Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-30
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters Of Much and Little Moment
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A FAvoR1rE dress-redress.
A CURIOUS creature-woman.
MoIRE trimming is fashionable. The moire
the better.
TRAMPs will dress en- traine this summer
freight train.
Ours make good enemies; thoroughbreds
make good friends.
The man who speaks in figuratiFe language
must be mathematician.
IT is unlucky to leave house with the right
foot behind-Her papa's right foot.
]. b. McCUNE was thrown from his horse on
the Shalersville pike and fractured a.thigh.
A FEW more of such weather and somebody
else in full evening dress is going to suicide.
PROBABLY the greatest display in New
York to-day will be display of egotism By the
400.
QUINCY ROBINSON has the nerve to call
new cigar the Henrietta" !" because it draws so
well.
On thunder. licked by the Babes. "oh Ally.
where is thy victory. Oh Babe, we've found
thy sting"
PLUCKED spectators say George Washing
ton wasn't the only man who landed at the foot
of Wall street.
WHAT with all sorts of rascally trusts multi
plying. the idea is growing that the only proper
trust is trust in heaven.
AN attempt was made to assassinate Mis-
souri, Alderman, yet some mistaken man said
there was honor among thieves.
SENATOR SHERMAN is going to view the
Alps this summer. They will be very easy to
climb after his little experience with Quay.
IT is unlucky to ride behind a bobtailed
horse at a funeral.-Old superstition. Certainly
it is, especially il the funeral is your own.
MRS. SHAW would be an excellent person to
have on board becalmed ship at sea- Her
whistle seems to raise the wind every time.
CHARLES MCPHERSON alleges his cousin,
John Ogden, struck him on the head with
beer bottle. and an officer Is seeking john
A SOUTHERN paper yells fiercely: ''Will the
tariff-fed East give the plundered South
chances? He probably meant blundered
South.
SEvEN-rENTHs of the marriage engagements
that are broken are broken by the women, The
other three-tenths are fractured by her small
brother.
would come. Adonis Dixey has been sued by
his wife for divorce, with the usual stage
trimmings.
WATER. water everywhere. but not a drop
to drink" hoarsely murmurs the man unfor-
tunate enough to live within those imaginary
Owl limits.
THE New York and Michigan Central Rail-
roads have stopped running freight on Sun
day, except what must be moved. The move
ment is spreading among the lines.
AFTER watching her mamma earnestly as
she prepared for the centennial ball, little
Maudie sagely remarked, Il know now why
they always tell cook to dress the chicken"
GENIUS must be composed of rubber, or
leather, or something. At least the burning
genius who calls here with a carpet bag filled
with poetry generally leaves that odor behind
THE Society for the Improvement of the
Poor visited 5S1 families last week, aided 1, lbs
persons and secured work for 40, besides dis
tributing great many tons Of the necessaries
of life.
A SLIGHT fire, origins ting from cause un-
known, broke out on the roof Of Clark's Solar
Iron Works, Thirty-ifth street, last evening at
o'clock. The mill hands extinguished the
flames.
THE Chief of the Weather Bureau says here
after they Will bulletin the weather two to
three days ahead. He says he can predict for
three just as easy as for one day. Nobody dis
putes that.
JAMES COHEN, who is employed at Carnegie
& Phipps' Thirty-third street mill, had his leg
broken by a heavy bar of iron falling on it
while at work yesterday. The injured man
lives on Thirty-ffth street.
CHARLES BARR, a brakeman on the Pan
handle Railroad, had his right leg crushed yes
terday. He was coupling cars near Jones
Ferry, when the car wheels passed over his
foot He was attended by DR.. Hiett.
THE expected heir to the house Of Batten-
berg is being widely advertised by disloyal |
British public taking all even bets on the sex.
Vic will be in dreadful state until she learns |
whether she is a grandma or grandpa.
WONDER If England won't look just trifie
cross-eyed when she sees what sort of gang a
little corner of this great country can scrape |
up when the Yankee wants to honor man who |
Yankee
Mr. GEORGE L WHITNEY explains that the
object which he and Mr.. l.. Halsey Williams
have in buying up the Mercantile Library
stock is to get control OF that worthy institu- |
tion so as to prevent its being sold out under a
$4,000 debt. If they succeed the library will |
be perpetuated.
THOMAS PURTEL who lives on Soho street, |
made an information before Alderman Jones
yesterday, charging William Conway with |
striking Purtel over the head with club, |
knocking him down and choking Ing him; Con
hearing Thursday.
IT is again reported England would like to |
absorb the Panama Canal. She will hesitate in |
taking any decisive steps. however, when her |
military spies see the only Battery surround, |
circumvent and foil a lunch counter, and hear |
the thrilling order of Captain =, "Chawge! |
(this to the State fund.U
THE residents of Fortieth, Forty-secoud. |
Forty-third and Forty-fourth streets are very |
indignant over what they consider lack of at |
tention on the part of East End Electric Light |
Company in regard to the lighting of their |
streets The police about a week since received |
orders to put out all lamps on those streets.
Miss MATILDA HINDMAE, of this city,
leaves to-day for Washington Territory to ap- |
pear before the Constitutional Convention to |
be held in Olympia during the latter part of |
May and assist in the introduction if possible |
into the Constitution of the young State the |
provision for the enfranchisement OF women.
CHIEF KIRsCHLER, OF the Allegheny Police.
Department, yesterday morning suspended |
three officers, one of whom rang for supposed |
dead body In the Herr's Island district, and
two of whom loaded it into the wagon and |
called the Coroner, although it was only a |