The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-23
LIVE T0PICs ABoUT TOWN.

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| A Western inventor is making the rounds
! OF the cigar stores with new kind OF pipe,
which he expects TO supply a long felt want.
/ The bowl il in two seotions with hinge
/ and clasp arrangement which draws them
! together 50 snugly that they do not leak.
/ This gives the smoker chance 10 clean
out clogged pipe in Jify and avoiG!
profanity
IL happens that the wealthy occupant
Of a large suite in hotel in Fifth avenue
Is paying more for this rooms occupied by
her two maids than for any other rooms
in her apartments. While she was bar
gaining somewhat precisely with the man
ager as to the rent of her rooms she failed
10 mention the apartments she desired
for her maids. Ii was not until she had
agreed Ia writing TO take the apartments
for certain time at certain rent that the
question of the rooms for the two maids
was approached. The manager saw his
| advantage and named $40 day as his
ultmatum. In vain the tenant protested
| She had TO keep her agreement and she
| had 10 have her maids So they are the
most costly feature of her reiinue.
This long spell Of snow and onsequent
wet streets, remarked the druggist, has
been boon TO us. We used to handle cough
candies only in packages, and il we sold a
few cases a winter We were doing well.
But this winter the demand for cough drops
has been so heavy that We have begun 10
handle them IN bulk. We buy them now
hy the barrel So far we have sold 900
ponds of hoarhound drops and 1900
pounds Of licorlce, besides quantities of
patent cough candies put up In packages.
We don't care how long the winter lasts.
The belated Brooklynite reached the
platform just as the gong changed and
the gates Of the last car on the Bridge train
slammed in his face Much TO his sur
prise, the guard immediately opened them
and allowed him to spring aboard.
That's all right, said the guard. About
two weeks ago | wouldn't open the gate
for husky young guy, and he hung on
TIL we got well out on the Bridge Thought
he'd fall of and break his neck or get
brushed of. 80 had to open up, As soon
as he got inside he started rough house
and ! didn't get the best OF II. | amt
paid for fighting, either
Last Friday along comes a fellow with
basket just as We pull out don't open
up for him. either, but he keeps walking
alongside and using language to me, till
just a. the car gets to the edge of the plat
form h. reaches into tho basket and the
next l know he soaks Inc under the chin
with an egg
Il amt paid for cleaning up eggs, either
Anybody that wants 10 take a chance
getting on my train after this is on. New
York! All OUT
The florists clay pig which you could
make into porcupne by growis grass
spikes on it has been improved on by a
Broadway dealer. He sells head made
of terra Gotta furrowed on top and over
the eyes. Soaked in water until thor
uughly wet, fine grass seed Is put into
tho burrows In few days a fine crop
Of green hair and eyebrows will appear.
From the varied assert ment OF phys-
ognomies astonishing results may be OBJ
tanned.
James, do you know that man who just
stepped oTf" the pretty stenographer was
asking the elevator boy in a downtown
office building, when the reporter came
aboard.
Sure He's one Of them labor agitators,.
replied the boy, i seen him here the
other day"
said the girl That is Sir William Van
Horne the noted stationary engineer
In the new house for small animals in
the Geological Garden up in The Bronx
one exhibit Is carefully Stunned by sight
seers until they are assured that the beast is
safe The animal ia the ordinary skunk.
w OHb httiIl7 hlH IlpHtA W dDpTOdIH 100
close to his cage to inquire If he is in good
humor unless they have first read the card
posted on his cage. which informs the public
that this specimen had its scent bag re-
mo- ed when placed IN confinement.
MOST OF the marked down neckwear
displayed In the shop windows at this sea-
son, habf rdasher declares. has failed TO
sell because the patterns are considered
poor. This does not always mean that
the designs are nartistc
Mems taste is the most tickle thing !
ina ginable You can never be sure Of it. !
II often happens that a scarf pattern which
has a tremendous run for a year or two IL /
reproduced after a few seasons, and no one
wants 10 buy IL.
-On the other hand design you could /
hardly give away this year may become !
the craze next year-w why, no one has ever
been able to discover.
"One year men will revel in red scarfs |
and the next will have nothing but greens /
or blues or puppies. Talk about women's /
taste in dress being uncertain mans Is /
more 80. Outfitters can only guess at it. /
Experience aValls nothing
young woman wearing winter riding /
habit and carrying a riding crop boarded |
a subway train at 1880 o'clock the other 1
night, She was accompanied by a man
who carried TWO pairs OF skates The cur
was filed with the theatre crowd and there /
was some speculation as TO whether the /
young woman had been riding or skating
The woman opposite became greatly and I
nudibly interested. Presently the girl |
leaned over TO her and said:
II you would really care TO know. ! /
don't mind telling You that took riding
lesson early In the evening and have been
skating since In my riding clothes. They
are very comfortable TO skate in
The woman thanked her, but looked
BOMEN SiIUTE the FLAG.