Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-18
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters Of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

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! by White Gaps.
THAT pretty girl who rose to the occasion
must have been bud.
IT is not strange that the hail fellow well met
| Is generally showed under.
DEAL gently with thy fellow man. He may
have four aces mp his sleeve.
WILSON JACK had his arm broken at the
American Iron Works yesterday,
THE girl who made false impression must
have done it with her store teeth.
BoULANeER's march has fallen so fat his
enemies have changed it to galop.
STANLEY has discovered new inlet It is
about time he has discovered an outlet.
A LAWYER who talks prohibition should
certainly not handle cases before the bar.
FIVE towns in Kansas have elected women
for mayors. Thus is prohibition rewarded.
AMATEUR boasts that he takes leading part
in "Uncle Toms Cabin" He leads the donkey.
THE ball park bleaching boards will now oc-
cupy an important place in airing 2Oscent
| linen.
THE very highestpriced corset only costs sS5
This is probably because they are only made to
bust.
AMELR RrvEs is to issue another book in
two years. Thank heaven, in two years we may
be dead.
BOSTON women are crusading against the
forks Pittsburg girls are still involved in q
war with postofice spoons
PRETTY girls upon the ave.; young men ask
what will you havef' Fun and frolic in the
air, Virgins says the weather's fair.
THE Pittsburg Traction Company received
two new cars from ]. G. Brill & Co. yesterday.
They were put on the tracks at once.
THE Committee on Public Charities met
yesterday afternoon, unanimously elected DR..
]. R McCord Chairman and adjourned.
THE new Alaskan Governor has been an in-
Innate friend Of Senator Edmunds for many
years. He probably went TO Alaska to get
warm.
Two lively Americans have been fined for
firing on their revolvers in London. Wonder
what those Bow street people think revolvers
were made for.
IT'S said Lydia Thompson turned scarlet
when the hotel clerk yelled Front last even
ing. Had he seen the performance he would
have called front back.
A PARTY of picked marines has sailed, to
take care Of Americans in Paris, and in few
weeks Americans in Paris will be taking care
of lot of plucked sea ducks.
LowRIEs undertaking wagon was upset in
Black lane, Allegheny. yesterday afternoon,
and the driver, James Lowrie, and John Otto
were thrown out and badly bruised.
THE fear of unmerciful guying by the street
gamin is about the only thing that prevents
many young men from dressing in a style to
suit their extraordinary countenances.
A STORY comes from the slope that the
Grand Army men are about to capture Lower
California. AS they deserve, and are about to
receive the earth, that suburb may aswell be
included.
SPECIAL OFFICER D1sERT, Of the Ft Wayne
road, yesterday arrested Charles Graham and
James Wilson, who had stolen q ride from the
West. They were sent to Jail for ten days by
Alderman Tatem.
d. S. WARNocK, an assistant In the passen-
ger department of the Lake Erie, leaves this
morning for New Orleans, where he has &C
the Southern Pacific road.
MAGIsTRATE BRUSH yesterday committed
Dennis Maher without bail for the stabbing of
Al Parkinson in Bawrencevllle Tuesday night.
The latter is very low, but may be able to tes-
tify by Monday, if he RECEIVERS.
NINETY days in the workhouse is the penalty
imposed upon William Sheridan, Baltimore
and Ohio train agent, for robbing Miss Lulu
Day of her pocketbook, which she had left
momentarily on the window sill of the car.
A AGERMAN citizen tapped a telephone wire
and applied it to himself as cure for rheuma-
tism. 1t happened that business man was
telephonIng his typewriter girl" and the poor
Teuton fell dead with an affection OF the heart.
1T Is officially announced that the United
States will take no backward steps at the Sa-
moan conference This would be delightful
news were it not for the fact that Uncle Sam
can scarcely take any backward steps, because
he has taken none forward.
THE soda water fountain in Jacob Goett-
mans confectionery, at the corner of North
Canal and Chestnut streets, Allegheny, ex-
ploded yesterday while being charged. A
portion of the fountain struck Mr.. Goettman
on the leg, fracturing it in two places.
GooDw1N's restaurant, under the OH Ex-
change, has put in an electrical weighing ma
where they can drop their last nickel. No
weight is attached to the report that the scaly
Standard has any interest IN the contrivance.
MILK SHAKE JOHN A MARTIN has sore
hand which. he says, is due to the Kellar row
at the Sam Small lecture in the Smithfeld M.
E. Church recently, when, as he alleges, Trus-
tee Youngson pushed him and Kellar down.
stairs. Martin threatens to sue the church for
damages.
A BABY was left on the steps of the house
No. "a Arch street. Allegheny, last evening. 1t
was well dressed and on q card in the basket
was written: This child has no father or
mother. Take care, of it and you will be re-
warded." The little one will be sent to the
City Home to-day.
AN old folks concert will be given by the
young people of the Bellefeld Presbyterian
Church at the Bellefeld schoolhouse this and
tomorrow evenings Rich costumes have been
secured and elaborate preparations made,
which with an excellent programme have en-
sured delightful success.
THAT West Virginia convict who refuses to
accept pardon from acting Governor Wilson,
because it is granted on the grounds of insanity,
saws he has more sense in minute than the
Governor has shown in his whole term The
convict bases his statement on the fact that he
has made no claim to the Governorship.
MARY OTIS, a domestic, set on fire the board
ing house of William Esler, Twenty-seventh
street and Penn avenue, about o'clock yester-
day morning, by pouring petroleum on the
kindlings IN the kitchen stove after lighting
them John McDowney owned the frame
building occupied by Esler, and the formers
loss is $1,000; the latter's, on furniture, etc.,
81 500 insured for 81 900.