Show GOTHAM GOSSIP dueling dances delightful din ners discreet DrItA DrIn klar lne designs deigns s lo 10 defraaf De fraad Delro devoted ted to debauchery from our dueling it seems i is becoming quite the fashion n again we have failed to revive t the he good old fashion of wearing knee breaches but the fashion of letting daylight through a man because he hag has offended you or beina being prepared prepared yourself to bo be similarly dea L t I 1 i with will soon be in common usage again it is an agreeable drode of procedure an and d providing ry r ovidia tho the business rl done strictly according to the provisions of the code no harm can come of it in fact it will bo be of immeasurable advantage ad a as 3 it will bring about a more careful use of the english language the latest occurrence in this citi however who is is NOTHING BUT A fares I 1 allude to the rumored meeting between col amory knox of texas Si swings flings and sheaban the sculptor knox has been in town for some days in the interest of his ilia papers and as birds of a feather flock together he fell in with some of the most experienced at tho the press club and in their company he had borne some high old times among the shining lights of that ilk is I 1 dont know anything about his work having never been able to see any of it I 1 dare eay say lie is like the freater greater portion of the suns editorial 1 writers very little of their work ever reaches reached the dignity of printers ink but as job Jobu n swinton said they write sheaban sculpts in his leisure moments when his hl friends are not with him they had a dinner at the other evening which lasted until ten and of course the they d drink rqn k more inore than a single bottle each I 1 then they went to the prospect garden a flash flask resort and guzzled beer THE RESULT 1110 may ly be ea easily MIX imagined while in that state they quarreled about abou t some anya bill silly bill billy clalie b business alie lie was given and a challenge ge issued then they told the whole story to Ilie newspaper reporters portera re and strutted about like heroes and on thursday morning disappeared in the evening She alian reappeared on union square drank liis his usual quantity of beer and dropped dark hints on an a Inee meeting till at rockaway Kock away at which somebody some somebody boTy was hurt etc the truth of the matter is th atthe two fools under the combined influence of the heat and beer expected to make this an advertising adjei tiding schemes knox expected to get his ills little sheet talked about and She allan expected to sell home some things which w hibb it is currently believed ho he sculpts the ichele was a fai failure luro however how everand about union square where newspaper men artists and actors congregate both men are derisively laughed at TUB TUC SEASON is always hard on men who have sent their families to the country so far as catini cating is concerned in the winter good table d hotel hotes are easily casily enough to be had but in the summer they are as a rule very bad load A restaurant keeper cannot make money on a table chote d hole unless he lie has a steady run of customers the profit ou on each cover is small but the aggregate makes the business remunerative A sufficient amount of each dish disk must be cooked so as to have enough for all comers if it is not consumed it is practically wasted because no regular customer would be satisfied with the same soup ill tho 0 same saine entree or the same fish two baysin days in succession uc cession now in summer wh what atwith with people leaving town excursions cur and so forth it is difficult to count on oil a large an au il steady clientage beace as a rulo rule the quality of the fee food 4 you get ia la below the average and ills it Is nut not nearly so well cooked as before although the price of a dollar or a dollar and a half remains unchanged all the bedside retorts coney island rockaway and long branch the lalle lable d da holes hotes are few and nearly all of them bad the only real good one is to be had at the or oriental cental ho trl tel at manhattan beach the tile oriental does not cater for transient guests it is intended more as family hotel hence before you can sit down to table you must register your name and then you aie are given a dinner ticket for which you pay the price rice is 8 high but the dinner is very cl elaborate pbs consisting of seven or eight courses with roman punch in the midd leand the usual coffee and cheese at tho the end of the program rahi the service too is capital the dining room is largo large and airy are free from tho the bustle and excitement which prevails at the manhattan beach hotel whose restaurant caters for excursionists exclusively abo fact that one cau can get din dinner at the oric oriental atal I 1 botel I 1 to but few people as the management doca does not desire to have the oriental made a general public resort but it is t ft thing worth knowing ANYTHING FOB FOR OTTIA B at jit the manhatten beach hotel they have a little room which is known known to the initiated as the gold room it with a magnificent buffet tables and chairs and hero here men may sit and worship at tha the th rone rono of bacchus with more agni comfort art and lea less publicity than jhn at the public public bar besides having t the ce satisfaction of paying pay ing twenty cents for the same sanie whisky ahl which is dealt out at the bar for fi fifteen acu ecu cents Tho The amount of business lu I 1 as s done conein iiii this gold abom Is in inc incredible it and it la Is currently believed that it t exceeds that done at the regular bar it was so called because dutiful husbands who did not caie care to let their wives see sea them at the bar ba quietly slipped off to look at t lie stock ex exchange if ange ticker placed in here the discussions a were generally heated fo for the ar aforesaid ores attl dutiful hns banda were as a rule exceedingly flushed when they thoy returned to the piazza WHAT A PASSION the average american citizen has for getting the best of tho the government men blen and anti women will take almost nolt any risk in smuggling and and as regards regard beating eatn t the international intern revenue officers t they hk will ivill never miss an op mtv An amusin amusing instance ol 01 this kind I 1 noticed on monday even ing aa As you yon know packages of r uly need not longer be provided with a revenue stamp A couple of enterprising peddlers made use of this fact and loaded a licensed benders venders ven ders cart with them they took up a position in tho the bowery near grand street and shouting ll heres eres your matches no revenue stamps on them eighteen boxes for fifteen cents they soon had bad everybody buy ing the fact of being ablo able to beat the government was the cause of an unparalleled un paralleled aralle led amount of luminosity on thel the bowery lowery that night A ireat great many good and charitable deop people c e devote their timo time and money to praiseworthy efforts to FALLEN rallen WOMEN now and then however instances occur which would lead one to think that their labors after all are fruitless A case ewe of this kind came to my notice the other day some months ago the son of a well to todo do livery liver v stable keepers kee pera young man twenty five years old became infatuated with a woman of more than questionable reputation and on her promise to turn over a new now leaf married her Allwen all went well twell for a coakle couple of weeks then she grew grow tired of t the e humdrum hum lium drum of respectable life and pined for the excitement of her former career one evening she went out ostensibly for a walk and did not return that night there was a scene tho the escapade was repeated and finally iier her husband left her ner she went back to her old companions and resumed her old habits in in a few weeks she had the effrontery lo 10 write nv rite to iier her husband and ask him to visit her of course he refused then she swore vengeance last list thursday afternoon while be waa was driving home in a light wagon she approached him with two male companions pan ions they held tho the horse b by y the head while slie she jumped into the stabbed her husband lius band in the face she tried to escape but a policeman finally captured her and after a desperate struggle eglo made ber her a prisoner prisoner she was arraigned in the tombs police court yesterday morning and committed for trial As she waa was led was heard to say that she would get even with him NEMO yet july ah bolh |