Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-25
NOTES AND NOTIONS.

NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.
SPRING fever.
BURNING eloquence-Firing poet
A FLIGHT of fancy-A trip to the moon.
A SENSATIONAL afair-An electric battery.
VARI-coLoRED dresses are the rage-the hus-
bands rage.
PEOPLE who hold up trains will probably not
be let down very easy.
COLONEL ]. N. SCHooNMAKER, of this city,
went to Chicago last night.
THE man who sang of his home beyond the
c, must have referred to the D.
W. F. JOHNSON, of the Hubbard axle
factory, had his hand badly crushed.
JAIL services were held yesterday. The
prisoners were not carried away with the
music.
CYNTHIA LEONARD says women have larger
brains than men. Some women have larger
heads.
EVANGELIST BAILEY addressed an East
End audience on Mothers influence" last
night
WILLIAM K1RT will have hearing to-day
on the charge of stealing keg of beer from
wagon.
PUBLIC parks presented midsummer scene
yesterday Every lady wore new suit but
dame nature
BELTzHoovERITEs want Washington ave-
nue. paved, and they ask the city to put up for
half the expense.
NEW WORKERS refer to Andrew Carnegie as
being from Pittsburg Many people here think
he is from Alabama.
BECAUSE Fred Grant goes as Minister to vi
.Ar.. A. r0nFlr-
man is at all well bred.
FAITH cure seems to be moving toward the
same headstone that marks the grave of the
blue grass craze. Next?
THE first campaign canard is afloat Science
claims there are authentic cases of men made
drunk by drinking water.
EDWARD LEWIS, of Lawrenceville, was fined
SIS and costs by Magistrate Brush yesterday for
assaulting Samuel Harris.
A BUGGY driven by Andrew Shields along
Butler street was overturned and broken. No
body hurt but the buggy.
JOHN DAWSON and VIM. Brown fought
about woman. Their battered faces Will ap-
pear at the morning hearing.
THAT man whom an officer swore put his
arms around seven people, would make beau
tiful support for Emma Abbott.
BURGLARS broke into the store of Mrs.
Craig, No. 25l9 Soutnside, and blew open safe,
but found nothing and decamped.
MEssRs. Gersh, Williams and Hama had a
triangular settoo, when an officer came along
and called it a draw. Hearing to-day.
THE Exposition is looming up beautifully,
and is significant of many things great and
good, instructive and amusing, this fall.
THE police were notified that James Blondey,
the brunette cashier of Wallace's restaurant,
had disappeared with SIS early Sunday morn
ing.
ARRANGEMENTS are completed for the first
anniversary of Acme Council 2l9 Jr o. U. A.
NJ, Wednesday evening. at Odd Fellows
Hall.
A CHICAGO artist has drawn, with his eyes
closed, picture of their Mayor. As in some
other cities, that is about the only time he can
see him.
LOUIS T.-Yes, there are sulphur baths in
other places besides West Virginia, and if you
probably find them.
STEAL would be fatal-Since Pittsburg must
have new postmaster. as the baby said when
it swallowed the mothers brooch, Hits to be
oped you're pure gold.''
1--WE rode over too many thousand mile to
give up my seat to a woman" growled a pas
senger on the cable, but the lady said he evil
IDENTIFY hadn't got beyond the rood.
THE Washington Inaugural Centennial Com
mittee will meet tonight in the rooms of the
Grain and Flour Exchange, and hear the re-
ports of the various subcommittee.
LEVY, the clever New York poet of the new
school, writes with measure, but without
rhyme. That is where he is behind some Pitts
burg poets. who can write without both.
PROCEEDS of panic-Rockafeller gave his
parson son-in-law $500, 600 dot with his daugh-
ter. and Just 1000 oil brokers turned uneasily
in bed and groaned aloud and dreamed horrid
dreams.
A FARMER who wanted to use report of the
Department of Agriculture for a scrap book,
has the thanks of Secretary Rusk. as he is the
first man who has invented any use whatever
for them.
AT the club reception-"Oh, Charlie what
have you done?" gasped Name as terrific
crash greeted that worthy's efforts to hand
only ti-tipped the waiter"
THIEVES jimmied a Center avenue cigar
store and walked away with $40 worth of goods
This regular tobacco stealing looks like stab
at the Sunday law, as it is well-known all
stores are deserted on the Sabbath.
MORE charges of plagiarism are being
brought While they are at it why don't some
carping critic read Poe's forgotten wilson"
where he will find not only the plot but the
striking mirror idea of Jekyll and Hyde.
CLARA SMITH was found lying on the steps
of Seventh avenue residence, drunk and
dressed up. Officer Ketter disturbed her
slumbers and Gripp sent her to join her num-
erous brother, John Smith, at the workhouse.
GEORGE W. MILLER, Grand Vice Protector
of the knights and Ladies of Honor; B. Good
man. Grand Secretary, with large number of
the members of the order. will leave for Bea-
yer Falls to-day to attend the anniversary of
Beaver Valley Lodge No. l2SS.
THE universal American is going to be three
times as plentiful abroad this summer as ever
before. He will 60 over with the most rabid
opposition to the deadly tipping system. but
after being snubbed and insulted, neglected
and starved, he will prefer robbery and live
well.
MEMBERS Of local gun clubs arc drawing
closer together, and planning when and where
to shoot. 1t is said the bay at Erie is affording
| grand duck shooting. As for the fishers, there
| are a few quiet rillssnot many miles from here
! that might yield to clever angler some $50
trout per day. The knowing ones are not talk
| ing, however.
"OwL" passengers on the Fifth avenue cable
| will be pleased to learn that the man who de-
| lays them for many minutes after midnight is
tall, spare fellow who crawls into the last