Jolly Poverty In New York

To the straiiger in the metropolis wha stranger spectacle presenta itself thac the cosinopolis in little that has for ite centre Alulberry street park ? Here one can find without an electric lantern or search warrant specimens of nearly every race under the sun engaged in a curious, almost theatrical, business-life, whose chief characteristics are unconscious picturesqueness and liabitual fatalistic jollity. Tliere is a noble-bearded scion of "the chosen people," now reduced to peddling suspenders. If he notes a young man and maiden passing by who are lovers - and nis briuht dark eyes can read a face and sum up a situation with kodak rapidity- he is apt to addiess tlie youth somewhat thus: "Mine britty young man, vot you need isa bair off dese putiful suspenters mit stripes like sveet shooker gandy. Dey vill make your bauts hang mit' a style like de crate Peach Debew." Then with an arch grin at the girl, he may add, before the fellow lias begun to retort: "Ach ! lofely leedlelaty, don't you vish you vos a man and could vear such vine suspenters, vresh from Baris? Bud 1 zee, I zee, zince you gan't be a nice young man, you are drying to be as near unt glose to van as possible. í)ot vos ride uut najooral, ain'd id?" The girl blushes and snickers. The youtli, however tough he may be, looks pleased and proud, and the trick is done; he buys- a pair of braces that rival the rainbow. Thus the daily business ig carried on with a rich fringe of human comedy about it. Ceaseless battle fer bread on all sides, but such a sunny temper on the surface as charms the