New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-28
GATHERED ABOUT TOWN.

The photo which was displayed as a window
magnet to attract attention TO the stock In trade
OF shop on Union Square had been taken IN Ten
nessee and the subject distinctively native 10
the Southland. It interior view OF sure
enough colored meetiH' house" and at the moment
a 'weddin is in progress Coal black Dinah.
gowned IN spotIess white garnished with tessamins
mate who Is respondent IN tailored clothes IN
cluding dazzling vest BEST man ma ri and o[IuT t
a pickaninny IS intrusted with her train Two
y0SnE Hsa seeapS Sr covent front bench places
S Eas P GS4ssed 1 Se Sess ts Straight %
as be puts the query. Honey. does you Iuo 20
reply and the preacher adjusts the double har-
ness. On the wan behind the paTson Is ne noticed
above the heads Of the witnesses Is the ls1gn 81
do'.-DeacOn Jones.
"IIovv much money DO you think this stun repre-
sents4' said Park Row pawnbroker. the other
dav N some visitors No one ventured a guess
The place was small The stun here he said. Il
could sell at about 100000 That is, probably az
forced sale lent between $4,000 and 10000 on
H. or course there are lots of places In town
where they have got lot moro than there IS here.
Generally. I let a man have about a third Of what
think the pledge cost him. Then. too, II depends
on the person. Some have the words hard luck
written on their foreheads Just as plain as day.
III always give such man third. But as for
the chronic pauper. it's good plan to give him
about a fifth, not only because he probably won't
come back to redeem It. but because if he does
come around with something that I'd have even
less change to get my money back on ana hell say;
I took that ring out OF hook? Now, II you donr
square with YOU" In one of the drawers OF the
shop a German silver spoon 1t had been there
was from England, and had had an especially hard
time ever S,neS ne aG wa ssfsiS me xo ds I r.
II he kept IL with him. and he could not afford .
cents year for keeping IT, having originally taken
out 81 90 IT, not for the sake OF the money but 70
make the transaction regular pawning one
An unusual case Of the recovery OF lost jeweiry
centred in hotel just OF Fifth-ave-. near
Thirty fourth-st, a few days ago. One OF tho
guests-an English woman-and her two daughters
paid a visit TO Grants tomb. and shortly after
their return reported the hotel desk that one OF
the daughters had lost earring of diamonds and,
turquoise somewhere the trip. The appeal 10 the
clerk resulted in a rigorous search OF the parts
OF the hotel traversed by the party, but withous
result What would you do further the
woman's query addressed to the clerk Had hs
dared to speak his mind at the moment, he would
have advised her to buy another pair OF earrings
believes under some occult control he said; You
might write letter to the officer in charge or tns
cepted the suggestion and at once dispatched
postal card The clerk was relieved though ,s Ss
chances of the recovery OF the teWelry Two dass
the hotel IN response TO the postal He had four1
the earring and came to restore II 10 the owner
as IL she were accepting package direet!y from
a Jeweler, expected and on time The finder wa
suitably rewarded. and every one was happy
Two masculine arrivals on a recent steamer from
an English port were the centre of attraction AZ
one OF the older hotels IN Madison Square the ~
slant of their arrival-even before their "luggase
had gone up on the lift" IL not thar =
courier had preceded them with a story OF notsois
achievement in any line. nor would either Oh 1nsi4
have been picked out OF assembage OF nun
dred as a man OF striking personality. Nevertheless
their appearance in the hotel lobby, as Hlu'
later on the crowded thoroughfares piqued the m
terest OF the curious. And yet. after all II Va
really not the men, but the cold excluding eo A.
they wore that were the targets or uuusual 49,
ton. Rare Russian sabies. modish mnks ana NJ ~
tens. with fashionable garments OF chincnia.a -
ing past the hotel entrance but they Wese s dc
commonplace and evoked no comment. II wAS -sfs
were snveioped. One Of them was Of a shade TIA;
might be called a Pittsburg white, with here M
viously the garment could not be classed as ore jus
nary. It was of Norwegian seal Ine osaeaasS~oa
OF feline pets wonder IL colony OF Maltese t1eoss
had not been extnguished and then sknheu
II was a product Of the hairy tufted and weH
tanned hide Of a Russian pony.
While il Is true that the ordinary Chinese cur
often has little real connection with the Flow
Kingdom once in a while real export rom -
land OF rice and Boxers appears to delight the 80.
OF the collector Chinese lock came 20 ssnS F "
other day. IL of brass. hand mace. % in ths
and built TO fasten together two ssapig Jews one
lock ii by pushing back spring lnssSi Sshorafs
other to release the sprins, was o psrsntly in
tended 10 foil the eleverest Celestial tneh u