New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-03
NEW YORK CITY.


The Young Mems Institute Gymnasium Will open
for the season this evening at : o'clock.
Ira shafer the lawyer has improved his appearance
by growing small chln-bcard.
A woman deaf mute who goes among IN, down
town Offices selling dcatand.dumb alphabets has
printed her cards this peculiar request: II any
person thinks am not what | represent TO be- please
have arrested at once"
For want Of better excuse, hotel propristors who
wish get rid o their patrons dogs assert that tho
animals attract water-bugs.
The first hing that many families do on returning
from the rural districts is to take their turn in the
family bah-lub.
There Is daily increase OF driving the Seventh
ave boulevard.
As appropriate for Labor Day, this afternoon and
evening" sedi concerts brighton Beach Will consist
Of light music such Ermnic strauss and ofcnbach
wallzcs and ovcrurcS with lcaFcn OF more serious
numbers. It IS seldom ono can hear Frminle' and
strauss wazcs rendered By an orchestra OF seventy
musicians.
Tho stock Of raw sugar IN York. Philadelphia
Boston and Baltimore IS $3.50 TONS about onc-thrd
less than at this date last year. Refined sugar has
advanced to : SIS cents6 80 cents Wholesale for
granulated to fancy white grades
r. r. McBurney, the genial secretary of tho Young
Mems Christian Association Of this city, who has
been attending the Worlds Conference OF Associations
is expected to arrive on the City of New-York
A big uptown apartment house supplies a fine
billiard and smoking room for the exclusive use Of tho
tenants.
Some doctors recommend their poorer patients
long rides in the surface The sights interest
them and the iotns promotes action Of the stomach
and liver.
Tho habits Of chewing tobacco and taking snuff
arc both falling into dsrcputc and dlsusc in America
slowly, perhaps, but surely.
Sicily lemons arc the staple In that fruit for the
whole of the United States and hold their own yet.
even in Florida and California.
fve-story brick building &c, parochial school
Is being erected in West Forty ihild-st. by Father
Macready. OF the Church OF the Holy Cross.
The Temperance Guild attached 70 The Church Of tho
Paulist Fathers met yesterday afternoon IN their hall IN
West s1ethst.. and listened an eloquent address
from the Rev. Walter Elliott.
The marine detail at the Pensacola Navy Yard has
been sent the Norfolk Navy Yard until after the
abatement OF yellow fever in Florida.
PAINS Great Fire Of London and fireworks exhibit
ton viii be given tonight at Manhattan Beach, by
special request, for the entertainment of those Who
Will celebrate Labor Day on Coney Island.
The congregation Of the Pilgrim Congregational
Church was disappointed ycsterl. in no; having the
Rev. Or. :. H. Virgin 10 occupy the pulpit but there
was a GOOD substitute in the Rev. Mr. small. DR..
vlrrin is a, West Chelmsford Mass and wrote that
he vas ndsrood and would not BE- able to preach for
two weeks.
G.. 8 Palmer, No 1876 Rcadc-s'., has elaborate
photogi aph OF large Gcld OF The Easter lily under
culture in Hcrnuda The beauty OF such field can
only he appreciated by actual observer, and II IS
doubtful if the Tower be successfully cultivated
except in warm lstitudcs.