Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-08
PITHY PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Ideas of the Lightweight
CIass IntermingIed.

MAT. Saturday aft.
NEW Lenten moon.
WHAT show city this is.
NEARLY baseball season.
WILD DUCK hunters are expectant.
THE German Question-Wie gents:
A CURIOUS Question-"Who is that?'
OK the streets again-The family carriage.
A STRICT observer of Lent is phenomenon.
THE musical union still seems to have tight
hold.
WIGGINs says spring overcoats and umbrel-
las will both be useful.
SUPERINTENDENT PITCAIRN went East last
evening in his private car.
THE man who chews a wooden tooth pick on
the street is still prevalent.
WILL the tint of the new wall paper match
the general tone of the room?
A CHRONIC growler is not always chronic
reformer. He may have the gouS.
PROHIBITION does eSeS not prohibit
RESERVED seats will be in demand at the
Martln-Wishart combination this morning.
Mr. AND Mrs. j. NJ. GUFFY and Mrs. 7. H.
Irwin, of Irwin, left for New York last night.
KELso the missing Ohio man, may be in the
Cabinet Somebody ought to ask Mr.. Blaine
about it.
THEY say some of the officers at Washington
could have marshaled Salvation Army squad
beautifully.
MAYOR McCALLIN signed the appropriation
ordinance, and some people can now sleep the
sleep OF the just.
c. c. MILLER. Assistant Treasurer of the
Westinghouse Airbrake Company, went to
New York last evening.
THE East End ''owl gang" turns out to con-
NTarr scAra 90
Hyndman roasted them to turn.
BRADDoCK boasts of some female detectives.
They are looking for butterIne, and ten chances
TO one don't know it when they see it.
MAYOR PEARSON last evening sentenced
James Patton 80 days to the workhouse. The
prisoner was charged with abusing his family.
CoRAoPoLIs will this evening endeavor to get
up building and loan association. Twill be a
good thing if properly handled, as is everything
else.
JOHN ADAMS, Iaborer at Morehead Nc
Cleans mill, had his hand badly crushed yes
terday afternoon by large bar of pig metal
falling upon it..
WHAT will Pittsburg do if all her song birds
marry and quit singing? or why do they quit;
or. better still. why do they marry, or-but this
is becoming serious.
JOHN SCHMoKER claims $1,000 damages for
false arrest. Probably Sergeant Metz thought
he the author OF InaE alleEeQ song,
''Johnny Schmoker."
CURTIS HAVEN, resident of Lawrenceville,
while getting off train at that station last ev-
ening fell and broke his leg. He was removed
to the West Penn Hospital
THE Court has decided a man cannot be
guilty of assault and battery if he shows indi-
cations of madness. Certain forms of insanity
will now become very popular.
RIDICULOUS people who yelled fire" in
r..
policeman was firing a cOlored man. Never
Jheless they nearly precipitated panic.
JOHN SHERIDAN, employed in the Union
foundry, on Preble avenue, Allegheny had his
leg crushed yesterday by falling under a roll.
1t is supposed a cooking school teacher baked
the roll.
THE lady wearing the most fancy tie and
apron is to receive a prize at Odd Fellows
Hall. The lady without either tie or apron
should win the prize, for they certainly would
be all fancy,
1T cost man Just cents to assault and bat
ter his wife. That jury must have consisted of
grass widowers. John Gripp would have given
him six months, for if there is anything he loves
it's wife beater.
FOOLED Her That Time.-They were just
crossing the cable track. Ethel (tenderly)-Be
careful, MI. De Slim, you will drop through
the slot. De Slim (brighter than he looks)I
conduit you know.
THERE is no truth in the story that man
from Wash refused to give Allegheny car
driver dollar out of which to take his fare
because big sign reads This car goes
through without change"
NEW Gretna Green, Washington county,
has opened its arms to receive fleeing Castle
Shannon couple. They take pains to explain
they went there to live for fear people may
think they went there to die.
THE Executive Board of the Exposition
managers Will meet this afternoon and consider
the prospectus of the rules and regulations to
be submitted to them by Manager Johnston for
the government of next falls exhibition.
AN East End domestic has found a new virtue
In the ending of Pigott. She saAs he saved more
than one good Irish life by his suicide. for they
would have killed him, sure; and England
would have hanged every mothers son of 'em.
THE merry trout fisher prepareth his line,
But the troutlet he winketh his eve.
He knows the gay fisher prepareth his lynn,
And he knows there's no fear of a fry.
The trout is dead on.
DANIEL BEECH has been elected Secretary
and Treasurer of the Mt. Oliver Incline Plane
Company, the position held by his father, the
late John P Beech. MI. Beech also succeeded his
father as cashier of the First National Bank
of Birmingham.
In a short while not a trace will be left to
suggest to the public mind that awful Wood
street disaster In few stricken households
however, that sad Wednesday will live for
ever as a memory of horror and woe, that no
whisper Of Providence" can alleviate.
A YOUNG girl from East End
Asked her lover to send
To the School of Design for painting
He said, with laugh,
He would give her "a Bath"
And she ended the matter by fainting.
ORGANGRINDERs Murphy and Dulcio struck
the West End last evening. The West End hit
back and Sergeant McCurry surrounded Muir
ply Just as he reached the staccato movement
IN Home, Sweet Home" The Count boarded
passing car with last years proceeds and
Murphy and officer moved toward the station
70 the tune Of wait till the clouds roll by.'
THE bloomin' tramp after alternating all
winter in divers charitable institutions thaws
himself out throws his crutches away.
straightens his back, shakes off the rheumatic.
loses his deaf and dumbness and prepares for
somnOlent South, or the effete East but may
Join the rush to Paris, going, Of course, by
their private line. the ocean 1ramps."
THEY were walking slowly and wearily by the
superb new Duquesne Clubhouse. The little
girl showed more misery and poverty than be-
longed to her years, while her poor mother had
almost reached the limit of human strength if
not human patience. Mamma, what is that
big house? asked the little one. "It's a church,
silence)-"Mamma. where does they bury 'em?"
'1n big marble vaults, dear" answered the
mother. Say, mamma (timidly), does they go
10 the same heaven as us?''
DIAMOND STREETS FUTURE.
The Scheme to Widen the Very Important