Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

Tersely Treated.
A NEW thing in jewelry-solid gold
He has taking way-the pickpocket.
SOME men may be fast, but Tanner is faster.
THE Union will win in every war because it
is always one.
A Wheel, of fortune-That made by Grant
at Appomatox.
HENRY PHIPPs, JR., went to Washington
last evening.
CENTRAL station prisoners generally under
60 a searching investigation.
The men engaged in a knockdown argument
must have used weighty words.
A SUNNY Sabbath; bat everything seemed
sad. Even the grass gruesome.
MEssRs. FRANK h. LEAF and Frank Douds,
of Rochester, Pa, are in the city.
New YORK says Pennsylvania is pig. 1t
doesn't belong in the Pen, anyway.
THE girl who broke off an engagement must
have been attached to poor stick.
CLARET mugs are fashionable on the dinner
table. Whisky mugs still go under it.
SOME people are crying that they don't get
justice who would certainly cry if they did.
THE financial gentleman advocating electric
instead of cable cars is certainly pro motor.
PEACE is to be declared in Hayti. They do
that generally when there is nothing but piece
left.
CO. ScULL, General Passenger Agent of
the Baltimore and Ohio, spent Sunday in the
city.
NOODLES says there must have been sudden
turn in the tied, when the old gentleman's dog
grabbed him unawares.
THE Colored Voters Association will hold
an open meeting in the Franklin street school
tomorrow evening.
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rest. He is evidently able to rest at a place
that makes most people weary.
JAIL services were conducted by the Rev.
David Jones, D. D., of the First NJ. P. Church,
A quartette of excellent singers attended.
AT l2:l5 the great walking match begins in
this city, and if things don't mend a great
walking match will soon begin in Washington
City.
THE st. Patrick's Literary Society will give
a benefit for st. Patrick's Church, on Seven
teenth street, April %, in the Ralston school
house.
REV. JAMES TAYLOR, of the Lawrenceville
Baptist Church. baptized four persons in the
Allegheny yesterday. He will baptize 10 more
next Sunday.
A WASHINGTON museum manager tried to
engage man reported to have refused an Of
fee The man explained it was on the fourth
floor, with no elevator.
WILLIAM PEARsAI, one of the heroes of the
Wood street wreck, enters the employ of
Booth & Finn this morning to superintend the
filling up of the Wilmot street bridge.
81 HAVE here" said the author proudly, "a
new idea. 1 open the story with climax"
And L. said the editor, reaching for his sup
pressor, Il will open it with meat AK"
BoULANGER would have the old saying read:
sit is good to fly from ones country" He evil
IDENTIFY believes in the survival of the ittest,
not meaning the fittest as the superlatiye of
fight.
THE fact that the average man can't name
the Cabinet, even if given half an hours
thought, augurs very well for the Cabinet.
This doesn't mean that all prominent men are
notOrious-Some are worse.
A WHEELING paper says that the Pitts
burg young man must have come from that
city who broke an engagement because his girl :
appeared in a low-necked dress. If both items
are true there is no doubt he will 60 there
finally.
HITS at the Cabinet by mean papers-"Wan-
amaker suits."-"Did it ever strike Quay, Wan
amaker is the only man who can give him
fits?"-" Clothed with righteousness was
good text for Wanamaker's Sabbath class, but
a bad advertisement for himself"
THE seventh anniversary of the Sharpsburg
and Etna Y. NJ. e. A. was celebrated in the
Sharpsburg NJ. E. Church last evening, with
choral and congregational music and addresses
by Rev. MessrS. A. II. Calvert, q. 9. Sheppard.
]. T. McCrory and L. Mcguire. and an annual
report full of gratifying statements from w.
A. Shaw.
IT is in the springtime Annie and the flower
lets should flow. but Virgins has made trouble
in the air. 1t is time the trees are boughing,
but somehow they do not bough, and to kick
the Weather bureau is not fair Our wits
should be more cunning but they are not very
Gun, or we would know that Virgins is
bloke. When he prophesies he's funning,
though we think it isn't fun. and he finally will
die just for the joke. He says it will be nicer,
and we hope it will be nice. 1t always isn't best
to fool a dupe. If again it turns to iciness
we'n put him on the ice. and will finally serve
Virgins in the soup.