The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-23
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when the days sire oooi and clear the
Tuberculosis patients on North Brother
Island wrap themselves In the blue blankets
Furnished by the city and sit in tho open air
Last week Health Commissioner Darling
10 the island. In England they had seen
pictures Of the North American indian.
How interesting remarked one vtsitor
as the beat was about to land. SSee how
peaoefully they alt. Are they the last
OF the Mohicans7"
A small restaurant near the Battery in
forms Ito patrons thet Eve keep open
this place until at O'Clock, p. M while
second placard In the same establishment
proclaims, Family entrance for dinner
upstairs.'
In Central Park yesterday q girl OF four
sat on bench and for long time examined
the legs Of her kid doll. Then she pushed
down her stocking and looked at her own
chubby legs. Ellen" she said presently
to the nurse who was with her, couldn't
-Sewl" repeated the astonished Ellen
Ian sakes, what does the child meant"
Cause can't find any seams on me,
said the child. "Dolly's got seams.'
A copper in apparent good health made
his first and last confession the other day;
MY boy plays the piano. 30 when see
an ad In the papers Of sheet music at Q
cents per muse. started for that store
in my time of. Say. couldn't get within
half o block Of the bargain counter. I'm
glad we don't have to patrol them de-
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down. He come back sands bargains, too.
Finally my wife sailed in. And what dye
thinkf She come home with Q whole hand
sul Of them tunes, and not o soatoh on her.
dunno how the women keep on the force. :,
Very different are the negroes who twice
daily cross the Well Street ferry from
those seen elsewhere about the city. Those
who live in Brooklyn and work along the
water front as roustabouts on the coast
line piers are mostly from the South, New
Orleans or Mobile being for the most part
their homes. Should they live to be hum
dred, they are still called boys, and their
happy go-lucky, care-free ways are In
marked TSnrasf To- those soo o. the
being much softer and broader than that
Of the native New Yorker.
Those who visit the markets see from
time to time hanging up in the butcher
stalls an owl, a crow or q hawk. They
are brought In by the farmers" said
marketman. There is q steady demand
for owls, hawks, &C., on the part OF taxi,
dermists, Amateurs chiefly: and they VIII
sometimes pay as high as 81 or 81 for ine
specimens Of the larger hawks or owls.
One Of the finest displays Of autumn
coloring in New York can be found in Cen
trail Park in places where the small but
wide spreading European beeches have
been planted. One Of the best is along
the 10th street end Of the park, between
Seventh and Eighth avenues. The leaf
of this tree is a peculiar serrated one. Some
what like tiny elm leaf. When touched
by the frost 1t turns every shade OF yellow
and red. The leaves are so tiny that the
effect il not that OF dense mass OF color,
as in the maple, but rather like a golden
haze, because the light filters down be-
tween the leaves.
Feeding the animals in Bronx Park is
forbidden, but sometimes this rule is
broken.
Il want to give him bit OF banana
ooaxed the boy OF his father, as they stood
in front of the polar bears cave yesterday.
Bears don't eat banana, ' said the father.
ster in the language Of his kind.
The father held him up and the t boy prof. prof.
a dainty bit to try It,
Il said um do" crowed the boy as he
took a bit Of the same banana: Then It
was the polar bears turn, and so. alter
nately. the boy and the bear finished the
banana.
Becky, the Subway Tavern cat, broke
all rules Of the place last night and got
drunk on the premises. The bartender
mixed UP a milk punch for Bowery GUS
toner who changed his mind and pushed
the drink aside. Becky drank 1t.
Percy Kahn, the manager. who has trained
the cat TO do several tricks. saw that she
didn't act just right and tried to put her
through her stunts. There was nothing
When the poor cat got her bearings she
crawled in behind plaster cast OF George
Washington, back Of the bar. BY midnight
she had braced up enough to sit up and
take little nourishment.
The resourceful campaign button man
now turns out hatpins bearing pictures Of
the Presidential candidates. Another
oddity In campaign advertising appeared
on Broadway yesterday afternoon. A
neatly dressed young woman wore red,
white and blue ribbon belt. on which
were fastened, about an mon apart,
Parker buttons as large as q silver dol
lar. Her escort wore Roosevelt button
The Post Office Department Is sending
out its winter stamps now. Few know
that there is a difference between winter
stamps and summer stamps. In the cold
months the gum on the stamps is a little
thinner and softer, while that on those to
he used during the summer and 10 Southern
States Is not 50 easily affected by heat.
A flock Of wild ducks have been guests
of the city>on the lake in Van Cortlandt
park since early in August. In that month
wandering fiocks from the North often
pass the night on the lake and continue
their al eht southwark in the morning
The,e are always some wild ducks to be
a.an from the Van Cortlandt links feeding
smnnx the lily pads in the lake, and as the
Numbers are greater on some days than
ON other, the golfers think that the migrants
oSton stay with the steady boarders for q
time to break their long fightJ
Ono az the curious featured Of New York
-sstaurant life is the evolution Of the man
Who Kept a good chop and oyster house
,,~orriator of a poor French resta,i-