The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-03
LIVE TOPICS ABoUr TOWN.

1--WE IOPJCS ABOUT TOWN.
Every clear day an old man leading an
Angora cat by leather leash appears on
Riverside Drive. He walks for several
blocks with the cat before he axes seat
on one Of the benches to read his news
paper. The cat Jumps on his lap and purrs
oontentedly until II Is time for the two to
disappear-an hour or so after noon.
Whittier they depart or whence they come
no one seems to know, but the strange
couple arouse comment from all who pass
them
There has not been much demand for fancy
New Year cards. the dealers say In for
mer years the cards were popular. This
season there has been change People
are now buying cheap funny cards at few
cents apiece. The fancy cards cost as much
as 50 each.
Don't buy small tubs OF butter from
strangers unless you examine the tubs
from top 10 bottom" said an East Side
storekeeper. The old game of selling
barrel Of ashes with coating Of sugar
on top has died out, but there ia a new game
on the same principle-a tub of butter
offered at low price, much lower than the
price at the market. When you dig down
to the centre you find nothing but white
4. NV eoSN Bolho W DO up
against
The suggestion that the city purchase
the old home Of Alexander Hamilton, al
ways known as Hamilton Grange, and con-
vert IL into a public PARK. recalls an odd
circumstance in connection with the thr-
teen elm trees at the Grange. near 14lst
street and Convent avenue. These elms
were planted by hamilton himself to rep
resent the thirteen original States. They
were put 80 close together, owing to Hamil-
toms desire 10 emphasize the union Of the
States, that nine of the trees died. Curl
ously enough the first tree TO die was the
one known as South Carolina. Just as that
State was the first 20 secede from the Union
In 81 OF the four trees surviving to-day,
that named for New York Is the most thriv-
ing.
The holiday season is not 40 completely
passed as to rob an uptown candy shop Of a
characteristic Christmas sight hardly to be
duplicated elsewhere in this country. The
owner OF this establishment Ia several
times a millionaire. His income from his
business annually reaches into six figures.
Yet his wife does not disdain to go into the
shop every year at Christmas time to assist
the women who are at work there. She
oversees the others. takes an active part in
not above doing any work thai may increase
the comfort OF patrons. II may not he
necessary to add that she was not born
In this country.
New Year souvenirs given by cigar and
liquor dealers to their patrons. like every
thing else. are more expensive than for
several years past. One downtown cigar
dealer distributed silk suspenders to his
10 nln-fr IVA
out silver match boxes. heavily embossed
and bearing no advertisement OF his place
except inside the lid. Leather bill books
were still the favorite gift OF the unorginal
business man, with cigar cases and match
boxes a close second and third. The pro-
prietor OF one cigar store gave 10 each OF
his patrons a set OF shirt studs, while another
has given to his very best customers silver
mounted corkscrews.
A certain Harlem minister has a COM
plexion naturally 40 ford as to give him
the appearance OF an excessive drinker
OF hard liquor. Tie preacher is Scotch
Presbyterian, and among his NRrishioners
is a barber whose love for the Thiskey OF
his forefathers is a trouble to himself
and source Of worry to the minister,
who makes his visits TO his psrishioners
shop the occasion for a little advice on the
evils Of oonviviality,
One day last week the hand Of The barber
In shaving the preacher wac so unsteady
IA to inhict several severe cuts.
-You see. william" said the minister,
solemnly what is caused by too much
drink.
Ave" replied the imperturbable Will
liam. 1T do make tn skin vera tender
A little old maidenly woman, possibly go
years old. entered the subway at the Forty
second street station. She was accompanied
by a Young fellow, who addressed her as
sAuntv." TO whose arm she chung
The couple boarded southbound ex-
press. the woman clinging closely to her
escort Throughout the trip to the Bridge
she hardly said word. But az she emerged
from the kiosk at the Bridge she turned TO
the Young man.
There she said trumphantly, / thought
I was going to be afraid, but | wasn't bit
This thing Of wearing giov~N 10 keep
your hands warm said a rosy faced police
man. "is about the biggest farce know Of
There ia nothing to it, I have been COP
for twenty years. and have never worn
glove winter or summer, except when
the rules Of the departrn ent compelled
me 10 do so, and then did II under protest
t;loyes hinder the free circulation Of the
blood. and that snakes your hands cold.
Won don't cover your face in winter. The
face gets used to the cold. and feels better
in frosty weather than at any other time,
and so will the hands II you let them alone
got pair Of gloves for Christmas present,
but I've traded them of for necktie that
would put your eye out
An extensively gowned young woman in
a Maiden lane jewelry store had selected
nair OF handsome militia ~ brushes. which
abe said we're TO be a gift TO her 6anoe,
Would you like it marked with letter.
Yes. YOU might just engrave ~. s. on
it, replied the purchaser.
u. s.. replied the clerk az he jotted the
letters down on a card
"Yes. his name is Eugene Smith
Did the merry yuletide cost you an over
coat? There i, bulletin board in the ferry
house on Staten Island used for announce
rnents OF lost articles and similar notices.
one affixed last Of all has not been mated in
the years the bulletin board has been in
place II reads
Found, late on Monday night, gentle