The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-16
GOSSIP or GOTHAM.

GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
New York. June l?.-Up TO date, death
is patronizius pneumonia as reapine
machine for early hathcrs around here,
rather than the watery graves which are
bis usual sranaties Il; this season.
Among other alterations going on in the
New York pos;ofice is the installation OF
the new electric lighting system at cost
Of $4,000. BY this means &; is hoped that
the patient public will be able to find its
way about the building after shutdown
without striking match. and that the
night clerks will be able to keep awake
without sitting on needles.
When the Austin Corbin estate lent
twenty-five buffalo to the city the park
department did rot expect to get so many
white elephants. Eighty acres Of land were
set aside FOR them In Van Cor;lanit park
but the buffalo find that altogether too
intch OF pent-up Utica, and, after plow-
/ ing up the grass and shrubbery, they are
seeking fresh fields TO conquer and pas
lures new. Just what to do about /; IS
the riddle which the superintendent Is
trying to solve.
| Whether it is a reflection on the dishon-
es'y Of the New York public or com
piiment 10 their foresig h-edross is an open
question: but there is neither pen nor ink
for public use on the ground floor of their
rosioftice. IL may be that it is not irnpos-
sihie 20 preserve writing materials from
inert down there, or II may be In so husl-
heSs me- community that no one is ex-
peeled 10 need pen or INK IN ii postonice.
Either way. the shelves for writing are
Kept neatly bare. aud tour OF discovery
10 Tue second floor is necessary before
pen can be found
Some time in the future. at a sale Of
goods oonfiscated by customs officers. there
viii be grand collection OF BARGAINS for
pefsons addicted to the use Of glass eyes
There was a shallowness about the interior
OF a Dctch passengers trunk that aroused
the suspicious of customs officer when
ne i4nted the other day. Investigation dis
covered Il false bottom concealing 5000
siass eyes. The Traveller expressed du,. as
constituent, and vowed lie had no former
knowledge OF the trunks decritfulness or
the artificial optics; but the inspector didn't
see it that way, and on searching the pas
senser found his pockets full of $50 more
eyes.
No effort Is 10 he spared in seeking the
best design obtainable for the New York
Lenox- Astor-Tilden library, which is to
be built on the space now OCCUPIED Inv
the Bryant park reservoir on Fifth avenue
between Fortieth and Forty second streets
The site comprises iS2 by i55 feet and the
ouildlng' exclusive OF heating, lighting and
fllff inc ara,
81 100 900.
Great things are expected on the Fourth
OF July this year from "A FIRE cracker which
sets itself up as American In opposition
TO the Celestial article from China. 1t viii
be just as well for hose who may be
tempted by the uudoubted merits of the
home product as a noise producer to learn
mat II Is equally effective as an amputa-
loF. ne same cause produces both effects
The American decorator is bound In hard
shell strawhoard. which naturally confines
me explosive more closely and results in
greater violence than the Chinese cracker.
WIN Its comparatively soft wrappers
Moreover. the explosive OF the republican
celehrant is not the ordinary gunpowder
oil the empires favorite but some com
pound said TO be chloride OF potash. and
alleged to be extremely dangerous.
what boon its surrounding water is
10 New York none can realize who has not
spent summer in this city on the hot
test days, when the city air seems dead
and deadening in its sitting stiffness. a
breath OF breeze and life can be had on
cheap steamboats, or the easily accessible
beaches. The season IL so late in warmth
this year that comfort has been compare
lively little sought In those directions thus
lar. hut there is another means OF ease on !
the water with confinement to the city
during summer which comparatively few |
have discovered. though their number is
Increasing gradually and will be larger !
this year than ever. Most OF them are Of
flee men, who are held close TO their desks |
every day except legal holidays. Sundays |
end half of Saturdays. Their method is to |
club together in groups OF from three to /
half dozen and hire schooner yacht for /
tho season, or buy one outright Having /
engaged II navigator and small crew and |
equipped the boat, they betake themselves
10 the water as soon as work is over for
the day and cruise along shore, wary lest
they should stray too far to reach railroad
communication in case Of calm.