Arizona republican., 1897-12-15

the floor. Hereafter, bulls and bears who wish to vary the game by laying cold cash on any old thing will merely step outside the railing. Morality Is scarcely skin deep down there.
 Early next year Columba a university will open her new $500,000 gymnas- ium. It is said to be the best equip ped in the world. The exercise hall is TO feet long, 1S0 feet broad and thir- ty-five feet high. Suspended twenty two feet above the floor is a running track twelve feet broad, which ex tends all around the building, mak- ing nine laps to the mile. Evsmy thing is on the same elaborte scale, especially the swimming tank, wh ich is large enough to be used by Colum- bia's boat crew for indoor training
 J. Waldere Kirk, the cue cigar drummer who came out of the wild west and worked the cpace writers by posing as the real thing in dude dom, and who secured "spread head" by gunning "a man, reappeared today in a gorgeous array on Broad way. He wore a suit of black serge a box coat of a light drab co'or, pat ent leather slhoess fawn colored gal ters, a flaming red tie and derby hat with a wide and flat brim. In the button hole of his coat was a white carnation. He's too sweet to prosecute.
 There must be a safe underground route to Cuba. The $2O, 1000 appropri- ated recently by Tammany Hall for the relief of sick and wounded Cubans is being applied judiciously by the Cuban junta here. The supplies, which consist Largely of medicines and materials needed on battle fields | and in hospitals, are being forwarded by the usual route'' to the insurgents What route it is Spain would like to know, and for that reuson the iunta is keeping it secret. American sym pathizers who are in the secret are satisfied with the explanation.
 An old woman who has been goine around town with nJ tear-stained voice was run in today for begging. The officer told the court that she was a vagnant. This was too much. She
 went through her rags and produced a paper bag, from which she took 8 | roll of money and shook 1t in tht | face of the law. Then she dug ul some bank books and offered to pay
 her fine, but the judge justly sent he, | to the island for twlenty days. This sort eff poverty is certainly crime I The favcnite place for beefsteal
 dinners is the Morgue, on West Fifty
 eighth street. 1t is big room, rathe
 plain, and bare, with its sides ma1,
 largely of glass, adjoining a iquo
 store It has been -or years thI
 meeting place of the beefsteak club
 an organization that seems to hay,
 no limit to membership, mo purpos
 and mo law. Its furmishments con
 sist of a sheet iron stove and a roy
 of soap boxes. Here gluttons ot botl
 sexes meet almost every night am
 gorge themselves with choice cut
 that fairly melt in the mouth.
 Here's new trap for jays
 short time ago a countryman saw a.
 advertisement in a city newspape
 which stated that money would b
 loaned on life insurance policies. H
 had a policy of the ten year kind
 written for $2,O00s with five years t run. He was a trife shy, and h
 opened a correspondence with the ad vertiser. In due time he was induce to come here and meet a man. Tn
 man took hiim to Gleasontown, whic now seems to be the green goods ceT
 ter. The thousand dolalrs .in goo coin of the realm was counted out t the man at hhe little desk. Then th man tied up the money in brown pt per and took the policy The man tol . the policy holder that the loan woul
 cost him $500. The jay forked ovt the cold cash. When he got on tl train curiosity prompted him to sil
 up the package. He found that . contained S11. Today he came | | town to identify man in the Tomb i. . He could not do it. People who in agine that the "shifter" is a bat :, number should stick to sefe busine e channels in dealings of this sort.