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Show A SMALL CANINE THIEP. Haw 11. Watched Ilia Chinee and Btol. a Npnngr. It Is eomewhat singular that a man, by keeping his eyes open, can sco unexpectedly un-expectedly many interesting Incidents of city lire ovcry day but cannot sco Incidents that he expects to sec, says an exchange If ho travels up nnd down and across town frequently be may expect ex-pect to see fires, but tho chances are that he will travel for weeks without seeing a sign ot flames, although tho record In the newspapers Indicates that eight or ten fires a day aro not unusual. Llkewlso in regard to accidents acci-dents in the streets. If a cable car runs ovor a person it Is reported that a great throng gathered at the iceno, but it Is evident that the number of persons that could be summoned as witnesses Is very small. Hardly an hour passes without something happening happen-ing In Broadway and attt acting a crowd In a few minutes, but hundreds on tho outskirts are obliged to ask: "What's the matter?" Minor Incidents are sized up sooner and sometimes they are as Interesting as the incidents one expects ex-pects to see. That was exemplified at Broadway and Fulton Btrcot at noon recently. Ono of the peddlers thero had a box ot sponges on the curbstone. Being obliged to be on guard against the approach of a policeman, he did not observe a stub-tailed dog until after it had seized a sponge with Its teeth and started to run across the street. His features expressed amazement and anger an-ger in quick succession as he exclaimed, exclaim-ed, "You little cuss!" and ran after the dog. The dog beeame bewildered slightly while trying to escape, and he glanced backward to see If he had been pursued. The peddler hesitated over leaving his box too far out ot sight and, on the crossing, contented himself with whistling and snapping his fingers fing-ers at the dog in a manner suggestive of his desires to recover the sponge. But the dog would not be influenced by a strange voce. Fifty persons watched the performance and, although a few sympathetic individuals tried to catch the dog, the majority laughed. Seeing an opening under a wagon, the dog jumped through and scampered up tho street. It Is not unreasonable to believe be-lieve that those who saw the Incident Imagined that tho dog had been trained to steal, although its master did not re-vea.l re-vea.l himself In the Immodlate vicinity. |