Show GOTHAM GOSSIP business electrified equines patent polson confidence fi games metropolitan medley by my EDITOR hero here we R again P as tho the clown says cheerily when he vaults into the ring september is here and september having an ITI r in it OYSTERS are again in season all over the city oyster houses housea have been put in order for opening down at kulton mark market e t the wholesale dealers have been shipping the bivalves in great quantities to the west for the past fortnight lort night that they may be on hand I in n it all I I he jie cities on the opening day the oysters thus sent over the tile country are opened by the dealers carefully washed and packed in kegs and barrels in this way they aro are sent over as far aa As california of course the handling detracts from ness and flavor and adds to the cost but in no other wey can the citizens of omaha or st paul or kalamazoo get his dozen raw during the busy season eay say from august 30 to october 15 16 some firms in this city open oysters a day the tile average days work for foran an experienced opener olener is although some exceptionally expert workmen wll open rhese openers are paid per 1000 alie dealers say there will not be so largo large a crop as usual this year but the quality will be better than last year THE FAVORITE of blue points east rivers are all in excellent excelled condition many people have an idea that the largest oysters are the tile best and call for saddle rocks in the belief that they are arc ordering the best the market affords this is a great mistake the small oysters have a finer flavor and are superseding the large ones among epicure epicures epi cures S for delicacy of flavor the blue points stand at the bead they are grown on the south side of long island and will be sold at the tile beginning of the season at from to per barrel and from sl 25 to per basket a basket holding about three pecks shrewsbury will i 11 begin at from to per aw 1000 according c to quality these prices are about higher than last year As the season advances the prices generally rise six years ago no boyst oysters ers were nvere exported from this country to europe the english preferred their natives to all others although they have a tough astringent coppery taste to one accustomed to the taste of the american oysters but gradually the taste forthe for the american article has been developed and now thousands of barrels aro are sent out from from this port tile small varieties being chosen for that pur purpose pose another dozen waiter if you please those who know this city are aware ta that t NASSAU STREET is s one of its narrowest and busiest I the procession never ends there during business hours and by reason of tile lie constant throne throng of pedestrians who crowd the sidewalks the street peddlers find it their best marketplace lace and BO so line the curb with their harrows barrows and still more contract the p space for passing teams in consequence it is tolerably certain that each bucce succeeding succeed eding ine horse borse or vehicle going north or houth will tread upon or pass aver over the identical spot as the preceding one ili in the same direction afew A few days ago the crowd in tile street was startled to see a truck horse suddenly bound to one bide side without an any visible cause and greatly to the astonishment of the driver the momentary surprise of the spectators at the action lion t would quickly have been forgotten if the next horse to pa the same spot had not given a snort and a jump and A WAR DANCE with his feet that scattered the bystanders in a hurry burry then the steed started afron a run it dont take two minutes to collect a crowd in nassau street ifan if any thing unusual is happening and aten when the third horse a gothic steed who had not had a lively thought bug h t or motion for ten years and was on only v a peddlers peddlers edd lers beast any way a just jur t pra pranced ce sana and ran aa as if the e evil 11 one yn e was prodding him with a red hot pitchfork the crowd yelled and cheered and wondered and guessed there was going to be some fun by this time ft it was seen that the these so unusual antics occur occurred redas as the horses reached a certain spot and that spot was watched as ifft if it was a layout on a faro bank it was soon a demonstrable fact that there was some mysterious agency which put the old nick into every animal that stepped upon a certain place in the pavement and a dozen drivers had their unsuspecting heads nearly jerked off their several necks as their teams reached the place while the tile performances of the tile horses beat the trained animals of a circus ring the police took possession of the place and after a i deal of investigation it was discovered that through h a fault in laying TUB THIR WIRES TOR TOE THE ELECTRIC aliat the tile current was being aed like liken a streak of lightning through the horses which completed the circuit by stepping on the point of escape for the electric fluid the bre break I ik was repaired but we do not feel quite sure that it will not happen again somewhere else and lift some of us right out of our boots before we have time to catch hold odthe of the straps thereisa there Ther cisa j a constant warfare going on a against tho the liquor traffic and temperance works and tracts abound but there are no made against or determined efforts made to sup suppress pres the trade in another class of beverages which are main mainly ly compounded bounded of liquors of poor quality elored flavored with cheep drugs an and eold sola under high sounding remedial names three fourths of the PATENT which are warranted to cure the ills odthe of the flesh and to the virtues virtue of which berg clergymen men frequently give testimonials aro vila and dangerous lops gotan ap to stimulate ohp palate and excite the blood and sold at to per por cent cort artile of the boht of manufacture how flow many children have been dragged drugged to death or imbecility by no strums of the nursery god only knows and that children are re not the tile only victims was wasil illustrated lust rust rated a few days ago when a brooklyn man driven crazy with extravagant trava gant use of some patent medicine cut his ills childs throat and then leap leaped ed from a fourth story window tho advertisements of that medicine were correct in one thing thin that man will never need any other e r after using thia this the patent medicine nen are not tha the only ones who get rich from the gullibility of the public other kinds of are being constantly advertised and if victims were not found we should not nut recognize tha the same advertisements month after month one enterprising dealer in false hair finds that a liberal expenditure of money in advertising ver how flow to be beautiful with extravagant encomiums of his and powders brings him so many customers that he can hardly attend to them and from all over tho ille country come orders another adverties ad vertiss to disclose the secrets from t the L e 11 harem a and so stimulates the wish to rival the reported fairness of complexion of the concubines of the old reprobate at constantinople and ho lie gets plenty lenty of customers who seem to be believe pi acre the atrocious pretense A third parades a peculiarly y named tea which it is claimed ronaele id s re replacing lacing chinese chinene tea in tile fashionable saloons of paris and london as a love sovereign rein preventive of wrinkles etc and t tho b stupid bosh is believed in by enough female lunatics to keep the proprietor in clover as he lie laughs at the credulity of women when the question of beauty is indol involved ved A MAN named conge tod iown himself in the river this week ho lie was arrested and brought before the magistrate in agis who sentenced him to the penitentiary tent iary lary for 90 days lays for trying to get liis his conge in this self indicted inflicted manner andrew canar canary formerly a priest lias has been arrested for fo not returning a horse and buggy lio lie had hired that canary is caged the inspector of police volice in ili brooklyn is said to have the inspector of new york police if he lie could find filid A GAMBLING PLACE ilice in tho former city if lie did it nyada wa a big came game of bluff brooklyn brook n is is not no t a heaven yet bay say there ere is no gambling is absurd VIT the bellboys bell boys boya have taken to pistols in irk the summer resorts probably for tile purpose of demanding from the guests before they leave every cent left after afler paying the landlord a first lien one of tho bell boya boys at pt the tile argyle in babylon was going to shoot the whole household bo in revenge for being discharge e J abut but N fas as finally disarmed ile hereafter r to r tile he guests will i please speak with respectful deference when they want cold water or they may get COLD LEAD IN 11 PLACE NEMO NEW new sept |