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Show Flippers. A 15-year old boy was yesterday brought before Judge Pyper, charged with throwing rocks and battering private premises. Tbe boy was found guilty as charged, but Judge Pyper, not wiahiog to punish the lad severely, merely desiring to put a slop to trie practice, did not fine him, but ordered or-dered bim confined in jail until S o'clock last Dight This ia but one out ol the numerous cases of this kind in tbe city. Tne practice of Sipping and throwing rocks is far too prevalent pre-valent and on the increase, and now that Lhe matter has been taken in hand by the police, parents will find it pecuniarily advantageous to keep their boya from tbia practice. Every person sufierint from theeport should make it a point to have theoSender punished, and if thia ia done it will he wonderful to uotice the mortality among nippers and rock throwers. |