The evening times., 1895-09-10
Gossip of the Day.

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At the Academy this week there are
six little boys who do an Irish song and
dance, They are new in the business,
have just been out of New York one
week, and probably have never been fur
ther than Brooklyn before. They were
talking in a very aGitated way on the
| corner yesterday, and a Times reporter
wandered up to get a few pointers. ~
| dat was a dandy house Saturday
night"
what house,
"Dat teater we stopped at In dat last
jay town" Z.
'What you Know about it?'"
| "DcHt yer t'ink l was never in a teeater
before?''
Il don't care II yer was"
Didn't my old woman do de washin'
fer de stage hands at Miners and didn't
used ter tak de stuff down to de blokes?"
''WeI. didn't I used ter know de guy
dat kept de gallery door, and didn't 1
used ter rush de growler fer him after de
second act?'
This intimacy with the profession was
| too much for No. 1 and he succumbed
| on the streets of Washington, remarked
gentleman to a Times reporter lined
as, they are with blind, men. lame men. wo
men with music boxes and all sorts of fakirs.
but the most ingenious fraud that I haze
ever come across is that perpetuated by a
12-year girl. who walks up and do wn F street
between Seventh and Ninth streets, when
she is not sitting on the Patent Office steps.
During the day you see her dressed In
ragged clothes, her elbows out and her bare
legs showing through big holes in her stock
ings- Her feet are on the ground, and sl-s
hardly seems to be able to speak when she
offers you cheap pencils for sale. She
wears large pair of blue goggles, and ac-
costs you in plaintive and pitifui tone:
Mister, wont you please buy Il pencil?'
But what difference in the evening.
Come around here to the Academy and III
prove TO you what am talk ing about
On the steps OF the theater building were
two or three children OF about 12 years
OF age. Among them was one very con-
spicuously dressed in a white duck suit.
White stockings and slippers bedecked her
lower extremities, and just then she was
buying candy from the candy man.
There she is, said the gentleman. What
do you think Of that for young America"
Upon first thought, the average indi-
vidual would scott at the statement that
there is a suicide a week in Washngtoh,o
said gentleman this morning. But that
is the truth, or very near it, at least. A
friend OF mine the other day agreed with one
of his neighbors that he would give him a
dollar for every week until the 1st of
January that there was not 4 suicide or at
tempt at suicide i'll this city. The neighbor
was to give my friend a dollar for every
week in which somebody tried to shuttle
off the mortal coil. That was six weeks
ago, and at the end OF last week my friend
was the winner of So, and his neighbor had
begged off from a continuance of the bet"
"Do you know that a good horse can be
purchased to-day for less than onc-half
Of what the same animal would have
cost year ago." asked a horse dealer
yesterday. prices have been declining
for some time past but 1 have never
known them to be as low as they are now.
There was time when only wealthy
man could afford to own, horse, but
times have changed very materially, and
now 1t is quite a common thing for a
clerk on a small salary to sport q trotter.
81 know of NO reasuh for the present
depression in the price or horseflesh other
than the growing popularity of The BIZ
cycle
II don't know where this thing is go-
ing to end, but IL the present fad of |
wheeling keeps up am afraid the passing |
of the riding horse will be O matter Of |
but a few years.
The curiosity OF a email black and tan |
dog brought sorrow and suffering with |
its qualification, and created considerable |
excitement yesterday at the corner Of
street and Pennsylvania avenue.
The dog looked out Of his second-st
home, saw a great, wide expanse of avn
ing underneath, and with the same spirit |
that has animated other great explorers, he
planned and plotted as to the feasibility of |
an Investigation.
Yesterday the dog either thought the
auspicious opportunity had arrived or
,lse his curiosity could no longer be re-
strained. He stepped out upon the avn.
ing and started down to peer over the edge.
But with less than bali the distance accom-
plished his heart failed, and the yielding
foundation for his feet caused him to be
come panic-stricken. In his excitement
he bounded toward the window and the
followed.
The awning, by reason OF the inffrmities
Of age, had become weakened, and a good
sized section Of it let so at this inopportune
time. The dog struck the pavement square
y on his nose. and maintained perpendicu-
for some time. Then he fell ina