The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29
ABOUT THE CITY,
Our Condensed Pirate Gets
His Fine Work in
Everywhere.
PAULus HOOK POINTS.

Department is responsible for the fol-
lowing:-The day after the Fire Conn
missioners appointed two battalion
drivers an irate citizen went into the
engine house of Engine Company No.
8, and accosting the engineer indig-
nantly deInanded:-' Since Fwhin are
they after putting oitalyans on the
forceYa 'sItalians on the -forceT' re-
peated the astonished engineer,
there are no Italians on the force. J"
''Phat that thin continued the citi-
zen producing copy of The JERSEY
CITY NEWS, and pointing with an air
of conviction at the account of the
proceedings of the Board, LUX at that
will yeZ two oitalyans chiefes. 1t
won't be long before the bloody dagos
will be in livery place in the city. 1t
did not long to demonstrate to
the citizen the difference between
Italian and Battalion.
John kellar, Assemblyman Erwin's
partner, is said to contemplate
giving up the law for journalism He
is filled with admiration for the news
paper mans lot Poor fellow
Little Phil Lynch, who engineers
the elevator in the First, National
Bank Building to every ones satisfac-
ton, is considered by the girls to be
the handsomest man in the Van
Houten Drum Corps as we'll as
one of the most skilful drulnmers and
artistic buglers.
Since H. G.. MeCartin has taken
charge of the law library he has de-
monstrated himself TO be the. right
man in the right place. Always cour-
teous and obliging he spares no pains
to facilitate the labors of all who have
occasion to consult the volumes in the
library
Clerk German and Messenger Jack
Lynch and the monograph have more
influence in the City Hall just now
than any other combination How
ever often people have failed to obtain
the ear of any high official, Billy and
Jack can always command his atten
ton by rigging up the photograph
and applying the tube to the auricular
organs OF the high official. Several
aspirants for positions have viewed
this combination with envy and
there is talk of the appearance of
another monograph in the municipal
bnilding before long.
Apropos of the query who is the
prettiest girl in the High School, if
the question was left to the reporters,
it would speedily be settled beyond
any doubt.
1t is not generally known that this
city recently narrowly escaped the
spectacle of one of the principal char
acters in perhaps its most celebrated
.,,k.s
OF the Academy of Music. Cove
Bennett, who so narrowly escaped
hanging for the murder of Policeman
Smith, is member of the Fritz Emmett
company and played with it in New
in faisstsixy orssoafis %Fssssseff 4le.tlid not
play with the company. Cove had
aspirations for the stage when he first
made the acquaintance of Mrs. Smith
and used to read Shakespeare to her
when she was i'll.
The elevator boy in the Weldon
Building has lately devoted his at
tention to mathematical calculations.
He gives as a result an opinion that
if he had not been compelled to return
each time he wentup on the elevator,
and had continued his flight he would
now be four blocks and a quarter
from heaven
Some people really believe that Ed
Dugan's red checks arc painted by
his barber daily. That is untrue, for
his barbar has said so, and no ,one
eve" knew "a tonsorial artist to say
anything that could be doubted.
The bricks piled up in front of the
old Police Headquarters, which is now
being torn down, are dangerously
near to the Montgomery street car
track. Any one but dime museum
skeleton would have but little show
to escape being mashed should he be
caught between the pile and a NOV
ing street car.
The charred front of the recently
burned building across the way is de-
cidedly picturesque; but the picture
is nevertheless an eyesore.
While the wind was blowing
strongly few day ago, the front wall
of Hartnett's drug store, at the corner
of Warren and Montgomery streets,
which had become loosened by the
tearing down of the adjoining build
ing, swayed backward and forward
and looked as though II might tumble
at any moment.
A number of workmen incurred con-
siderable risk in endeavoring to brace
the loosened wall, which they final ly
succeeded in doing very effectually.
The contest between the Ancient
Order of Hibernans and the st. Peters
Sodality Lyceum for the Irish silk
flag on exhibition at the Sisters of
the Peace Fair is continually wax
ing warmer The Lyceun lads espe-
ciaily are hustling.
Thirty of the Pennsylvania Railroad
employees are said to be laid up with
something akin to be influenza.
IARSIMUS HAPPENINGS.
"Jacky" Lynch celebrated Christ
mas with his family. His saloon was
closed early in the day.
Immense quantities of coal have
been received at the Harsimus piers
the past week.
Any quantity of the Harsimus boys
took part in the linds' Association
ball at Oakland Rink Tuesday night.
Buildings on the once beautiful
Van Worst properly on Second and
Grove streets are being rapidly
erected
Harsimus is the greatest manu-
featuring section of the city andsthef
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