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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
CLIPPED BITS OF WIT.

Miss Bugge-O. but mine is such hor-
rid namel Young Brown--Ah-a-um--I'm AFRAID
it's too late to alter it now!--PuHeh.
What this country really needs is less
scramblIng for office and more strawberries In the
shortcake.-Shos and Leather Reporter.
In a Philadelphia shooting gallery the
local sportsmen use living dog instead Of .
painted target. On an average one dog lasts II
days.-SomerUfue Journal
THE PIrrsBURG DISPATCH prints these
two items by accident in add conjunction: ''Shad
are selling for 9l3 hundred down in Delsware" !"
Enough bones to fill cart were found in fox's
den in Birmingham, Chester county, Pa, re-
Gently. ''-SomervfLLs Journal.
THE ONLY CURE.
Glove is tender thing"
Thus all the poets sing;
So when you feel you're hit
Go straight and tender 1t.
-SomerviLLe JouTndk
''Maria," said Mr.. Cuteboy yesterday. IT
made go this morning." 'tIndeed, - said Mrs. @.
curiously. 'tDid Reading go upg'' ''Not exact
ly,'' was the quiet rejoinder, ''but your brother
John asked me to lend him that sum and didn't
happen to have It at the time. ''-PhiLadstphtd IN
qutrer
Fashionable women have a new way OF
arranging their visiting lists. They put the names
of their friends down in alphabetical order with
marginal notes of at home'' days. But it is con-
sidered bad form to beg for charity from one VINO
is receiving and cannot choose to be out.-Hs~
Orleans PieayuRs.
They were in the conservatory at an even
ing party, and there. amid the perfume OF tne
roses and posies, he had fervently declared MS
passion. ''Mr. sampson" Z" she responded, Win
womably tenderness, my heart has been wholly
yours for months, and now, - she went on, snyly
taking his arm, ''you may take me in to supper;1
heard 1t announced when you first began tnose
wordsof love which have SO blissfully enangeo al
the coiors Of my life. ''-Hdrper's BdsGr'
81 shall not marry Miss CroGsus, after
all. - Announced young Bjenkins sadly. Her
family seems to oppose the match too much.
Hang the family exclaimed sympathizing
friend. go In and win, BjenkIns, just the same.
What do you care for the familys opinion. so long
as the girl is wilIing?''
.1Fhat,s just IT. explained Bjenkins, stiIl more
sadly. ''sfiss Cresus seems TO agree with them.,t
-S1wsrvtus Journal
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04

WEhsve the interesting information from
the esteemed Boston Herald that at the sale
of Mrs. Langtry's stage property the other
day, "the garden scene by the Lake of
Como" where Claude Melnotte's villa was
situated, was sold for the beggarly sum of
S25. This is not only an example of selling
building site dirt cheap, but it is also re-
markable instance of real estate without a
local habitation. The Lake of Como scene
in ''The Lady of Lyons" requires almost as
violent an effort of the imagination as the
city lots which California land companies
sell on the summit of the Sierra Nevada.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04

speech in favor of the amendment, But
there is sort of incongruity between some
of the comments. Thus the Philadelphia
Telegraph regards it as a scandal ''for a
Judge holding these (prohibition) opinions
to sit upon the bench and make q pretense
of administering the law" and goes on to
declare that his action in the License Court
was not ''such exercise of discretion as the
law and his judicial oath called tor" On
the other hand city paper in referring to
the same speech attacked the Judge for
inconsistency because he did not exercise
mis- discretion to refuse all license and thus
establish the prohibition he believes to be
right. This discrepancy between the prin-
ciples on which the Judge is assailed, are
likely to bring out the fact that his action,
though extreme and sweeping, was really
based on the attempt to enforce the law as
the Judge construed it and not the law as
he thought it should be.
The suggestion of the Telegraph that
Judge who prefers another sort of leg
islation to that in force, ought not
to sit on the bench to administer
the existing law would cause a wholesale
decapitation of the Judiciary. Thus, every
Democratic Judge, believing in low tariff,
would be disqualified to sit on cases arising
out of the revenue laws; and most Judges
belonging to minority party in any State
would be liable 10 be ruled of the bench, if
the fact that they think the law might be i'm
proved impairs their ability to construe
it honestly.
THE DISPATCH is not in favor of the
prohibition amendment; but it does not per-
ceive the necessity of .lugging such silly
personal attacks into the discussion of an
abstract issue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04

Bismarck is reported to have made to the
United States with regard to the Samoan
treaty. 1t certainly seems fattering to our
nation, to learn that it has induced Bis
marck to give up every thing. But before
we indulge in too much self-glorifcation,
as some of our esteemed contemporaries
seem disposed to do, it is well to inquire
what Bismarck gets in return. No one
ever accused the man of blood and iron of
conducting his diplomacy on the principle
of giving up everything and getting nothing
hack
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
An UmbreIla WItb n HI.torv.

Among the articles to be sold by the property
clerk at police headquarters this month, is q
silk umbrella with a tomato head which was
stolen from Mrs. Lillian 5codeld. 1t was a gift
from Broker Nate Hatch, whose mysterious
death occurred in the yard attached to Mrs Sco-
fields house. The bonnets and tights and
gowns and laces and jewelry Of Aimee, the
dead queen Of opera bouffe, viii be sold In a
down town auction room next Wednesday.
More than l20 complete costumes were spread
out for examination of professional costumers
and managers to-day
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
Perplexing, 70 Printers.

Captain Marryat, it is said, wrote such an ex-
ceedingly fine hand that whenever the copyist
rested from his labors he was obliged to put in
pin where he left of in order to find the
place again. Another expert in microscopic
penmanship is the English novelist, R. D.
Blackmore, who, like Dickens, writes with blue
ink, and in tiny, detached characters, which
are almost undecipherable at first sight His
contemporary, William Black, is also noted fer
the wonderful minuteness of his chirography
Among American authors of extreme economy
in the use of ink is Cable, who writes dapper
little hand with fne-pointed steel pen; Julian
Hawthorne, whose letters are well-formed but
almost infnitesimal in size, and the poet Stod-
dard, who uses sharp-pointed lead pencil and
gets about 200 words on single sheet of FOOLS
cap.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
ATerrnr 10 Printers.

The handwriting of Horace Greeley was plain
compared with that of Mr.. Bloss OF the Cincin.
natl Enquirer, who was. beyond doubt the
worst penman who ever occupied an editorial
chair. This remarkable journalist was peculiar
in his methods, but in none more SO than in his
manner of writing. His pen was held at the
extreme end of the holder, and the strange
characters which he made were sometimes al.
most as unintelligible to himself as to the world
at large. His writing was simply a series of
hieroglyphicsi but he made his characters al
study, one could learn to decipher- them.
When it was known that Mr.. Bloss was dead.
the printers in the Enquirer news room lost no
specimens of his chirography, until in less than
an hour not strap of his manuscript was to be
found in the Office
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
Heart.Brsaklnr Proofreader..

OF all noted authors, probably none was such
a terror to his printers as Balzac, although
Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott and Byron were
nearly as bad. The latter, IN particular, made
fearful mess of his proofs, and scrawled cor
rections on the margins till Murray and his
printers were almost driven out of their senses
His additions were generally greater than the
original text. To one poem, which originally
contained 400 lines, 600 we're afterward added
corrected sometimes as many as Is times, and
revise after revise returned in an almost
illegible condition.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
NEW YORK NEWS NOTES.
Colored Dudes Hauled Up for Mashing.
rrurur ,rr,.,.. nrrrxAn aprcrArn,

.NEW YORK BUKEAU BFECLALs.J
NEW YORK June 3-This morning Jeffer-
son Market Police Court was full of colored
persons, who wished to hear % col
ored dudes tried for 'mashing." The dudes
were arrested at the instance of st. Marks
NJ. z. Church. According to Deacon Samuel
Tilden Williams, they had done nothing for
the last 20 Sundays but ogle Christian young
women of color from the street corner near St.
Marks. They were caught in bunch before
the church last night and hustled of to jail by
IL policemen. They all looked so sad and sub
missive this morning that Deacon Williams
refused to press his complaint against them.
The judge dismissed them with sharp lecture
on the evils of Sunday mashing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
A WORK THAT NERO BEGAN.
An Engineering Project Undertaken By Ro-
mans Soon TO he Finished.

An Engineering Project Undertaken By Ro-
mans Soon TO be Finished.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.] srf
A work of engineering begun by the Romans
under Nero. in the second century, will be fin
ished this year, that is it has been in process OF
construction for over LOO years. The work to
which we refer is the cutting of a canal
through the Isthmus of Corinth. The canal,
when done, will be only four miles long, and
will have depth of eight meters. which will
allow the passage of the largest vessel used in
Greek traffic.
1t is not so great matter from an interna-
tional view as the Suez and Nicaragua prof.
ects, but it will do much to further the rapid
progress made by modern Greece in the arts of
civilization and commerce.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04

WHEN Judge Stowe informs the grand
jury that it is not its business to inspect the
public institutions he strikes rude blow at
that limited opportunity for free entertain
ment which is one of the dearest perquisites
of grand jury service.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
WHAT HE SAW.

Man Who Does Not Seem Satisfied with
the Paris Exposition.
They are grumbling IN Paris because the
Exhibition is not ready. This is what one man
says he saw when he went lately on a morning
visit:
L Twenty-three handsome pavllions in
course of construction. Inscription:-"No ad-
mittance."
2 Forty-fve pavilions, no less elegant, in
the hands of the locksmiths. inscription
Entrance forbidden"
g. Sixty-three other pavilions, all equally
handsome, in the hands of painters and car
penters. Inscription:-"It is forbidden to enter
under pain Of fine"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04

THE Adjutant Generals theory that it is
an insult to the Johnstown sufferers to guard
their ruined property against robbery would
appear to indicate a logical deduction that
a lasting injury would be inflicted upon
them by sending them food, money and
clothing. The official mind is sometimes
fearfully and wonderfully made.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04

Mr.. MCGARIGLE, of Chicago, announces
that he will now settle down and try to
honestly support his family" The quail
i6cation introduced by the word honestly"
is rather large one. In order to do that,
Mr.. McGarigle will have to give up all the
funds that he got out or the public before
his hurried pilgrimage to Canada. That
might be uncomfortable for his family.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
WILD BOARS In NEW YORK.
The Fierce wild Hogs Found In the Valley
ofthe Hudson.

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.i
The existence of wild boars of the genuine
European sort in the mountains of the lower
Hudson valley will delight sportsmen. II
seems that New Yorker several years ago
imported nine boars to clear out the rattlers
that infested his estate on the Shawangunk
mountains. After they had cleared the in
closure, they dug under tie fence ana escaped.
They have bred and increased, and are as
ferocious as those of the Pyrenees. Hunting
them is dangerous pastime, quite beyond that
of hunting buffalos or grizzlies That will.
however, only add zest in the estimation of a
genuine sportsman.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
QUEER WAYS OF TELEPHONES.
An Inspector Says They Have Idiosyncrn
cies Like Human Beings.

cles Like Human Beings.
"a telephone is like a human being in some
respects" said a telephone inspector. There
are some of them that are always out Of order
and costing the company money, and some Of
them do not need attention once year. Now
and then telephone needs repairing so much
that the company actually loses money on it.
I've known telephone to get out of order
mysteriously and defy all attempts to locate
the trouble for a few days, and then in an
equally puzzling way 1t would come out all
right. We don't know half as much about
electricity as we will after q while, and there
are many things about the telephone that we
don't understand, but one or two simple les
sons about it should be learned by every one.
"For instance, every user of a telephone
should know that when he is listening and the
voice at the other end of the line becomes now
fainter and now more distinct, that induction
from other wires is causing the interruption,
and that the trouble will be only temporary.
Hang up the audiphone, take it down in a min
ute and everything will work all right. But
when there is rattling in the phone, disturb
ing the sound. and sometimes cutting it on
altogether, there is something wrong that
needs the attention of an Inspector"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04

THE report that they have discovered
iron mines In Oklahoma indicates that the
boomers are getting to work again; but they
cannot be said to be doing their best until
it is reported that they have discovered
gold. When they report the development
of natural gas wells, then they may be
truly considered to have caught their second
wind
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
a Geuulne GnribnIdl Day.

The Garibaldi Legion and many other italian
societies made their annual pilgrimage to-day
to the house on Staten Island in which Carl
baldI once lived. Speeches were made by prom
inent Italians from the porch where Garibaldi
smoked his pipe almost every evening for three
summers. Dinner and dance were had In the
adjoining garden.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04

THE suggestion is pertinent that if the
New York and Chicago Exchanges are
going to shut down on rival places where
the goddess of chance is wooed, to use the
mildest expression, they will have to sup
press the ocean steamships.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
A Naval Hero Dead.

A. ID. Smith. for so years in the naval service
of the United States, died last night in Brook
lyn. He had served on men-of-war during the
Mexican War and the Rebellion, He had
cruised around the world a dozen times or
more. For the last few years he was postmaster
in the Brooklyn navy yard.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
nIrs. MaybrIcl.. Too sick % be- TrIed.

LIVERPOOL June S.--Mrs. Maybrick, who, it
is charged, poisoned her husband, states that
she is unable to appear in court. 1t is alleged
that Mr.. Maybrick before his death wrote to
his brother that Ii his illness proved fatal an
autopsy ought to be held.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
The Panama Ca

The Panama Canal TO be Inspected.
PARIS. June 3-At meeting of 800 Panama
Canal shareholders in this city 1t was decided
to send a commission to Panama Immediately
to inspect the canal works.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
No PerformaDce at HarrI,,.

The company that is billed to give 1.-THE
Streets of New York" at Harris Theater this
week was storm-bound somewhere west of
Washington, d. c., and no performance could
be given yesterday. Manager Dean has tickets
placed on sale, though, for two performances
tO-day,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
OpepluU OF the Cala,s Hor,or.

PARIS, June a-The new harbor at Calais
was formally declared open by President
OaSnot to-day in the presence of great
throng Of peoplA The buildings along the
yharves and all the VESSELS in the port were
decorated with flags and bunting.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
AUTHORIZATION PERSONALITIES.

The persistence of the disposition to make
Judge White the mark for all the shafts
aimed against prohibition is apparent in
some of the comments made upon his recent
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04

MIR. CIeveland's Next Appearance.
Grover Cleveland will help Mayor Chaplin, Of
Brooklyn, review parade of Sunday School
children next Wednesday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
CURING BY HYPNOTISM.
A Hospital for the Purpose Shortly to be
Opened In France.

Opened In France.
Hypnotism is performing some strange and
almost miraculous cures. After ALL the faith
curists will be left in the shadows at the pres
ent rate of progress. 1t is now claimed that
the thirst and desire for intoxicants can be
who'll y eradicated by this method A hospital
is already opened in France to treat this class
of patients, and it is believed by truly scientific
men that the cures are permanent.
The patient is hypnotized and then told that
he must abhor and detest liquors. and never
again use them. 1t reads like joke, but there
still are stranger things in the world than were
dreamt of by the philosophers. The world
industriaIly
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
The National League Meetiue Po.rpoued.

LINCOLN, June S-President John Fitzrer.
aid, of the Irish National League of America,
to-day issued circular postponing the meet
ing of the League which was to have been held
Juiy9 at Philadelphia. This was done upon
the request of Mr.. Parnell.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
Marriage Licenses.

To the Editor of The Dispatcn.
Is it necessary to have license in Ohio in
order to get married? If so. where Is there a
place where license is not required? r.
CANoNsBURG, June 3.
Il. 1t is necessary. 2. Any town or city in
New JerseY1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
Au.trIn's Emperor VIII Go to Germany.

VIENNA, June 3-The Pesther Lloyd says
that Emperor Francis Joseph has accepted an
invitation to attend the German army anni-
versaries in the autumn.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04

The Johnstown manufacturing works
will be rebuilt; but the builders can hardly
be blamed if they make it condition pre-
cedent that the South Fork dam shall not.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04

IT is conducive to our national pride to
learn of the complete concessions which
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
A TABLE GROWING GREEN LEAVES.

The Strange Sight Witnessed ut House in
Canadian Town.
BRUSSELS, ONT, June 3-Your reporter,
while at private house the other day, saw a
very rare curiosity in the shape of flower
stand; it is made of poplar, and where the
small limbs have been cut off there are green
leaves; the flower stand is actually growing. 1t
was purchased from a traveller from Seaforth,
and is quite curiosity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
BELIEVERS In LUCK.

A Few Of the Many superstitions Of Gam
bIers and Other sporfs-The Poker Play
er's PecuIiarifies-scared by a Black
Cni-Lucky Pieces and Mascots.
Perhaps no class of people in the world are
as superstitious as the professional gamblers.
1t Is very rarely that one of the fraternity is
found who is not only superstitious, but NOR
bidly SO. Their dreams the way in which they
get out Of bed in the morning, whether they
see the new moon over the right or left shoul-
der, action OF animals, and thousand trivial
occurrences guide the gambler In his move
ments and lead him to play or abstain from
playing on certain days. Superstition follows
the gambler to the card table and never leaves
him, and there are hundreds OF the fraternity
who would quit game at the outset should
anything happen to induce them to believe that
the fates were against their winning at that
particular time.
Il have not won at poker for more than
year now" remarked a veteran sport, land Pn
tell you how 1t happened. have wholesome
horror Of cats, and especially of black ones. A
little over year ago-I had been playing
poker the night before, and had won hand
some some. stais-l take awoke late in the afternoon.
clothes. and try my luck again. feeling like
four-time winner. Imagine my feelings whena
large black cat confronted me at the door, and
would attempt to leave the room that cat
would bristle up and show fight. / finally
hurled bootjack at the creature, striking it
fairly in the head, and the animal turned and
ran away.
A Sports Nerves shaken.
II will confess that the incident unnerved
me, but after taking 'bracer,' and enjoying
hearty supper. Istrolled around to popular
resort and bought STACK Of chips, sitting into
game where there was plenty of money and
the players easy marks for a professional.
lost from the start-couldn't win pot And
the hands had beaten would break mans
heart-threes, hushes, full hands, aye, even
fours-would not win for me. After losing
heavily suddenly thought of the incident at
my hotel, with the big black cat, and I quit
right there and then, didn't play for quite
while, but finally thinking the spell had passed,
again sat in but lost as before, and that has
been my luck right along. believe the visit
Of that cat was warning, and If had obeyed
it and not played that night, would not have
struck this streak of bad Tuck. If my luck ever
changes again will never touch card the
same day see a cat in the house or on the
street."
As the narrator of the above absurd reason
for losing at cards was evidently imbued with
superstition, he was asked to relate other Incl
dents where card players had been pursued by
adversity for not paying due heed to significant
warnings.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
Playing With Cross Eyed Men,

snow. there may have been nothing signif-
cant in his getting that free ride and finding
that dime. but If he hadn't he would not have
risked a dollar. His superstition stood him
well in hand, and he could never be convinced
but that there is something in signs and Incl
dents which prompts man to act, and as
rule to act properly and successfully. He
wouldn't take $40 for that lucky 10cent piece
he found in the street, and now wears it as
watch charm. But the most superstitious of
all gamblers is the poker player. The slightest
sign or annoyance breaks him all to pieces. I
once saw poker player enter a room, remove
his coat, light cigar, invest in stack of chips,
and as he pulled his chair up to the table he
discovered that there was cross-eyed man in
the game. That settled it. Without word
he arose, turned in his checks, and, donning
his coat, left the room. When asked what his
peculiar conduct meant he replied:
why, wouldn't play in game Of cards
with cross-eyed man if he'd give me his
money
"'Why2'
"'Weil, can't say why, but I have premo-
milton that it is bad luck, and don't want to
be pursued by ill luck; that's the only explana-
tion can give