The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-11-23
ABOUT THE CITY.
The Condensed Pirate Does
Up His Fellow Citizens
in Rainbow C01ors.
PAULUs GOSSIP.

Among the clerks employed in the Tax
department at the City Hall no one plods
more steadily and accomplishes more
WORK than Judge, Kelly. The Judge
has good many friends in tho Fourth
district, where he makes his home.
Few there are among the numerous
justic es OF the peace In Hudson who
more clearly watch the details OF cases
that come under their jurisdiction than
jus ice George Langdon.
The wind blew like a small hurricane
and caught up the dust from the streets
and the dry leaves from the cutters and
areas and whirled them skyward. The
rotten limbs OF trees that have long since
outlived ornamental usefulness shrfeked
and groaned and threatened to toppie
down on the heads of timid and anxious
pedestrians, as they glanced alofb &C the
Naked swaying branches Yet, this
thing goes on continually, and some day
the city will find itself involved In a suit
Tor damages by cripples or friends of the
dead. Especially would 1t be we'll to lay
an axe at the roots of that mammoth
rotted trunk at Sussex and Warren
streets.
Among the downtown resorts is that Of
George Metzger at Washington and Sus-
sex streets, generally known as the
" Post-Keller." The int erior of the large
saloon is of German architectural de-
sign, and the merry Teutons who flock
about the tables find themselves and The
scenes left behind on the other side of the
dark blue expanse.
Well, the suspense Is all over Oscar.
who it was feared was drowned has
shown up at last, ard Jake Is himself
again. But did he catch that mess of fish
for mis- friend before he embarked FOR San
Francisco? Yes. The .sskaten weighed
twenty pounds. But how it was caught
without bait on the hook is O mystery
that can De solved by Jake himself
In dry goods store window on Newark
avenue Is d picture OF child talking to
its grandma. The child asks grandma
what she did with her teeth. Grandma
replies ate them. But what, asks
the child, has become Of grandpop's
hairs Did he eat it2n Now Jack Ross, a
splendid little fellow, is just beginning to
go around with the girls. Jacks only
misfortune IL that his hair is thin at the
apex of his wide awake and brainy or an
ium- His girl has a precocious little
niece The said precocious little niece
saw the picture in Stenen's window.
When he was on his first call thereafter
to see his best girl, the little niece asked
him II he had eaten his hair. Jack was
Wroth until be ascertained that Jealous
rival put the joke up on him.
Ezra Witheren has pretty little Shet-
land watch and a mammouth chain.
Why don't he get wrecking chaing
Willie Weed has complexion that ex-
hibits blush mall its r0seate hues' and
when little fodder crept up behind
him. gathered him by the tails Of his
cutaway as he pushed through crowd
of admiring girls on Jersey avenue last
Sunday and murmured Papa, papa. y
Willie biushed q beautiful blush But
when, moment later. a star eyed belle
upon whom Willie had been mashed for
many moous ran up and grabbed the
little toddler with the remark. "Baby
mine. that amt your papa Willie
actually paled like ghost.
TIC clan Cameron is richer by boy
today and Archie's arm is tired acknowl-
edging congratulations.