The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-12

In speaking Of tho work Of the United
Charities, with which he has been long and
4 prominently connected tho Rev. Dr. A. F.
Schauffler said
People OF every nation under the sun.
and from all classes in these different ma
tons, have, at one time or another, applied
! 10 VA for aid, with two notable exceptions.
have made careful inquiry, and never In
| the history Of our work has Japanese or
Chinese applied to us for help. nor have
l seen or heard of japanese or Chinese
beggar in this city or country
little lad whose parents attend the
| Church Of the Ascension being taken to
the morning service for the first time
was greatly impressed by a reference the
| clergyman made to the creation OF Eve
A Few days later no came to his mother
announcing
My aide hurts me very much bad and
thinks God is getting ready to take out one
OF my ribs and make me wife.
i recently saw an illustration OF how
children are influenced by what appears
in the public print. said an observant
woman. Il was in an elevator in one Of
the large apartment buildings on upper
Broadway when handsomely dressed
little boy began TO hack and cut he highly
polished wood with his knife The man
running the elevator expostuated. but the
boy defantly announced. I'm Buster
Brown and continued to deface tho ele
vator.-
The superintendent Of Washington square.
and other small city parks. is an ar dent
champion OF tho sparrow He says few
years ago a company Of eparrows descended
on his small vineyard Believing they
pyptilH Heatrnv hia he anhffarad
to entice them 70 one spot, and as they
gathered shot large numbers, When no
examined them he found nothing in their
crops bur kind OF black bug, which threat
ened TO entirely destroy his vines In
capturing these bugs the .sparrows had
occasionally picked small holes in the
grapes. which led Mr.. Canes to, az he
puts it, commit slaughter akin in kind,
If not in degree. TO that OF Herod Of old
Since then Mr.. Canes says. he has been
constantly studying sparrows and their
ways and finds they spend their lives de-
stroying pests.
In certain downtown restaurant.
gTizzled old man with traces of faded geutil-
ity can be found lunohing every day His
usual dish Is stewed tripe or something
equally unpretentious But he seems
scarcely conscious Of what no is eating.
In his left hand be always has a little red |
book which he reads with tho most de-
voted attention. The book Ia treatise on |
the art OF dining. 1t is illustrated With |
dishes known 70 gastronomy and over these !
the obviously needy man gloats, obliviona |
OF "steved tripe. 20 cenre."
On the late Postmaster Van Coit's stan |
we're two fine Maltese cats One was called |
David b Hill and the other Thomas c. |
Plat. Van Colt used to say that he had |
put them both on civil service bnsis so that
no successor OF his could remove them |
without cause. But three days after The |
last Presidential election Dave disappeared
1'hus far he has not been found. Tom is
hale and hearty. however. and WIS on hand
TO greet Postmaster Wilcox when he took
office recently. The new Postmaster says
nothing but the gTossest misconduct could
make him remove Tom.
Broadway cars no longer naunt tho red
ball TO announce that there Is skating In
Central Park. but the time honored old
sign is still used on the Brooklyn troeys
when the ice is good at Prospect Park.
The now device 10 announce skating In
Central Park was in Use yesterday on the
10 the front rail, painted red and lettered
in black. in effect tame and nnimpressive
substitute for the sporty red bali on it's
field of white.
There was company al dinner in house
On the upper West Side. The i-year.old
daughter OF the family was allowed 10 come
n for dessert After tho company bad
petted her and said nice things about her
here fell one Of those unaccounta BILE
silences which fall on the best regulated
II dinners Ii was broken by the voice OF
he little girl, piping up from her end Of
he table
They is a kind of dog tina, has NO rows
" buttons down his front
The police bench has LOST many Of is
defects in recent years, and with these has
gone the sort OF humor that hghtened
he gravity Of proceedings in the old days.
L WAS one OF the present city Ma gis rates
Who the other day recalled an anecdote
u Judge Scion Smith
A boy charged by a neighbor with cruelty
o a cat was on trial before him The
woman swore that he boy had burned he
Inimal with hot poker,
But how do you know TINT the poker
vas hot?7 Judge Smith asked
Why. saw smoke rise from the cat
the witness.
But how do you know that The ca vas
lot hot :? insisted the Judge