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Sources of the Trouble.

Some patients can name the day of the month
when it is due and arrange their affairs accord
ingly. knowing that on such day they must
cease from the usual haunts of men and be, to
all useful intents and purposes, as il they were
not until after another date which they can
also fix with certainty. With many the dates
vary with the seasons as they are cold or hot,
wet or dry. Some have connected their annual
period of suffering with the blossoming of the
Roman rag weed but this seems to be no more
than one of the many Immediately exciting
causes, any one CT two of which will affect
some patients, though they may not be often
sive to others. The smell of old cheese, of am
monia, of naptha, of benzine, of cayenne pep
per, of dry hay, or straw dust; the dust raised
in sweeping. or that of an audience hall when
set in motion by feet passing in and out: the
perfume of tube roses, or cape jasmine, or the
odor of ailanthus blossoms. are some OF these
exciting causes. Animal odors are peculiarly
liable to produce attacks even in localities
where the subject Is otherwise well. A severe
attack has been known to last two or three
days with person who had never had one be-
fore or since by attending an agricultural fair
where he had been appointed one of the judges
of cattle. This gentleman stated thar, though
very fond of domestic animals. and owning
many Of them, he had always avoided visiting
them where many were inclosed togethar, be-
cause he felt a Brightness of breath;" but he
had never had asthma before nor thought
of it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
Outsiders and Political Booms.

Until the nomination of Franklin Pierce for
the Presidency the word outsider was un-
known. The Committee on Credentials came
in to make its report and could not get into the
hall because of the crowd of people who were
not members Of the convention. The Chairman
of the convention asked if the committee was
ready to report and the Chairman of the com
mittee answered: "Yes, Mr.. Chairman; but
the committee is unable to get inside on ac-
count of the crowd and pressure Of these out
siders." The newspaper reporters, ever ready
to appreciate good word or phrase. took up
the word and used it. Since then it has been a
common word and we could not do without it.
Boom" in its new sense of meaning popular
ciamor for a man. or for any question or move
ment, is recent word-being first used as such
in 1880. Grant was beng run for third term.
This brought out bitter opposition, even
among Republicans. One paper said the move
nient was like boom across a swollen stream,
taking in all that was worth having. A st.
Louis paper took it up, and said the third-term
movement was properly called boom, as it
raked in everything on the top of the muddy
stream of politics, mostly trash and scum.
This gave a new meaning to the word. Since
then it has been in common use as such.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.

POSTAGE FREE IN THE UNITED STATES.
DAILY DISPATCH, One Year. 90
DAILY DISPATCH Per Quarter. 200
DAILY DISPATCH, One Month ................. 20
DAILY DISPATCH. including Sunday, year. 10 90
DAILY DISPATCH, including Sunday, Smiths. 50
DAILY DISPATCH, including Sunday. month 80
SUNDAY DISPATCH, One Year ................. ? SO
WEEKLY DISPATCH, One Year ................ j Is
THE DAILY DISPATCH is delivered by carriers at
is cents per week, including Sunday edition, at
20 cents per week,
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SLANG AND ITS ORIGIN.

How Some Popular Words and Phrases
Came Into Being : Pat Expressssns
witch Found Favor - When Boom.
Chestnuts, Too Thin aud Other Words
started.
This may be called in one sense the age of
slang. But after all what is called slang is fire.
quently the giving of a new meaning to old
words or the invention of new words from old
roots. The slang of to-day becomes the ele-
giant language of tomorrow. It is interesting
to note how many of the commonest words and
even phrases which were once regarded as
sfangy and inelegant became part of the polite
language of the times. Words like lives have
a biography Many words, indeed, have llsto-
ries which are histories of important person
ages and events in the affairs Of the world
This makes the history Of a word often as in
teresting and as valuable as that of indi-
viduals.
aDun" is word now whose meaning Is
known to every one who understands the En-
glish language Too many wish they did not
know it. Yet at the beginning of this century
it was unknown as a verb. About that time a
constable in England named John Dun became
celebrated as a first-class collector of bad ac-
counts. When others would fail to collect
bad debt Dun would be sure to get it out of the
debtor. So well known did this become that
people from all the surrounding country sent
him their accounts WREN they could not collect
them. It soon passed into current phrase
pay when asked he would have to be
"Dunned." Hence it soon became common in
such cases to say "you will have to Dun so-and-
so If you wish to collect your money"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09

IT is announced that the Shah of Persia,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
METROPOLITAN MURMURs.
A Battle for Her Hand and Heart.

.NEw FORK BUREAU sPHcIALs.y
NEW YORK, August 8-Michael Young and
Eddie Moran. young mechanics who live on
Staten Island, have loved the same girl for
almost two years. They have had several rough
and tumble Gghts about her. and have repeat
edly asked her to settle. their rivalry by choos-
ing between them. She refused to interfere.
A few weeks ago Young and Moran agreed to
decide in the prize ring who should have the
girl. Each punched the bag, ate eggs and took
a spin on the seashore daily. This training
brought Moran's weight down to i50 pounds.
Young weighed two pounds more. They met
in the presence of some so friends and acquaint-
ances near New Brighton this morning. They
fought seven long rounds, in which both showed
less science than gameness. In the first four
rounds Young put in some telling blows. and
looked as if he were going to win the girl but
Moran began to pick up after that. In the last
round, while Young was thoughtlessly wiping
of the blood which was streaming from his
nose Moran, with true prize fighters instincts.
dealt him terrible blow under the left ear and
knocked him fat on his back. The referee
gave Moran the fight and $500 which the spec
tators had subscribed for the winner. Moran
expects to marry the girl next October.
The Ocean Record Again Broken.
A cablegram from Southampton to the mari
time exchange to-day announced that the
Hamburg steamship Columbia passed the
Lizard at $50 this morning and came into
harbor eight hours later. This breaks the
record. The Columbia cleared Sandy Hook at
9:50 The ships correct time is, therefore,
days, 20 hours, 40 minutes and 36 seconds. The
time of her maiden voyage, till to-day, the best
on record was days, q hours and q minutes
Has Left the sfnge Forever.
Comely Alice Hood, daughter of the sarsa-
parilla millionaire and the O6eron of Augustin
Dalys midsummer Nights Dream" is mar
ried Miss Hoods friends believed that the
young lady was busy making her arrangements
to go to Europe, where, according to a pro-
gramme she had mapped out she was to study
for year and then rejoin Mr. Daly's organiza-
ton. Miss Hoods contemplated trip will never
be made She has given up the stage forever.
she says, for the rich young man from Wash
ington whose name she has Just taken. Miss
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-06
HOW THE POLICE WORKED.
Not One Article Was srUIen-GOOds ut the
Central station.

Not One Article Was srOlen-GOods ut the
Central station.
The Police Bureau was on thescene avery
few minutes after the alarm was given. The
board meeting of inspectors, captains and
the assistant superintendent of police had
lust adjourned when the alarm was
sounded from box 16. Inspector Nc
Aleese, who is an old fireman, said
that No. engine house would not send out
an alarm unless something big was in pro-
press and started for the scene. The
inspector, Chief of the Department of
Public Safety, Brown and Assistant
Superintendent O'Mara got on the ground
almost simultaneously and the manner in
which the street was roped in, the men
from the Southside and East End were put
on duty was a sample of rapid transit
rarely equaled in this country and never
before in Pittsburg.
The special officers were at once put on
dutv in the house. Detectives Coulson,
Kelly, Dimmel, Fitzgerald, Captain
Brophy and Inspectors McKelvy and
Whitehouse were soon doing the floors in
the building among the smoke, frightened
men and screaming women. Several arrests
were made of people acting suspiciously,
and large amount OF goods was taken from
people and handed over to Messrs. Ander-
son and Woog, the proprietors.
At the close of the fire, Inspector Nc
Aleese detailed men from the force to patrol
the floors of the hotel and caused every door
to be barricaded except the Smithfeld street
entrance, where an officer was put on duty
with one OF the hotel clerks to see that no
one entered or lett the building without
being recognized and if necessary searched.
Inspector McAleese SAID last evening that
there had not been the value of 5-cent
piece lost by pillage during the progress OF
the fire. He had scarcely stopped speaking
when Mr.. N. Underwood, agent of the
Daisy Roller Flour Mill OF Mil
-waukee, Wis, entered the Central
police station and asked for a valise
which he missed, as we'll as gold watch,
an overcoat and some other valuables. He
had hardly finished his description of his
goods when they were produced, and
Browns "Finest" placed another feather
in its cap. Several other visitors entered
afterward who missed valuables and were as
promptly informed of their whereabouts.
When the police officials got through their
work they we're in the position of Mr.. Nc
Ginty. very wet, and they had to get home
for change of clothes, which was absolute
ly required, as they had been wading up to
their knees in water as well as taking in
the spray from the hosemen.
The unclaimed articles at the station
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-06
BADLY DAMAGED.
The Work of Cleaning Up VIII be Com
menced at Once-ProprIerOrs Deserted
by the EmpIoyes.

The Work of Cleaning Up VIII be Com
menced at Once-ProprIerOrs Deserted
by the Employees.
Charles J. Clarke, part owner of the
property, was unable to estimate the loss to
the building. 1t will exceed $4,000, how
ever. During the summer the building was
improved to the extent OF $50, 1000. Repairs
will begin at once. Neither Mr.. Anderson
nor Mr.. Woog were able last evening to
make an estimate of their loss. Their fur
niture and other property was worth at least
$50, 900. Tableware and similar articles are
saved. Much of the silverware was carried
out of the hotel when the fire broke out, and
afterward taken back and placed in the cafe.
Last night Detectives Coulson, Shore and
Robinson and half dozen paTrolmen kept
watch over the desolated hotel, preventing
the entrance of thieves. Mr.. Anderson and
son, and Clerk Statler were in the Office.
Mr.. Anderson said that just as soon as he
could get men he would begin the work of
cleaning up, and he was trying to hire work
men last night. His help had disappeared
for the evening. Mr.. Anderson told Chief
Evans that if the building was saved the
Chief should have gold watch.
One of the worst scenes of destruction is to
be seen in the elegant new dining room on
the First avenue side. That room was
painted, frescoed and decorated about three
months ago at cost of 5000 Its walls
and ceiling are utterly ruined.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-06
NEW ORLEANS RACING.
some Good Contests Amid Fine Weather
and on n Fast Track.

some Good Contests Amid Fine WeatneF
and on n Fast Track.
NEW ORLEANS, December 5-This was the
third day Of the New Louisiana Jockey Club.
The weather was fine and the track fast.
There were more spectators present than in
either of the previous days of the meeting.
Messrs Conner. Williamson and Foley judges;
Messrs. Applegate, Franklin and Maxwell tim
ers; ]. B. Ferguson starter. In the tlrst races
the starts were not SO good as those made in
the last two days of the meeting.
First race, selling for S-year-olds and upward,
ave furlongs, five starters-Palmyria, 81, 50 to /;
Bob Nance, lO2, 50: Schoolgirl lOl. 3; Rowland,
los 2: Colonel Hunt, lI2 to 10. Rowland was
first, on Colonel Hunt second: Palmyra third:
Schoolgirl. fourth and Nance last. At the half
Hunt and Rowland were neck and neck. and the
others close up. On the turn Hunt and Rowland
were still on ever terms but Colonel Hunt came
first into the stretch Rowland second. Schoolgirl
third. Nance fourth, Palmyra last and they fin
ished in the same order. with two lengths between
first and second and a half length between second
and third. Time 1s02k.
Second. selling r S-year-olds and upward, six
furlOngs. Eleven came to the post, Dutchman
having been scratched-Lady Rose S. 80 to l: Zeb
Ward 90. 30; crispano es, Y; Puente lO2 s: VIM
q Dyer los s; Colonel Gore Ill. !: Vattell III, 8;
Vice Regent ia When the flag fell Colonel Gore
was an open length in the mud. Winnie Davis
second. Nettie Kent third, the others strung out
with Zeb Ward bringing up the rear. At the
other than a slight contraction. On the turn
Davis went to the front Vice Regent second, Gore
gave way to Kent who coming strong and
went TO ths front before reaching the wire. win
ming by two lengths. Puente second, one length
ahead Of Crispano third, the others strung out
Time :l9A.
Third rae. free handicap for 2-year-olds.
nine-sixteenths of mue-Five came TO
the post; Kenilw prth 1l2, to !; Frank
Snaw & lSS "a, adI ~ B'neko9rn ioa iOS 10 3;
burn lead from the srart to finish, winning by
two lengths from Frank Shaw, half length
ahead Of Merry Girl third, Beth fourth, kenil-
worth fifth. Time l:061k.
Fourth and last race of the day. fifteen
sixteenths of a mile. handicap for Swear
Olds and upward-Six faced the flag, Pro-
bus having been scratched: Sallie Hagan
llO s to S: Climax lO7, 6 TO 5; Bertha los, 6
TO l; Arundel lO5, 10: Sasher 101. 6: Koko 90. At
the start Sasher and Climax were together, in
front of Sallie HaEan third, Arundel fourth,
Bertha fifth, kOko last. At the quarter Arundel
took the lead; all were well together the turn,
and came to the stretch in a bunch. After a driv-
ing finish Climax won by a length and half
bertha second, length before Cashier third
Time 1:37. When the horses had reached the west
ern end of the grand stand Arundel was cut out
fell to his knees and dropped his Jockey, Magee,
who was picked up apparently lifeless, but he
proved to be only stunned and had slight cut in
the head. He soon recovered and went to his
quarters. Racing again Saturday.
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A FAMOUS HOUSE.
The Old Monongahela Has National ReDu-
tntiou-Noted Guesrs.

The Old Monongahela Has National ReDu-
tntiou-Noted Guesrs.
The Monongahela House is the most
famous hotel in Pittsburg. In the days be-
fore the railroads it was the stopping place
of river operators, and all the better class Of
travellers. The greatest politicians of the
country have stopped there, and notables
from foreign lands. In the early years Of
this century the site was occupied by the
then celebrated mansion Of George Milten-
berger, which was known far and wide as q
house of hospitality and festivity. In later
years the old mansion became an academy.
In 1888 the first Monongahela House was
built there by William Lyon, and was
leased by Thomas Crossan. He retired
from the management after two or three
years, and was succeeded by his son, John
Mcdonald Crossan. Father and son made
the Monongahela House the best-known
hotel in the United States. 1t was the great
stopping point between East and West.
william Henry Harrison, Henry Clay,
Daniel Webster, John G. Calhoun, Andrew
jackson, Louis Kossuth, Charles Dickens,
the Prince of Wales, Dom Pedro, q. s.
Grant and other men Of note found shelter
under its roof.
In the great fire of April 10, 1845. the
hotel was totally destroyed by fire, when
nearly every other building in the First
ward was burned. Lyon, Shorb & Co. i'm
mediately began the work of rebuilding, and
the new house, the one now standing and
injured yesterday, was opened for business
under j. M. Crossan's management early in
1847. The firm of Lyon, Shorb & Co. after
wards became financially embarrassed, and
they sold the property to the present own
ers. The Crossan heirs own one-half,
Charles j. Clarke one-fourth and the heirs
of A. H. Miller one-iourth. The land and
building were valued at nearly half mill
ion dollars.
In 1888 Colonel George Griscom became
the proprietor of the house, and kept it
until last summer. On June the firm of
W. s. Anderson & Co. took the house on
ten years lease. The owners OF the prop
erty spent $50, 900 on repairs, and W. s.
Anderson & Co. put in $3.50 worth OF
new furniture.
Early in 1861 Abraham Lincoln stopped
at the Monongahela House on his way to
Washington, and made a speech from the
balcony over the main entrance. The year
following General George B. McClelland
was given banquet there BY the Duquesne
National Guard. General Grant was enter
tanned in the house in 1880.
The hotel is of brick, five stories high, has
a frontage of 160 feet on Water street and
155 feet on Smithfeld street.
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able comment, and the remarks OF Messrs.
Morris & Fleming, of Fourth avenue,
seemed to be very largely indorsed by the in
surance guild. They urge that the first duty
of the Building Inspector is to prepare an
ordinance requiring sll freight elevators to
be provided with automatic caps that will
cut off draft. They said underwriters were
powsrless to effect the relief, but the city
should do it not only in the interest of econ
omy, but Of humanity as well. They argue
that such an arrangement could be perfected
at cost of $40, while others argue that it
would cost $50 for each floor. 1t is said that
many disastrous confagrations have been
assisted by open stairways which are nearly
as bad as elevator fumes.
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FAMOUS AND ON FIRE.
Continued from First Paoe
contained dynamite, and number of men
hurried down and carried outa number Of
suspicious looking boxes.
HIS TOBACCO SPOILED.

HIS TOBACCO SPOILED.
Charles A. Wolfe, cigar dealer, occupied
No. Smithfeld street, Just north of the
hotel entrance. He carried very large
stock of all kinds of manufactured tobacco.
which is almost entirely ruined. 1t was
fully insured. When Mr.. Wolfe heard the
alarm he was up street. When he reached
his store fire was burning through the floor
in rear corner. That point is at least 30
feet from the elevator shaft. where the fire
began. The fire in the floor was put out by
a hand extinguisher Next to the store of
Mr.. Wolfe was the drugstore of G. f. Kirk
endall & Co. There the loss is heavy, but
is well insured. The ceiling of the room is
broken in many places, where the water
poured through. Mr.. w. 8. Anderson, one
of the lessees of the hotel, opened the Office
safe soon after the fire broke out and re-
moved money and jewelry.
Two members of Engine Company No. IL
were injured shortly alter O'Clock by the
falling in Of the roof at the southeast corner.
William Diebold and George Lang, of that
company, were In room on the fourth floor
fighting the fire when the ceiling and TIM
bers came down upon them. They were
pinned to the floor and=severely cut and
bruised. They were soon rescued by their
comrades and were conveyed to the Homeo-
pathic Hospital. They will be out in day
or two.
The following named persons were regu-
lar occupants of rooms in the hotel: 81. r.
Rea and wife, W. c. Quincy and wife, Nor
ris H. Danziger and wife, George E. God
dard and wife, A. j. Logan and wife, John
McMasters King and family. Judge Bailey,
wife and son R. W., Mrs. Gusky and fam
lily, W. B. Carson, w. B. Schiller, John
Wolf, Charles Umbstatter, John Atwood,
A. G. Milligan, Joseph B. Sawyer, Miss
Jane Msgee and maid, Benjamin Darling
ton, Mrs. Eliza Darlington, Major John NJ.
Tiernan and E. j. Adams.
The proprietors and clerks who lived in
the house were: w. S. Anderson and family,
Frank x. Woog, Harry Anderson, D. s.
Bechtel L. B. Statler, John A. Clare and
Charles Miller.
The following named persons registered
yesterday forenoon: G. P. Leatherby, Balti-
more; James Smith, Kansas City; J. f.
Richards, New York; C. B. Duncan, Cleve.
land; w. L. Reeves, Philadelphia; J. j.
Charles, Chicago; B. f. Wilmington. Phila-
delphia; j. s. Henley, New York; II. S.
Walker, Chicago; A c. Christopher, Gin
cinnati; II. E. Payson, Salt Lake City;
John Stambaugh, Jr., Youngstown, o.; N.
Underwood, Milwaukee.
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PATHS AUBURN HAIR.
This and Her PEI Dog Amuse American
Intervlewers-Why she Dyed Her
Ordinarily Black Tresses-
Just Right for Juliet.

Ordinarily Black TresseB-
Just Right for Juliet.
ESPECIAL TKLEeRAM TO THE pIsPATcH.l
NEW YORK, December 5.-TO the group
of callers at the Windsor Hotel, this after
noon, to whom was accorded the privilege OF
an entertaining chat with Nine. Adelina
Patti, several hours after her arrival on the
Teutonic, the famous singer presented her
self as a handsome woman, whose long
familiar face had undergone startling
transformation by the change of the hue Of
her luxuriant hair from black to auburn.
The lighter color impaired by the dyers'
art made the divas' brilliant black eyes,
with their arched eyebrows ofjet hair, more
than ever noticeable. She was clothed in a
snug-ftting, high-necked and long-sleeved
gown of black, that heightened the changed
hue of her hair.
A simple bunch of roses blooned at her
waist, and large diamonds sparkled on either
hand and glittered prismaticallv in her
ears. When she dropped into an easy chair
in her parlor, on the ground floor of the
hotel, a tiny chihuahua spaniel leaped
into her lap and cuddled itself up in
a heap. The dog was present to the
diva from the wife of President Diaz, of
Mexico. A smaller dog still, that the diva
bought in Paris, leaped playfully at her
feet. She left at home, at her Castle Craig
Who's, the remarkable Mexican spaniel
''Juliet," that Mr.. Marcus r. MAYER gave
her. 1t was so small that there couldn't be
found in New York collar that could not
slip over its head. 1t couldn't stand the
strain of an ocean voyage, and consequently
was left behind.
Signor Nicolinl, the diva's husband, ap-
peared amused at the interest that the dogs
excited, and drawing from his pocket a
telescope silver-and-gold lead pencil, that
was yard long when he opened it, care
fully wrote the dogs name, spelling the one
on the diva's lap wrong.
The diva's auburn hair was feature that
overtopped all other things, however, in in
terest for those who saw her eyes to-day. 1t
was explained that the diva submitted her
self to the Overs care because her role in
"Romeo and Juliet" calls for light hair,
aud being unwilling to wear wig, she had
her hair dyed. The dyer certainly did the
work artistically. A hairpin set with row
of dozen diamonds In graceful coil of the
dyed hair.
The diva said that she had "created" the
role of Juliet in the opera, and that she was
going to sing it in America. She will also
appear in "Lakure" for the first time in
America during her present engagement
with Manager Abbey.
Madam Patti is having a little theater of
her own built, at her castle in Wales. It
will seat an audience of 150 and the diva
expects that Mr.. Irving will open it formally
about next May.