The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-05
LIVE 1OPICs ABOUT IOwN.

most meanly. clad. She had a serious kindly.
motherly face. such rs We oiton SEQ In homes
OF comparatively limited means where the
mother works hard and makes every sacrifice
for her children. 1t seemed as though she
might be some old lady from the country.
whom misfortune had befallen in tho city She
halted man with gray beard who was
| walking toward Broadway. 10 talked with
her for moment and then pointed toward tho
North River. 1t seemed thon ns though per-
| haps she lived in Jersey and had been asking
the way to the ferry. She started in that drec-
tion. hut she didn't GO far; she STONED, the
first man she met and spoke to him. This
pocket, IN old-iashonrd wallet. and Us bo
opened 1t the woman glanced over into it. M
how much she WoulL e tV" s h"nd.I hc ana
| coin. over which her fingers closed with an
snn T wns NH nSt s hht eat W. grail
some nicc old lady from New Jersey who was
stranded Il he metropolis but it seemed more
| probable That she was a professional beggar
| whose lace was her fortune.
In front OF downtown restaurant arc two
lions. Children delight to ride these untamcd
hens's Small hoys sit fearlcssly astrido Of
| them. and title girls. with due decorum, hut
wi,M enu" i%Hti"sfnsss rids them side saddle
| lit: they are made Of cast iron.
| What ought | to do q traveller asks,
about the man in tho seat back OF mo who
huries his knee in the back OF the seat in which
estcd in conversation with his friend. twists
! md wrgglas and crnds his knee into my
lack 6ack; TO my great annoyance and discomfort?
but Just beari t' What is your opinion3" 49,
A clever and energetic Now York woman te-
| longing to a botanical society. having heard
| that certain swamps OF southern New Jersey
| were 50 dense that the winter temperature
| seldom foil below Coz. visited several Of these
| places In search OF orchids. She penetrated
diligent search found four varieties Of orchids
not before known; Few persons know that
| Island. and are found occasionally by know
Ing botanists.
colored man occupied n front sent at o
Democratic ward meeting in this city the
| other night and runctuatcd the speeches
with frequent and loud "yaw yaws" OF an.
proval. interspersed with bats good" Oats
de talk" and other like exclamationa. lilo
speakers came down from the platform. and,
anrroachinE, them, said; Gentlemen. I've
sat here and listened right trough dis meetin'.
odsa Ha' c Si eS APIECE S" viii DO
! the speakers cheeriully and smiingly con-
| Tibuted the required amount.
About the most easily salable article OF an
| ti1ue furniture in this town is tho colonial
dressing case. with claw and ball foot and
| oval mirror Such pieces seldom fetch less
than $50. and often go Us high as $50. They
fetch good prices oven at auction. and no
dealer easily let's them so at less than market
rates, since the demand is constant. Less
popular. hut held at stiff rates. are hose old
yn s"ss The7 steR rom 1a
| 500. though they are never large. and the old
glass. II intact. is by no means equal to mod
to find one OF these old mirrors still having its
crest Of gilded wheat heads. a common orna-
ment for mirrors in the eighteenth century.
Some families in New York still cherish an
cestral Ds.sch silver OF a pattern quaint and
highly distinctive. Tho spoons are often
topped with tiny windmills. and sometimes
| the larger pieces have these ornaments with
fss Tes s OBJ tnss 1 ass
been revived In Holland, and new sllverware
is now manufactured in exact imitation OF The
old. A piece now on exhibition ut n jewell
lers is a large Dutch man of-war OF u sixteenth
| or seventeenth century pattern. with sails set.
Juggling Mt the ropes. The hold OF the vessel
Is designed to scrvo as basket for bottle OF
burgundy.
Perhaps tho most marked signs of winters
approach may DO read in the suburbs OF New
York from the conduct OF tho birds. Every
wild feathered creature has the air Of prepar-
lux spluo liuptuuluR CuunRe some are
fattenine themselves. possibly against long
winters sleep: others appear in small Hurried
the grass seed. and then are OF on their South
ern journey. None sing. and all are busted as
at no other scason save the arduous weeks
when the young have to be fed.
lam getting old. that is in years." said q
busy merchant "Ihave plenty OF money and
! might Just as we'll stop work. but don't
| the better like it. / like to soc things grow:
| it's pleasure to accomplish things: don't
think could ever he contented and idle"
One does not need to be so very ancient to
remember the time whom the workman In
factory pursued his labors after dark by the
light OF a jacket lamp which was attached to
one end Of II iointcd arm. SO that 1t might be
moved about and brought near to TIE work in
| han!. Whale oil was burned. and the light
was pretty dim and poor. Tho general intro
duction OF gus into factories was great i'm
| marksa far greater advance. ono may see.
| for instance. foundry or machin" shop
reloctors. while tho individual workman has
| for his own us" an electric lamp. attach cd to 4
| flexible wire; which he may move about prac-
| ticEily at Will.
As everybody familiar with Barclay street
| knows trLckmen who deliver and take on
| goods ut the stores in that street near the
ferry are accustomed 10 back UP to tho curb
|
| from the end OF the truck to tho store door.
Many Of the store doors in that locality are one
| or two steps w from the sidewalk. and It Is
| necessary for tho pedestrian either to climb
these steps and walk around tho inner end OF
! III. blank or to walk out into the street around
| the horses heads There are however. excep-
tions to this rule. A handsome. young woman
| clay street yesterday afternoon encountered
one o. these oLs'ructinG, bridges. but she did
n, I have to turn Out for II. AS she approach ed
it the truck drlv"r standing upon the end Of
| his truck Ea!lantly raised the plank and hold
! it h.l in tn" air so that she might pass I'M
der |, without Inconvenience.
Those VINO are unfamiliar with tho habits
! Of the mosquito said resident OF New Jcr-
SOY. might suppose that. like the migratory
| birds. no would 20 South Us autumn waned in
search Of n warmer cline. but. as those who
! live in districts which tho mosquito affects
| v"ry w'ii know. such IL not the case. Indead.
! tn, MOSQUITO stands tho cold extraordinarily
/ wei Ior one so slightly built and whom the
! weather gets To he too cold for him he comes
| iM.tln Mllnln he can kecp warm. for le is In.