The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-05-09
SUNBEAM.

| -nrs. LaurA Q. Fowler Of Durham. Conn., bo,.. a.
| win prize At the county fair next fall She 4, a.
years OF age. and In one month she has and s.r.S
together 1000 pieces for bod Quilt making the rou,s
ofis kind In the past year She used 400 ward. a
| thread and thre AIDED her needle ]. 600 times
Several workmen are busy preparing the te,,,.
lawns Of Central Park. takes nearly barrel q, ,,,,
IN mark out the courts and the lines have to hs :,
traced every three or four days Tho lawns ara an.
every two days during the early part OF tho ,,,,o,
| whom warm rains alternating with bright sun, -
| duce an extremely rapid growth OF grass.
| Tho four.year.old daughter Of Charles Brand, I.
darynan. near Lebanon. Pa. milks sig cows svetva,.
She 10 small for her age and IL convenient, ,s
her 10 stand up than to ait while milking onlv m.
gsntest cows are allotted to her She began the nr.n
uce couple Of weeks ago of her own accord nst,n.
permission to try her hand after having watched ths
| milkmaids At their work.
| bargain day At the large shops In Harlem ..,..
| caliy on 125th street. brings band OF flower M,
| chants. who set up stands the Sidewalk and ,.n
overbown to the bargain seekers at abou,
market rates for fresh flowers Tho school Children
who do not trouble themselves about tho barpa,s
shops crowd about the flower stands at noon ,na
lavish their few pennies upon roses pnk and ranses
Russian tea Is gradually making Its way In Nav
York The samovar 10 scarcely over seen In any r.s
taurant, though It Is maintained In q few Russia,
households Tho tea has been sold for some YEAR, 4,
the Hebrew quarter Of the tenement house ana
importer who shares the shop of a far cas-, s,d.
I'm
town Rrocers keep the tea done black paper ana
labelled In Russian characters.
Honey bees from somewhere haunt the flowers Ana
bioasomins trees Of New York, especially the ho,,s
chestnuts Tho blossoms OF this tree have a pecu.,
fascination for bees Of all Sorts and In regions rh.,s
bees are plentiful there 10 a noise rs Of swarm abous
each horse chestnut II 10 an old tradition that thu
horse chestnut blossom contains intoxicant which
makes the honey seekers drunk. and causes them u
drop sensssss to the ground whore they become the
prey OF ants.
Ono Of the vegetable euriostiss OF Central Parh
is maple tree standing Just west Of tho west side
tennis lawn. The 10 fully I'VE feet diameter a
tho base but instead OF rising It splits
into seventeen distinct trees Of which sixteen are
alive and several at least ten inches in diameter
The seventeenth, trunk four inches In diameter IL
dead. having persisted apparently from defect Of
nourishment. Near this tree l. another maple split
into eight trunka
The oldest pair OF matched horses in Connection,
belong to El wakelee Of Ansonia They 81 and 81
years old. and have been owned and used by him al.
most daily for seventeen years Tho oldest pair
belongs to George Coz. who owns the Ravins Mills In
Portland. They are 20 and 40 years old. They were
foaled tho Cox farm. They were broken when q
years old. and have never been separated In their
labors. Mr.. Coz. who uses them to draw grain from
Niddletown to his mills. estimates that they have
drawn not less than 5000 tons OF It. and during the
whole time he has used them he has mover carried q
whip.
-boSton ettu speaks IN whispers or dreadful thing
that happened at the Tavern Club. It became neceI
sary to admonish well.meaning but overfamilar hall
boy to mend his ways, and accordingly q member OF
tho House Committee was commissioned to administer
the lesson. The House Comm tteeman took the lad
aside and talked to him for some minutes, in choc.
est Bostonese. upon tho prophecies Of club fe When
he had finished the imp said word but, apply.
ing hand his cravat pulled place as to
disclose tho plainly printed words: "This man was
talked to death" Tho boy dismissed his coz.
duct is mentioned with chill of horror
One OF tho widest and prettest paths in Central
Park has been egularly laid out. has boon
begins near the wide entrance at 10th street and
skirts the western wall of tho Park. The banks are
high on either hand and In time thick foliage
makes the place of dense shade Tho path has
used for years tho vehicles OF the Park Depart
ment as sort OF approach to tho drive below
tho great circle the northern extremity tho
Park Few persons jewellers in the neighborhood
know Of its existence. and when leaves and branches
have almost closed the passage the stranger hestaes
to penetrate Its depths
An east side maker Of badges and like ornaments
in metal and enamel has accumulated in twenty years
between 5000 and 600 designs and although that
time the region about his shop has been transformed
from ono Of comfortable dwellings occupied by pros
citizens to Of great houses crowd.
ed with the honest residents the city on for
tho sake OF his out.oftown trade Within the few
weeks he will mako hundreds Of badges for schools
and between and winter various military or.
ganzations harpshooters and the like will take $500
embems and badges The cheapest articles in this line
those for schools, which struck out BY whole
sale from silver and lettered In accordance with ind
vidua demand The costlest arc tho gold and enamel
spendors presented to politicians. secret society mag
nates and the like They cost from $500 To $500 each