The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-26
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
After the train had started broathless
commuter swung himself upon the last
platform at a station some Atty minutes
from New York. Under his arm was one
huge volume Of an encyclopedias. He also
carried a green cloth bag, such as are
affected by very young lawyers.
He sank into q seat and with deep
sigh opened the book. Though he lost no
time in finding his place he did not seem
satisfied, for he soon turned In great ex-
ASPIRATION to his neighbor to say:
Now, wouldn't that jar you! I've been
paying for this encyclopedia for the last
to use it before this morning, Now, have
q new client a big tanner, who Is going to
call on me to-day, and want to read up the
subject of tanning before get to the city
this morning.
T in It while FIN eating breakfast. Had
to run Ave blocks for my train. Look up
the word-not there? You bet the word is
there, but that's all that is there. Look
at that" he exclaimed, pointing to this
simple legend:
"Tanning-See leather.
Though it is as we'll to have cards about
you, it is not we'll to distribute them in
discriminatory
"The other day was going downtown;
and happened to get into conversation
with clergyman said a man to his friend.
He was interested In some benevolent
scheme, the details Of which he unfolded
to me and asked me for a subscription.
l was short Of money that morning. 90 that,
thought, would let me of. I told him
how l stood, but he was politely insistent:
II would give him my card, he would
romind me Of my promise to subscribe:
Then an idea struck me. i told him would
give IS and then Owed into the pocket
one at random and handed 1t to him with
out looking to see whose it was. / haven't
heard anything more Of it,
aNo!" replied the friend, laughing. shut
l have, for it was my card you gave away.
That will teach me lesson!"
there was a time" said the close OBJ
server, when the tobacco dealer knew
but one kind OF sigma wooden Indian.
But fear that time honored symbol will
soon be thing Of the past. The choice
Of the Indian as a tobacco sign was very
natural and appropriate. but the people
are becoming tired OF it. They want a
change, and the dealers are finding that
it pays to meet the demand.
an the last few weeks have seen prob
ably two dozen new and novel tobacco
signs where wooden Indians formerly
stood. They are all statues, but some
are wooden ballet girls. others are grinning
negroes, some represent the turbaned
Turk, while one was statue OF Admiral
Dewey and another figure OF popular
ball player. II this craze continues we
may expect to see strange assortment
OF wooden images
'One night blooming oereus blooming
in Brooklyn all by its lonesome may fairly
enough be regarded as a spectacle said
equator runs through his back yard, but
when you get the flower wholesale 1t be-
comes an odoriferous nuisance.
"A few weeks ago was going into Homo
lulu from the south along after midnight.
Long before any light could be seen the
soft night was filed with delicious per-
fume, and that gave us our bearings for
the island capital.
But that which was delicious at an
offng Of score Of miles develora into q
muggy abomination when you have to
live as fellow citizen with the natural
perfume factory. The cereus is found in
sporadic blooms can be tolerated. The
trouble lies out at Oahu College, where there
is a dense hedge of night blooming cerels
q mile and half long.
when you reflect that there must be
thousands Of flowers blooming every night
and that the town lies dead to leeward
you can we'll imagine that patchouli or any
old perfume would be welcomed as .
change
When Secretary Peirce was fretting
himself because he could equip the Japanese
peace mission with only Chinese for servants
he might have saved himself all the bother
by looking at the little Japanese colony
in Coney Island. They have solved their
own servant problem by employing Chinese
exclusively in all their domestic pursuits.
Every Japanese seems to think his house.
adjusted when he has Chinaman working
for him. It Is not infrequent to see q
begowned Chinaman on the roads Of Sleeps
head Bay carrying an infant Of unnis-
takably Japanese features and solemnlty:.
to American clothes, and are nothing II
not dapper; but in their Chinese help they
seem to demand the cue and the heellees
shoe and all the rest Of Chinese tosgery.
Up to a short time ago, the FIRE alarm
box, at Battery place and West street. known
as Number IL, was the lowest numbered
station In tne department assignment
book. 1t was what Is known as duplicate
box. there being another Box ~ at Wash
in ct on and Morris streets. -
The fire officials. however, discontinue
duplicate and triplicate boxes when they
can, 30 recently in pursuing this plan
three new alarm boxes. numbered 8, and
TO- were put into operation at Battery
place and West street, at Stone and White
hall streets and at Bowling Green and State
street respectively.
Among the patients who come to Belle
vue frequently for treatment" said the
history clerk, ARE deaf and dumb couple
who have four-year-old daughter who is
not a mute. Neither the father nor mother
can write, and this little child ia their only
means Of communication with persons who
do not understand the sign language. The
little one is so bright and intelligent, how
ever, that she not only understands all the
questions put to her by the doctors, but is
able TO secure from her parents the in
formation wanted.
-One of the things can never understand
IL how thase parents were able to teach heir
little child the sign language
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