New-York tribune., 1899-06-09
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS.


While the United States steamer Brooklyn n
being repaired shore leave Is given in turn TO
patches of sailors. One man. who lives in this city
on the East Side and who was allowed 10 .emain
with his family for two or three days. invited .
shipmate TO take dinner with him last Sunday.
Unfortunately the shipmate lost the address. ana
could remember only the name OF the street.
Reaching the street he wandered up and down
asking every other person ne met II he knew the
house where a sailor belonging 20 the Brooklyn
lived None knew. The man. nonplussed was about
TO give I'D the search when ne observed youth
sitting stoop amusing himself with an old
battered bugle thought struck the sailor
Lend me that a minute" he said to the young
man. as ne grasped the horn. Putting u to his
lips he sounded with all his might the dinner csh
of the Brooklyn. Sure enough: Two or three sec
a head thrust and a strong. listy voice csied
out: Ship ahoy! Full speed ahead up here Mess
has been waiting half an hour for you
WANTED ONLY ONE SALOON
In one OF the outlying parts OF Jersey City
temperance meeting held few nights ago.
The meeting organized by church congrega-
ton, and up 10 a certain point was great sue
cess. People In the audience were asked 10 relate
their Experiences" Many were the stories told
Of happy conversions from tippling TO teetotalsn1.
At last one individual. who is well-known In tho
nelghborhood for his joval disposition. rose. ana
in demure manner asked permission TO make
few remarks Permission all the more readily
granted because he was known not to be raoid
An have, to say" he began. Is that y.:h
Jersev"snd causing for second 10 take a long
breath. he added. "and wish that solitary saloon
belonged to me.
HE CAME OUT AHEAD
Two thrifty-looking foreigners. who may be called
Brown and Jones. were returning with their fam-
ies in a Pennsylvania ferryboat from their sun
day outing Brown happened TO drop quarter. ana
okad in lin for mi which
had covered with his foot. When the boat got IN
the slip Jones in stopping 10 pick up his little son.
managed seize the quarter. and marched OUT
OF the cabin carrying the boy. whose hat dropped
of as they were leaving the boat. Brown. who had
seen Jones's little financial trick quickly picked up
the childs hat and MD il behind his back, Jones.
not seeing the hat, thought u had gone INTO tne
water wa, and b waed hs wS os WORTH 3 cents and would
At one Of his boys. that he was cents ahead
AN OBVIOUS FACT
Last week there was marriage in the West eids
by the Friends ceremony. but the grave Quaker
preacher thought due 70 he friends OF the couple
TO borrow a Phrase or two from the Episcopal ser
vice 30 at the end OF the ceremony he made prayer
woven out Of bits of the Prayer-Book service ano
then, after an impressive pause, ne undertook 10
tv a9a 4 hereby declare you to be man and woman
The old Friend pondered seriously upon tne a,..t .
A MOTORMAN'S ACT
Not every driver OF electric car Is moved py
a fendish desire TO scare timd people out OF tner
wits II he loses opportunity to run over them- A. I
nurse was dragging headstrong boy OF four years
away from in front Of rapidly approaching car
near the West seventy-second-st entrance to Cen
tral Park yesterday when the little fellow dropped
a toy he carried He struggled 10 get back and res
cue the toy. and the frightened nurse screamed ae
him In a mixture Of French and English. an she
yanked him away from the tracks. With a smile that
he a
motorman brought the to a sudden stop within
foot OF the toy. refusing 10 run over ana crush ~.
Now. my little man, ne said wen "Ai' i0r
While the boy caught up his plaything and scam
psee saS awsy 70 VII" IN H ondnepor sandnE on the foot
board: That was kind act Would report OF II !
es sad M nsge sondncof ay with broad grim T
you want TO have the man discharged! ano no
rang the bell to go ahead.
SHE CHANGED HER TUNE.
fat old woman with matches TO sell sat last
evening in a part Of Broadway where the heart or
the metropolis beats fastest at theatre-gong time.
and her shrill voice pipcd defiance TO the pleas
ure-lovng throng that swept past her
Here you arer' she cried Get some matches to
burn your money with
od of CRYING her wares but few Of them stopped 10
buy matches and presently her tyns cnsnsso and
buy three boxes Of mstches for two centsr'
DEFINITION OF SKELETON.
There is a Sentimental Tommy In the primary
department OF one Of the public schools on tho
East Side and he has attracted the attention OF
keen-witted Normal College girl, who is detailed
at the school for ante-graduaton study. She was
overheard to say with enthusiasm TO friend yes
terday:
Thomas is homey, and his little legs are 20
thin they look like pipestems. but he says the
brightest things. He taken 10 the museum IN
the Park with some OF the other small children
the other day and when they returned 10 the
classroom they were questioned as TO what things
thew had seen I saw a skeleton. said Thomas.
And what Is a skeleton. ThomasT asked the teach:
ar Well. If / was in my bones, I'd be skeleton
said Thomas quick as a wink