Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-04
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.


Tersely Treated.
Now spring housecleaning.
SUMNER hummer weather.
A SPRING opening-A rat trap.
TRUTH stranger than fiction-in some peo-
pies mouths.
THE insane son of Jacob Basbinder was taken
to Brookville yesterday.
JOHN SHRoDER is charged with assaulting
and battering Bridget Falcon.
GRAND ARMY DAY Committee will meet at
City Hall Saturday at 8 o'clock.
THE American base ballists must be more
than half seas over by this time.
GEORGE SMITH is charged with taking a
shotgun from a Market street store.
THAT idea must have struck the young lady
very hard when it caused her to bound from
her chair.
IT is not true the All-Americans are expert
cricketers though they can paralyze the Eng
lish bowl.
THE pretty girl is no believer in the old
adage that it is the hardest thing in the world
to be Miss taken.
THE suggestion to vote as you pray at the
coming amendment wrestle would disfranchise
many, If enforced.
A GRAVEYARD beside church may make
things more solemn, but lots of people don't
like to be solemn.
In short while expectant Pittsburgers will
be in the height of the ball season, and perhaps
in the depth of despair.
Two New York ladies have written an opera
called "Dovetta" The next visitation will
probably be ''Roosterlet."
THERE was shower of eggs in Allegheny
yesterday. The Italian victim scrambled, and
the poachers were arrested.
THAT the average man is made worse by
censure, and better by coddling, may be astrong
argument for women preachers.
A GENTLEMAN alleges ferocious dog bit
his son on the Southside. Pending more
specinc charges he is held in bail for court.
NELLIE BAILEY, an Indian Territory girl,
drugged her young man. and married him.
Certainly case of the intoxication OF love.
LEW M. MOORE, popular travelling man in
the carriage and hearse line, is enjoying the
cuisine and comforts of the Seventh Avenue.
EDWARD SUssENAN, charged with being an
army deserter, was turned over to the United
States authorities by the city police yesterday
A FLASH of yellow, or stream of gay rib
bons now and then on the streets, is the surest
indication of the near approach of Easter Sun
day.
RIvEs reiterates her only defense: The pure
will see purity in her book, and the foul, foul
ness. A fragile defense, for it is thusly with
everything.
JOSEPH MUCK, employed in the Black Dia-
mond Steel Works, was struck in his right eye
last night by sharp piece of steel. His sight
will be lost.
Tom OCHILTREE told the President he didn't
want any Office, and the latter went right home
and told Carrie to put them all in her pocket
for safe keeping.
VIOLATE natures laws, fold your hands and
receive your punishment. for there is no ap-
peal. Violate the laws of man, and-Wel,
have you any money!
CoNFIDENTIAL-B-n-H H-r-i-s.n-Don't know
what in thunder you will do with Dudley. He
might go well with little parsley and thicken-
ing if seasoned very highly.-J. &. b.
Now they have a telescope a-la-Langtry-
hustle theater hat that can be sat upon without
injury. Ladies' high hats in the theater have
been sat upon for years without injury.
JOHN IRWIN. JR., has presented Mayor Pear
son, of Allegheny, with a valuable old book.
1t contains all the ordinances and regulations
of the borough of Allegheny from 1873 to 1889.
AT a regular meeting of the Forbes sub-Dis.
trict School Board, on Tuesday evening, minute
on the death of Prof. Richard Prosser, one OF
the musical directors of the city, was adopted.
FASHIONABLE lunch at the Womens' Benev
olent Exchange-He-Who is that beautiful
creature at the opposite table? She-An old
friend of mine. He-Indeedl SEe-1es, she's
40 if day.
THE Humane Societys report for March
shows 81 complaints investigated, AZ being
cases of children and IA of animals, all of which
were amicably settled. Three children were
placed in the Troy Hill Orphan Asylum.
THE Abe Patterson Post, No. IS. G. A. R., is
taking steps to have an amendment tackled tc
the Soldiers Homestead act by which all
soldiers of 80 days service, soldiers widows
and children shall receive l60 acres of Govern
| ment land.
On account of failing health, Miss Anna A.
Adams resigned as Assistant Principal of the
Stevens school. She received many kind re-
membranes from scholars and teachers
Miss Mary A. Rodgers, also favorite teacher,
will succeed her.
"ALGY, why in the world did you shave of
your mustacheP" Because, Lulu dear, it was
always in the soup" You mean thing; Dc
you think that 1 am going to-to"-and AL
geron went away and softly kicked himself fol
not thinking of that before.
FRANK PARSONS was arrested yesterday on
charge of having forged the name of Joseph
F. Gallagher of the Pittsburg Spice Mill Com
pany to a bill which he collected. Parsons de-
nies the charge, but will have hearing before
Mayor Pearson this morning.
SHE misunderstood him.-Mrs. C-"Awfully
breezy yeSb6Tudl, WASH MI. - 6s, Tue
winds" Mrs. C-"Stop you know despise
slang" MIR. C-"And the winds whisk-''
Mrs. C-"Silence, sir: 1 insist" Mr.. Gland
the winds whisked through the streets"
INQUIRY will be made whether the Michael
Conley now in New Castle jail is the man
wanted for the murder of James Godfrey.
New Castle jail. by the way, is the prison from
which the noted big and clever McPhillamy, of
MISUNDERSTANDING fame, escaped. He
took along with him, merely as a guarantee of
good faith, two other prisoners.
WIGGINs said 'twould rain to-day. 1t didn't
rain at ALL Now he thinks it's going to snow.
Perhaps it will, next fall. He said lowly um-
brella would not be In the way. We took the
faklr at his word and Iugged it round all day.
And now he mentions overcoats with other
chilly talk, and, goodness me, he has US there,
our only coats in hoe. He fooled US with few
good ewes. we fingered on the stoop; we asked
her to the matinee, and now we're in the soup.
The thing has come to this sad strait, tits over
coat or girl. We can have either, but not both,
and our whiskers fairly curl.