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Show OLD CLOTHES IN DEMAND. 'Secondhand Dealer rind It Difficult ta Stock Up This Vcar. The demand for rid clothes appear? Jo bo looking up so far as New York is concerned. I do not know whether it is aecam-o of the recent election and the consequence of betting on the wrong ticket or tho melancholy sequol of the last year's hard times, by reason of which men feel tho necessity of wearing wear-ing out their clothing instead of turning It over to the secondhand dealer. If you should be accosted on Broadway Broad-way a couple of time3 a trip by agents af the secondhand dealers with tho question ques-tion whether you have any old clothes to sell, it may not be taken as an indi cation that your attiro is out of data and coveted by the trade, but that th& trade is running shorfe-of stock and ia pushing out for a fresh supply. It ia bettor to consider the attention a subtle flattery, that you have the appearanca of an individual who doesn't care for dress and are likely to hayo a score of better trousers hanging up in closets for the moths to feed upon. Twice on a single afternoon last week, while conversing with a friend on Broadway, I was accosted by sharp looking young men in the interests of tho secondhand trade. My friend waa inclined to resent the intrusion. Ho said it was getting too hot for him when he was beset by old clothes men every time he stopped on Broadway. "Is thero anything out of tho way shout me?" he inquired, looking him Eelf over critically. "That is the second time you've asked me thai question today." to-day." "I beg your pardon, sir, "said tho solicitor so-licitor for the secondhand clothing house. "We didn't want the suit yon havo on. " We walked fully a block before my friend realized what I was laughing at, but when tho humor of it finally permeated per-meated his intellectual system he tooi mo in for a glass of vichy and milk-New milk-New York Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch, "It Is surprising, " says a commer oial traveler, "how general the use of potatoes as penholders is becoming in hotels. I havo seen thorn in nso in gre&l hostelrys of tho east, whoso ow.ueri wouldu t hesitate for a moment to spend 10 for a desk ornament to hold pens used by the guests in registering. The mixture of starch, glucose and wa- tor in tho potaco seems well adapted to take up the impurities of ink and to keep the pen point clear and bright, while tho alkaloid of the potato, known as bolauine, doubtless has something to do with it in tho same lino. These elements ele-ments readily tako up tho tannato of iron.whiehis the body substance of ink. Chemically speaking, starch is the first base of a potato, and sugar or glucose is its second base. Thus is the humble potato finding another way in which to servo the uses of mankind." Nef York Tribune. |