The evening world., 1891-08-10
THE CLEANER

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Passing through Warren street the other
day l saw in Tuskas window Gulliver in
japanese. There was the whole story illus
trated. The big stranger bound TO the ground
with threads, the Liliputians about him with
all OF their implements and engines OF war,
everything activity and hustle. But some
thing was queer about 1t. Gulliver was repre-
sented as giant ape and his captors as little
apes. 1t is known that the japanese trace the
descent of man from the ape, but why they
represent CULVER as such is mystery.
Perhaps Swift wrote his story from an old
japanese legend.
OF course Mrs. James Brown Potter has not
married Mr.. Curly Bellew, for she says so;
but that does not prevent the circulation OF
stories that she has. Miss Kinnaird, former
member OF her company insists that the we'd
ding took place In Australia Miss Kinnaird,
however. has grievance. She played Juliet's
MRS Potter's) mother, and claims that she
did 1t so well that newspaper said that had
Romeo fallen in love with his mother-in-law
he would have displayed better taste than in
throwing himself away on Juliet" This, she
asserts, caused Mrs. Potter to discharge her.
william Winter, hear, has been elected
President OF the Board OF Trustees Of the
Staten Island Academy and Latin School.
The institution will be helped by this acqui-
sition.
Simpson, can believe the following story
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by the st. Joe Herald: "The other day
Simpson, in one Of his speeches, while eulo-
glzing Daniel Webster, referred, in compli-
mentary terms, to his dictionary. friend
on the stage pulled Simpsons coat tail and
whispered; Noah was the man who made
the dictionary Simpson gave his friend a
scornful look and whispered back: Noah
built the ark and went on with his ora
tion."
Although Daniel Dougherty has become a
New Yorker, he cannot give up his Philadel-
phia friends. He spends the Summer down
on the Jersey coast at one OF the popular
Quaker City settlements which are so numer-
GUS in that locality.
While walking with a friend recently no.
ticed that he went out OF his way to avoid
stepping on one OF those marble flagstones
which storekeeper had sunk In front OF his
shop, bearing his name and business. "Bad
luck, sure, to step on one Of those stones,"
was his answer to my query.
Although the traces Of the recent disastrous
fire at seabright are fast disappearing, they
have not yet been entirely obliterated by any
means. l noticed the other day that large
portion OF the blackened ruins was covered
with an aggregation OF little tents, which are
the homes Of the burned out fishermen. Only
a few OF the stores have been replaced, and
these only with the tiimsiest kind OF board
structures.
There is an interesting story behind the re-
cent mortgaging OF the sixth Street Baptist
Church. For ten years the Rev. Daniel c..
Potter, It's pastor, had not received salary.
He found 1t hard to get along without pay,
and at recent meeting Of the trustees It was
decided that mortgage on the church prop
erty should be given to him for 100000, the
amount due.
The Coleman Houses book purveyor.
young Mr.. Alexander, had an interesting ex-
perience the other day. Business had been a
trtne less brisk than usual, and he was wan
dertng about the lobby, deep in meditation.
AS he approached his bookstand he saw, coyly
nesting upon the floor, q brand-new two
dollar bill. He picked 1t up. Nobody claimed
1t. He resolved instantly TO put 1t into cir
culation. To purchase an eigLty-cent box OF
candy for his wife and to treat some adjacent
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felt decidedly better. just before he started
home he counted up his money and discovered
that the two-dollar bill which had rendered
him so festive had merely fallen from his own
drawer. Tableau.