The "Alley" of its unfortunate name is the slum in Kansas City where Dave, stranded on his way westward, met the girl to whom the laws of fiction were inevitably to join him.

The long anticipated struggle was over and the Alley was the victor.

The old narrow alleys of the town, called "chares," are fast disappearing; the best known is Pudding Chare, leading from Bigg Market to Westgate Road.

The mud came up over our overshoes as we stood there, so that altogether we were quite heated in temper when we found ourselves in an alley outside, filled with garbage which had been there forever, and learned that this alley was a street, and a very good one for Constantinople, too.

Barrel Alley is a blind alley-that means it has an end to it and you can't go any further.

A BOWL-ALLEY Is the place where there are three things thrown away beside bowls, to wit, time, money, and curses, and the last ten for one.

All the other streets are fifty-five feet wide and the alleys are twenty-eight feet.

Exchange Alley was once Passage de la Bourse, and led down (as it now does to the State Houselate St. Louis Hotel) to an establishment which seems to have served for a long term of years as a sort of merchants' and auctioneers' coffee-house, with a minimum of china and a maximum of glass: Maspero'scertainly Maspero's as far back as 1810, and, we believe, Maspero's the day the apothecary entered it, March 9, 1804.