Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20
NOTES AND NOTIONS,
Many Matters of Much md Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

A GRAVE charge-Earth to earth.
AN instrument of torture-A piano.
ENVY is the seat of all jealousy, malice and
hatred.
THE thermometer now occupies high posi-
tion in the public mind.
THE girl with bated breath must have been
trying to hook someone.
HE is clever one who can steal aweigh with.
out dropping in a nickel.
'GIT thar, Eli" seems to constitute the en-
tire moral code of some people.
AGENT DEAN is looking into case of ex-
treme destitution in Lawrenceville.
SOME are SO busy boarding dollars they never
think how much time they are spending.
WHY haven't the boys the nerve to introduce
the sweet, soothing briar pipe on the street?
STREET loafing was epidemic yesterday, and
for the first time they sought the shady side.
SEEK and We shall find" is encouraging, but
incomplete. Find what? find it or find moth
ing.
Miss EAsTEND, who betrayed spark of in
sanity, must have given her silly lover dead
away.
THE first man who appears on the street with
a wooden shirt and straw hat is going to be
killed.
THE man who prays "Save me from my
friends, will require microscope to fnd them
some day.
WHEN rich men read their obituaries they
must wonder why in the world they went to the
wrong place,
1T pays to advertise-Emma Abbott is worth
81, 100000 and she can't sing true note, and
she knows it.
AN irate Prohibitionist says there is no diff
ference between rye and corn whisky. There is,
however, grain Of difference.
For ladies only-Slight tournures are per-
missible on the street, but the house and even
ing costume must be perfectly fat
GEORGE CUMERNY is held in s., 600 bail for
assaulting Louis Rosa and his H-year-old
daughter. All the parties are Italians.
THE Sons of Temperance, at 6S Ohio street,
Allegheny, will hold an old-fashioned gospel
temperance meeting on Sunday evening.
STENoGRAPHER FULLwooD, of the License
Court says the names of the successful appli-
cants will not likely be given out until next
Tuesday.
WALT WHITMAN says: Zone cannot say
much about women" Perhaps not, but one of
Wallis books, at least, shows he kept up deal
of thinkin'.
CAPTAIN SHANAFELT wishes the announce
ment to be made that, through his influence,
Mrs. John o. Fairbairn, of Milwaukee, has Sc
cured her pension of s., 200.
PROFESSOR M. E. COOLEY, of Ann Arbor
University, and ten engineering students are
in the city inspecting mills. They are stopping
at the Seventh Avenue Hotel.
WAEAMAKER is undecided whether to paint
the letter boxes red or green. Paint 'em green
for goodness sake, thus preserving the unities
from the sickly green stamp on up.
THE greatest evils are INDUCED in unwit-
tingly, unintentionally. A sort of sleepy,
dreamy. daily drift, and there you are. right in
the stew, boys, and never meant it at all
SCIENTISTS are alarmed that eight men have
already been killed by football in England this
season. They are probably alarmed at the
length of time it Will take to thin them out at
that rate.
THAT country Squire who has achieved un-
pleasant notoriety by thrashing drummer
for trif1ing with his daughter, is merely paying
the penalty of having daughter who consents
to be trifed with.
AT 2oclock George Wendell, a man from
Cincinnati, walked into Central station and fell
unconscious. DR.. Oldshue called it tremens,
and George said he had been sick. He will be
disposed of to-day.
UNIvERSALIsT services will be held on Sun
day morning. April IS. at Imperial Hall, on
New Grant street and Seventh avenue under
the auspices of the Pennsylvania State Con
vention. All are invited.
BASS fishing in Erie will soon be superb, and
Pennsylvania trout have not been so plenty for
years. Altogether the lot of man is not SO
hard, providing be can get away into the proper
neck o. woods for few days.
THREE children named Smith, whose parents
live on Fingal street, Duquesne Heights, were
poisoned by eating berries which they found
growing on the roadside The children are
from to years old. They will likely all re-
cover.
L. ]. MILLER alleges that George Faust, a
waiter in his restaurant, had embezzled about
Sl25. Miller captured Faust's bank book, and
ascertained the latter (who received but 81 per
week) had been putting from SIS to $40 per
week in bank. Faust sued Miller for larceny
in taking his book and Miller was placed
under bail, but his waiter is in jail.
WHATS the use of prophesying every day
the same thing DER, when it becomes tire
some chestnut, a weary chestnut and no more
Hereafter when we say weather, or suggest
the name of Wig, you had better read the
verses, for they will be something big. Moth
ing will be said of climate, until a weather
change flies up; we will use the best of judg-
ment and our muse, it now dries up,
AFTER cropping around in a maze of unintel-
ligible English, Pittsburg correspondent gets
this off in a Cincinnati paper: "The Exposition
building rises slowly into shape and beauty a
long struggle courageously pushed to success:
slow growth, and not one of those enterprises
which leap ful-armed and complete into beng
at the stroke of a great generosity, or bloom
suddenly in the light of great enthusiasm" !"
He might have added, ''or busts precipitateIy
under too great pressure"
HE came in through the door.
With smile full of guile.
And he said have some more,
If you will pay: "a Roundelay"
The ed. he gave glance,
At the verse, with a curse,
Then he made the poet dance
With despair, pulled his hair.
Then he broke him right in two
And he thumped, and he bumped,
Till the poet sad did rue
That awful day, around he lay"