Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-28
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Trented.

MANY Matters OIL much ana LltIic Moment
Tersely Trented.
SHOWERS.
ONE day nearer death.
THE last slight colds of the season,
THE world is dark for the death of Bright.
SAMUEL h. CHARLTON has returned from
Alabama.
THE International Chess Congress is in ses-
sion. "Your move"
A SON of General Grant has taken the oath
as Minister to Austria.
JOHN GRIP held Dude Clare in $500 bail for
court on a charge of larceny.
RESTAURANT Keepers held their regular
weekly failure to meet yesterday.
PUPILS of the Thad Stevens school gave a
pleasant entertainment yesterday.
'WoRKMEN on the Fourteenth ward station
house have encountered bed of quicksand.
THE horizon of future success is often OBJ
scured by the passing cloud of present failure.
A FIFTH avenue cable car actually stopped
for man yesterday. 1t had almost run over
him.
CANADA prays for third party. The law
only recognizes two: the thief and the acces-
sorry
AJAX JONES has put the official seal of Pitts
burg on more than sl,O000OO worth of city
bonds this week.
CHARLES SUTTEN pleaded guilty to stealing
coal from P. & w. r. r. cars yesterday, and
was held for court.
ROBERT LOUIS STEvENsoN's wife resembles
Lotta. The children of his fancy" also re-
semble some people.
Mr.. THOMAS w. BAKER will succeed
Superintendent McKelvey, of the Bureau Of
Health. who retires April l.
ONO raises howl about her breed of Office
seekers deteriorating Science explains this
on the intermarriage basis.
ALMOST moving time, yet no one has men
toned the stove that does not move or the ell
bow joint that does not join.
WILLIAM BLAKsLEE son of a former we'll
known oil man of st. Petersburg, is in the city.
His home is now in Albany.
No wonder that Chicago man failed to es-
tablish marriage agency. He should have
begun at the divorce end first
THOSE new electric lights look as if they
were trying to put themselves out with an old
fashioned candle extinguisher.
THE inquest on the remains of Joseph Wolfe,
the Bellevue suicide, resulted in verdict of
suicide while in fit of insanity.
"GENTLEMAN" Ward McCallisteI, Of New
York, is greatly troubled about his tax arrears.
The law says foreigners are exempt
THE Board of Awards will open to-day a
u
to supply the city with yearly necessities.
IT'S said Mrs Cleveland's under lip trembles
when people refer to her disappointment.
Never mind. She keeps stiff upper lip.
THERE are fewer beggars in this city than
any other of its size. This either speaks well
for her good times or for her Poor Board.
MEssRs JUSTICE AND FITCH. charged with
embezzlement as the agents of the Keystone
Watch Company are in Jail in default of 500
bail.
WITH everybody going somewhere as foreign
Ministers it might be proper to inquire who is
going to stay at home and hold Miss Columbia's
hand.
BURGLARS attempted to enter the dry goods
store of NJ. Fire at No. 5ll Fifth avenue. Tues
day night, but were scared away by burglar
alarm.
MAJOR R. D. CLARKE, of the United States
army at York, Pa, is in the city and stopping
with mine host Griscom, at the Monongahela
House.
IT'S said American boodlers in Canada shud
a shudder that is painful when they hear the
newies cry: Here is your morning paper, extra
edition"
THE Board of Directors of the U. P. Theo-
logical Seminary concluded their yearly session
yesterday with the transaction of some unim-
portant matters
A MAN is wanted by the Government to help
get up truthful records of the late war. He
will please call on the President in patches of
not more than ten.
THE National Tube Works Company, of
McKeesport, are building 20 new pudding fur
naces, which will make 100 in all Other i'm
provements are contemplated.
NEW YORK Judges still continue to SEN
tence prisoners to the awful punishment ''ten
years with hard labor" when unfortunates are
daily going mad for want of work.
and then gives pitiful yelp over those White
mysterious, and never whines-the Goldberg
murder.
AN Indiana man put some dynamite into the
kitchen oven, mistaking it for yeast. The last
seen of him he was on his way yeast probably
to see Harrison about the explosive Inspector
ship office.
WHEN Oscar Wilde was asked to arrange a
lot of Japanese screens for a lady, he said: "Oh,
don't arrange them, let them occur" He prob.
Japanese screen.
WILLIE SNowDEN and Charles GrifHths two
boys who escaped from the St Paurs Orphan
Asylum. last Friday, were arrested by Officer
Thompson on Forbes street, yesterday, and
taken back to the asylum.
ALBERT DIETRICH, newspaper carrier and
an Allegheny City lampwasher, fell from a lad
Vel CubdEOO IL ehO AoSeCl OOSupdSiOu OA
Franklin street yesterday afternoon, having
become sick and faint. He was not badly
hurt.
SOME of these fine days Pittsburg will waken
up to find herself famous, and a metropolis. A
Western paper has plaintively asked where is
Pittsburg ?" And what Western paper does
not know, would make most any place ia
nous.
THE weather may continue fair, or may turn
in with showers to moisten new spring over
coats or aid the blooming flowers. The wind
will turn northwesterly and change from warm
to cool but children should take umbrellas be-
fore they start for school. This is what Wig
gins says. but everyone can see the man must
make some sort of guess to earn his salarie.