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Show . T The Times Are Out of Joint. ( .Yew York Tress.) "Things are all wrong these days," growled one old tugboat captain to another tho. other day. "What's the matter:" inquired his companion. "Old man cutting down expenses again?" "Xaw; he couldn't if he would. Bock bottom now. But times are not what they were. Why, you never see a monkey on an organ grinder's string any more. Nobody has reported a sea serpent ser-pent in a whole year at least. What is worse than all the rest, here we have a new East Tiiver bridge nearly three months old and nobody has tried to jump fiom it." ; : A. |