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Busy Bo|ics.-An exchange paper thus de-.
scribos these gentlemen and ladies' with which ev
cry community is infested. We havo heard OF
such things.


"fhey usurP alike the prerogative ofthe cham
bcrmaid and the bootblack. They can toll the
exact quantity Of cream and sugar. which every
member Of our family uses in his tea whether
you drink out of china or whether you
breakfast n quarter before six. or eleven minutes
and half past nine. They know the Dimensions
Of your coffee pot, the color of your night cap,
and can tell without utering precision the number
Of holes in your stockings. A family fnud or an
affair de cGur is pounced upon with much avid
ity as a flock of vultures would aiight upon a dead
carcass. What rapturous gstcning of the eye-
ball, at the prospect Of such feast Woe be un-
to the individual who falls under their suspicion,
or whose character is subjected to their Ell
lance! Better fall into the hands of a highway
robber.