Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-24
NOTES AND MOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

LIE FEWER IrlenOS the DetLeI, the more ohc-
mies the merrier.
THE oatmeal trust has busted. They &C
knowledged the corn.
CoMEEAsY, who was clipped" at the races,
says he fell clear over
THE boomers have turned farmers, and are
cheerfully planting each other.
SECRETARY RUsK is cutting down expenses
and sowing tares among oficeholders.
THAT exile on board ship bound for Siberia
must have been in a transport of fear.
NEW HAvENs beat the Waterways 40 to 0.
The Waterburys have evidently run down.
THE man who goes to the New York Centen-
nial to enjoy himself had better laugh now.
A CHICAGO masher was fined SS5. What
crusher this would be to the postoffice poser
here.
WOMEN are abandoning corsets for the
corded waists. The men still cling to the
waist.
MRS. CLEVELAND has been seen going about
with package under her arm. 1t is supposed
to be Grover.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM MCCLELLAND started
for Dakota last night to look after his landed
interests there.
1T CAN be literally remarked that the Chi
Cages have wiped up the earth, they, however,
being the wipee.
JOHN MORGAN, Junction Railroad brake
man, fell under the cars yesterday and had his
two legs cut off.
The Lotus Club will give its fourth annual
reception at Odd Fellows Hall, Southside, to-
morrow evening.
THE Pittsburgs and Chicagos will have
game to-day. Game, however, should be made
of the spectators.
WHAT splendid exercise it will be for the
Pittsburg ball team to chase from one distant
saloon to another.
THE Arch street bridge from the foot of
Fifth avenue to Allegh heny City, is, it seems, to
be built Immediately.
IT is to cost 10 cents a head to make up the
next census and it looks as if somebody is 60
ing to come out ahead.
A LITTLE Eastern girl asked an unanswer-
able question when she asked her Pa what
political idiotoria1 was.
A PROMINENT Philadelphia physician says
baseball produces heart disease. Then he need
have no fear of the Phillies.
THE body of W. S. Wrigley, who was drowned
in the Allegheny Monday night while canoe
ing, has not yet been recovered.
RoUNDER purchased marriage license yes
terday. and his fair one wept when he said he
had secured slick FER license"
DETROIT has a noted confidence woman who
is also very expert at picking pockets. That is
q
''YoU need not call again. said she severely,
until you demand my presence" He de-
manded her presents the very next day.
AT the Ralston school ''St Louis in Chains
was presented by amateurs for the benefit of
st. Patrick's Church on Seventeenth street.
NEW YORK politicians say Pennsylvania
ought to have the ballot reform system insthis
State. New York politicians ought to know.
THE difference between an excuse and a rea-
solI is that there is a reason for Wanamaker's
presence in the Cabinet, but no excuse for it.
WILLIAM MoYLE claims his son has appro-
priated $1,000 to his own use. and he brought
suit for embezzlement against him yesterday.
JOHN F. BAXTER, the real estate dealer, of
Smithfleld street, is laid up for few days,
having an operation performed upon his knee.
TODAY Pittsburg will learn why Baby Anson
wept when he touched Americas shore. 1t
was because he knew he couldn'ttouch Sunday.
WIGGINs kindly steps in and says it will
probably rain this afternoon. This presents
terrific struggle for last place between the two
Onlies.
CITY TREASURER DENNIsToN reports that
there are number of taxes still unpaid, and
there only remains II days when 5 per cent will
be added
AFTER all maudlin sympathy and frenzied in
dignation is exhausted, the average voter
doesn't care rap what saloon was knocked
out and what wasn't
1-..- An.
fTbtJast niob+ Hardv is sold 70 boTo cboEod
A1ica whom the Latter bit him ~, the bood With
lamp. Both were jugged.
MANAGEh " LIE anu trol' heliar nave ln-
.no a.. s.lo % iUl,.a -
Opera House this afternoon.
CHIEF BROWN, General frelSnt agent
William Stewart, OF the pennsylvania Com
ent 70 Ne or last o ni0bt 'Nn Dro"n
~, = -.,....I..
eVIu1nsS IoPe " AusuS' 9pies'
he mas Deen nearu from. ana says MS present
residence lin the other life" is uncomfortable
1he must oe "iiions Onio~so PeoPle'
AN LIMOS woman ran against ner husband
Ior burgess and lost oy Dut one vote. Womans
heart is revealed when it is said that vote was
her own. Her husband voted for himself.
MISS OLoF KRARER, a little 3l-year.old
Esuuimau lady, 40 inches tall, will lecture on
"Greenland, or Life in the Frozen North" at
the Bellevue M. E. Church tomorrow evening.
THE Mendelssohn Club. of the Southside
oovo its 6rst concert in Odd Fe11ovvs, Hon Iost
-. Nj 80 r., n. w n, -, -
IIEuC' niS2 s en a1sass, III " hngnsh
anu ohol 10 VI W '0iOo' 'A"inieneu ING Huslc'
WHAT betwixt condol1ng with the rejected
saloon Keepers and congratulatlng with the ac-
cepted, the sponger managed 20 get a pretty
goou jag oh see'eiuAy ~' d oon nPalatiFely small
IHE Cn1cago anu flIIsDurg baseDaH CluDs
will attend this evenings performance at the
Biiou in body, and tomorrow afternoon the
Hanlons' company will attend the game at
Recreation Park.