New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-24
CHANCES HERE AND THERE


uviies in the way of manhole explosions may find IL
economical TO hire two with good cold noses
10 walk about town and sniff. This nasal officer will
soon smell the naphtha gas escaping at places like
! Twenteth-st. and Broadway, Twenty third-st. and
fifthave, where the last explosions occurred, and
Thirty -fourth-st and Sxth-ave where the worlunen
we're flssing over some pipes on Tuesday morning
snlf IN time, gentlemen, may save mine.
Why does the python follow our path7 Collector
Erhardt ought not to allow her land. IL Is too,
too much. Send her back to Mr.. Jamrach, Ratclihe
! Highway, London 5. F., under the contract labor
law Here within these two years We have had
gentleman python wandering about the City Hal
Park doubtless mstakng Il for the private entrance
/ to the Garden of Eden in a state Of seml-uncon-
seriousness not unfamiliar to the fequenters Of that
region. Then when two casual fremen have borne
him oil on their shoulders like a rubber hose, and
shipped him straight away to Boston, has not that
same serpent more escaped and in the very
home OF the intellect Of America ignObly sought a
tropical refuge in the superheated fue OF the nearest
| furnacel Indeed. no was actually found smiling
through the ornamental holes in the register. Moro
than that, Is it not remembered how highly respect
able lady, temporarily resident at Nantasket on ac-
count of climate and taxes fed from the first report
of snake overheard in The Transcript for instance,
and sought secure retreat within her stout walls
| az Jamaica Plain; there the very next morning, was
! that very python summing himself at full length on
her verands Mere coincidence, chi Very good,
| Just walt and see how you will like it yourself
Meantime, send that snake back where ii belongs, and
let Europe and the rest Of them understand that no
| pythOns need apply.
The water-les in the City Hall Park are beautiful
now Tho rosy Indian lotus has burst into full bloom;
the Zanzibar lily still looks like sky blue freworB,
| and the AmazOnians like aquatic buttercups.
notice ought to be put up. before It is too late, like
| the old in the Boston Frog Pond: PythOns
strictly forbidden to bathe in this pond"
To tho very young: II Is indeed amusing in you.
and more Intellectual than would suppose, to
drop your wads Of chewing gum, As per cent chewed,
on the crowded sidewalk for very Old fogos OF thirty
| and forty and more to tread on. still funnier
is 1t to deposit such wad Tor COB, II that be the
rect term the seat Of the elevated road for
respectable and hence unassuming person to sit on
| But now dears, don't get caught at it. Cum-chewing
at best is wearing on the intellect Don't overdo it.
Mr. Jamrach Is known everywhere the greatest
living dealer in wild animals and many the curious
stories told Of him and his curiosities Some of them
true IL may be hoped One morning two heavy swels,
| momentarly precluded from pungng on the Derby,
the st. Leger the Oaks, begued their weary hours
! by little bet. Captain ~, Of Her Maiestys
Foot Guards, risked guinea on the proposition
that Jamrach had for sale every mortal
thing wearing legs wings that one could think Of
Major B., of Her Majesty's Blues took the bet. lie
had served in India, IN the Jungle don't you know,
and had an idea, ehl So per hanson to the Radcliffe
| Highway. An, err say, Jamrach, we want 10 buy
Major, firing off his bursting charge Every sorry,
gents,' says Jamrsch, as cool as you please, but
my three best elephants are out this morning on ap
prevail and I've nothing In at the moment that d be
likely to suit you Would you leave the address and
| Leu ne send em round Tomorrow"
On another occasion Jamrach had a fine young
Bengal tiger sent in from one of the India steamers
Jamrachs men were very busy so they stood the box
marked per margin, said 10 contain one ~ tiger,
at owners risk its side against the wall anywhere
! Just for minute two. They knew, of course
men do that nothing happens in a minute two.
But the carpenter that made the box, being
mist hadn't seen the use of wasting wood on the
bottom. and the tiger hearing queer noises and nosng
strange Odors, OF things to eat knocked the bottom
out Of the box, and lounged out of the yard into the
street 4 small boy who had come to see the fun
leaning against the gatepost, eating bread and
sugar. and him the tiger took along in his teeth as
cat carries her kitten One Of the shriekeS
| " HI and Jamrach, hearing the cry, instantly and
without word seized the tiger by the slack OF his
tser hand over hand til he had the beast by the
right Then the tiger dropped the boy 10 attend
to Jamrach OF the wOrkmen attended TO the tiger
| with crowbar others came with ropes the tiger
was Gagged, the boy ran home. and the magistrate
made Mr.. Jamrach pay $500 or So for keeping dan
/ gerOus nuisance
Jamrach picks up many bargains from the mates
and stewards OF the vest fleet that sails steams
into the Thames every tide from the four quarters
OF the globe But sometimes he gets picked up him
self few years ago he bought for few shllngs
very ard therefore valuable animal from a
mate, Just In from say New-Guinea. Presently the
mate saw his venture in tho Zoo7 with a great
gaping crowd about its cage, and learned that the
society had paid small fortune for the curiosity.
IN fix him." says the mate. So the next voyage
he returned with the very rarest curiosity ever
| in out of the london docks Hulo," says Jam
rach fairly excited "what do you call
that, nowl" Dunno" says the mate in
| differently. Looks like bald squTel'
says .Jamrach, and tho male SAID him not nav; for
and of the queerest color. too. sort Of no color at
Ianrach had bought that animal for so gulneas
down. and In three hours he was back the stone
dock raging at the mate laughing loud the far end
shouted Jamrach al Just have laughed the mate.
barber shaved hin for glass OF beer Any hing
else in our line this morning!'
The display OF United States flags in the French
quarter of the city while the celebration of the cen
tennal OF the destruction of the Bastle was in pro-
geSs the universal exhibition of the National colors
on the Fourth of july and the number and variety of
the decorations exhibited during the centennial days
of last May, the small shops kept by foregnbom
residents on the side and IN other parts Of the
city inhabited for the most part by immigrants from
Europe indications that there IS no little love for
their adopted country those who have chosen
for their home on the National holidays there
rows of flags and strips of bunting the doors and
behind the windows of little stores, the prOpretOrs
of which have names scarcely pronounceable by an
American tongue. Many wOrbngmen with unms-
akablv foreign faces among tho purchasers of the
bundles of cheap flags sold the streets Some Of
the shoDkeapers have their occupations set forth IN
French. German or Hebrew words but the stars and
strpcs are vet exhibited the symbols of patriotic
feeling Probably also the larger part OF the pa aies
which take place the holidays are made up o. IOt
elgn-born citizens.