The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-10-17
GOSSIP or GOTHAM.

- vort October 1.-the Brooklyn
,.ort of excise, since october 1 has
...o,yed 100 certificates OF license when
80. been surrendered by saloon Keepers
n nav have gone out of business. The cam,
raign must be hurting INC s'io'nS 40 "ei'
ss ali other lines oil trade
c.r,uissioner Grant is preparing plans
!. ,.ve the police force rugged out in mill
,,;forms. with army capes and other
,.aorotions of war. The capes are to be
oeI,'a,ed according to the official position
g.n",r wearers, and the gilt wreaths on
Q, cans will also indicate their rank.
mn n,har the commissioners will take brass
a.sns and special cloth is a horse OF an
other color
r,,s TALL Dame Fashion appears to have
,ore into athletics. More provision has
soor made for the wheelmen and the gym
nastic Young college girl than ever before.
nasiens for uniforms and suits. TUNES and
tahits coats and capes, that are artistic
and attractive and at the same time do
not interfere with the use OF any muscle
- en- common as to be almost universal.
y,roc,ories of New York and Brooklyn
which a uONUlbNh phSiu''' ''''s'' 'A''' fN~~'
4, front OF his establishment for public
,.e arc each in two volumes. 1t is prob
oh,e that three fourths of those who have
occasion 10 consult either of these direc-
.;as anon the right volume and leave the
o,her untouched obviously the part not
sordled is saved from just so much wear
nhe two-yolume directory accommodates
nore neople and keeps in better condition.
"no you know" said a special treasury
agent at the custom house, that 1t is
practically impossible for an honest dia
mond importer to do business in Maiden
lane, without the aid of a side line-such,
for instance. as the bicycle business? 1t
is a fact. The cause of it? Smuggling. Of
course. Three fourths of the diamonds now
on sale in Maiden lane are smuggled. They
may be in the hands OF innocent people,
hut they are struggled nevertheless The
high tariff on diamonds Is the cause"
When live business man buys a large
building in this city the first thing he
does is TO borrow money on It, II he wants
to sell the building it is much easier TO
make the sale with a mortgage on it than
without. Fact. 1t is offered atsay, $500,
600 II there be no incumbrance, the pur-
chaser must pay the $500, 600 In cash or ap-
proved notes. If 1t be mortgaged for half
its value, $500 600 the purchaser need pay
only $500 600 cash and have the mortgage
transferred II is great scheme. but a
fellow needs a good nest egg to start out.
II do not believe that any man whose
head is level ever went to a woman to have
his hands mancured." said the pretty little
bav
patrons have you not? asked your
sign invites them" "Oh. males come here
lots of 'em-but mighty few that l ever
saw had common sense. Those who dc
come mostly try to fiirt with the attendant
Sensible men 20 to a man manicure. In a
business like this one sees such saucy silly
specimens OF the other sex that it's enough
to disgust EN- But l don't suppose tina,
this manicure girls opinion will keep vain
men from going to the shops presided over
by the sisters.
A post OF Darlington Booths Volunteers
meets just off Broadway at Thirty fifth
street every evening 1t is place where
figures typical of the Tenderloin flow by II
an unending procession. Yet the servic,
Is not interforod With by the least orderly
The crowd Of men and women that gathers
Is, Of course largely composed of the simpl!
curious. These halt for "A minute or two II
stless sort of way. and then move on
Others seem to find curious fascination
In the exercises. Some of those who con
tribute when the collection is taken~Ip vii
probably find it hard to say why they d'
so; but the striking thing about it all is TIL
orderly conduct OF those who stand aroun'
and listen.
Sunday evening concerts are now mor'
open than they used to be- and also NOR
respectable. II became common to Civ
benefits for more or less deserving person
on Sunday nights These are happily aes
common than they were. The German
theaters gave concerts regularly on Sun
Gays; orchestraa and military banus CAV
them variety companies gave them, an
hhally the opera company OF the Metropoii
ian began TO give them. Then most o
Inc managers became honest ana stoppe
calling their concerts sacred The sun
uay evening entertainments at present ar
| almost all of mild sort, entirely inoffen
siVe. II Is for this reason that he manager
| 40 not scare when piece of legislation
devised only for the purpose of making
little trouble.