The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-09
GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.

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New York, June s.-TSNric was blocked
on the Nessey street incline for several
hours the other day by girder weighing
fIfty-four tons. which was on its way 10
,opicfticA building on Park Row Thirty
eight horses couldn't stir It, and there II
stuck until a block and tackle were brought
into operation :or the application of addi-
tional power
The public swimming places on tho
river are to be operated THIS week If the
weather is warm enough, and there is
actually some chance now OF action to
make use OF the 5000 900 authorized for
other public baths by the legislature
last year. The Academy OF Medicine has
taken hold OF tho matter, and promises
10 push the dila,ory officials into SEM
blance of effort.
'It is an III wind and 50 forth" and
lawyers making a specially OF damage
suits hope TO reap a rich haryes, from
the disaster in which a Long Island rail-
road train ran down a party on coach
and six. The surviving victims and
eriatves Of the dead are flooded by per-
sistent applications for briefs. The mails
are hurdened by letters and cards. and In
some cases recourse Is had 10 personal
WISH Some Of the missiya, are peculiar.
'snakes'" yelled carpenter In Pearl
street saloon the other day. and when the
customers found he really had EN-. or
one OF EN-, at least. they fled In short
order. The carpenter was repairing the
floor. and in pulling ou> what he thought
was rubber hose. found It was a six
foot suake. and fled a rescue party.
sworn TO total abstinence. was organized
10 STAY the reptile. aud found IT was an
ugly looking black and yellow thing
Whlch they declared mast be the result of
spontaneous generation from the whiskoy
IN its neighborho0d
That it is only a thin varnish, after
all between civilization aud slvagery. has
come to be regarded as q platitude; but
st-h II does seem strange in these days
Of N-rays and grace that superstition
should still be so prevalent as 1t is in
jhis great metropolis Only yesterday
woman took her little hump-backod child
up TO Central Park and hy permission
Of the superintendent Of the menagerie,
passed ths iiitle one under The belly OF an
WIN me conNle''en that cure
~, Sptuai ulssdse "oHi1 be affected in
-, wy anu aIpe.1A'ehdfnt smith says
.,."t requests Of thdt nature are fire.
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MS Huines anu u'ies are MACMILLAN
Eson Christian Carl Emil Lee Richard,
prince of Fuerstsrh.rg cor-t NJ tho o-,
NV, l., ~ ~. -,
'-,0 A''''' anu ''Ns''luseh' count
Of Helllnberg and WIIenberg. baron Of
Walsperg Werenwoe I,,.,.,,,,,a., W..
bra and purrlis vet s-.r, ,,.,,,. sro,.o ,;n,
to dishwashing in an East side boarding
mouse. that he might live aud eat He
3 .hN arrived manlh ago ana now that
has arrived he fears tho, bis lo,,i, ~" oon rVI
patton has barred him from the LIST of
llatFinlonal bargains, and will sail for the
fatherland while he las he fare
fhty iaborers had the unusual ex-
of a narrow escape from, drawn
ng m pro,l,y,,. 49,, o,t... ,,,,,..,,. ~,
-. my
"''e e"s"seu III alssihs a foundation FOR
a new skyscra>er az the corner of Lib
arty street. The holo in tho gro,,nd ;s
,e,,,> oro ~.
~ "as !ouns panic
'.;,h,,,, ol Nater rushed mo IL
"lthout warning from the Liberty street
MAN. NANH HAa uuTsl WITHOUT cNplGna-
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