Our Man About Town

I thiuk there ought to be a law passed not allowing any person to keep cows, hens or pigs within the city limita. The idea of any one keeping hens to annoy their neighbors, or to keep a cow and Iet her out to browae and then have all the neighbors on the qui vive for fear she will get onto their lawns and damage thcm, and to keep a pig - whew. I will say nothing about that as the pig speaks for himself in more ways than one. I have been informed that in the evening boys congrégate ou the corner of Fountain and Hiscock stroets and make the night hideoas for residents in that yicinity . Boys ought to know better than to make themselvea so obnoxious, but if they do not, then somebody ought to make himself obnoxious to the boya. I bear there are severa!, sick persons in that neighborhood who are much annoyed by these boys. Aa officer ought to walk around there and have his weather eye on that corner. Now if our residents would remove the fences in front of their residences our streets would be most bcautiful. Tliis has been done in several parta of the city and it is a great improvement. In other citie you may walk block after blook and not see a fence. The oldfashioned wooden fences are to be condemned. They are constan tly decaying and there is a mustiness about them exceedingly unpleaaant. I think if they were all removed it would make the atmosphere purer and the lawns would certainly all look better. While on the streets Saturday I passed a group of men . One of them had a pair of new boota on his arm and although slightly under the influenoe of liquor was discuasing the merits of bis new boots. Shortly after, I passed the same group again and the owner of the boots was regretting he had made the pui chase, for, from wliat E overheard he had spent all of his money and wanted rum, and I heard him say: " Well, if I can flud a place in this town to pawn these boots 1 will do so. " Whether he found the place I know not, but undoubtedly there were many ready to help him find it. It is all very well, in fact it is exceedingly well, to get rid of these miserable little pests, the sparrows, in whatever way it can be done. They have beoome the greatest of all great nuisnnces and are ruining oar buildings, both public and privat. I say let everybody try in ■ome way to help extermínate theae little nnisaaces that are driving our native birds away. I say kill the aparrows every chance you get but do not kill the robins. I understand this is beim: done, but that is wicked and ought not to be allowed. The robin. the heralder of sprinp, one of our earliest and most beautiful birds should be unmolested. Go ahead and kill all the sparrows, but spare the robins and the other birds. I happened to be in a dry good store one day this week and I could not help but wonder why it waa that Bome clerkg will annoy their customers by urging tbem to parchase goodg. A young man was waiting upon a woman and he not happening to baye j ust what the lady callea for, enbstituted something else which he knew " would answer just as welJ, as it was very near like it." Th lady aoted very much annoyed and embarrassed at his importunities, and left the store without making any purchases. I have noticed that a mimber of clerka in tkis city have this failing to a great degree, and it would be well for their employars to give these men some good ' wholesome advice as regareis Belling goode. If I were a woman I would never go to suoh a clerk the second time. A stranger went into the office of one of our citizens one duy this week on business. Wlien he left be picked up, as he supposed, hig hat and walked out. Shortly after hi departure the gentleman of th office had occasion to go out, and when he went to get his hat found, not his, but the Btranger's, which after try ing on found it was several sizes too large for him. He concluded he would go out and see if he could find the owner of the hat. As he made his appearance upon the street smiles encircled the moutbs of pagsers by at seeing a very small man neanng a very large hat. Fortunately the man was soon found, and, strange to say, he had never noticed that he was wearing another man 's hat, and that very much too small for him. An exchange was made then and there upon the street and our oitizen was glad to get back his $5.00 bavr.