Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-26
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters Of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.


ONE can well judge the public pulse By the
number Of its BEATS
THAT BARRIERS trust in Boston deserves
good lathering. Next!
THE funeral of Alderman William Gallagher
will be held this morning.
DIR. g. A. MUELLER returned from flying
Eastern trip last evening
A FEW thousand Miss directed letters are
posted in this city every day.
SAMUEL MAXWELL is charged with assault
ing and battertng VIM. Bereit.
I IF the Chicsgos would fire nine or ten more
men maybe they could play ball
THE man who dipped his pen in gall must
have been asking for small loan.
A PROPER a5breviation for the proposed
State of Oklahoma would be o. K.
DELINQUENT TAX COLLECTOR FORD col
lected S, 1856 during the last month.
OCCUPANTS Of the bleaching boards are GER
tainly not cheerless lot when Us win.
AGENT PAssAvANT, of the Union Pacific
passed through on his way to New York.
THE racing season draws on apace, but alas
for the boys, the pool rooms are not running.
THOSE two new streets in Berlin named Bach
and Wagner should become passages of note.
1T is one of the beauties of the language that
man may take stand. yet continue sitting.
JOHNNIE QUINN, a I4-year-old boy at Soho,
tumbled over wa Il and broke his collar bone.
Mr.. YoUNGHUsBAND said he wanted to get
little fresh heir, when he brought in his new
baby.
HOSE ANNA" says Wanamaker to the coun-
ter girl then forgetting himself murmers
Amen"
MISS EAST END says there is one tower she
doesn't think she will go on this summer-the
Eiffel tower.
ERIE county Prohibitionists aren't going to
plant barley or rye this spring. There is more
money in hops.
JOHN CoUcHLAN, employed at Moorhead &
McLain's mill, was knocked down and badly
injured by a crane.
JOHN SAMPsELL, who is associated with
Isadore Bowers in suits for false arrest is an
employe of Bowers.
SEVERAL Chinese OF high rank are to visit
Chicago Their rank can never be as high as
the Chicago rivers.
PHILOSOPHY is beautiful thing. 1t ena-
bles a man to talk so cheerfully of other
peoples misfortunes-
JAMES REED, of McKeesport, dropped dead
Yesterday. The Coroner will hold an inquest
He was 81 years old
HUMANE AGENT O'BRIEN had Maggie
Connors arrested yesterday for getting drunk
and neglecting her family.
The children of the Twenty-eighth ward
schools gave their second public entertainment
last night. 1t was success.
DAVID WILLIAMS and Tim Barrett, young
boys,are accused of trying to tap Anton Roeth-
leins till. They are now in hoe.
THE Board of Viewers held a final meeting
for the assessments on the construction of the
immense Ellsworth avenue sewer.
CHARLES WATTS. employed at the Brad
dock wire mill, had an eye torn out and was
otherwise injured by steel splinter.
CAR No. broke grip at the Fifth ovenue
loop and a long blockade ensued. Eight formed
In line and one car was badly damaged.
How doth the busy humble bee. improve
each shining hour, How doth that same warm
smiling sun, turn all the book beer sour.
MAGISTRATE McKENNA yesterday commit
ted Captain shanafelt to Jail for hearing on
May 8 for feloniously cutting Samuel Lutte.
CHIEF BROWN says he didn't run away. He
asked openly that no licenses be issued in the
"OwP district and he is glad there were none.
THAT was a nervy thief who coolly distracted
So and few trinkets from Captain Browns
desk, and right in sight of the Police Inspectors
Office
boobies thinks he would make an excellent
actor. When he calls on Miss Eastend he gen.
orally makes good run before her papa's foot
lights. ID
monten for the Arctic circle succeeds in reach
ing the inside, they will probably find McAllis-
ter's 400
SIC. GILL; promises two grand full dress
operatic concerts, the first April 26 and the Sec
ond April 30. They will be held in the Pitts
burg Club theater.
MAJOR W. W. GREENLAND, Quartermaster
of the Second Brigade, is in the city making
arrangements for the transportation of the
troops to New York.
A CHICAGO Northsider has been found who
has conscientious scruples. They were lmmedi-
ately pulled and placed on exhibition. The
Northsider is convalescing.
THE Oil Exchange will probably close from
Saturday over next Tuesday. This will not
only give the lambs. but also the kids. rest
Brain work is so wearisome.
JUDGE WHITE may take a. pleasure trip,
Chief Brown may take slide,
But Justice doesn't give rip
While Wishart's by her side.
A GATHERING of the One Hundred and
Thirty-ninth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volun-
teers will be held in City Hall Tuesday evening
to consider the dedication of the Gettysburg
tablet.
THE seventieth anniversary of the intro
duction of Odd Fellowship into this country
occurs to-day. A grand parade, a military
drill and reception will be given in honor of
the occasion.
A MAN was shooting robins in the Eleventh
ward, Allegheny, yesterday, when Officer Ken
nedy attempted to arrest him. The man es-
capped. but the officer captured the gun, which
he dropped in his fight.
JOHN BURKE, the man arrested by Sol Coul-
son on suspicion. is another man who acknowl-
edges he has just been out of the pen. couple
of months. He had in his possession nine Sill
yer watch cases and one of gold.
EIGHTY-FIvE Indians from the Sioux,
Brule, Cheyenne, Ogalalla and Red Colored
tribes, in charge of Major ]. NJ. Burke, passed
through the city yesterday. bound for the Paris
Exposition, where they will be exhibited.
PRESIDENT CARR, of the Twenty-seventh
ward school, charges seven boys with malicious
mischief. He alleges that they have broken
the windows of the st. Clair school and stolen
books. Three of them have been arrested
THE rumor that Postmaster-GeneraI Wana-
maker had offered to pay tor the completion of
the Power Hall of the Exposition, in this city,
if the structure would bear his name was
denied last nightly Mr.. Edwards Mr. Wana-
makers representative in this cit
MEssRs. T. R. PACKER and J. G. McWill-
Jams, of Lawrenceville, may be gentlemen OF
their word, but when they tell Of catching an
alligator four feet long in Whartonsburg
creek people are apt to inquire what sort of
bait was used. Then again, no one doubts
their word that they found baby's shoe in its
stomach, but some doubling Thomases are ask
ing what became of the other shoe, and who
has lost one-legged baby.
WE will go to Paree, and the Eiffei tower
see.
Tidings of comfort and Joy.
We will paint the city red just before we 90
to bed.
Tidings of comfort and joy.
We will wish we hadn't spent, our very last red
cent.