ideas is meagrehis vocabulary slangy. Portionless maids and widows are " horrors ;" a favorite acquaintance is the " foinest fellah " he knows ; anybody who will "doa bill" for him is a "buck," and anybody who won't is a " muff" or a ^'duffer." What he dbesn't like is "beastly," what he doesn't disii'ce is "jolly," and what he loves and worships (and he can't love or worship anything else) ia himself. He considers it vulgar to enjoy anything heartily, as if he had a soul. He is never surprised, amused, excited or contented. Pleasures bore him ; people bore him ; his creditors bore him ; the weather bores him. everything in life bores him. set upon the # them and you will find nothing but dust an breed. They are mere cumberers of the ground. Strip them of their fine clothes and their jewelry and what is left is of less intrinsic value than a counterfeit bill on a broken bank. Pick-PocketsMen and Women. ingenious devices resorted by sharpers and professionals, to take in and-do-for the verdant ones who visit Gotham, are not a few ; and among no class of operatives is more industry displayed than among the pick-pockets. The same'amount of exertion put forth in an honorable calling would secure for the party a respectable living and a hojidsome income to deposit in bank. The public are so familiar with the slight-of-ha- A nearly every railroad depc up in conspicuous places, vision of this sign in a crowded depot, as a countryman alights from his car, always induces him to give a nervpus clutch after his pocket-book to see that all is safe. The professional sports and pick-pockets understand this at once ; they are around the unsophisticated in gangs. This movement of the stranger is telegraphed by signs to the confederates. One jostles against him on one side ; another presses him in front; a third manages to knock off his hat. accidentally, which the bewildered excited countryman instinctively clutches at to keep from falling ; while a fourth pick-pocket, slits his pocket and stealing his purse with the quickness of lightning, passes it to another, whose business it is to make off as rapidly as possible. Even if the unfortunate victim seizes the rascal who robbed him, he will find no evidence of guilt upon his person. When the excitement is over, the pick-pockets meet at their den fora "divide." If they are occasionally unfortunate and get caught, they do their best to swear each other out of the law's delay or the prison. The female pick-pockets, prey mostly upon their own sexyet they are the confederates of their own fast men. We heard of one woman who supported "her man" for years on the fruits of her pocket-pickings. The Broadway stages are their favorite haunts for practice. They are very frequently crowded with ladies and consequently afford very fine opportunities. The female pick-pockets like the males, are commonly youngof good address, elegantly attired and quick of thought and executionwith a wonderful degree of eeK-possession aiK! assurance. Just as the performances at the thev.tres are concluded, the male pick-pockets will rush for the street carsget possession of the platforms and force the passengers to crowd and squeeze through their ranks. Then they ply their supple fingers with most effectual dexterity upon the unwary. But as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is it the price of jour own purse. "Beware of Pick-pockets!" They arc in the cars, the boats, the street cars, the stages, the ferries, the hotels, theatres-and even the churches. Ankles. There's magic in a lady's foot And well the ladies know ft ; And she who has a pretty one Is pretty sure to show it ; At times, you, too, are martyred by The nicest little ankle, That shoots an arrow through jour eye, Within your heart to rankle. But when it trips along the street, Through wind, and mud, and vapor, By sheerest accident you see How beautiftil the taper ; And as it steps upon the walk, Amid the crowd to mingle, Two roguish eyes look up and say, I wonder if he's single.