The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-03-09

cassor. or John Dunno, or some other
good looking fellow is the coming man;
Druggist Bongartz is longing tor the
advent Of spring and the fishing season.
He says balls. weddings and all that sort
of thing are we'll enough in their way but
for real solid enjoyment there is nothing
like fsning even If it be for founders
only.
Ernst Heppenheimer has spent consid-
cradle time in Texas OF late in securing
lithographing stones of superior quail
itv. and now it is rumored he has found
something more attractive and valuable
which he is likely to transfer from the
Lone Star State to his northern home.
HUDSON CITY TALK.
I'VE mourn our loss, . murmured War
den Grimes to Freebooter Kimmerly
Tuesday. 'sWhy?" asked the Freeholder.
"Weu, you know Andy Boyle was to our
party the other night, and when he went
home we were short bottle Of wine I"
"BY goIly," exclaimed Mr.. Kimmerly,
sthat accounts for what Andy told me.
He said he got thirsty the other night,
and he remembered he had u hottie of
wine in the woodshed, and in his bare
feet he went downstairs for it. The
wine was secured and Andy returned to
his room and quenched his thirst to his
hearts delight s'By thuudern utter
jected the warden; that was my wine. :,
III guess it was, :, responded Kimmerly."
There is probably no more punctual
man in Hudson county than Freebooter
PfinQsten. He is prompt to the minute
in all his engagements. He is never be-
hind time and rarely ahead OF it. Ten
o'clock means ten O'Clock with him.
Surrogate james O'Neil celebrated his
twenty-first years connection with the
Surrogate's office last Saturday. he
wined and dined number of friends In
honor of the occasion and regaled them
with many curious stories connected with
the Surrogate's Office during the twenty
one years he had been there.
The meauest man in Hudson county, so
shoemakers say, is Court Crier Wes
Welsh. He has got pair of boots that
he wears every stormy day and they are
more than twenty years old. There is
not a blemish on them and Welsh says he
expects them to last his life time He
had them on Thursday during the snow
storm.
There is probably no more expert
dratlghtsman in the employ of the county
than Ghristy Smith, recently appointed
inspector of maps.
Hudson City is q fertile locality for
amateur musicians of every variety
There are numerous singing societies and
several amateur orchestras. and every
other fellow one meets IS a musician OF
some sort. 1t possesses Frank Scribner,
the Versatile musician aud harmonicist,
and Valentine Buekner, who plays
dozen instruments, and is at home es-
peciallv with the either and the sweet
toned tumblers. Then, too, it has the
champion whistler, Otto Suss, who is
anxiously waiting for somebody to con-
test with him in a warhling match. The
hill is the home of music.
That gap in the wall of the reservoir
property is gradually widening, and
strange TO say, no one knows where and
by whom the stones are taken.
When will Director PhDgsten and his
committee be prepared to locate site
for the new public school? The people
are becoming very tired.
Christy Smith, of the Registers Office,
went to Guttenburg the other day by
horse car He returned at night in q
coach, bringing some other fellows who
had not been as fortunate as himself. He
struck it good on big odds, and felt able
to buy a coach If necessary.
Very few would suspect from his gem
eral make no that Jailer Birdsall is a
/ Quaker. But such is the fact all the
same, or at least he came from that
stock.
Fred Dieffenbach, Jr., and Wilhelm
Heppenheimer are just rushing matters
in the real estate and insurance business,
in which they recently embarked. Well,
they are a pair OF good fellows and de-
serve success
When Pavonia jigger jumps the
track late at night IN the muddiest sec