The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-17
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Oeorss IRVING. Tho lts' Surviving ncrhes
~ Washington ifvlna, marvrllg,isiy halls
and active ~ " " livihs ~ Tho Fifth Ayen,i"
ftntel W. IRVING l. practically ths spie
eemalnina metnief ~ ths irving family
tta IL one N tho ieat, yet must inuhaf,
story ,eliefa ~ tho Ansh Cofhct We vas
graduated 81 Columbia when the hnlvef'
city WA NJ College placs and Pafh. piacs
NV, my said VIZ Irving yrn'etday, u
don think ywl yping eentletneh have the
nun tho Young fellows had IN NV DAY when
W. had aleighlng In this city a month and
more IN the winter, and when n ride over
kissing Iridgr ~ lanai atfeet vas an eycnt
~ bs remembered even nov but meyer
"a be- talked about, YOU knnw ny Trying
Il preparing q history ~ tn" Irving family
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They wrre talking about the income ~
Fraulein krupp ~ Esaen. Germany, who Ia
about 10 we'd and whose income Is said 10
be something like ~ a minute, when they
came 20 n -ide door ~ o concert hall uptown,
There was q crowd % perhaps $50 well
dressed womrn and men standing on the
sidewalk looking lntentlv ~ q door
"What IL tho trouble2" saido one OF the men.
why, va are waiting TO zee come out
that woman who gets $40 a minute Tor
singing" was the response.
The wo man II q well known vaudeville
performer whose press agent has not
| utHltflNu w ~ "a UP WV VIM ''NHNa
II wonder " Fraulein Krupp could at
tract such a crowd by merely walking out
Of the door without a press agent TO boom
herr" was the question one 81 the pedes-
TRANS asked.
Staten Island Ia responsible for an oddity
In harometers. the rope barometer IL
has been displayed In a conspicuous place
at the municipal ferry house. st. George.
and consists OF q white plaoard. appro-
priately inscribed, with a piece OF rope
about n foot long dangling in the middle.
The b~arometrio phenomena are explained
in the following legends:
II rope Ia dry. fair.
II rope Ia swinging. windy.
II rope Is wet. rain.
II rope Is wet and swim ging. storm.
II rope ls frozen, cold.
Borough Inspector Adam A. Cross Of
BROOKLYN has recently been drilling the
mounted men at Prospect Park to get them
in condition for the annual police parade.
The men we're ordered to report az the park,
mounted, with equipments, at a given time.
In one instance a roundsman who had to
come from a distance was ordered TO report
.dismounted,'
what does that mean" he asked the
sergeant, ,,o,, a.. r. so,o,ns parode grounds
without your horse said the sergeant.
The roundsman went OF scratching his
head. He consulted a dictionary and then,
returning to the sergeant, said;
Inspector Cross is a stickler for disci-
pline. II l take your advice and go to the
parade ground without my horse, III he
disobeying Inspector Cross's order The
! dictionary says 'dismo,int' means TO alight
or throw from a horse How can / alight
or throw from a horse II ! haven't one?'
.soap!' exclaimed the sportsman, con-
temptuously. You don't need soar to
wash your hands with, Use mud 1t will
clean grease off your hands quicker than
anything else
sand, / suppose you mean,' exPostu-
sWell, yes, sand or mud or any kind OF
earth. After l have done an especially
greasy piece Of work around camp always
rub mud on my hands to take OIL the grease.
1t is much better than soap
sAnd what will take of the mud2'
sWater. Of course!'
sYou bachelor men don't know what
trouble we bachelor girls are put to with
the new style of gowns which button IN
the back said a young woman yesterday
10 a SNUG New Yorker who would make a
hrst rate husband, "and with summer COM
ing on we'll have more trouble from them.
We can't afford maids, you know. In winter
when we 60 out evenings we can wait IN
we get to the theatre, opera or whatever the
evenings entertainment may be, for maids
are always handy. Beneat tn our coats our
gowns are not buttoned in the back. The
maids quickly put us to rights. In summer
we can't wear coats to hide our n~akedness,
as it were, and before starting out we're
put to all sorts of shifts for %janitors' wives,
neiRhbors' wives W o don't know, and my
thing in the feminine line to button up our
backs
81 hope you passed a holy Sabbath said
an Episcopal clergyman Of Brooklyn on
Monday to a parishioner whose pew was
vacant the day before, and who by the way
IA a Wall Street man and a golf fiend.
: "Oh, yes" the parishtoner replied, with
out irreverence I may say l passed an
ls-hole-y Sabbath
The new apportionment law which puts
Tarnmany Hall in the district in which
Senator Thomas F. Grady will be a candi-
date for Senator recalls a definition he gave
of practical politics at the recent dinner to
Senator Elsberg. The Rev. DR.. Slicer, In
a speech Just before the Senator's, had
occasion TO refer to the mathematical
axiom that a straight line is the shortest
distance between two points: Senator
Grady referred vaguely to the time he had
tried to get a nomination to Congress inde-
pendently, and said,
what good DR., Slicer says about mathe-
mates may be so, but l want to say mat
the shortest way for a private citizen TO
public office ia a straight nomination"