Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-01

nipples on the Current OF Life
~ Seen In the Great American
Metropolis from nay 70 nay.
Commissioner Driscoll Of the New York
bureau of weights and measures had a
| heart-to-heart talk last Monday with rep
| resentative provision dealers chiefly
| butchers engaged In the wholesale trade
The purpose OF the commissioner was TO
impress upon the dealers that net weight
| is 20 be the rule henceforth that short
weight will not be tolerated, and that
| wood skewers, spreaders, and wrappers
must not be weighed in with the meat and
| palmed off on the consumer at meat prices.
Several dealers caught with short weight
! goods were given TO understand they
must stop the practice or prosecution will
| follow. Among the shady specimens ex-
hibited to the dealers with the dealers
brands were hams and bacon six ounces
short Of the branded weight and carrying
one pound OF cover, skewers soaked in
water to increase their weight one skewer
weighing ten ounces and another twenty
ounces, and lamb carcasses covered with
'caul fat" which increased the cost 20
cents Custom" was the excuse given for
these practices of the trade.
Down into a cellar filled with poisonous
gases, while fire ragged In the building, went
Walter Murray to rescue Mahomet's
Daughter, bulldog OF renown. and her
litter of thirteen puppies, u remarkable
number. The father of the puppies is
Thornbrrg Rajah, as blue blooded as the
mother. Cropping about in the darkness
and with miniature explosions going on
about him I'm other parts Of the building
| Murray tenderly gathered the mother and
| her babies together and took them to
| places OF safety. Then, when the work of
rescue was complete, he fell unconscious
| and 1t was some time before he could be
| revived. The fire was at No. 40 Bleecher
| street, which Is occupied by the Murray
! Oxygen company, of which Edward Muir
ray, a brother Of Walter. is the president.
Persons passing clothing store in
| Broadway, near Canal street, for the las t
week have been interested in a large,
| typewriter notice pasted in the window,
entitled Tips to Tourists. The Language
| Of European Labels" This notice warns
all prospective European travellers OF the
secret Bertlllion or "trunk-print" system,
| adopted by porters and other employees in
| foreign hotels, by means of which they
are able to segregate the tourists into
tipping and "non-tipping'' classes, and
announces that the secret code" has been
deciphered by member of the firm and
Is explained in the sign.
| When asked how it was that he had
| made so exhaustive a study Of the subject,
| the member Of the firm said that he had
been pestered so long by porters of foreign
hotels seeking tips" that he determined
TO find out just what these secret signals
were by means of which the porters estsD-
lished a clippers dead line"
| 1t set forth, for instance, that a label
pasted in the middle of the top cover of
a suit case or trunk signifies that the
owner is a close-fisted person A label
pasted on the covers at right angles with
the long side of the parallelogram means
the owner has a bad temper and is likely
to use his fists If annoyed. If the label is
pasted diagonally across the cover it indi-
Gates that the bearer is easy and can be
made to double his tip.
A few years ago a banking institution
was started that appealed strongly to q
peculiar pride of the Manhattanite. A
| bank was opened to run day and night,
never to close it's doors 30 rushed were
absolutely necessary, in order to enable
them to get rid of their surplus cash and
put it into a safe place, that an oppor-
tunity should be offered to bank at all
hours. Strangers were shown the Night
and Day bank as an evidence that New
York never sleeps. The lights burning
within the institution were regarded al
most as reverently as altar flames.
| The midnight tellers were considered as
the highest type OF metropolitan enterprise
and progress But lately the directors of
the Night and Day bank have noticed that
while the lights burn brightly and the IN
stitution is pointed out with pride by New
| Workers escorting rural cousins about the
city, and loudly proclaimed by the orators
on the sightseeing automobiles little
business was done after o'clock. 80,
having more regard for dividends than for
furnishing an object Of tourist interest,
the directors have decreed that hereafter
the bank will be open at o'clock in The
morning and close at midnight.
TT was just like a sabre cut that APP
peared on the right foreleg of General
Sherman's horse, but of course we knew
| that no sabre caused that injury" said an
officer of the park department speaking
| Of the equestrian statue at the Plaza.
'The cut extended from the hook almost
to the knee and threatened to enlarge I'M
| less repaired. That leg is raised and
flexed at the knee. The only way In which
! we could account for the injury was that
the sun caused an expansion of the bronze,
making a slight crack, and then when
winter came water got into the crack.
| Water In freezing has great force and II
| just rent the bronze asunder. 1t caused
the department to expend sos in repairing
the horses Leg"
A large china cup with a handle was
showed across the counter and a child's
voice said: Ma wants a cupful of sugar"
The grocer filled the cup, weighed the
sugar. poured it back into the cup and
said: 1.-TWO cents"
To a customer who expressed surprise
at his willingness to sell groceries in such
small quantities, he said: