New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-19
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

II there Is one thing your true New-Yorker does
believe In surely that one is his Dclmonco. Just try
to fancy Demoncos turned into spiers and Ponds and
think what escape NEWCOMERS have had Who
wants three and sxpenny Partisan dinner based
on Australian ideas propagated in London fogs7 The
bare idea Is enough to make SILVER in these
days of the Arctic explorers orrid indications. No.
no. worthy Brltons. Take mining stocks, our
trflng railway SHARE" our breweries. our and
all the rest of 1t. but Lord John Manners sang. or
rather, sighed, Of your nobility " Leave us still
our own" Delmoncos.
II you care TO street obstruction reduced to its
lowest terms Just take stroll along Park Row at It's
busiest hour Try the block opposite the Postotice
First you have full regiment Of abebodied men and
boys, in column of companies aligned the curb
and the cartrack, eagerly watching two nonchalant
gentlemen in armchars a balcony engaged in scor
Ing ball game kindergarten fashion, a big black
board. Hear the crowd howl when Giant repre-
sened By red disk like the bottom Of pillbox. makes
a base Then along the sufficiently sidewalk OBJ
serve the hotsam and etsam Of the great human sea-
Five boss' bootbackng chairs, coppcred and copper
fastened A glass containing fine eAhlDit
of twelve hunks" Of pie, North America, various
tray of fshy looking eyeglasses in horn frames
A box marked glue,7 but In fact containing petri-
fed doughnuts Of African descent. Sundry exhiDlts
Of turnovers, wafes alarming cakes and astonishing
pies in one instance accompanied by tin box with
a turned back lid revealing the mangled remains OF
dried-up sariines, "dove into" by wooden spatula
Evidently for competition stand Of sweet mix,
ditto of butermlll at the rdiculousy low price Of
cents. The projecting talboarls of brilliant
carts, expectant of evening journal several
miles Of paper for same, in rolls end; pleasant
walk around these 1900 envelopes for 30 cents
OF course two slowmoving automatic they are all
set 20 a mile hour, bearing shOestrings one Oh
these is further adorned with colarbuttons and his
nj IN yrith Finally
corner of Ann-st. with every man Jack and jill con-
demned to get out of its way, an old market basket
NETWORKS busy, thoroughfares, mind YOU
good wine may still need no bush II you mean
to drink 1t yourself, but If you trying to sell
it, take advice and stick out the biggest bush
you can lay hands on. And the smaller the wine the
bigger the bush. For STYLE you may choose between
two extremes, the old and the VIII you have
Edwin Forrest Spartacus, at least large as iife
all highly colored and glorious in fresh paint still
extant Broadway, TO tempt tho Intending smoker2
Or will you go further uptown, and cut your bush 70
nent elephant deceased. in the window of less
eminent firm of Jewellers and silversmithsl
Still another favorte amusement among the conduc
and drivers of the is TO start their
car Just the passengers crossing the dirty street
from the ferry The fun is to see them run after the
car through the mud and the slippery stones,
while The conductor adds the excitement by perform
ing fantasia the bell. But the joke, like the car
is rather empty when, happened the other day,
gentlemen quietly ignore the whole performance
and wait for the next car, while the 1okers drive on
In fury.
A gallant war veteran of one Of NETWORKS crack
regiments has a little daughter Of whom he IS very
fond and who Is herself fond of asparagus Sometimes
he preends to carry the strict discipline of the til
into his family. So the other day when
the little maid asked Can't have some more
asparagus" he promptly replied with ,, round Gi Mo-
then I'll just go over these once more.'
A correspondent wants TO know why old ladies.
in fact all ladies, will stand at the pivot, or turning
point Of all halls street corners ferry entrances, or
other gangways, and then wonder why the passing
crowd josscs them And why If they have bag
they set that down in even worse position In the
fair-way for every man to trip OVER Who can supply
this gentleman With this important Information
Ar officer of the army, now retired, was recently
telling Of the difficulties the instructors at West Point
have in breaking in some of the newly caught cadets
especially those from the rural districts After the
class had been carefully taught the correct way OF
writing letters, of them was told to write
with chalk on the blac kbOard note inviting his
instructor to dinner This is it:
T. S. Military Academy, West Point. -, IS.
SIR I have the honor respectfully 10 request the
pleasure of your company to dinner on Tuesday the
18th inst l am sir, your ooed IG servant rant,
Cadet U. S. NJ. A., Co. d.
"That certainly expresses the idea,' said the In
structor: little formally perhaps. But you have
not named an hour >. oo,n.. ro,,d ,row u. din. at
on, supposed OF course you'd know "e aine at
IL o'clock"
correspondent writes: In an inn, decline to
say which, In italian town. decline to say where
every ROOM including the tank In which tried to
sleep, contains card with this fine specimen oil
English as she is wrote IN those parts
ain order TO evitate all the disagreements OF me
travellers gentlemen the fOresteiS are necessarily
prayed to address themselves their recamstlons In
SANITY TO the bureau"
Speclal TO lotus eaters II any of you are left In
town. saunter or get yourself borne gently in the cool
of the morning or evening TO the west front OF the
CITY Hall Park and feast your eyes, at all events,
on what YOU will see in the little lily pond There
they arc cool and modest and lovely, every sort OF
water lily YOU ever heard Of, including the Egyptian
pamesake of your own favorite plant The blue
Kind our especial favore, Is as beautiful as an
aquatic Catherine wheel and the whole COLLECTION
is the best excuse and the best reward for Iazy
,poment we know Of Tho crowd thinks So too
This IS what the City Hall Park might nave
beeu 70 New-York Now go and look at the uncican
rookery called the Registers Office. and see Whai
*. then at the plans for roofing over nearly all tha'
&, loft and see what some people would Ike IL 10
become.
SIR JULIAYs RETURN TO ENGLAND
Washington. July 18.-Sr Julian PaunceIoie' briV
isb Minister to the United States, visited the s,a,e