The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-02-25
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re be up with the times you must ns call u "foul
air" any more. The new medical name II "crowd
poison"
-rhs highest priced town on the line Of = railroad in
North America 10 said to DO Calgary. the centre OF the
Alberta rsnchinE country. Beer is sold there at 70
cents q glass, and the barkseper bottles up what 10 isS
After he has turned out . glassful.
Among the Balsam. Great Smoky, and other noun
tain districts OF the western Caroiinas, where the
people and their roads are both poor. and . Journey Of
twenty miles seems like . trip to the worlds emo
horses are scarce Their place is partly taken BY bulk
and oxen. that are trained to the saddle ~ well a. 70
the plough.
Tho failure to extend the ire limits OF Brooklyn, 80
a. to make them coincident with the oity's limits. has
caused tho erection OF Thousands Of wooden tenements
in the Bushwick and Ridgewood districtS Within
three years . vast and compact wooden town has
sprung up In that region. the blocks bsinR almost un-
broken BY . stone or brick residence. There are Prob.
ably 10000 people living in these timber natA One
shudders A. he thinks what would happen there fs
nre should start in . high wind among these houses.
most of which are built with an eye to extreme cheap
ness.
The very large sale OF pictures At the late show Of
the Water Color Society proves that. II aquarsliss are
not fashionable. A. . painter recently complained. they
are popular. The old notion that they would fade has
practically disappeared. and they are admired for
their delioacy and sought for their cheapness. A
well.known landscape painter in this city says that
he could not live were IL not for his water colors; and
an academician. who 10 drawing toward threescors
ana ten In age, anu never peiutou IN AQuhEshe.
says that he Is going to begin. In order to keep NJ
with the procession"
In tho repair rooms Of . certain plano factory there
are about 100 pianos Of all makes ana dates that were
left to bs put in order and never called for. soms Of
them. in fact NEST OF them. are the veriest tin pans
and rattle traps. but there are . few made in Germany
at the beginning OF this century that have some
beauty. their fronts and sides containing inlaid work
and their keys being faced with mothsrofpearl OF
this number probably not twenty will ever Be claimed.
and a thAv are unaRlRblA oYd0nS nOnnihlY. IA MANILA
from the ruraiest sort Of rural districts they remain
where they are. %sncumbsring floor space. But even that
does not explain where all the old pianos goto.
The art of pastel drawing. or painting. is ~practissd
by very few men in this country. and . member Of the
New York Pastel Society tells why; 1T Is because the
public have an idea that colored chalks are not per.
manent. You can't uso q pastel picture to dust the
furniture with. but IL you protect It with glass It will
last your lifetime. any way. Isaw . pastel the other
day that was twenty years old. and It wasjust as fresh
and bright as II II had been done this morning. To my
way of thinking pastel is . delightful medium. and ron
get qualities with 1t that you cannot get with oil or
water color. l wish tho artists would encourage the
use Of It more and popularizo 1t: but . good many OF
them seem to think that there 10 something beneath
their dignity in handling chalk"
1t 10 generally believed at the North that special
cars are provided for negroes on the Southern railroads.
and that they arc forbidden to ride on the cars reserved
for white people. Such 10 not tho case The simple
fact is that every railroad in the South sells nrst and
second.ciass tickets. whereas only nrst.class ttckets
arc sold on most of the Northern roads second, class
ticket entities one to passage on the smoking car. A.
. rule the Southern negroes arc thriftless and poor.
and but for the blessed institution of second class
tickets would hardly be able to travel At all. for rates
of fare are nearly double what thoy are in the North.
There are usually as many white people A. black once
in tho smoker" and although II seems . little odd to
md women in an apartment that 10 nlled with the
fumss Of pipes and cigars. It really causes no suffering
to them. because they are smokers. too. welLdressed
negroes. who are able and willing to pay full fare. are
seldom ~intsrfsrsd with II they choose to ride in nrst.
class ears.