The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-18
1--WE TOPICS ABOUT TOWX.

bursh enlivens the proceedings Of his court
terms with more jooular remarks to wit.
nesses and lawyers than most other Judges
In this vicinity. Usually the laugh IL on
the witness or the lawyer, but a young
lawyer plodding cumbrously through an
opening address to the jury turned the
tables the other day.
'why don't you tell us what this suit Is
about?' said Judge Dickey sharply.
BACKWARD bsSn,rs dPfi IKE a crab at fa Son fpd like se eras soiHs
Il don't like crabs either. retorted the
lawyer, not a bit disconnected at the litter
ing that ensued. As a matter Of fact, I
don't like any c~rustaoean, and since your
to say that especially ! don't like Holsters.
and more especially I dislike them a la
Newburgh.'
The trial proceeded to a conclusion with
out further reference to matters outside
the law and the evidence.
The Chamber Of Commerce Is staid and
dignifed, as BELTS the standing Of its MEM
bers, and it's proceedings are conducted
with precision and formality with one
exception. When a ballot is taken the
members do not cast votes in ballot boxes,
but in waste paper baskets ca rried around
by the tellers. The tellers are usually Sc
lected from the older members and the
specta Gle Of venerable merchants or bankers
carrying large waste paper baskets about
the room is in sharp contrast to the other
forms OF procedure.
Left eyed people simply own the town
these days. said a Broadway oculist. IF
the prominence and importance Of that
optic continue to increase we shall one
day be a left eyed race. In more than
half the patients l treat the left eye is al
ready considerably larger than the right.
it Is brighter and it lasts longer. If you
want to find out which eye is stronger try
to read first with one then with the other.
of ten that test shows how much more
useful the left eye is than the right. There
was a time when the superstitious, and
even specialists on eyes, believed that only
That theory is now exploded. Override
velopment of the left eye is in danger Of
becoming a disease, the peculiar effects
Of which are already apparent in many
faces
Il found out yesterday said the girl
in the white shirt waist, who uses all those
little hand sewing machines that we sell
nowadays. 1t is the men. I had noticed
for several weeks that the m a~sculine shop
pers investing in those handy little con-
~trivanoes far exceeded the feminine. Yester-
day l asked a good looking young Hercules
who made inquiries about a machine for
whom his purchase was intended.
For myself he said, innocently. I
saw so many of the fellows up at the school
fooling with them this winter-1'm a med
ical student, you know-that l thought !
would zee what kind of a -stagger | could
idea what expert sewers some OF the boys
pave become. l believe they could make
q whole suit on one of these little machines.
I've seen them make all kinds of repairs.
They were all pretty awkward in TIE be-
ginning, but they ~persevered until they
got so they could turn the crank with one
hand and guide the cloth with the other
as well as any woman.
The man with the alkali dust in his whis-
kers was talking solemnly to a group of
hangers-on In q downtown 'riki emporium.
Said he:
you wouldn't believe it, but up in the
north end of Death Valley they is a saline
lake. And the waters 30 salt a crust
forms on the surface like ice. And some
times it's so thick you en- walk on it if
you're mind to. Back in 80 a man from down
Arkansas way started to drive a wagon
across that little lake and the salt broke
through, and his wagon and his wife went in.
His wife she wore a red calico dress. Well,
gentlemen, you hear me, ! crost that skim
Of salt just last summer going over to the
Panamint range. They was a crack clean
across the lake about two inches wide. l
looked down that crack and there was that
Arkansas mans wife, red calico dress and
all. And, gentlemen, she was pickled-
fair picked"
1t would seem that employers are exer-
cising a delicate, esthetic taste in setting
the standard Of physical attributes to be
possessed by possible employees, One
contributor to a recent agony column en-
deavored to meet his sublimated essence Of
perfection by stating that he was a tight
colorsd man, valet or butler" Another
ready worker ia above all things @tall, y he
Is also a student, 10, neat and intelligent.
A cheering variation OF "Step lively,
please" is perpetrated by a benevolent
porter in a New York railway station, who
hAwls at the struggling. perspiring crowd,
Hurry up! You've got lots Of time!" and
the effect Is electrical. Everybody turns
around to grin appreciatively at him, the
rush slackens and people suddenly realize
that thew have all the time there ia, 30 why
should they lot themselvs be driven.
One Of the recent typewriter develop
ments is a machine for cutting the letter
holes in the sheets Of oil board which are
used "a stencils in marking bulky packages
for shipment. The machine looks like Moth
ing so much as the head Of a barrel mounted
on a spindle and carr ying on it's rim the
aIphahetic and numefal characters neces-
sary to write an adore Is. Its operators are
not Of the peekahoo fluffy haired type, but
husky chipping and delivery clerks who
hustle a dozen barrels into line upon their
chimes then turn to the typewriter, insert
Gil for the address in letters an inch high.
The machine writes visibly, but it does not
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