Arizona republican., 1897-12-18
GOSSIP OF NEW YORK.

At last the patient public will get it's turn. Even if it can't all see Mar tin Thorn it can see Martin Thorn's yellow dog. It is to appear in a dime museum Some day it may be advis- able to burn a murderer's belongings and electrocute his pets.
 Some of the big shops provide stor- age room for baby carriages. In the lagre alcove of one store today counted thirty vehicles of this sort, many of them holding the pet of the fiat. They were under the eye of one young woman, and she was too busy to f1irt.
 The head of the establishment in which Dr. Parkhurst i1dulged in his celebrated game of Heap frog," who has been waiting for action on the indictment lodged against her ever since that event shook New York from ceIlter to circumference, was told to go and sin no more. Dr. Park hurst was the complainant, but he didn't appear, hence the dismissal of the case, along with eighty othe-s of the same sort. The indictments were pigeon-holed in 1892.
 He was a clergyman, judging from
 
 young woman in the liquor depart me1H rather timidly "I want-er," he said, hesitahingly, Ger pint of real ly very fine whiskey for an invalid" !" seYes, sir" said the saleswoman. And
 er-wouRd you please give it to me in a flat bottle, and wrap up the par eel z that it will look like a book?" H. Aee en't hold down a me ropolitan lXeI 2 poor hubby here has been TGn8geG into court on account of his fX)e's millinery bills. He fO.ked over rNtil he saw bankruptcy staring him in the face, and them he threw up the sponge and decided to await events. On the stand he swore that his wife, who had hats to burn, ordered threa more on three consecutive days, one at $28, another at s23 and the third at $16 His tale of wee SO impressed the judge that he decided the case against the dealer in felt and featb- CTS As yet the abused wife hasn't appealed for divorce and alimony
 The music played in the Chinese theater in Doyers street Is nearly as old as the play. It was composed A. D. 320 and has been handed down from generation to generation by sound alone. The five instruments used in the theater are exactly of sha same construction as they were twen- ty centuries ago-the drum, the cym bals, the two-stringed instrument on Elh,e violin principle, the bsnjo-like one e-stringed instrument and the metal stringed arrangement that looks like zither. An Sin sticks to old customs except when he plays p0- ker.
 It was not bedlam or an insane asy- 1um-just a plain progressive euchre party, with 600 contestants, that sat down all together in a Brooklyn ar mory to play for the usual Dresden china shaving mugs and celluloid hair brushes that go with every game of this sort. Of course, it was a progress sive woman who pulled off this gigan- tic game of euchre to the satisfaction of all who sat around the 150 tables and talked about 'tbrumps,'' who's lead?" '9play it alone" and so forth Euchre is a mighty lively game-far Brooklyn
 The human crush new centers in the shopping sect;on. The stores and the sidewalks are packed with people making holiday purchases. The big department marts are obliged to bar out children unaccompanied by tn ir elders, or else there would be no room for anybody else in the toy depar menits. The youngsters hang around the oItside doors and rescr5 to all sorts of Tuses to get in. Grown-up curiosity seekers also get the cold shoulder It's business from base menid to steenth floor, due in large part to liberal newspaper advertising.