Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-23
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters Of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

Tersely Treated.
KNOCKED out
SMALLER and beautifully less-saloons.
THE girl who fared up must have made light
of herself
graveyard's yawn.
THERE is divinity that bends our shapes,
pad them as we will.
WORK was commenced yesterday on the new
Castle Shannon Incline.
CALL them the track shun" roads and be on
the safe side-the sidewalk.
THE "Charge of the -Four Hundred" seems
to be so per head for the ball.
THOMAS CARR had two fingers cut off at the
American Iron Works yesterday.
SCIENCE says one quart of whisky will neu-
tralize snake bite. Fetch on your snake.
BLAINE whistles "White Wings" he prob
ably wishes that other fellow had them.
THE Washington Centennial Committee
have collected $500, more than enough to pay
expenses.
THE gambler who shot friend for not re-
turning borrowed money, merely enforced his
staked claim.
A THOROUGH literary person should have
big nose and big mouth. The same might be
said of gossip.
REPRESENTATIVES GRAHAM, Stewart, Shir-
as and Senator Robbins, Of Greensburg, left
for Harrisburg last night
AND now they say Washington could not
spell correctly. He was the great author of
this country just the same.
COUNCIL No. As, Independent Sons of In
dustry was organized at Hazlewood last week.
Fifty members were installed
z 1T was rumored in Allegheny last night that
President Hunter, of Common Councils, had
dropped dead. The report was unfouuded.
WHAT'S all this about woman going to the
polls. Baldhead says his wife needs ne en-
couragement She has pulled all the hair out
of his already.
THE boss coopers met yesterday and passed
a resolution not to indorse prohibition, and
pledging themselves to use honorable means to
accomplish its defeat.
In certain parts of England on Easter Sun
day the girls demand of every man kiss or
sixpence. The men are probably very 10th to
part with their money.
THE pubic had chance to buy seats for the
Americus Club banquet yesterday. Out of 800
seats only q remain The seats were taken
principally by business men.
THERE are but two propositions staring
man in the face daily-to fight or to run-and
generally the man who runs should fight and
the man who fights should run.
n, a
father and lover at the station and hugged her
dad so ardently she broke two of his ribs. Her
lover prudently took to the woods.
W. MATTHEWS, Of Liverpool, and Charles D.
Matthews, of Plymouth. England, are stopping
at the Duquesne. Both men are English mer-
chants seeing the American sights.
THE delegates from Eastern Pennsylvania to
the Retail Grocers' Association arrived last
evening and stopped at the Seventh Avenue
Hotel There were about 20 in all.
Don NJ. DICKINSON, ex-Postmaster General,
passed through the city Yesterday with his
family, returning to his home and law practice
in Detroit. He said he was glad to 60 back.
THE sweetest song is the song unsung;
The finest viol is the viol unstrung;
The toughest man is the man unhung;
And the best book beer is the beer unbung.
CHARLES MAwHINNEY fell across the pick
cts of rusty iron fence on Forbes street yes
terday cutting open a main artery. He nearly
bled to death, and is now in feeble condition.
"HELLo, chapple, what became of you and
your friend yesterday; he seemed awfully anx-
ious to have you 90 with him? Chappie (sadly)
Yes, we went together, but returned a
loan.
WHAT with Oklahoma, Massachusetts and
the License Court all in one day, no one can
doubt that the world is moving, though some
dazed individuals may insist that its motion is
backward.
A LOT of boxes fell upon Lewis Smith, in
Glocker's butcher shop, on Penn avenue, near
Eleventh street, yesterday. He was SO badly
crushed that immediate removal to the West
Penn Hospital was necessary
LAST night Edward Berry appeared before
Alderman Succop, of the Twenty-eighth ward,
and entered suit against his stepfather, John
Griffin, charging him with aggravated assault
and battery. The bill Of particulars includes
chewed thumb.
THE queerest drollest, soundest and most
admirable Scottish philosopher of the day,
Prof Blackie, must have been thinking of the
crushed correspondence editor when he wrote:
'1t is easier to prune redundancy than to
force barrenness."
AvERITABLE WASH DAY-Euergetic Min
ME Palmer turned in and directed the scrub
birg of half dozen dirty statues about New
York City so the Centennial Committee
shouldn't make any more grievous mistakes
and salute some Tammany chieftain instead of
their neutrality-suspicious. of our country.
Now, if some actress would only come here
and scrub-um-scrub-bgos there isn't
statue to scrub here but furriner's