The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-28
LIVE roplcs Anour TOWN.

uoniHoo the eybpefn Oh WopoVeay "0
nations recently.
aWhat's tho odds on Broadoloth2' asked
the plunger Of q clubhouse commissioner
sight to Ave" was the reply;
IAN right; III take five yardS' said tne
Knowing the gait Of the bettor the com:
missioner smiled and recorded o wager OF
$500 TO $500. The dialogue was Cverhearo py
many others and now 500 has come 70 Q
small bettors refer to $40 a. q foot and
pikers are described 40 having wagered an
Inch when they bet 81. A big operator net
SIC, 900 on Peter Pan the other cay. the
news went forth that he had gone TO Keene's
horse for ten miles"
Two Of the prettiest vines that the city
possessed have disappeared In the last two
weeks One Of these green climbers was
on the building Of the New York Club, at
Thirty-h fifth street, and now hangs from tho
ruined walls, falling daily nearer and nearer
the ground as the workmen wreck the
building. The other covered d low red
brick building on a corner In the Fort!es.
A florist occupied the basement for y,etre
and the two floors above him had long been
regarded as most comfortable bachelor
quarters. About this little ao1ss ssydI
that has not been converted to business
use. It was only the other day, however,
| that 1t met the fate Of lie n~eighbors and had
to make way for e grSat 9taos sSru mssriy
covered the building completely lie now
hanging In long garlands from the yals
waiting TO be carried away BY the wreoKere'
sThat's tho greenest kid you ever cav
whispered the girl, pointing out q long mar
row youth at a party. Hes Just got here
from a little country town. He runs to AL
the fires and declares II 1t wasn't for the
Flatiron he'd never find his way In New,
York in the world; He thanks the gooo
Lord every day Of his life, he says, for The
aDon't hold him up to ridicule, the woman
implored. 1T hasn't been 90 many moons
since / was afraid to come downtown from
Harlem lest ! wouldn't have m to get
back the same day
"The worst sponge In this town. said the
stenographer. SIS the typewriter sponge.
He gets all his work done by the employees
Of his friends. He drops into the office,
ostensibly for a chat with the boss. Pres
entity he looks toward his victim and saye
in a careless, offhand way: oh, By the way,
is your stenographer busy nowf II not IA
like her to do a little typewriting Tor me-
1t will take only a few minutes
"The chances are that she is knocking
the very daylights out Of the machine at that
minute; but the manager is too polite TO
call his attention to the fact, 80 abe does the
work. Usually 1t takes her from one to two
hours; All the pay she ee.ts p a mere
bothered this way. by hangers-on; Once
/ contemplated lacking a sign on the door
| announcing that I was running an eleemoey-
nary typewriting institution and that under
no circumstances would | accept pay Tor
my services. l thought that might put the
away. However, there doesn't seem much
! chance of shaming those fellows, 30 l shall
probably continue to write complimentary
letters to the end Of the chapter
Did you ever stop to think ofIall the odd
uses the mail box is put to-" said the old
carrier. "I've been taking mail out OF
EN- for thirty odd years and you wouldn
begin to believe how many queer things.
There's no place pickpookets and burglars
! like so we'll as a receptacle for their I'M
desirable loot. I've found more empty
pocketbooks in them than I could ever
| count. I've found complete carving sets,
stag mounted and with the owners mono
gram too deeply set in to make them easily
salable by the burglar. Specifically the
| most valuable thing I ever found was a
check, properly made out. for $4,000.
Every drug store has it's morgue in which
repose bottles Of uncalled for medicine.
Seldom a week passes that we do not
put up a prescription that is never called
for" said one druggist. 'Why in the world
! the people thai thus neglect their remedies
after ordering them compounded will go
to the trouble Of consulting a doctor is more
than | can figure out. II they don't want
to take the stuff prescribed they certainly
don't have to, but they might at least
I have the grace to come and take 1t home
after we nave gone to the trouble to pre-
| pare it, and not throw it back a dead loss
on our hands. In most cases we keep the
mixture indefinitely, hoping that the GUS
| toner will show up some time and ask for
the bottle. II we happen to know the de-
! linouent's address we send 1t around G.. o. D.,
medicine that they never intend to take
are not likely to leave their cards with the
druggist
The examinations for Annapolis and West
Point are ended and the results have been
awaited perhaps more eagerly by the princi-
! mails of half a dozen or more schools that
make a specially Of fitting boys for these
academies than by the candidates them
selves. 1t ia more difficult to get into An
napolis than West Point for the reason that
West Point accepts school certificates IN
place of examinations in certain subjects,
while Annapolis does not. The examina-
tons run in certain grooves, and IL is much
easier for a boy to pass them II he has hac
instruction in one of the private schools
that fit boys for the academies than il
he had taken the ordinary college prepare
tory course In some high school or academy
The proprietors Of these schools try to have
a record Of 100 per cent. in getting theil
hove through. The one that aocoml,ishe.
this feels that he has made a ten strike anc
in his advertising for the next crop Of boy,
he has an advantage over the others.
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