The sun., 1895-04-22
SUyBEzMS.

| The reported practical failure OF an attempt 70
ship California flowers to Chicago serves To call aen
tion TO the with which Easter lilies are
| from the Bermudas. Unstcd private persons are
able to keep imported lilies for weeks together
retard the development Of tho beds or TO encolr
| age them, as the case demands Perhaps the fow"r
shippers OF California do yet fully understand the
art Of packing Cut flowers going in small packages
by mall express found to retain their freshness
for several days packed in dry and so enclosed
that the air is almost excluded. Possibly the ship
ment OF flowers in vacuum would Be successfrl.
when was . boy" said q middle aged man. ~
was common thing to eat peanuts st the circus;
that was an added enjoyment In general carnival OF
pleasure. 1t Is q long time since have been TO
circus under canvas and don't know but what there
people stlli eat peanuts just they did when was
boy but they certainly do not eat them at the circus
at Madison Square Garden. | remember TO have seen
but one man eating peanuts at the Garden and him
my visit this year. He was man OF cheerful
bearing, and he had a sma, boy with him. Perhaps
he had brought the peanuts for the boy but he
holding the bag and eating himself and II seemed
as though he had brought them in recollection OF the
old time celebration"
-"second.hand sails bought anil soid."ls a sign
seen In Sousn street The dealers buy condemned
sails from vessels and from the junkmen who ply tho
rivers In small boats The old sails of further
use sails. The dealer strips on the rope. which 10
sold to paper makers; the thimOlcs II In good ORDER
sold to sail makers to be placed in new sails and
the stripped salts sold for covers as they
rials for any similar purpose. A man who wants
piece OF old say 20x25. or almost any other
SIRE large small. can get IL here Thus 1t Is that
sail that has swelled to the breezcs in the China
above the deck OF clipper ship may at las, TO
cover brick pile In the city OF New York.
Tho scrap book, as I had always understool H."
said citizen, "meant a collection OF various things.
poetry recipes accounts OF strange events whatever
novel and interesting in the view of the collector
or IL meant collection OF clippings preserved hy tho
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q what different character which quite novel
TO and certainly Of great interest TO those whom
II concerned. This was family scrap book contain.
ing whatever had appeared in print about the
bers OF the family and extending back to time be-
fore the Sometimes 1T Is simple death notice
from amopg the advertisements, but telling its s'ory
perfectly to those who know; II may he obituary
notice. Perhaps II Is paragraph telling OF
dent TO some member OF the family or the Illness OF
one; personal news contained In clippings from
papers from various parts of the country the fam.
lily grew up and moved away; sort Of family recori
that to those concerned increased In interest the
years wentby."
Every large city in the unltei States has an al
Jacent tributary region OF greater less willis
New York has the secondary loyalty only OF tho
region Immediately about It. but OF the whole coun.
try. Philadelphia hns for its tributary region tho
country southwark for fifty miles northward and
eastward for about thirty miles. and westward for
two hundred miles. Baltimore has for Its Mary.
land. Virginia, North Carolina and northern Georgia.
The far southern States divided in allegiance he
tween New Orleans and New York. New EnGaui
those parts within two hours of New York istrue
to Boston Cincnnati's influence extends eastwarito
the Aeghnnies. southwark through Kentucky ard
westward into and through southern Indiana. whiis
II is the undsputed metropolis OF Ohio. save perhaps
that part which looks TO Cleveland. Chcayos ruIs
extends eastward to Ohio southwark to the sphere of
influence recognized as that Of st. Louis, and vest
ward to the Mississippi St. Louis has its faithful adj
herents in Missouri and the contiguous States. Den
would like TO be thought the metropolis o. ths
region between tine Mississippi and the Rocky Noun
taIns but shares It with ST. Louis and Chicago. san
Francisco is the city in the whole region west OF
the Rockies, and draws trade through the
tain passes.