The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-06
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

This towns small place, after all. Four
years ago the home Of young college man
IN Brooklyn was looted by burglars and his
college fraternity pin was among the things
stolen. The police didn't take any great
interest in the affair and none of the stun
was recovered.
few days ago business man downtown
which he tbouske mig might be his I Properly P
The latter sent description of all the pins
he had lost In one way or another for some
years back and followed up his letter with
a personal call. He got the missing fra
ternity pin and heard the story of It's re-
coVery. The business mans little son had
found 1t viii e playing in Central Park.
AS the owners name was engraved on the
back OF the pin 1t was not a hard matter to
locate him through the city directory
Pearl street does queer stunts, but there
seems to be no excuse for making it's wan
behring's worse than they are. Some mu-
nicipal joker has labeled the lamp post at
William and Liberty streets as William and
Pearl streets which il several points off the
course Pearl street is supposed to take in
that neighborhood
The old woman who has sat on the side
walk on the west side of Union Square
selling kittens and infant rabbits for so
many years that she has become land
mark has recently added an innovation
to her costume, whimsically in harmony
with her business and suggesting the time
when she wasa little girl, Across the bottom
she has embroidered series Of convention
allied kittens playing with Angular balls
in the cross stitch designs our grand
mothers employed in working their sam
piers, AS many persons stop now to ad-
mire her apron as those who pause to look
at her beribboned baby animals, which
long ago became an old story.
A man who had evidently not wasted
too much time in sleep the night before
ourled himself up in the berthlike motor
mans box at the rear Of an eleva ted car.
~, Houston ne nex," sang out the guard ara
start. "Hou's'n, Texas" he repeated
, sadly. 4C'ndukker, IN | in Texas? l
! never sh'd Of b'lieved was in such State
as at 'fyou hadn' s. kindly told me-
Several churches in the upper West Side
have the hours of service painted in large
letters on their side walls. but it remained
for an Fast Side synagogue to display huge
posters of Coney Island attractions.
The only two houses In Sixth avenue
painted black are both used as undertaking
establishments. Both establishments are
run by men of the same name. Wnat Is
even more remarkable is the fact that every
man Of that same name mentioned in the
city directory follows the same occupation.
although there are a number of them scat
tered over the city.
A colored woman went into one OF the
police courts the other day and asked the
Magistrate for warrant for a gentleman
friend of hers. "He tried to give me knock
Hnnob and | ins' Y
stan fob that nohow.'
But how do You know that he tried to
give You knockout drops?' asked the Mag
istrate.
How do l know it?" she snorted. con-
drop in the bottom Of the glass;
man who is usually good tempered
and careful as to his language surprised
his friends greatly the other day when
| they met him at the pier after his three
months sojourn in France by swearing
viciously at everything and everybody
who looked like porter. or servant. His
friends ventured to ask him about it.
"Why am | swearing?" he asked 'Out
| Of pure cussedness. | suppose. but I've
been over there among those Frenchmen
for three months and not one OF them
| could understand a word OF what l was
saying Every time got mad and swore
they simply grinned. which made me iran;
tic I've got such a lot of wrath bottled
up inside me that simply can't help letting
some Of it out at people who can understand
| me