New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-24
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

New-Yorkers Men, women YES and children, go
good steady gait, avoid racing loahng, seldom
]ostle and generally keep to the right as the law
Directs But exception must be taken TO this
as regards the cross-walks. There you find all sorts
Of tostlng, pushing, crowdng and confusion. Bulky
old women with bulkier baskets showing Straight
ahead, regardless Of the first principle Of physics. the
impnetrablity Of matter. Old with long ladders
or or swaying gasppes lodging wildly and widely TO the
the sidewalks speed tben Se dav when the cross
Walk sha be no more because the new the true, the
smooth asphalt pavement shall be all cross-walk
Just as the Indians skin was " all face
AT an early hour yesterday morning, when every
respectable printer and editor was, or should have
been, abed, strange noise heard by the watch
man, as OF a telegraph instrument sedately ticking
In the morning a strip OF asbestos tape found
on the city editors desk, bearing, in printed char
acters of the last century the following inscription
Electrolysium Xth Month. Twenty-hrst To GER
tam Printer or Printers Worthy and kind Friend OF
Friends as It may chance: As II should be known
OF you that was, when amongst you in the Flesh.
ever the sincere Friend and long the earnest Follower
OF your Craft, now that am condemned 10 behold
ms Countericlt set before you and all men IN the
6 brass' IN the Printing House Square, entreat you
GEAR Friends that you deal gently with tho whlm
of an old Man. and that you presently discover
more convenient way for making known your Wants
IMAM oy attaching small papers, wherein the same are
SCI FORTH against the Base Pedestal of my brazen
IIhage, aforesaid. What the Eye cannot but see, The
I
So would pray thee fOrbear and stick thy little Bills
no more Whereupon, as we have ever been Friends,
shail De doubly Yours, IL. Franklin
Pleasant, indeed, 1t IS to see how thorough and
workmanlike IS everything connected with the new
street railway in Twenty eighth and Twentyninth sts
Where the old lines have been fastened
by spikes, roughly driven and working loose or
losing their heads, perhaps the roads are firmly
boted TO the chairs secured 10 sleep in under the
| and 70 iptu bv haaie
Where the old rails flush with nothing, not
MIN themselves the new rails are flush with every
fered with and the traffic Interrupted little posi-
bic, and when completed the pavement Is seen to have
been relald in the most careful manner Sreet-car
companies and subway commissions please copy.
There are more ways Of cutting your coat too big
for your cloth than the millionstamp mania. One IS
picking up when away from home, bargains in
things fluffy fragile that have be carried in your
hand or your wife's lap. Given certain personal
equation commonly called temper, and It should be
easy 10 calculate to nicely the exact time and dis
lance given man woman thus carry bought
object Mrs. Bolivar Jones. Of orovillc, Cal. once
picked up' IN Paris toterng vase. say of Sevres
1t was only slightly damaged and was bought in
remote and sour back sum. wonderful bargaln-not
counting cab fares, of course. Equally, OF course
Mr.; Bolivar Jones was horrid' about t. Well, us az
M ~ fo OIL, Ssd TYI a. d 5e 1r Jnnes came on
deck in his high hat and best mile I've got inc
that's eight dollars more than You've p saved on t2
another such article Of crockery in the hollow OF your
left arm clear from Paris to orovile ~ Eight
thousand dollars says the good wife, promptly
The dock business naturally makes one think of
Tweed. swindling apart, what a pity, what
thousand pites It is that Auditor Watson took that
fatal slcghrfdel But for that Broadway from
seventeenthst. 10 Twenty-thlrd, II not beyond
would be handsome and convenient main
thoroughfare instead Of a congested lane IL Is DOUBT
less very wrong feel like this, yet wouldn't the
most moral Of us temptest tossed in a pirate ship.
pray for fine weather and prosperlng gales! one
cannot help grfcvng over spoiled Broadway
Columbus Bullmore was blanked clerk in the
War Office, along with John Jones. away back in
the thirtles-beforc anybody born. in fact But
his memory has been kept green He came pune
iualy al o; he slowly and carefully lifting
the pen after every up stroke and wipng It Ton his
hair after every line; and he went home az ). II
pc ever smiled, IT must have been IN the privacy OF
home on payday. In politics he was stanch
Administration man. and remained for thirty years
or more until his election was slre-or at least
settled. His heart in HIS index. Brothers
| Brown & Co., Brothers, Barring Co.. Morgan. Drexe
4 Co.. Riggs Corcoran and, you may read these 10
this day If they will let you. One excursion ana
only one no made into the field OF letterwrltihs
IIe had long enved the corresponding clerk IN secret
cherishlng no doubt, deuson AKIN 10 ME- "opSo >
IN Great Expectations who was convinced that II
th,y would but give him his head. he could reai
| the rector into fits" But Snodgrass's eout was
p,,r,n.,. o,rort,ntv Here said the secre
tary, one day in haste 10 be OIL 10 'he
Cabinet write out this as circular letter anu
address II 10 these FIVE Governors An hour later
it was ready 1t. pray observe; one letter on one
sheet beautifully penned indeed, and addressed WIN
much elaboration and many fourishes 10 me whoIe
five: His Exceency, the Governor OF tennessee;
Nashville Tenn: HIS Excellency, the Governor y,
south Carolina Columbia. :. c. and so on NM, NM
where are the Others says the secretary v nav
oilers saws Columbus. The other four lou
only told me 10 write one, sir" flalcus V VIZ
consul-that IS Lewis Cas- that secretary ol ar
- Near me dear me - was all he could say. 20
Columbus went back to his big DOCKS III chdl"9'
We shall have to stop building apartmehthouSeS
soon or else fall back ANONYMOUSLY on American
names The English nobility has nearly gwen OUT
and the Sissy" series died young "h0 Wahi ' ~
live IN The Sissy? Nay, your pardon-lhe o'ssi0'
Whether YOU are looking for board and rooms WORN
or workers or business chances. DO not give w "
search without examining the announcements On uho
eighth and ninth pages Of The Tribune To-Day