The last two are the more startling in their abrupt fashion of leaving the reader high and dry.

The cow is starred; obviously the man appears a minor actor: "On Thursday afternoon, as a man of genteel appearance was passing along Beekman Street, he was attacked by a cow, and notwithstanding his efforts to avoid her, and the means he used to beat her off, we are sorry to say that he was so much injured as to be taken up dead.

The cow was afterward killed in William Street.

We have not been able to learn the name of the deceased"!! Some of the items contain genuine if unconscious humour,--such as the record of the question brought up before the City Council: "Whether attorneys are thought useful to plead in courts or not ?" Answer: "It is thought not." Then there is the proclamation that if any Indian was found drunk in any street, and it could not be ascertained where he got the liquor, the whole street was to be fined! Among the earlier laws duly published in the press was that hogs should not be "suffered to goe or range in any of the streets or lands." In 1684 eight watchmen were appointed at twelve-pence a night.

But read them for yourselves,--they are worth the trouble you will have to find them! There were many queer trades in New York, and all of them, or nearly all, advertised in the daily journals.