The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-26

Vice President James H. Hyde Of the
Equitable Life has two men employed
doing nothing these days but pasting in
big scrap books clippings from newspa-
pers regarding the controversy in the
society. These clippings are furnished by
con Germs which make that sort Of work
a business, and include articles from every
country in the world in which newspapers
are printed, Although the men are busy
all day long they are almost week behind
in their work.
whats the matter? Had to soak
your watch?' asked the friend who had
dropped in to see a young lawyer and saw
an hourglsss on his deck.
Not az bad as that. laughed the other.
Il have a watch. That Il my telephone
economist. You see, a telephone IL a.
necessary to me as a desk and a great deal
more expensive / am charged by the call
and a call runs five minutes. II you run
over that It's SECOND call and they mount
up alarmtpgly. Until ] develop my prac-
tise shall have 20 he careful Of the little
things, and found that frequently spent
six or seven minutes In chat that should
not take FIVE. tried timing with my watch
but would forget where I had started 70
time, so now ! turn the glass and the
amount Of sand left in the top gives me
an idea Of about how much time have
left
Typewriter ribbons to match distinctive
shade Of stationery Is distinctly smart,
but one firm, dealing largely with women,
has gone a step further. The paper Is
two shades lighter than the three cent
stamps and the printing and the type
writer ribbon are Of the exact tint Of the
stamp itself. All letters are signed In an
ink OF the same shade both the ribbon
and the ink being especially manufactured
A the firms correspondence Is very
heavy the additional expense Of using
three cent stamps instead Of the hideous
twos mounts into the hundreds Of dollars
a year but it is declared that tho return
more than warrants the expense.
Il have never teen brought face 10 face
with TIE problem Of what should do TO
earn my bread and Ger il l sh ould suddenly
60 fat broke, said nan to whom such a
sub ject could POSSESS no other than an
academic int est, -and prob ably the bread
would prove a mighty scaroe article. But
have watched young chap in Just that
situation lie was a West ern lad, handy in
his ways and all that, hut when he struck
! Now York he was strapped and stony.
Ho Tustled a job, nUp pToato In hie own
: dialect out Of the Southwest. The first
| thing he got was a place as a waiter in
| restaurant. Evidently he kept his ewes
! oren and saw things that he didn't mention
except where they would do the most good
J TO the smallest number, for in no long time
/ he was a cop. He was not kept many
months at the lonely walks on the sidewalk.
| for be was soon put in plain clothes, next
/ he was made a detective and then q de-
! tective sergeant. After ell he was legis-
| lated Of the force and was hack just where
! he began, broke and ready to rustic an
other job. Back 20 the lobster row he
went and became once more waiter.
After waiting a second trick ke has just
been selected to be the boss cop Of one OF
those Central American republics. IL seems
10 me that waiting must he a profession
with large chances OF Advancement
The suggestion that the body Of Paul
Jones shall rest here In New York recalls
the fact that In. ST, Patrick's graveyard
in Mott street Is q plain white slab inscribed:
4 Ia rremoire de Pierre de Landss, aPcisn
Contrt- Amirsl au service des Etats.l nis.
Il dlsparut JUN, 1918, nge 81 ana.
Z covers the remains Of poor old De
Iandais. captain Of the Alliance. the French
sailor who was disgaced by Congress and
deprived OF his command because he did not
fight 49, well as his associate, Paul Genes,
in the famous battle between the Scraps
and the Bon Homme Richard. For forty
years the old FTenchman walked the streets
Of this city in proud and solitary poverty.
vainly trying TO hive his case reoPened.
Forgot en- by the generation, as his epitaph
says, he disappeared
A woman appeared before Magistrate
omnen the other day and asked for a sum-
mons for another woman. She woTe a very
large and Raudy purple hat.
THE woman ran me out Of my room and
threw lot of bric-A-brac and several
ina 90 a at M y abe kaid,
Did YOU have on that hAti" asked the
Judge as be handed ber the paper.
The attention Of Wall Street folks has
been attracted for several days by the
sight OF what appears to be graSs growing
on the Broad street curb exchange. H.
really is wheat. the kernels having fallen
between the curbstones and sproutsd.
For an area OF almost hundred feet square
II shows above the ourb4tones.
THE curb men are certainly letting the
grass grow under their feet theee daya,"
has been the usual remark.
An enterprising young woman with a
strong strain Of Yankee blood has hit upon
a novel way Of making pin money. she
buys all the newest and most popular novels,
reads them and then proceeds TO talk about
them At her boarding house and at several
/ others where abe has friends. Then when
interest IL sufficiently awakened she rents
! the books out a. 10 cents each. Each reader
| keep a book three or four days. At the
rate Of 10 cents . read, the young woman
| soon has the original price neArly back.
In spite Of the free circulating hbrarieA
this businesslike young woman docs not
| lack patrons.