The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-05
GOPSSl OF GOTHAM


New York, April s.--The free lunch coun-
ter Is missed so much by patrons OF the
saloons that blll to change this feature
OF the RAines law Will be introduced III
| the legislature 50 as 10 lesallze it.
The Republican club has already ap-
pointed campaign committee to be in
readiness for active work for the candidate
Tor the ~. Louis convention. pepaty Pub
liz Works Commissioner Steele l. chair
man. \ series of big mass meetings VIII
hc held al through the campaign.
The building owned and occupied ny tho
United States National bank in wall street
has hecn soid for upward of o million dol
iats 10 ". K Aston, owner Of q building
in thu rear fronting Exchange place, with
which he Will connect Ii ana improve the
whole,
ElI.s Island is fairly swamred with
italian Immigrants. many of whom are ie-
callY inalmisslbe to this country. The
sleeping and eating accommodations at
Ellis Island must be enlarged II TINS thing
continues IL was very difficult to care
for the 800 immigrants which were landed
At The island today. About l2W0 Italians
arrived during March
prof Eglau was murdered as long ago
as February 10, but the inquest in the case
WAS not held until today This Is one of
the most impenetrahlc murder mysteries
New York has had IN a long time. and
"; The murder was committed ia the day
time anl IN q crowded institution, again
proving that The safest place to commit
crime is IN TIE most unlikely place.
Tho National Academy Of Design has
awarded the Hailgurten prize of $50 for
the best oil painting by an American citi
2Vr under 30 years of age TO Mary Is.
i4tlsltftl Of ltDStnr. INC ptrtUra that
Dire THIS prize Is entitled in n studio"
auN = one Of the most attractive in the
eXl nltiun j. n. Hatheld's after The
lsain draws the second iiallgarten prize.
The 'a.'d prize goes to Louise Cox for
nor i'omoua." Women haze before THIS
dr4M The second and third prizes hut
this is the only time u woman has cap
turod the first prize,
There are druggists on the East Side
that mare a speciality of domestic reme-
dies. sucn as hen oil, goose oil, snake oil
and even skunk Oil. The herb dealers are
also famoas throughout the city Many
OF lhem do an entirely proper business. but
occasionally they seem TO play upon super
stiiion Doubtless the hind foot of
graveyard rabbit could be purchased at
sonr of the obscure drug stores ly people
VINO take stock in charms of that sort.
jared by her grounding on the Jersey
-llR-', anu salltl ipT w tI-
nesd,y Among those booked for passage
were Henry Watterson and family of
Lou syllle, Il. A. Sanford, Horace Rulings.
James l.. McLaushlin, j. Bcrtram Lippin-
colt an. George {. King Of Philadelphia
and ih"uicnant Walker, I nited States
army. Captain passow was in command
Tho Paris was in charge uf II pilot when
she Went aground, and II would seem
ii IN" American line had good cause for
complaint recently against the Sandy
Hook pilots.
An uptown prosperous region west of
Central park has developed II class OF
drug stores peculiar TO ii alone. Many
OF these are large and airy. with numer-
GUS clerks and variety of goods. You
can buy almost anything AT an uptown
West Side drug store II makes spe-
cialty Of The soda fountain in its greatest
development, and some have ondeared
themselves 10 feminine humanity by re-
ducing the price OF ice cream soda to
crnts q glass They deal not only in
soaps. perfumes and dozen toilet appli-
liquors and some sorts of plated silver
They also maintain stamp agencies, tele-
phone stations and cypress Offices. Some
of them are e!aborately fitted mp with
steamed glass ami richly tiled floors and
several are crowded every afternoon with
consumers OF soft ana suspicious drinks.
Madame Duse is not any too much given
to fine dressing upon the stage. oven in
plays thar demand such upholstery. There
Is so much else about hcr 10 engage the
attention, however, that the clothes Hike
the lord high cNecutioner's victims, are
never missed" But off the stage, when
n woman is invariably. however unjustly.
plain parlance. very shahbily dressed She
always wears black ana ~ Il rusty. trail
ing sort, that. with her cane makes her
look Ike an ancient vergcr in "A cathedral
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