New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-21
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

his summers Don't talk Europe to me for COM
fort" he said. cor Bar IIarbor for pleasure. When
IT comes down 20 comfort and pleasure can beat
the world | have n houseboat out on a lake in
nv wild and voolly' West It's pretty big affair."
so that we have everything on board that we need
even TO q piano When summer gets near my wife
and | take the children and two servants aboard
and there we stay for the summer. The children
tour through the woods with gun for game
We get the finest lake trout in America by fishing
over the side of our hOuseboat There isnt any
life in the world like ours for pure and simple
laziness. and that is what we all neeI IN suminer
| don't know Of any yacht in the world that could
give us more health and enjoyment than our house
boat so | an not cnvying any man his floating
palace. Mine ~ GOOD enough LOT me-
Every one is entitled to his due. The elevated
road employees. including the tranmen and ticket
choppers" come in for Il good deal Of condemnation
from New-Yorkers. \ man was complaining be
cause one of these choppers" had forced him to
miss n train when he was in great hurry. NOW
think" he said. "of the pesky spirit Of "A man who
rather than pick mp my ticket. which | dropped
on the platform instead Of In the box. would com
pei me to lose a train. That man could see that
was in a rush had come up the s'airs three at
a time and was run when | passed the box
tried to throw my ticket in II. but 1t missed. Inc
man made come back. pick 1t up ana drop IL IN
the box. That lost me the train, anu When scorer
him he stood there like mummy, paying no AT.
tention to M. It wouldn't have been 4 DIT OF
trouble to him to pick up the ticket ana IL Woui'i
have been "A great favor to me. That Is what !
call pure cussedness.' " he added gtimiy. ifoli
up" said another man. Give the chopper show
You don't know that it is against the RUE oil nm, me
company for choppcr to .0nG a from cottnr
his hands on tickets. That Is the ci'Nateh .oiu
way Of keeping its men honest. II chopper Were
to pick up ticket FOR passenger III "Ou'd "'
subject 10 discharge
A cab horse winch stands at a corner near Del
monico's has a friend whom it knows at a distance
He and the writer were walking up broadway the
other day "Scc that cab horse standing mp there
at the corner" L. said. JUS, watch now ana see
the welcome got" In minute the horsr' hait
signs Of interest soon the animal espicl lt5 Iriyi'
and Immediately it drew around close TO me si'-
walk and stretched its neck far over. Wnen the
friend came up he SroNcd the horses nose ana inca
slipped a lump Of sugar between two rows 81 lon;
with 10Y. "The old fellow knows me we'll" said the
II believe ned climb mp and go through that Plate
glass window after me II did not stop 10 speak 10
him
Don't drink vcrmouth cocktails before dinner
II you are going to have claret the table" said
cubman. There is very good bottle of clarct
am ordinarily extremely fond OF it. 1t Is some
thing that you cannot get every day in New-York.
This evening 1t has absolutely u" taste for mo. IT,
as IA and ins!pti as toothpickS. might ~ W,ii
h. drinking pi1in water 50 far ~ the enjoyment Of
,n , r ti,d ~ of5r dinner rry y"r
drink anything bef"re dinner. bat when / To- for
the sake Of good fellow snip or company (al back
on Vcrmouth becau.c n Is SO comparatively harm
less. But vermouth kills claret"
The lamcntablc hazng affair ut Cornell. which
ended fatally. VIII probably put end to this
form + so-callcd FUN ia that institution While T.
has been hard to stop hazng in American colleges.
II has been easy once the thing has been stopped.
to keep II from rclppcaring. Harvard got rid Of
hazing years ago. \ particularly bad piece Of bust
ness on the part of class caused IA" Wholesale
indefinite suspension 81 practically the whole class
The members in''" earnest chortS 10 srt pack'
but the terms VIZ" unconditional surrender on TIE
hazing question not only h5 N" suspended class
but - Ia" other UNDERGRADUATES. Va" men ~"
out minfully Tor "A while against this destruction
the class To- get back ana finally tho upper an3
the lower ca-sfu'u surrendered. That Killed h'z-
which na.ir the piofns" had been graduated. thor"
were three cla--.- 90 cotcs" which h1d never
promises. bat U"y meyer took mp hnzng. Other
college have bad nloh -" sam" eNpor.'no" iIoz-
Cornell ,ugnt {" b. pIad O." clear 81 IT, Only
the smaller and so.DAl"l weaker colleges stick TO
the cNtraNagnnt f"lli"s OF lo1 years ago.
What a hold hlzins has had upon college under
graduate J., Illustrated hy an incident which o.
CURED "a Dartmouth more than ten years ago.
\ freshman toa stma .tcr was kidnapped by several
sophomo'cs and taken ont Of town The klnap-
pcrs got Tired 81 wearing thor masks and dis
Fuis"- 4nl upon ~" prgniS" "i IA" ti . tn'
he would not hrirty them u they ,il hH h' hAiil
tn" ma ts wcr" removed. The unhappy youth WIS
shipped away ol long jo"fac!. hai dartmouth
had something OF q scandal When D. r'triH'I 1"
college he was called helor" the faculty arI. under
-Naniuation. h" i"Vcal'd th" names ~ thos"
who had abducted MIN nus was 'oh~"I'I"I by
ION h,nan @n1 ~ per ,"sS ,n % cao5ac
to leave college. The institution Of hazng had to
be- dcfcnIrI at all costs
when certain college, were bold enough I, dcclar"
that hazng iu frs sotrrr ana dangerous forms mus
e. many young cplrr- men sent up howl - .ndg-
nation. &, M" Ncr- extreme nDush g. d''lnr'
wildly that II wound ruin the college, Wen. II did
MT and s.n.ibl. D., 49,. knew I, would not. II dI
..gtl 1lsIE
ent.d bv the chang. Trerc is Il parallel case now in
,h f,oib.U situation me hot ilu-lasts are cry
Ing ut tnat o.. funtbfll rules 'r t. restrict
The PLAYING territory IL college WIN ruin the game
and iniur. the. coli -. itself. other men who are
older and wiser a"c not worrying bit about either
Il these pr phecies.
The closing II the uthcrn club. NJ. ~ West
Wa agreeable 10 is members
There are some outside non, rary members, however.
who deeply mourning the charge. These are the
sparrows. no mean number. who had taken up their
quarters in the caves of the church opposite and the
cutters II the neigib ring houses. some kird sou!
II the club always scattered the crumbs which f,Il
from the members table the asphalt adway.
and the pnmpercd "spaggers." knowing there were
meals galore. ceased qIarrelling. ate abundantly
BOOSTED coHtcutcdIy ami growing rat, died tay from
aP , 80 ~ ,b. r.',I ,rao +, ,,r,.
pathctcally amuslt to watch the birds then. They
new from gable e,hlo. and settled The nearest
Stops, expecting their usual meal The nature of
their crops empty, soon engaged In battle over the
onrl that Uttered the street. To-day the sparrows
have left that SPOT for more fceCrul grounds.
Ancnt this little episode. did the who put
the crumbs FOR IN" sparfows know that he was com
hitting misdcm'an against IN" game laws If
tine State If NcwYork? \ clause I'm these laws dis
tlnctly states that any man feeding sparrOw-the
English and aggressive birds guilty Of a INSIDE
mcanor.
Fortune played a cruel trick a New Yorker
who recently went 10 the West Indies for his
health A friend offered 10 send demohn Of fine
whiskey the steamer for him. On the day Of
sailing the passenger received note from his
friend. saying: Here is the whiskey my dear
fellow 1t Will do you good. i am sure. taken a
tonic. They have lots of down bu; no
good whiskcy this will come In nan. ',od luck
to you. Take away jugful of whisk, g. and bring
back jugfu OF health" But the passenger could
not find the demijohn in his cabin. He rang for
the steward who discovered that dcmijohn had
been sent aboard. but whore ii was he could no.
learn. When the steamer had been out lf'y
hours a woman who had been felriully seasicN
recovered sufficiently to get her bearings. She
then discovered that there was dcmljOhn in her
cabin. She was woman OF strong views regarding