The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-09
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

LIVE 1OPICS ABOUT TOWN.
'Hothouse lamb" is beginning to appear
on the menus at many of the first class
hotels. This particular delicacy has been
in season for a month or more, but it has
been so expensive that only the highest
priced places have offered it. Now that
the regular season is waning and ordinary
spring lamb is coming into market the
price has dropped to where most good
restaurants can touch it. A quarter of
dollhouse lamb can o he bought, if one
is willing to pay 81 or IS for 1t. But up
to a week or 80 ago the butchers refused
to divide the carcases finding ready market
for all they could get at from S25 to $50
apiece. As such a lamb seldom weighs
more than twenty-five pounds, including
pelt and head. it makes the meat come
pretty high.
mand for a new kind of edible animal, "
said a butcher, but its invention was
almost an accident. A farmer out in
Kansas conceived the idea that an animal
could be pushed in its growth the same
as a plant or flower, 80 he took ten ewes
and put them in the cellar of a stable, keep
ing the place at a uniformly high tempera-
ture. WhS the lambs were born he IN
creased thh ~'Aat and fed them all they could
possibly q = II lambs developed rapidly
uIb iCohy III maj hel Blk WtchB dll6du
OF those born and reared under ordinary
conditions.
81 thought New York had about reached
the limit on eleemosynary institutions
when l heard of its bird hospital, said a
Western mar who finds something fresh
to marvel about every time he comes to
town. But ! found something that beats
it-a hospital for broker voices. And
it is exactly what its name indicates, too.
Its instructors do not accept for training
a single voice that is sound. but instead
they take voices in all sta ges Of decrepi-
tude-voices that are strained, voices that
are cracked, voices that nave been mis-
trained or mistsed and voices hat for
some reason or other have disappeared.
The mana gers make all sorts of claims as
to the cures they effect, and the neighbors
for a block around will give evidence as
to the t~horoughness of the treatment, for
the strange noises, the weird vocal gym
nastics that manate from that house at
all hours of the day and night beat any
thing in the noise line that / ever heard
before"
"When Maurice Vignaux was here thirty
five years ago and playing the best billiards
OF his life, " said a former amateur cham
pion while watching Willie Hoppe at work
a few evenings ago, "he used to play one
fancy shot that showed a phenomenally
accurate judgment of force. He would
place the cue ball on the spot with the red
and white in front and almost touching.
Around them he would draw a chalk circle
extending perhaps a quarter of an inch
beyond their outer rims. Then his partner,
Foxy Dan Strauss, would bet the drinks
for the house that Vignaux, keeping his
cue ball in the ring, would take double
cushions with the other two and bring them
back into the circle. Nine times out Of
ten he won. In those days we considered
it a surprising feat. Yet ] have seen his
Hoppe lad when he was little more than
nine make a five cushion drive and land
the cue ball inside of a five inch circle. It's
the surest thing you know that the new
school of billiard PLAYERS has got lis old
ones kinned to DEATH
II there was one secular fact that the
minister delegates to the New York East
Conference had drummed into their ears at
the recent sessions, it was thai the United
States is building battleships at the cost
Of many millions. Nearly every speaker
at the night meetings called attention to
the enormous cost OF these vessels. There
was no opposition to the country's naval
programme, but the ministers tried to en-
phasize how much good that money would
accomplish if they could have the spending
VI j lOl ltlIRlOuS III Pun OsfS'
One of the speakers, the Rev. DR.. Thirkhield,
voiced it in this way:
The United States spends millions for
battleships. 81, 1000, 600 for a Dreadnaught,
2.?sS,OOO whites in the South. voters. who
cannot read their ballots, Millions for
battleships. when there are 1900 600 mothers
who cannot read'the Bible to their chill
dren. These are the nations children and
the nation should take care of them.'
Nayart halaau whan Dr Thirlt hi cid told
of the great fights Of the civil war which
freed the slaves the audience applauded.
1t was plain that the conference approved
the sentiment Millions for defence
An elevator man in one OF the largest
| Office buildings in town stopped his car
half way up the building the other after
noon, seized a lumber he had in the car
and dashed out, leaving the passengers to
wonder what he was about. He came back
in less than a minute and a~pologized, He
said that he was thirsty and had gone to
get a drink of water, something that he
could not do on the ground floor where the
starter would be watching him. He said:
AN elevator mar gets thirstier han most
folks. There are two reasons for 1t. One
is that the elevators are warmer than other
places in the building and the other is that
we work in a draught constantly. A stiff
wind will make any one dry, and that is
what we have to encounter all the time"
THE first mosquito has shown himself
and that means the end Of peace for my
horse" said a mounted policeman whose
duty is in the mosquito belt OF Staten ISL
and. The mosquito season is much harder
on my horse than il is on me, for | can
wear thick gloves, high shoes aud a net
on my helmet and be tolerably comfort
able; but poor old Fill there, no matter
how I drape him with netting, he is prac-
tically at the mercy Of the pests.- Every
supposed to drive them away, but by noon
il wears off. You see him now at the end
OF the winter, fat, sleek and contented.
Ry Fourth Of July o wont know him
fcr thn ANNA hnrea He v Ill BIZ thin faded