Arizona republican., 1898-05-18

newspaper in the Cuff of Mexico, and whose stuff has appeared here, has ad- vertised for courier and a valet. He's brick-a gold brick.
 One thing that has been affected by the Cuban blockade is the importation of Havana pineapples. But we are getting lots of pines from the Ba- hamas and from Key West and the Indian river district of Florida Now you hove a line on your fruiterer.
 The stage disrobers multiply and the shocked portion of the public are be- ginning to wonder why it is that peo-. pie are paid for doing on the stage what they would get six months for doing on the sidewalk.
 Chartran, the French portrait paint CT, has returned to France. In art circles it is gossiped that as the result of his seasons work he takes back the snug profit of $60,000. The filings of the Parisian press ought to end this nonsense and put the dollars of the future in the pockets of worthy Amer ican artists.
 The Waldorf-Astoria may be said to have set the seal to the revival of mahogany as a furniture and finishing wood Most of the wood work and nearly all the furniture in the big hotel are in this beautiful dark wood, | which has been slowly but surely re- ! asserting itself for some. time. One has only to walk through the metro politan furniture shops, new and old, to be assured of this fact. The people who haunt the secondhand shops, | G., fhn stock in trade, are after old mahogany, and this demand must, of course, be met, if not by fair means, then by foul.
 Either victory or defeat is apt to drive to drink people who imagine that they carry the country under their hats. But, according to an expert ob- server who dishes out tall darks' close to the bridge entrance, these ex- citing war times do not induce an un-
 usual consumption of liquid enthus1- asm Gents" he remarked, 'come in
 and stand in front of the bar longer
 than usual, but they is all so busy telling just how the war should be win out, they forgets to order me to fill ] 'em up again. The sign, "Cut your war yarns is now displayed back oi some of the wet goods counters in the i thirsty section of the town.
 The costliest flag in town can b. seen in the window of a Broadway l jeweler. It represents an outlay ol 1 $1S,0OO. This flag is made of dia
 monds, rubies and sapphires. It is
 very small for it's worth-oniy seven by four inches-but it looks big to the people who stop to size it up. It has thirteen stripes and forty-two stars The white stripes are of small diA- monds, 800 of them. The red stripes of course are of rubies, the same num- Der and size of the diamonds, but for the blue field are about 300 sapphires, with forty-two diamonds for stars. 1 Old Glory has always been dear to Americans. but this one is dearer than all the other flags in town combined. 1 Early this morning I found a daugh- ter of Italy calmly marching in the rain with the oldest umbrella on Park Row. It was the broad bottom of a dry goods box, which she balanced so neatly that not a drop of water struck her below the waist line. In Bleecker street, in place Of spring hats the wo- men frequently wear blanks, bundles of kindling wood, or bags of old rags | larger than themselves. Sometimes one meets an opulent dame who com pines the two fashions of headgear; 1 for instance, an old woman who, on top of a pile of blanks five feet in length by two feet in width wore a black lace bonnet with strings and pink roses. The spring styles in Bleecker street are calculated to give women a stiff spine and a naughty poise of the head not to be secured in a gymnasium.