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Show CHOLLV'S CONTRIBUTIONS. Dita trf Gotham Gossip Picked Up In Sacred Precincts and Whispered Outside. I am requested to DENY in capital letters that any matrimonial engaga-ment engaga-ment exists between Hiss Odette Tyler and Mr. Howard Gould, and to assert that the $9, 000 ruby is a token of friendship friend-ship only. Howard Gould is engaged, but only In building a 20 rater to take abroad to try to retrieve the evil fortunes of Vigilant. Mrs. Bradley-Martin's return home will be awaited with all the more impatience im-patience since it is known that she ha9 bought the diamond crown of the unfortunate un-fortunate Marie Antoinette. This is no evidence that Mrs. Bradley-Martin Bradley-Martin has lost her head, because the tiara industry had really become too common. Almost every other woman in a grand tier box at the opera house has beea wearing a tiara boom-de-ay, as thesa costly headpieces are irreverently called. A crowned head will be a novelty. It is not often that we associate feat of strength with noblemen of continen tal Europe except in regard to their tenacity in holding on to American heiresses. heir-esses. Yet it seems that wo have been ente?' taining a veritable Samson in the per-ton per-ton of tho very agreeable but by no means muscular looking Count Hadik, who spent tho summer in Newport and Is going to spend the winter in New York. At an exhibition given at ono of the clubs the other day he astonished the company by snapping chains as neatly as one breaks off an engagement these days, by "putting up" 15C pound dumbbells dumb-bells and by tearing in two three packs f cards held together. I have seen some very peculiar tricks with cards performed by foreign noblemen, noble-men, but never one that excelled this. A? Count Hadik is also Eaid to be one of tho best pistol shots in Europe, there eems to be every prospect that he will complete his American tour unmolested and unharmed. Cholly Knickerbocker In New York Recorder. |