The sun., 1904-05-02
LIVE .TOPICs ABOUT TOWN.

1'o""eh' oI efullery gong through
broadway to Madison Square Garden
from Governors Island yesterday after.
noon held up. at Barclay street, a crowd OF
persons who had landed from Hoboken
iierry9oat; tall clerical looking negro
IN a. nigh hat and long coat was horrihed.
hearn about de sIn Of dis city" he said
70 woman who looked as though she might
pe ms wife, but ! nebber did dream dey
ssems sry ioS fads fehs. on ds sunasy nn Morr,
,p~n, ,p, remarked his companion. In tones
mat seemed to imply that she would like
to live In New York
Not great way from where Broad way
crosses Sixth avenue there Ia a French
market Once inside and you might fancy
yourself In similar establishment In Paris.
french is spoken almost exclusively by
the attendants, who are all OF one family.
The mother is ensconced in little glass
booth OF her own, where she acts as cashier
and superintends things generally. Ali
sorts OF eatables peculiarly French are to
be had there. In season and out. Outside
oi the door barker" In the shape OF a
tame Plymouth rock chicken, struts up
once in while giving loud cackle. There
being no other chicken about TO respond
to the offer or battle, II serves to keep the
crowd amused.
There was fight between gray squirrel
and flock OF English sparrows at the
Arsenal in Central Park on Saturday and
1t had crowd Of interested spectators
visitor threw some peanuts on the ground
for the squirrel and a couple OF sparrows
tried to drive the squirrel away, but could
not.
The chrping OF the frst two claimants
attracted other sparrows and soon there
We're dozen or more I hey went for the
squirrel squirrel, hopping Spp flying about him and
food and ran to the wall Of the building.
lhe birds. having their fighting blood
up. followed up the attack. Mr.. Squirrel
climbed up the vine that covers the wall
cehirping. pecking at him and Tapping
their wings against him. They did not
cease the attack until he crawled into a
hole under the caves Of the building.
An English sparrow has recently made
its home in the stall of old Smiles, the two
horned rhinoceros Of the Park menagerie.
up between the beast and the bird.
The sparrow has a good thing Of it in
the way of food for there is always guam
tity of hayseed on the floor and often pieces
of bread which Smiles has overlooked.
When the animal is lying down the bird
occasionally hops up on her and pecks
the hayseed from the crevices Of her
wrinkled hide.
Old Smiles seems to like this latter at
tention and is careful when walking about
not to step on her little friend. But she
has another friend cat. When the cat
enters the stall the bird flies up to rafter
and waits there until the cat goes away.
Il don't suppose the Census Bureau will
ever adopt it as an accurate method Of
investigation" said the passenger in a
Houston street crosstown car, yesterday,
"but that warning gong on the front plat
form does indicate, in a way. the density
of the population. The motorman didn't
ring it much on the West Side. He didn't
have to touch it at all between Broadway
and the Bowery. But eastward from the
Bowery the children are so thick that he
has to keep it changing every second so
as to finish his run without killing some
body
The students in the Boys High School
in Brooklyn get out monthly paper which
they call the Reccrde,, and which compares
fairly with similar productions in the
colleges. In the last number the story 10
told that the seniors one day recently had
neglected to provide themselves with sing
ing books and didn't want to be caught
lacking According to the story they
opened any old textbook. they happened
to have with them and made blum at sing
ing from 1t, with this sort of result for
America
Enteuthen H-o
Dights alio
Ncbuchadnezzar
Co-sue and co tangent
Kai gar ct aiment
Pour jaric la joliEient
Nicholas. the Car