New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-26
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

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CHANCES HERE AND THERE.
The ice companies have already begun TO lay III
their supply for next season, and there Is every
promise Of an Old "a ,honcd cold winter, it Is likely
that the ice crop viii be large. \ week or two ago IL
va. announced that tc amount Of Ice lett over IL uo
oe houses in Maine was from 10000 10 10000 ton-.
That may be small quantity 10 tine ioe companies, b'
10 IL man who remembers the big price he lad 70 pay
last summer Tor a small piece Of leo 1t seems ch"F
nous colossal. Compare the chunk which rested con
and delicious in your ice box in July OF August WIN
81 900 tons Of ice still, remaining % last years supply
down iu Maine ana see If Won do got think yol Wero
entitled b. more for Your money Ice ought 10 he
sold AZ reasonable prices next summer. Yet VINO VIII
be surprised II the companies conIre up some excuse
for keeping up the price, or Tor pushing l. up - -
any icoman or any ice company attempts 70 impose
mon his or It's customers by cxacting more than j.
meet he should be forthwith shot upon tnr spot
OF in any other place that happens to be convenient
~ the way. what has become of the icemachhe'
Of which hgh hopes were entertained few months
nro1 The ice famine last winter. it was commonly
believed would stimulate interest In this dlivcuoh'
but no important results seem to have been acheVed
The stock Of the ice companies has not suHeiru
violent decline in consequence OF the rnuOhs COM
petition and 80 far a. heard from they all intend ."
the Old profits. Yet BIo0ilyn man said to The
writer n day or two ago. that artificial lee was be
ing delivered at his house; FOR what reason he ala
not know Nature has not an absolute monopoly OF
Ice manufacture but he - nearly controls tne Indht
Uuu any attcmpt to Wirst II rom her VIII De ~"
liching against the pricks. But artincialW tOleh oc
there can't hc such thing ~ altIAclaI fc-mi' yen
have IL, day. after all
OF all queer addresses written on letters received
at The Tribune office this is one of the queerest'
II is printed here exactly it written on the
envelope:
New-York Trbun,
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Care New York Herald
and II did not come from remote rural district
whence the letters now and then addressed TO Horace
Greeley emerge. &c. the po-tmart on this envelope
wa " Boston. MaS'.'
TWO men were GO sing one Of the ferries to Jersey CITY
the otter DAY whom the conversation turned on the dis
agreeable f,fure, of the railroad and steamboat travel
ard especially the rudeucss Of some men In retaining
their scat in tire presence of ladies, in pnr mp pack
al.- on the I'D oine seats and Other equally pleas
art practices. ono Of the men finally said " wei;
i've generally rotr,d that the men Who 10 this read
'Tue Eycriu. Post ond rA Times mat 3D.
'it.d the other th'y'fc tie Hug"ump' oi human
nature as well "- 'i politics.
The girl who paws q good deal % attention 10 d1e-s
ana the many proiartc o. app 1rc which such aVeh'
ton Involve, has FAD, which attracts more OF
les notice from The ol-orvaut. This Is veil WINCH
~ perfectly plain and orthodox material save for one
p1.o vhrr black spot {, -ed giving tho saino
ornct II a "b,utr spot" which wa formerly obtained
o.. little piece OF bo court plaster arfnlly arranRe!
on ch-rk or chin n tacS con-igrabl" 'AI 10 Sg'e.
veil 50 that tie l1t, spot -hall come AZ ~" rlgn,
.rc bnt then the troubles nothing As long this odd
vanity I, successfully achieved.
Retail dealers q, all SOFT, u funny things with
price. ,rd iu-tfg their oc on by references printed
up verfil 10 the Mckinley b'll ono prominent
r,r's furnishing hou~e I'm lower Broadwav announces
that sowing TO TIE Mckinley biI' the price Of
imported collars Will bc advanced p cents dozen
l, 'vbci l'G" - n, Suspicion that all is not
rrc,zn or En- lish il you please, which is ordinarily
80 labelled.
Did Won oyer trv 10 guess what the national nk the
great American beverage, Isl No, not cocktails,
though that CUES, come, pretty near It. soda waters
,,c rh'uc-plain or otherwise. hot or cold. with or
without including, II cour,e. vichy and hnd,
drinks, Three thousand Non and women. BOYS and
.rl- went into a drugstore uptown last saturday ana
.tli~l for soda water. That WH, only drop IN ~"
bucket FIR almost every drugstore IN town d'd every
confectionery shop Do town A'd tnt patronage "'
-oa.. vat.r drinkers on that day. Chocolne. Win
dash IF c. cream seems T. be the fav"re drink Ice
evan. somehow or other. has popularity Which, Ike
..I, water u-cif X oa. no season. For th'sc VINO
lhc hot chocultc whipped cream pp'!n H. 1il ~,
,u the usual soda water and ice sam adlc V'' ~
.urr,..,Ju1.lc yuuuc irl-. lfNtutY no "nlE
iit ARE M. clerks. vI. are Woadcr.r- after ,itur-
lsr', cApcr,u.. where tHi, tHue is s'.A- To stop.
Tho lavor rcc,ntly ,tw IN TO drec; attention To
nc f,,t tut the Idus II bicycles on the Sidewalks
tfti,l.u lr a ,.u ordinance. and - announce tat
... ori. ,4uoe would thereafter bee strictly enforced
- f.r .. ms observation is concern. Il. there "1' 10
,.,I rs,.,,! for an outer, oil that matter, though