The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-30
1--we ToPICs AMOUR ToWN.

had been seized with streak OF prudence
and had sunk one Of the yellow backed
ones In a hcldout 80 that the next day
might not be a Sahara desert. With just
a hazy recollection Of his thrift when
he aw6ke he elamored at his angel child /.
whom he found exr loring Tire Iecesses Of
the sweatband OF his hat:
What are you after there, Buttons,
my .girl2'
want some pennies for chewing gum
you'll got no pennies there, child; you
aOh, yes you do. That's where ma got
some before you woke up"
When the woman had lived in the vine
! empowered cottage a month she tcld the
longer.
"What Is the matter?' asked the agent
'The place Is too picturesque, the woman
exrlained. 1T attracts too many visitors.
People WHO wouldn't think Of pushing
cumstances notice that cottage set down
at tho junct ion Of busy New York streets,
and insist upon being shown about tho
place AZ coelly az if 1t werc museum.
When they grow, too ofticious try to
head them of, but they push in in spite Of
me and rrowl about my rooms, tiamT le
down my grass, and pick my roses and
honeysuckles without scruIle. / am sick
and tired of being so restored. am going
to give up tho house"
II knew sbe wouldn't stay, sighed the
agent, after the woman had gone out.
we have number of those CID timo
historic looking rookeries on our list, but
we can't keep them rented for any length
Of time on account Of the persistent curiosity
Of strangers"
Certain mcmt ers Of the crew on Lacka-
wanna ferrybcat we're voted practical
humanitarians by commuters In the course
of trip from Hobokon to Barclay street
on a recent very hot day. A ped!ers wagon
was loaded with crates containing chickens,
and the birds set up such an unusual cack-
ling that passengers were visioiy as
turbed.
Presently a couple Of deckhands came
along with rails Of water, suggesting to the
driver that the hens were about played out
from thirst The truckman replied that
1t was only his duty to water the horses,
but that the ne e chct hsna' ~er' "
Pro' ABLY half the firds were comiorted.
/the STATS interfering with the deck hands
good work
The grave faced man on the sidewalk
was selling complete manicure sets for ten
cents; the set being really all comprised
in ono implement, with the several parts OF
which the nails could te trimmed and
cleaned and the skin set back at the Ease OF
the nails to form there the crescent The
man gave demonstrations on the spot OF
the efficiency Of the manicure set ne was
Offering.
Calmly reaching out he would take the
hand of a Chi d and proceed with the cutting
rart Of he implement to trim nail, anu
then with the fling Fart to file 1t, ana then
with the cle aiming Fart to clef n IT andto press
Rack the skin at its base. 1t was Tanh ur-
ing done in the street, novel sight that
attracted neny sightseers.
Not all of the hands hat the seller seized
upon or that were offered to him were mt
subjects for. operation: The nails OF one
little girl who was with her mother were
40 short there was none lift to trim.
4She bites them of, = said the fond mother.
smilinglv
could demonstrate on, and never any 'aCk
of spect ators and he sold lots OF MS MANI
cure sets.
Unless the disruption of the kingdoms OF
the Scandinavia peninsula comes to some
speedy settlement there Is bound to he trou-
bic in Brooklyn at the river end OF Atlantic
avenue, where the Scandinavian colony
centers after clark and where every corner
announces .aavavit." whi7h Is the runio
for the demon rum.
Before the troubles beran on the renin-
suja both Swedes and Norweqians knew
, nothing that went to Fighter spot than
Svenska pons. just how 1t is compounded
i, a mystery. II begins with q generous
supply of arTack. then some other things
are pit in to flavor It, and IL there is any
room left more arrack is put in to fill up.
It's a berserk beverage that would lead
Al 1t, Iva of izpr to
mother slowly and rainst akingly with the
carving knife and then rush tumultuously
forth to hold up trolley car for the funeral
expenses. But the Scandinavians must have
II. Probably II makes them feel like Vikings
in Valhalla quaff!ng the gore OF their enc
mics from skull caps.
II Ia lust that that worries the Norwegians;
thew refuse to recognize Sweden even by
dr linking SvenRka pons. IL Norsk artists
do not soon succeed IN mventmg eatls-
peter out or else there will be all kinds of
trouble.
A shopper in department store bought
a clock. Before sending it away to be
wrapped the clerk said:
-Oh, here is the cushion that goes with II.
1Cushion?" exclaimed the customer: you
don't mean to tell me that clocks are
so delicate nowadays that they require
cushions to sit on
1T isn't their delicacy that makes a cush-
ion desirable" said the clerk. 1T is their
noise. These are the best clocks on the
market, but they tick 80 loud that nobody
can stand their racket. On that account
sales were comparatively light until some
body discovered that by standing the clock
on a cushion its noise was partly drowned.
AS soon as we got hold Of the idea We began
to throw in prettily covered little pad. with
every clock and now the sales have increased
fourfold."
All kinds OF queer requests reach the off,
ces OF theatrical managers, but perhaps
the oueerest in many days came to Charles
Dillingharn's headquarters yesterday. A
stagestruck girl on the East Side. who evi.
IDENTIFY knows just little bit about theatrical
affairs, wrote:
aMr. Dillingham-Sir:. want to be-
come an actress, even II begin as super.
Please send me the address OF Louis Mann.
the superman, who I am told engages
all your supers."
Mr. Dillingham's press agent informed
the young lady by mail that Louis Mann
ia a star, not a super-captain, and that u
she would read the billboards she could
ascertain that Robert Lorraine, and not Mr.
Mann, will act In Man and Superman.'
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