Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-26
STORIES OF THE DAY.

STORIES OF THE DAY. Random Observations During a Brief so-
 ionrn In the Windy City.
 Every residence has nice little by 6 plot of grass in the front yard with hoi- lyhocks and lilac bush, and on fine afternoons the women put on their sun bonnets and go out with sprinkling pots to water the garden.
 There are restaurants on every block two or three-which serve full meal" at prices ranging to maximum of 40 cents. They serve dinner at noon and supper at 6 o'clock. Supper consists of stewed beefsteak k and nice, sweet lit tie white grapes Sewed with sugar.
 The gripmen and conductors on the cable roads know all the passengers, and help strangers along by introducing them to the regulars. Whenever there is breakdown or stop for any req son they come around and ''jolly up the fares, ," just to make everything pleasant, so that time won't hang heav- ily.
 The business men who live outside of down town" drive in every morning with their own teams, which they hitch to the lampposts in front of their off ces Sometimes they unhitch the horses and tie them to the rear wheels of the wagon, so that they can eat the hay out of the wagon box while they are wait ing for the evening drive home.
 The very swagger people give dances in the pavilion of the old Iowa building in Jackson park. They put & fence of benches around so that the populace may see, but are yet kept out. It's great source of amusement to the simple viii lagers to gather in throngs outside the benches and behold and comment upon the grace and beauty of the aristocracy
 After supper the men sit on the empty beer kegs out in front of the saloons and smoke and chew tobacco and tell old stories. Sometimes they sit on the emp ty boxes in front of the dry goods stores and whittle. The evenings are fine in Chicago, and the drug stores on the cor ners put chairs out on the sidewalk for the regular loafers, who sit and gossip about the Holmes case
 AS one approaches Chicago in the early morning the Wagner car porter says, At the next bend, when we come from behind the trees, sir. you can see Chicago. You step out on the platform and the porter says, There it is, sir, D and points to cloud of smoke, just 8 blot on the face of nature when the sky is blue and clear and the day is bright and the grass and fields are green.
 Nearly all the women ride bicycles. They wear brown boomers and gray coats. They buy the bloomers in State street store for $l 57 pair. The men who ride wear red stockings and red caps. They let their front hair grow long and curl it with irons so that the red caps-worn on the back of the head give them fine jaunty air. This is true in spite of the news from London that baggy trousers have been decreed for all bicycle riders by the Chicago aldermen.
 In the railroad station in Chicago, where the suburban trains stop, there is posted on one wall this sign:
 
 Warningl
 Beware of confidence men and pickpockets q; Do not let them entice you away from the depot
 
 On the opposite wall there is this sign:
  Noticei Do not lend money to strangers under any circumstances. .'''''''s...'.s'..s.s...
 There is an art institute in Chicago It is a big, dismal, dirty gray once white stone building down in Michigan avenue, with the Illinois Central tracks for background and bicycle "acad- emy" in front. Somebody told Chicago about art once, and Chicago set out to have it. They've got it. lots of it, all