The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-24
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
The epicure tilted back In his chair and
attentively watched the waiter draw the
cork from the bottle.
Let me soc the cork a moment. waiter"
he said
He took and examined II carefully mo-
ment, presslng 1t between his fingers. Then
he handed 1t back
That's good wine" he remarked.
How can you tell1" asked his oom-
panion.
TITS a good cork" replied the oonnois-
!. seur. Good wines arc stopped with the
best corks, and the best only. Never mind
what the dealer says, and never mind tho
label. Anybody can paste one on bottle:
Wine that Is really good is always sealed
with hand made oorks.
cheapest and are not SO airtlsht. A good
Goss f Srs snd d sss & CORK
The best oorks are used by the makers
Of champagne. They are cut BY hand
subjected to a high pressure to close all the
pores. Machine made oorks, on the other
hand, are steamed This kills the life Of
the cork. Then the slab Is placed In q ma
chino, and the corks are cut out by the
uOLcus ucy dIO OO0uehuAy sOuNNt AsAc
the kind the druggist uses, but they wont
always stay whore they are put"
Half q dozen Of Alderman Richter's young
constituents got into trouble the other night
and were arrested. Tho Alderman APP
peared before Magistrate Mayo IN their
behalf the next morning IN the West side
court. Ono OF tho prisoners, Q tall darby,
attracted the Magistrate's attention.
HAS this fellow ever been In trouble
beiorei' he asked the Alderman.
course he has been arrested number Of
times, but always honorably discharged
Then, ss the MAGISTRATE began 70 smile,
can't get away like the rest Of them
Among the articles in the windows Of
jewelry shops that 60 in for novelties are
watches which have Hebrsic numerals
instead Of Roman or Arabic. The watches
differ In no other way, and the dinerenoe
adds no expense. A few are bought for
presents, usually intended Tor elderly
are small. It only takes one character
to express each Of the twelve hours a. IN
Arabic Enumeration.
Rat hunting Is a favorite night pastime
on Park row this summer. Near Ann
street workmen are excavating for the
foundation Of big building TO be erected
on the site Of q once famous cheap res
taurant. The big hole in the ground has
rendered dozens Of rats homeless and the
messenger boys who work late at might
have some fine tests o. Omar mar ksmansn'p
Once in . while a rat escapes to the street
and then there Is lively chase, In which
the idlers, who seem never to leave the
row, take part
Even the Italian religious festivals now
pay dividends to the Standard Oil Company.
At these festivals thousands Of pounds OF
candles are burned annually to the diff
ferent saints. These candles were for
merly made by Italians and they were really
works Of art. OF late years, however,
the Standard Oil Company has supplied
large part OF them.
They are made OF yellow wax. but instead
Of being cast in q mold as are ordinary
candles they are made by fattening the
wax into thin layers and rolling the layers
into candle form; This gives them greater
strength than the nodded candles. And
az some candles weigh as much as 100
pounds and are five or six feet tall they need
the extra strength to withstand the melting
effect of the hot July end August weather in
which most Of the festivals occur.
ans DlAlu yellow CauulCS nTo ou6ut W
the Italian dealers who do the hand paint
ing and decorating that make these candles
80 pretty to look at.
Ever notice what heavy bottles olives
are packed in?' asked the grocer man.
The customer had, but Of the reasons
for such usage by the packers he was
ienornnt, except 1t be to make the interior
smaller.
.Not 80. There's method in their mad
ness" returned the purveyor. you see
the thick glass. curved as 1t Is, and con-
olives acts Is . magniying glass. This
makes large olive look 70 be Of immense
size. a medium sized fruit large, and a
small one to be Of good size: Large olives
are, Of course, the more in demand: 80 the
to be an olive the size Of plum through
the glass, but when you take it out you
find that things are not always what they
SEEM
Tho refrigerator stock had become ex-
hausted and he had run across the street
to get some more beer. He smiled appre-
ciatively az the salesman dug from an ICY
cavern a half dozen bottles on which the
condemned moisture was guarantee Of cold
ness. Then he made bee line across the
street.
Just as he approached his own steps he
ran into friend whom he had not seen
for months and he carefully balanced the
beer in its paper bag upon his knee while
he talked over old times and new proepeots.
So absorbed did he become that the min
utes ned and 1t was nearly half an hour
before he remembered that the beer was
warming up. With a hearty handshake
he raised the bag from his knee. Az he did
40 there was Q crash and series Of mild
explosions.