave him an ax to ohop some light wood. Having occasion, soon afterwards, to go to the door she found the tramp had walked off taking the ax with liim. The lady was exceedingly wroth, as the ax had but just been purehased. I think these rushes which occur so frequeutly in the postofflce are disfcraceful. Monday evening the immense crowd congregated there waiting for the mail began the usual crowding. A man who clerks for one of onr merchants was standing by one ihe deliveries when the ■tudents undertook to rush him whereupon he etruck odo of the boys, when immediatly the whole gang pounced upon him. Fortunately the man escaped or he might have been badly hurt. It is time these performances were stopped. The eleclrio lights which are on the stationary poles give, I understand, muoh better satisfaotion. I notice that the licht is steady, and when it is swung between two poles the oscillating motion produced is very disagrceable whea the wind is blowing briskly, and bas the effect of almost making oue dizzy. Tlien with the lights on the stationary poles it does away with that disagreeable oreaking noise made by the swinging of the lampa back and forth. It is too bad the single poles were not used at flrst, as then we would not have had so many poles in our streets, for one would havo answered when; two are now used.