Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-15
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.


Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.
FRECKLEs.
MEN of Observation-Disclosures.
A QUEER mana counterfeiter.
WHAT news my friend? Warwick.
SENATOR A. H. CoLoUrrT is at the Ander-
son..
RATHER strange that sober Lent should be
called the fast season.
MoNTERCoLE struck the town yesterday,
presumably for loan.
WHAT caused you to leave your position.
Davie. Tired, eh?' mo, retired"
CAN it be said the man injured by a cable
car was seized by the Pittsburg grip?
HERMAN HOLMES. passenger agent OF the
Louisville and Nashville, is in the city.
ZUG & Co.'S new mill is shut down for few
days on account of break in the squeezers.
G. E. GREGORY, the popular ticket agent of
the Baltimore and Ohio, is quite i'll with fever.
THE Door government building is threatened
with a new architect. This ought to finish 1t.
IT is about time the usual 1O-year-old girl
skips into an early grave per the jumping rope
route.
HER name was Kate, and she loved mill
man, and the horrid boys called her roller
skate.
IT seems the Nipsic is all right and probably
no call will be made for those Allegheny
troops. :.
GENERAL JAMES A EK1N, U. 8. Ais at the
Monongahela. He leaves for Washington
Monday.
HENRY MARTIN fell over the B. & o. retain
ing wall, that didn't retain in his case, and
was badly bruised.
l1k-
distractions, and the two-legged sidewalk i'm
pediments are in danger.
THE case of Brace Brothers against the K. of
L. bobs up with its regular adjournment. this
time until next Thursday.
The report that John Evans.was, shot above
McKeesport is only partially true. he was
shot above the left knee.
WIGGINs-the unfortunate who must go on
record before, instead of after an event-says
it will be fair and warmer.
HISTORY was rather reversed yesterday when
James Campbell used broomstick on Miss
Savena. She has sued him.
AGENT O'BRIEN's new bill has been ap-
proved by the Philadelphia Humane Society,
and they will push it in Harrisburg.
THE Committee of Arrangements of the
State Medical Society meet at the Mononga-
hela tonight to prepare for the June gathering.
THE Thirty-second ward is to have a new
school building, to cost 81 500. 1t will be located
at the corner Of Bertha and Sycamore streets.
GEORGE STEVENS thinks it is even more
unlucky to get on ladder than under it. He
fell and broke his collar bone in Wightman's
glass house.
IT is not true that lot of respectable young
men wrecked an Italians stand because he in
sisted upon hanging out an ice cream sign.
They only killed him.
THE Germania Brass Band, of the Southside,
surprised Alderman-elect d. j. McGeary by
calling at his house on Sidney street, last
night, and serenading him.
GROUND was broken for the new Forbes
street station house yesterday. 1t is to cost
$4,000 and will be ready for numerous distin-
guished guests next October.
THE pickle manufacturers who met in this
city dispersed all over the country yesterday
and probably will not be heard from again un-
Til they disagree with each other.
A BOY, in spinning top yesterday, made
slip and put it through Duffy's bakery window,
on Wylle avenue and the kid not only lost his
top but will be sued for the accident.
FRANK FRY, brakeman on the Pennsyl-
vania road, had his hand crushed while
coupling cars at Sixteenth street yesterday.
He was taken to the West Penn Hospital.
THOSE warlike gentlemen who waltzed
around the Duquesne were probably only look
ing for an italian chestnut that has been so
thoroughly roasted it is ready to be cracked.
EIGHT sanguine Armstrong county farmers,
on their way to the new Southern California
gold fields went through the Union depot last
night. They will probably return by another
route,
THE man Mcfarland, arrested at the Mont
gomery stable fire yesterday, was charged with
arson by Inspector McAleese. Justice Gripp
got there first, however, and had previously
sent him to the workAouse as suspicious
character.
THE English sparrow doesn't know what a
big country this is and isn't onto the scheme of
wintering in the South. Having owned the
world all winter he is almost paralyzed into
silence by the warm weather influx of prettier,
sweeter-voiced natives.
JOHN KELLY went to Harrisburg on the fast
line last night to help boom the labor bill pre-
pared by Mrs. Barry. 1t restricts the hours of
work for women and children, and provides for
all reasonable safety for laborers. Mr.. Kelly
claims the bill will become law.
THE State Executive Committee of the Pro-
hibition amendment party meet at the Lochiel
House. Harrisburg, to-day. General Harry
White, A. H. Leslie and j. n. Mcconnell, rep
resenting Western Pennsylvania, leave early
this morning to attend the meeting.
REV. w. B. WATKINS will lecture tonight
in the Smithfield NJ. E. Church. The subject
chosen is 1.-THE Home of Longfellow," aud is
the first of series given under the auspices of
the Church Oxford League. The reverend
gentleman was former pastor of the church.
"WHY Mrs W-who is that wildlooking
man in the yard beating carpets? should
think you would be afraid to be here alone. He
was swearing horribly when came in" Mrs.
W, sweetly, Its my husband. He is
taking days rest from his ardorous Office
duties"
JUDGE AcHEsoN refused to grant the Edi-
son Electric Company any additional time yes
terday to collect their testimony in the suit
now pending between them and the Westing-
house Electric Company, and the case will
come up for argument in four weeks from next
Saturday.
THE mysterious ''spotter' is not yet identi-
fed, and is worrying people considerably. He
still clings to the dinner bucket, light mustache
and face guaranteed to inaugurate municipal
reform. At first it was thought he was looking
for Charley Ross, but the presence of a dinner
bucket creates the suspicion he is looking for
restaurant that doesn't use margarine.
FOR February the report of the Allegheny
Relief Society shows good work accomplished
in q benevolent line. There were 324 families
relieved, besides 80 widows and 36l children.
Over 30 tons of coal were distributed, shoes,
dress goods, -four, potatoes etc. Secretary
Anna McCandless extends thanks for dona-
tions to the Ladies' Aid Society, brewer fund,
Mrs. Gusky, and, besides others, the receipts
of an entertainment by bows. Miss Tildesley