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Manv years ago a little paper was printed at Rossville, by a sen- 

 sational Bohemian, whose idea of journalism was to print such state- 

 ments about the people as would '"get the laugh on them and sell the 

 paper." He published several numbers, I am informed, and the love 

 that the residents of the village bore for him was not such as 

 characterized Damon and Pythias. One day he was called away 

 suddenly, and when he returned, he found that his printing-press 

 and types had been carried away and dumped into the river. There 

 was a note left behind stating that, " Somehow or other, a newspaper 

 wasn't appreciated in that locality, and there might possibly be 

 other fields of labor where the editor could serve his country to a 

 greater advantage.'" It was not very long before he ''folded his tent"' 

 and departed. 



COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY OF STATEX ISLAND'S WATER FRONT. 



BY GEO 1L BOOT. 



THE NATIVE or the foreigner who, leaving behind him the Ocean 

 and the blue hills of the Navesink enters the bays of New York 

 cannot but express his admiration of the scene before him. The 

 Lower Bay encircled by the Jersey hills and lowlands, the green 

 meadows and eminences of Staten Island and the white sands of 

 Coney Island, an expanse of waters stretching from East to West 

 about ten miles, and from North to South about ten miles, with the 

 entrance of the Narrows into the upper bay only one mile wide. As 

 he glides through this, a still more striking view presents itself; on 

 the East the low bank of Long Island, extending about five miles 

 in nearly a straight line from Fort Hamilton to Brooklyn ; on the 

 West the bold bluffs of Staten Island gradually receding from the 

 Bay to give space to the numerous dwellings and business places. 

 The shore line from the Narrows to the entrance of the Kill Van 

 Kull forming a considerable curve toward the West, beyond the 

 Kills, the fiat shores of New Jersey melting into the Palisades of the 



