The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-23
1--we ToPTcs ABOUT TOWN.

for the first month. and then settled down
to observation Of the meter. The second
month he was away a great deal and the
house was dark most of the time. Yet the
bill was Just as big as for the first month.
Then Corbett's Irish rose. He informed
the collectors that the bills were exorbitant
and he wouldn't pay them: He had the
house piped for gas, and he'd burn gas
before ne would be robbed. The collectors
smiled, and went their way. At the end of
a month the electricity, after due notice,
was cut of from the Corbett house. Mr..
up the gas company, Thereat he whistled
again. The gas and electric light companies
were one and the same. Therefore, the
electric light company got this note the next
day:
GENTLEMEN: I am busted by a trust. You
have 1t on me-. Send q man with the bill,
Including all charges for restoring service. l
promise to be a good boy. Yours penitently.
JAMES j. CoRBBrT.
Il always considered opals unluoky
stones said the little actress, so onoe
when I was about to be engaged as leading
lady I took my lorgnette, which was studded
with opals, to my uncle. put 1t in for only
$40.
well, time vent on and the engagement
hung fire. l got hard up, awfully hard up.
but I wouldn't take out the lorgnette be-
cause opals are worse than q crosseyed
orchestra leader for bringing you bad luck,
you know.
Pretty soon, however, times got 90 hard
that they couldn't get any harder, 80 I
went to my uncle to see about the lorgpette.
l thought, maybe, 1t was queering me be-
cause 1 had put it in pawn, Also I thought
might get a little moro money on 1t, per-
hags;
THE time was up on your ~lorgnette the
day before yesterday my uncle informed
me-, and 1t has been sold
Do you know how much that opal studded
~lorgnette with the chain attached cost me
In the ~beginningf One hundred and fifty
dollars, all told. And ! put it in for sl0l
opals are not very lucky stones, are theya'
'There are dozens Of small tradesmen
who make a business Of taking leases ON
rooms in old buildings which, according to
a tip, are about to be torn down, said a real
estate agent. Capitalists who wish to
build cannot afford to wait a year or two
years for the lease 70 expire, The little
fellows know that. All they have 10 do Is
to stand out for their rights under the lease
till the owners Of the property. are half
crazy, when they can demand all kinds Of
usurious prices forgetting out
Il have never had the hear to punish
a boy for throwing snowballs at a man
wearing a silk hat " said Ma gistrate Breen,
who wears a high one himself. 4 was
walking along the street, this afternoon
when mine was knocked into the gutter
by a SNOWFALL, but | declined the offer Of
a policeman to arrest the thrower. The silk
hat is such o shining mark that 1t provokes
assault
There is one house In New York city
that is never looked. 1t is the residence
OF Rear Admiral Joseph b. Coghlan, oom-
mandant Of the Brooklyn navy yard.
Owing to Admiral Coghlan's rank a marine
guards the approach to the house. which
Is on a bluff in one corne Of the yard.
assuming officers and lever loses an oppor-
tunity TO go about without wearing his
uniform. Having business before office
hours early one morning. he hustled out
into the lower part OF the enclosure to
consult with the Lieutenant in charge Of
the submarine boat tests. He overstayed
his time and made his way back to the
house in haste to don his uniform. His
mind was still on the submarine subject
when be was challenged sharply by the
sentinel who said; Sorry; sir +. but as these
s sTs f I ea Pnos' ellseT ToOp pos to- to p sns 4o% aTSe
devil they are said Coghlan,. adding
quickly, well, IL am a friend Of the
Admiral and desire to see him on per-
sonal business Still the dutiful guard
was not quite satisfied and said. bringing
up respectfully to attention, Il beg your
pardon. sir. but have you an appointment
with Admiral Coghlan?" Whereupon Cogh-
Ian replied: Il am not so sure about the
appointment part OF It, but / can say truth
FUZZY the Admiral has given some thought
to my coming
Dean Kirohwey of the Columbia law
school was annoyed one day recently
by the shutting Of feet and preparations
for departure OF one OF his classes as the
first bell for dismissal rang. Looking
over his glasses in the most deanlike way
he remarked, Just a moment, gentlemen.
/ have still a few more pearls to cast"
A. A. Anderson, painter. ranchmen and
big game hunter, has eight grizzly bear
skins of his own killing. At the dinner Of
the Campfire Club, held in his studio, all
eight skins we're strung back Of the speak
ers' table.
Three OF them he killed at once by a feat
Of arms which still rings through Montana;
He followed them to their den. smoked
them out and killed them one after another
with an automatic pistol.
The American undergraduate abbre-
viates everything. That is the true secret
Of college slang. For instance, a Barnard
girl said last week:
4 like my work. I take Ed, Gym, Phil.
and Art!"
The motor had been coming to the house
for the last week every morning at 10 O'Clock,
Then the lady Of the house, as she is called
in tradesmen's language. tripped down the
steps in full evening dress. Her hair was
beautifully dressed. her long opera coat
barely covered her ball gown and her pink
satin slippers were in full view. Such an
apparition at 10 O'Clock in the morning
mystihed the neighborhood as the motor
moved rapidly away. Every appearance
Of this strange phenomenon excited the
observers, until it became known that the
lady was only sitting for a portrait, 1t
was her engagement with the distinguished
foreign painter soon to sail for Europe that