The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-17
SUNBEAMS.

The recent municipal election In the Missouri town
of Lexington turned tho issue Of hogs hogs
| in the streets. The Nohogs won
Joseph Nicola. Fenobscot Indian. has written q
175paEe book telling of the dongs his tribe from
way back up to the present year.
Tho Indians OF the Pacific Northwest are great adL
mirers of the telephone and they cheertuy pay ther
money for the fun II talking Siwnsh tho wires
Small boys delight in getting to the piles of
logwood tina. unloaded tho Now York and
Ign shores of the East River because they spnt
ers OF 1t to chow Though has faint sweetsh taste
and Is used to color wine for tables dho;ea
not the taste that the boys il for They want to
excite alarm To do this they che It until the saliva
is rcd and eject IL in presence OF nervous elderly
ladies. who convinced that the boys splitting
blood. II they caI scare old woman screaming
for an ambulance, they delighted beyond as ure
"A wholesale teweer in this city received large
consignment OF Brazilian bcetles-deAd ones-that no
10 making up into breast pins Tho particular species
thus employed Is small stumpy bug. ruddy bronze IN
color on the belly whore the legs folded
and us,rous green on tho hard and corrugated wing
cases. THIS green 10 changeable varying from leaf
color and ma!achite to almost gold and the sharp,
nrm edge of the wing cases affords something for .
metal clamp to hold them by. They mako odd and
rather pretty Jewels and are more durable than one
would suppose
One can get something very like a Japanese land.
scape within two hours' ride. by water. of New FORK
Tho point Of view 10 just below tho twin lights at Nave
sink Highlands and the view itself is eastward Tho
spidery bridge that crosses the shrewsbury: the ice
breaks built along tho SIDES of II: the tmbered sea
wall beyond; the peaK.roofed cottages and bathing
houses on tho sand Spit all havo tho Light. open ap
peArance that the use of bamboo gives Japanese vii
lagos. while tho foreground nied with gnarIed
ehestnuts hickories and dogwoods suggests tho tore
ground In Japanese fan decoration.
-" That man ought to b, put salary BY the house,
said the head OF the china department in big bazaar
Hesrich and is a pretty liberal buyer but he doesn't
Ike the swell places where they charge prices SO
no comes here His hobby is porcelain and cut glass
and he shows UP about three times to see what
Is new We'll. he 10 so enthusiastic that he stands
about here for hour and calls tho attention of Gus
toners TO good ponts-bad ones. too. some times con-
found him in the things they think OF buying. That
man has really been the means OF selling hundreds Of
dollars worth OF stun in this department"
"A New Yorker, who WAS employ ed twenty yean
ago in helping survey streets in purely ruys district
about Pittsburgh since covered by the city con
the present comparative cleanliness Of the place with
the perpetual dun pail that then wrapped the city and
iu suburoA on rural hillsides. hve six miles from
the heart OF the city tho perceptiby dark.
ened by Its constant bath of carbon Chickens showed
Atingo OF this grmy atmosphere upon their feathers
even tho ~id BIRDS were dingy and peaches hanging
upon the trees bushed dun red through fuzzy semI
opaque with thick articles of the flying CRIME All
this was seen In region thoroughly rural that the
city engineers sometimes had to ply tho axe for an
hour or more In order obtain vsAs through which 10
survey the streets OF the future
The New Jersey beaches arc yeritable musenm.
AFTER brisk easery wind. and among tho thinRs that
impre" tho stroller isthe duplication of obJectsln
the wreckaso. Por Instance. n few days avo there
were hundreds OF small blue bottles near Sandy Hook
They had contained samples OF new drug but how
did they get there In that ono spot, AmonR other
things washed up by the at tho ,sme point wer.
bundles Of papers bundles or ciolnng tags p;:,oys
picture frames candles OF tinted wax huge cArboy
= dead parrot. n monster sturgeon. many dogs sata
cats crabs birds bestles-some Aliye-and fish nur.ing
tubes and nipples corsets blsies hair brushes paint
brushes bamboo rods. DOLLS toys an umbrella shells
boxes oil cana pipes OF clay and corncob bird cages
mouse traps chair candy, bucket several kegs and
barrels Jumps Of grease, b)ttes OF all colors shapsl
and sizes and strips OF carpet The most abu ndAnt
things. excepting seagrass and Seaweed were corka