The sun., 1905-08-26
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
After the train had started breathless
oommuter swung himself upon the last
platform at station some fifty minutes
from New York. Under his arm was ono
hugo volume Of an encyclopedias. He also
carried . green cloth Bag such as are
affected by very young lawyers.
He sank into q seat and with . deep
sigh opened the book. Though be lost no
time In finding his plaoe he did not seem
satisfied. for he soon turned In great ex-
asperation to his neighbor TO say:
sNow, wouldn't that jar yoA? I've been
paying for this encyclopedias for the last
eighteen months, and never had occasion
a now olient, a big tanner. who 10 going to
call on me to day, and want to read up tho
subject Of tanning before I get to the city
so / grab up the volume With the letter
T In It while I'm eating breakfast. Had
IL The 1n word"not He ooe thsrs9 You bet the word
there, but that's all that is there. Look
at thatl" he exclaimed, pointing to this
simple legend:
"Tanning-See leather
Though It Is as we'll to have cards about
you, it Ii not we'll TO distribute them in
discriminately.
"The other day I was going downtown;
and happened to get into conversation
with clergyman" said man TO his friend.
He was interested in some benevolent
scheme, the details OF which be unfolded
to me and asked me for subscription.
1 was short Of money that morning. 80 that.
l thought, would let me of. told him
how I stood, but he was politely insistent.
II would give him my card, he would
remind me Of my promise to subscribe;
give IS and then ,dived into the pocket
where kept my friends cards. I took
one at random and handed 1t to him with
out looking to see whose 1t was. haven't
heard anything more OF it,
"Nol' replied the friend. laughing. but
I 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 l fear that time honored symbol will
soon be a 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
II pays to meet the demand.
In 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 arc grinning
negroes. some represent the turbaned
Turk, while one was statue OF Admiral
q ~ n M
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
a man who claims a residence where the
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
offing Of score Of miles 6evelops into a
i've % as a fellow citizen with the natural
perfume factory. The cereus Is found in
almost every garden In Honolulu and the
sporadic blooms can be tolerated. The
trouble lies out at Oahu College. where there
is a dense hedge Of night blooming cereus
a 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 patchouH 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. II is not infrequent to see q
begowned Chinaman on the roads Of Sleeps
head Bay carrying an infant Of unmis-
takably Japanese features and eolemnity:.
The Japanese themselves take cordially
not dapper; but in their Chinese help they
seem to demand the cue and the heelless
shoe and all the rest Of Chinese toggery.
Up to a short time ago. the fire alarm
box, at Battery place and West street, known
as Number H., was the lowest numbered
station In the department assignment
book. 1t was what Is known a. duplicate
box. there being another Box ~ At WASH
In gton and Morris streets.
The FIRE officials, however discontinue
duplicate and triplicate boxes when they