The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-29
LIVE TOPICs ABOUr ToWy,


Ahtl-hetting laws than has thoroughbred
racing was rendered. plain TO a follower
~ III" latter sport who attended the
| track
Every person within hearing distance
IN IN" grand stand ssem-d to he thor
"nghly acquainted With the points oT the
tr1tt"rs and PAGERS said this man
nrruvtiNe. A hot TaCe Co the wire,
drought forth tn" rruark Some hos
| race mat The appearance 81 The
harvester before his last mile IN WsSInss-
uay as he slouched away i'm unimpre-siv.
style ca'Issd road driver to break ont
WIN Not much for looks that Harvester
Morse. but how he can step, I'd like To
nave hun ON the road Some Of those
E.n trotteu would pick him up for an
easy marx. and what fun u would be TO
give them the dust
NJ Tar as could be noticed no one
thought ot betting II was all ~ different
li"m Shs'@pshead or Brighton, where
IN" man topic in the stand is Who il
So-and-so betting on'''
a Williamsburg delicateSsen propri-
etor displays this advertisement in his
window
The best iun can do is Buy our wurst =
You're the man we've heen looking
for" exclaimed the room clerk at one
OF your big hotels here as I Registered =
said man from the West with an unde-
cipherable name. Il thought he made
a mistake or was joking ~ I didn't expect
To get arrested and couldn't imagine
what was up. Just then he handed me an
envelope from q business house that I'd
hfANn hnTfn 20 oh
envelope was pasted my signature, evi.
IDENTIFY cut from my letter 10 them. and
underneath In typswriting the name Of
the hotel Id just registered at
We We watched every signature on the
register for the last week. explained the
CLERK. and nothing fitted this until you
wrote your name just now. II felt reliev.,d,
can tell you, 90 thin 1 a g,Iest had really
shown up with q signature that fitted
tins one On the envelope ! can't read
either Of them. hut the two are a. much
alike as two peas In a pod which h the
main thing. and the letter gnes 90 you!'
Incidentally Ithoug ht u wise Co tell the
clerk my name. IA my signature seemed
TO be no help To- him. and he admitted
that u was often very embarrassing 90
hav" 10 ask a guests name because his
signature was 81 bad. signatures are
getting worse and worse. he said. and
it's no unusual thing nowadays for a
letter to come here just a. yours did
with a mans signature C'It from his own
letter pasted ON the envelope as an adj
dress
IL - not the mosquitoes that we are
worrying about now so much a. what
is coming 10 us next wear when the seven
teen year locnsts hatch out said a New
Jersey cOmmuter coming over the ferry
The mosquito IN an annoyance. but the
seventeen year locust u a pest. and they
are scheduled 90 swarm I'm 1911 in such
myriads that there Ia no hope % killing
EN- of Tho ground in many places IL
with the pupR that have
been waiting for seveteen years 90 come
forth and 60 the limit in showing that
can't be heat. One consolation u that
they only live for about two weeks
But they can do an immense amount
81 damage in that time % shrubbery and
trees.
very few people are aware said a !
man who knows all the hooks and corners
Of New York. that one of the most profit J
able fields 81 labor for itinerant musi- !
cans and street signers IL the courtyard /
of one Of our local prisons. In this prison Z
persons are detained for considerable
lengths 81 time They are locked in small .
dingy cells Reading IL out Of the ple-- .
ton. 40 that time goes slowly Prisoners
always manage TO get money from friends .
or relatives. and when any sweet singer
Or player comes along they fairly shower
their coins upon him
Here's an easy way Of getting az the !
approximate location 81 any numb or
On sixth avenue from Twenty-third .
street 20 Fifty-ninth.- said a New Yorker
who travels up and down Sixth avenue
'wica a day Strike OF the last figure !
n the street number and divide what's
eft by two. then add six. For instance,
take the street number 1000 on Sixth
avenue. Strike on tho last cipher and
Tou get 100. Divide this 10y two and you
ret fifty Then add six and you get fifty
'iK You'll find No. loo sixth avenue
lose 90 Fifty-sixth street | travel mp
md down lots OF times and amuse myself
~ putting this little trick into practice.
md from Twenty-third 20 Fifty-ninth
: works a. well A. one could ask. with
eldom a block out Of the way