The sun., 1893-11-02
SUNBEhMS.

safe away.
-Candied nowers OF several sorts among the
most expensive deicacies OF the nodarn cchfso-
TONER but the old fashion OF using the candied petals
of the orange blossom in tea seems to he almost for
gotten II afew of the candied petals be put into the
tea before is stepped they give navor noceaby
peculiar. but once esteemed very nne
Some New YORK shops maintain at times q curious
ly primitive IN .nger service the suburbs. mes.
senger despatched by rail to some central suburban
station and starting thence he delivers on foot small
packages o. goods to customers mile or more from
the railway station tits an expensive and isborious
system maintained to encourage trade from rapidly
growing suburbs
There Ia new Spanish restaurant mp in the Ten
deroin district, one OF perhaps half dozen In New
York II rs designed for the accommodation OF few
resident spanarda and spanish Americans and OF such
professionals" as have picked up taste for Spanish
cooking The bill OF fare Is type written. and tho place
ia simple in its appointments Everything served
seems be favored and highly favored with peppers
-Physcians say that the present low death rate in
this city is in part tracoabe to tho grip That disease
during its ravages of several years carried OF great
number of persons who but Tor its coming, would
have lived swell the death rate this and neI
Tho ntest survived, and the death rate will not rise
again until tho progress OF slime has brought the
number OF tho dectept In this community TO the nor
NAL average
French suburbans in the Bronx Valley delight in
holding old World fashions and the peasant blue Is
st seen among them. while doubtless there sabots
in every house. called into use on wash day and Al
other low baromete seasons 1t is pretty habit Of
these simple aliens to keep English rabbits and fam
lily OF French people At woodlawn travel over all the
country round digging for these creaturo The
rabbits by tho way kept not as pets. but Tor food
An east side photogra apher's showcase contains
interesting reminders OF the naval display OF last
spring Perhaps to most Now Workers. the most strik
ing feature of that display the naval parade ana
certainly the most surprising revelation OF the parade
tho unmistaKabe Tartar aspect OF the Russian
common sailors. Tho photographer in question stll
aFt
their faces strikngly peculiar. the east
side. where many strange types nnd their way TO
the photographer.
ALI the usual signs ~ observed from the Missouri
to tho Yukon by tho farmer. the hunter. and the
Indian. seem to Indicate hard winter In the West
Tho Alaskan Indians agreed with the Indians of
Oregon and Washington that the snows will be heavy
and the frosts keen and long Already tho snowstorms
have killed large numbers Of sheep in tho mountains
OF Klickiat county Wash. and In Missouri the farm
ers. that hog killing has begun, ara telling thss
tho lard runs very Jagged an infaliibe sign they
agree. OF coming winter OF un precsdentod severity
OF truly royal blood. OF of the Kings
OF Africa, died in Now Orleans last week. He was
Alexander BeckwelL 4 centenarian. who was lurec
AWAY from his African homo oghty-nvo years and
sold slavery in Virginia He about II years OF
age when kidnapped ana OF splendid physical pro-
portions The fact that he was OF royal blood told by
his captors and atesed by the conduct OF fellow
slaves marked him always from tho mass OF slaves.
and the facts of his history never lost sight OF
His FIRST master named him Alexander because of his
appearance and history. He has lived in Now Orleans
since the
The cigarette is to be banished from Georgia II the
House Of Representatives has the power to enforce its
will bill forbdding tho sale of cigarettes in the
State was passed by that body last Friday morning.
As introduced tho bill only made it unlawful for any
person sell cigarettes but the Committee Hygiene
and Sanitation to which 1t was referred mphasized
tho rigid moral sense of tho House by amendnRn SO
as to include under tho ban cigarette tobacco and
tha Hama Al hil hxy
lol to 40 is to noo that this body
has been using every effort to encourage tho ouiva-
tion OF tobacco in the State.
Grocers every whore assert that there Is little
profit in retailing sugars, and housekeepers CONFIRM
this by saying that there is small economy In buying
sugar by the keg Tho tradition touching the small
profit in handling sugars at retail is certainly moro
than 100 old. for writer in the middle of the
last affirmed that London grocers of that day
were often out $50 or go year for paper and pack
thread used IN wrapping up sugar. and some grocers
would not sell to customer who did not the
same time purchase some other article. 1t 10 not
usual for merchants in New York this time far
below regular retail rates certain articles not properly
belonging to their trade.
FASHIONS change in flowers as they do in clothing
gems, plays. novels and dogs florist who does .
large business asked II he had any orchids Got
a couple at my greenhouses in tho country" he
swered. "but it's having them here in town.
for they're hard TO raise and nobody wants them.
Cranks on orchids collect them and pay fancy prices
for them. but there is call for tho vare-
ties Begonas and crotons and all those fame cysaved
plants too. sell very few OF them though there
a time when II couldn't get enough. Chrysanthe.
nuns ready sellers but the fashion seems to be
setting in for thngs-pams. ferns. lycopodiun,
rub5ers. selaginela, and such"
A notable engineering feat was accomplished few
days the completion OF the boring of the Busk
lvanhoo railway tunnel under the continental divide
OF the Rocky Mountains at IlaRerman Pass Col. The
tunnel is almost two miles long-9.393 feet-and Is
fhFnn RnliI Inn IhFaa ana
twenty days of twenty hours work each day. bore
the big hole Itis loSoo feet above level through
the top ridge of the continent The water draining
from the sido of the mountain under which 10
driven to the Atlantic Ocean, and from tho other
TO tho Pacific, Its construction has cost 81 900
and twenty human lives Tho tunnel. which is on tho
line OF the Colorado Midland Railway the Santa Fss
central route to California substitutes two mies OF
track for ten and does away with one Of tho
pensive railway climbs in the world.
-" This morning." said a promsnader "I saw q
newsDoy pick up and hand to a lady who was walk
ing rapidly away from 1t bundle which she tust
dropped She had a number OF bundles upon her arm
and this one had slid out from the She
walking with another lady and talking with her; per-
hErs was because she thus that she
paid attention to the newsboy when he handed her
tho bundle: she simply placedit back among the rest
and went on. Tho nowsboy haltsi for just brief
ment and there WAS Just the faintest flicker of smile
upon his face. This OF the when he had
played for tip and lost and then he went with his
regular work This leads me to say. as tho result of
my observations. that meu moro often than women
give the sboy something, Why is thist Is II be-
cause women expect AS a matter OF course homage
and from all, women less generous than
men'"
~ was little surprised upon entering the dining
room OF country hotel" said q traveller. TO
tho table surrounded with high
backed chairs, which wore strictly up to date.
back TO date. in style. ! confess thAt
was s,il more surprised to find these chairs very
comfortable Think that tho high. backed chair asa
rule more likely to crafty tho aesthetic side OF
nature than 1t is TO satisfy desire for solid comfor
but these chairs had evidently been selected by
who had not only good taste. but good sense. To
SIT back In OF them to md gentle but pro-
foundIy comfortable support that added materially
to the enjoyment OF the meal And It may be added
that more surprises than one await tho who for
the hrst time about among country hotels lie will
Gnd hotels whose landlords pride themselves on their
beds and their table. and with good reason; no will
ind beds and rooms that trim and comfortA-