Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-29
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters Of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

Tersely Treated.
TRIED BY FIRE-Lard.
A AsERMoN-Live on-No evil.
LAME verse is probably the sort that has no
feet
Wall from the office seeker-"Harrison -
Echo-"Nosirrah."
JAMES H. REED, ESQ, of the firm of Knox
& Reed, returned last night from St Louis.
OF the man who flies to the divorce court, it
may be said much learning hath made him
mad.
Mr. HARRISON will now wonder what's the
use of being President if he can't do what he
wants.
The lucky East End couple that received a
house as wedding gift may be said to be liv-
ing in the present.
ED MoNToorH delivered a lecture on "An
American Abroad" at the Denny Church, on
Thirty-fourth street.
Mr.. W. s. BAILEY delivered lecture last
night in Homewood on Signs Of the Times in
the Nineteenth Century"
THE man who went fishing with baited
breath is probably the same man who went
hunting with a charged gun.
F. D. CAsANAN, Superintendent of Motive
Power of the Pennsylvania Company at Fort
Wayne Ind, is in the city.
REV. A. w. MANN will hold services for
deaf mutes in the chapel of Trinity Church
Sunday morning and evening.
SHALL we become Republican," walls
Henri Watterson, but the idea is growing that
hewould not become any party.
INSPECTOR MCALEEsE recommends that the
houses in Yellow Row be pulled down on ac-
count of their terrible sanitary state.
A SPECIAL meeting of Select Council will be
held this afternoon to pass finally upon lot of
ordinances for street improvements.
EX-GOVERNOR JOHN T. ST. JOHN lectures
tonight upon the Constitutional amendment,
in the Central Reformed Church, Allegheny.
IDA MULE sang unrecognized for ten years.
She then appeared as Cupid, and captured the
East. Pink tights probably gave tone to her
voice.
Two John St. Johns are in the city. They
both make specially of water: The one as
backer of prohibition and the other hacker
of an oarsman.
JOHN FRIEL was held for court in default of
$500 bail, charged with feloniously wounding
Harry Koehler, in order to gain possession of a
few frecracKers.
THE Allegheny Property Committee, at its
meeting last night, approved the bill of John
Eisenschmid for painting the market house, to
the amount of s., 1886.
WHAT with disgruntled office seekers and
the Dismal Swamp, where the hopes of many
asplrants are swamped.
Mr.. L. MOONEY. Deputy Patriarch of the
Sons of Temperance, addressed large meet
of farmers and miners last night at Sunnyside,
Westmoreland county.
LANGUID-Well, Chumley 1 proposed to-
day." Chumley-And she2 Languid (sadly)-
She tossed her head. Chumley-Well? Lam
quid (more sadly)-I-1 caught It.
A TELEGRAM was received from the Owens
boro, KY, Chief of Police, stating that the
man in custody there is undoubtedly Draper,
the suspected Toms Run murderer.
REV. 7. ]. McCRoRY. pastor of the Third U.
P. Church, was presented with gold watch
and guard last night by his congregation. His
wife was presented with well-flled purse.
MAYOR PEARSON. of Allegheny, says that
he has become tired of hearing complaints
about the depredations of boys on the streets,
and that he will tine every one brought before
him.
THE gentleman who thinks the Office should
seek the man is advised to send his name to
Harrison, mention what he wants. and accom-
pany it by petition, then go himself to see
about it.
IMPORTATION was received at this Office yes
day stating that it is not correct that the finan
cial status of the Southside Presbyterian
Church deteriorated under the administration
of Rev. Alexander Jackson.
THEATR1CAL-Yes, es, the Russian floating thea
ter is on the Volga. 1t is not floating on its
debts. That is where it doesn't resemble some
American theaters. What beautiful chance
that show would offer for ducking obnoxious
actors.
MRS. DAN JOHNSTON, respectable mulatto,
woman living on Gazzam Hill, has been swim
died out of considerable money by person
who claimed to be her brother, she having had
one who was supposed to have been killed dur
ing the war.
OLIVE LOGAN, at one time the best-dressed
woman in America, now and then gets hold Of
an abuse in New York, and proceeds to rip it
up in the papers with all her old-time vigorous
English expressions. Her latest victim is Mrs.
Lofty, who insists upon saying ''pistache' for
prestige.
CHICAGO is going to give her club a recep-
ton when it returns providing they don't sneak
in the back way. The reception will be cold
one. There will be no music no Haunting BAN
ners, and no speeches In fact the less said the
better of club that has been licked all over
two hemispheres.
COMFORTABLE corner lounging was not so
comfortable yesterday, and, by the way, what a
tremendous lot of well-dressed young men
seem to find time to stare, ogle and make re-
marks, from the postofice to the Albemarle
This is probably due to the fact that iron
workers at the mill have plenty of time on the
off turns, and these same young iron workers
are the best dressed and best paid young men
in the CITY,