The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-19
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
A New Yorker just returned from Paris
tells OF strange substitute for numbers
in designating private vehicles. These new
embems are rsIal.y igu es Of anlma's.
The po te,s in front OF public tui Is
no longer call out numbers, but the names
OF the animals on the carriages II II hap
pens that there are two dogs, for lnstancs.
the pc te' adds some oorroborative de-
tails as to the color and size Of the ami
NAL. The indicators in front Of the New
York theaterss would be much mora pictur-
esque than they are we're these devices en-
ployed here. although 1t Ia not likely that
the probems Of traffic would be more
readily solved.
President Sprague of the Union Dime
Savings Bank says that he was called up
on the telephone one day and addressed
thus, apparently in all seriousness:
a!s this the Union Dime Savings Bank?'
-Yee."
well, want to know II a non-union
man can deposit In your bank?'
One Of the musicians in the orchestra
that came back to New York with the
Savage "Parsifal' company last week made
some very interesting statistics as to the
amount OF Wagner's opera that had been
handed out to the country by this troupe.
He calculated that in the IA performances
the company had given there were e72
in which there were I $50 bars to every
performance. The opera was sung in 20
cities and rs States and the time occupied
by performances OF 1Parsifal' WAS 1859
days, or s77N hours, or $3.50 minutes.
It Is probable, moreover, that THE appliea.
ton will be as much az the country needs
for some little time to come.
Uncle Sam Is not making a very good
quality OF postage stamp at present, the
drug store man is to be believed. A man
whose sole investment at one store con-
sisted Of a two cent stamp remarked face
tiously that the profits must be large in
this particular line. Not much, said
the clerk, pointing to several which had
lose about 20 cents day in this manner
Il would like to know, said an old smoker
-just how much the tobacco in any good
cigar Ia actually worth. used to think
was paying for my cigar when put up a
good price for one, but the other day found
was paying principally profits, and very
little for The cigar Itself on the ayera ss
tween FIVE and six cents clear profit. The
or two and a hall cents, 80 that The remain
ing two or two and O half cents represents
the actual worth Of the material plus the
now how the tobacco dealers can afford to
make such big cuts in prices at times.
Knowing what I do now. it seems like being
robbed in broad daylight to pay 10 cents
for a single smoke.
Lawyer Dan O'Reilly was vigorously
arguing case in the West Side court the
other day when Magistrate Wahle inter-
rupted him with the question:
"Is this Diogenes?"
The crowd on the bridge turned around
and saw one Of the prison keepers bearing
a lighted lantern through the aisle.
Yes. that is Diogenes. replied O'Rellly.
"but he won't find the man he Is looking for
here
1t is usually the city people who make
fun Of the country folks in the city. but
once in while the shoe dts on the other
foot. When the carload OF horses boted
the other day one Of them finally took refuge
in a vacant lot in Harlem. Apoliceman saw
tie horse and barred up the fence 80 it
could not get out. Then he got three other
cops, and they with several citizens tried to
catch the animal The horse was wary and
.hey we're all afraid OF It, NE 9enoa some
After the horse had been leading the cops
around the lot for half an hour country
man appeared.
Wei III be jiggered,' he , said l. when p, he
up to the horse. took it firmly by the name
stroked its nose a bit and led the horse ext.
Il suppose you we're waiting for some oce
to put a harness and lines on IT," he <aid
to the police. while the crowd yelled.
Two women and a man were leaning
In an easy attitude against the steps Of
one Of the show houses on Fifth avenue
the other afternoon. The house was closed
and the tightly drawn blinds showed that
nobody was in it, But the part OF the
entrance against which the group was
posed did not reveal that they could not
have been coming out of the house,
little distance away girl with camera
was taking snapshots:
Don't know WY they do It, n.o explained oona
there every day. They're always from
out Of town and suppose they like to take
the picture home and say that is the way
they looked when they we're coming out OF
the house Up the block there's another
millionaire's house. and they 60 up there
of two or three people that show they came
from out OF town, know they're coming
to ask me where that house is. When they
find out they go and have their pictures
taken there"
The march OF business uptown has led
to the building OF some fire shops, and
none is more striking than the new home
of a tailor who says he makes for the smart
est young men in town. His new home,
which has not yet passed above the third
hoor. is to have but one more. There will
be a cafe for his customers, in which they
will be served free OF charge with any heht
refreshment they may want. ana the
latest stock and sporting returns will be
furnished to them by ticker 1 or some mso 1d
Beaconsfield made historic-serve drinks
to their customers. But meyer I've. before enn,
was there such an attempt as this to COM
bi,e a tailor's shop with club.
In at least ono downtown tenement the
release of Nan Patterson brought no JOY.
The prejudice of the tenants was in no wise
induced by any reading of the evidence
Theirs was q purely personal feeling.