Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1883 — A Boy with $10. [ARTICLE]

A Boy with $10.

He was only 12, but he picked up a pocket-book with $lO in it, and with the rashness of youth started in for a grand debauch., He laid in $2 worth of cigarettes and then commenced sampling the lemonade at the bridge entrance. As everybody knows, there is a wild profusion of brands at that place. He tried them all. By this time he was excited and reckless, so he bought a quart of green apples and two decayed bananas and sat down •on the Astor House steps to enjoy them, aad then went and had some clam chowder. After this he proposed to go up to High Bridge and smoke cigarettes for a week. But he was interrupted by the Coroner at Eighty-sixth street, who took out of his clothes two pistols, a quart of peanuts, six raw tomatoes, one paper of chewing tobacco, four pounds of damaged gum drops, six tickets for a dime museum, three new iron pocketknives, a clay pipe, a dime song book and a pair of bathing pants. He was reported as a case of cholera infantum —but it was only extravagance. —New York World.