The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-19

1855 DIV hAlCN NItI Dlfl1NNh MHHH DHO
and evidently l looked worried over the
situation in the Street. Anyway, without
as much as by your leave she clipped of
$4,000 a year In my expenses, and I tell you
we have both been as happy as children
since"
S~uburbanites nave been surprised lately
to find in their mail a typewriter note
under the letterhead Of Burglars League"
AS you undoubtedly know" says the
communication. we have been operating
look forward with pleasure 10 this our
most profitable season when houses are
closed (D for the summer. Our employees,
among whom are sneak thieves, second
story men, and servants, may drop in any
day or night"
Then comes the joker which advises
the recipient to see MIR. So-and-so about
taking out burglary insurance. Adyer-
using men say the best advertisement Ia
mat which commands instant attention.
Under that definition the insurance mans
product Is certainly making good. e
= The popular mistaken idea as to the size
OF the seahorse as a constant source OF
amusement TO the guards at the Aquarium.
According TO them, visitors after looking
at the big seacow and peering into the
tank where the turtles lead a placid life.
next begin to hunt around among the
Inhabitants of the big floor tanks TO find
the seahorse.
They reread all the plaoards and care
iuly reinspect all the occupants OF the big
tanks, then failing to discover any inn
mense fish which closely resembles a horse
they turn to a guard az a last resort.
When they are directed to one OF the
smaller wal tanks upstairs, and when they
learn that thiss supposed monster Of the deep
never attains n size of more thar ton inches,
they are amazed enough.
The specimens OF the seahorse at the
AQUARIUM are much below the maximum
size, and when seen clinging by their.curious
~prehensile tails to the different objects
In the tank look more like little chessmen
than anything else.
when ] went up to get my new auto
mobile several days ago" said~fdward G..
Gilmore at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yester-
day, "the manufacturer told me that on tina
day alone he had received word to cancel
orders for eight machines. There is a forfeit
Of $500 on each machine. The manufacturer
was therefore in 81 900, but he has eight
machines on his hands. People are cutting
down expenses. The time for retrench-
ment is at hand. Ninety men out OF every
hundred are very much poorar to-day than
six months ago, and this is particularly
true Of Wall Street men"
An itinerant dealer in black and tan pup
pies that he secures from various pri vate
kennels about town was asked why he
elected to pursue his vocation in the neigh
borhooi Of Sixth avenue and Eighteenth
street.
Because the women shoppers in that
district cause me less trouble than any other
he replied. They not only
fall in love with the animals at first sight
and buy at fair prices, but they relieve me
Of the bother Of sending the dogs home.
Just pack the little fellow in a shoe box
and I'll get him home sill right, said the
first woman who taught me her trick of
securing free delivery for her pet.
But you can't carry him yourself
said !.
"'Oh, no. she said, i don't intend 10.
III just take him into that store across the
street and nave him sent up with my other
purchases. Be sure to mark the box, Live /
Handle with care and they'll
keep him right side UP and send him up in
he special delivery wagon
well, | took the woman advice and the
really was sent home in that delivery |
Since then / have suggested her |
to other customers. and now half
he dogs ! sell are delivered by that ac-
20 mmodating firm"