The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-08
GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.

Nev York, January 5.--Colonel Waring 3
..,vb,te wings" have been having new
.rovoncc. 1t was pitched out at them
sro,, every other house In this vast city.
ronuded of everything that once made
.Sn,n en- attractive, the poor Christmas
- - wore scattered around. bare skelc-
ton hints of ono time arbor OF beauty.
"Hatched while YOU wait" was the mot
IN at the poultry show in the incubat'ns
department. Hundreds Of little yellow
Iumps of fuzz were Matched there every
dav and children, and even women. were
b,,ying them up so rapidly that the supply
wasn't nearly equal to the demand. An
other peculiar feature OF the show was
tbe men where fox and chickens we're con-
lined together, the chickens still remain
ing outside OF the fox.
With the sky scraper extreme limit now
somewhere about twenty-five stories. the
people behind the new Hudson building at
AZ and "a Broadway have decided on a
sixteen story edifice, and a few strokes of
work have been done just for luck. 1t is
10 cost 1000. and the owners have no
foars of its failing to pay. People who
made biz investments here seem well sat
isfied with interest that would seen mis-
erabiy small elsewhere.
Should you drop in at one of the French
or Italian table d'hotcs aud the waiter
brings you pony of brandy with the
black coffee. don't drink the brandy. no
matter how much YOU may wish 10. II Is
the thing now to burn the brandy with
lump or two Of sugar with the black cot
fec. People might laugh II you drank the
brandy instead of lighting It. and careless
" watch 1t burn away before your longing
eyes.
There is one woman in New York who
will probably never scold again. She is
Mrs. Jacobson and had quarrcs with her
husband The other morning she saw him
standing In a queer attitude, with a scarf
around his neck. She began to berate him
Receiving no reply, her bitter tongue
wagged faster and faster. heaping tor
rents of abuse upon his head. At last.
out OF patience, she shook him. Only then
| did she see she WAS scolding a corpse, her
husband having hanged himself to the gas
pipe
Another Nathan Straus coal depot was
opened the other morning, this one being
located at the foot of Third street. Coal
Of course, is sold at wholesale cost price
80 pounds for cents. A yellow ticket
bought cents worth of coal a red ticket
u cents blue ticket Is cents aud a white
ticket Il whole 20 cents worth of the black
diamonds. Straus ION charity applied"
this year is going to cost him far more
than ii did last as the price of coal has
teen raised and he insists on selling II at
the old rate.
Beerbohm Tree, the English actor. panic
stricken by a couple of failures. and puz-
aled by more than one success, in casting
abou; for a play that would please this
city. revived Hamlet tho other night.
The audience remained until nearly mid
night uncertain whether it was great
performance. or. as Irving says of Tree S
Hamlet funny without being vulgar
Several of the critics left early. and tried
10 prevail upon fussy old gentleman in
press seat to abandon she play for
bracer No" said ne, "Tree's Hamlet
dies or | do So it is presumed the final
act witnessed the survival of the fittest,
and our friend took his brace. after all.
Some mailman, who always insists upon
being exact and telling the truth, now
says that people who bought holly and mis-
|tletoe with the idea that they were i'm
ported articles were most likely deceived
Very little of either holly or mistletos
was brought over from the other side this
year except in small packages TO in1i
Viduals from friends In England. The hol-
ly sold in this city prior 10 Christmas
came from Tennessee. Delaware AMI the
Carolnas IL grows in great profusion in
the first mpntiOupl State Kpntuc.v aud
Virginia furnished the mistiotoe The
next thing some one will be telling chat
bushinc girl under the mistletone that the
operation she is still tingiDg over wasn't
a genuine kiss, only makc-believe; but
the pessimist Will have his trouble for his