Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-26
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

MANY Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.
SUMNER languor.
CRACKED smile-Broke the wineglass.
A CLOSE student-One living on so cents
day.
A COUNTERFEIT copper-An amateur detec-
tive.
CAN a pedestrian be said to make headway
on foot?
LILY C-No, don't call him Chawlie unless
you chews.
Music in the heir-Drop paregoric in the
slot and hear the baby howl.
A NEW gymnasium is to be added to Yale.
They are going to roll their own cigarettes.
THOMAS F. KEATING, of New York, brother
of A. F. Heating. of Zug & Co.. is at the Hotel
Duquesne.
seek, and We shall find - is all well enough;
but it evidently was not intended to apply to
Office seekers
wANAMAKER says offensive partisanship
does not Justify removal. Wanamaker has
good memory.
THE Exposition prospectus says the show
will open September 4at P. M. and close Octo-
Der IS at IL P. NJ.
JOHN HOFFMAN went to Jail yesterday in
default of 81 900 bail to await his trial for ille
gal liquor selling.
WIGGTNs says the weather will continue fair
and slightly cooler, and that is just what Clar-
ence says of his girl.
NEW YORK is startled at the announcement
that Kate Fields is going to lecture again.
Well, she's woman.
LIZZIE FRANCES charges c. M. Painter with
the larceny of a watch and necklace, the hear
ing to be given Thursday.
THE police gave a ten days warning that
A.. eAfD
people insisted upon being robbed.
A BULL in a china shop-Promising to de-
liver an order for real imported Doulton ware
direct from the works within two days.
JAMES JOHNSTON, poor old man, sick and
friendless, was removed from a sned on Charles
street to the General Hospital, Allegheny.
GEORGE wAGG, employed in a brush factory
on Bagley alley, Allegheny. was caught in the
machinery Yesterday and had leg broken.
The petty fretty details of this life grind of
the edge of a superseEsitive nature, but only
makes the hardened the more keen, ergo; don't
fret.
A BOY named John Varley, Of the West End,
was arrested yesterday because he played ball
on a vacant lot Sunday. 1t stood John IS and
costs.
THE city of dressed beef and undressed-
beef is threatened with two new comedies.
Call one drama, and they won't never know
no diff.
ENGLISH ladies are surprising their hus-
bands in skill at billiards, and the game is
gaining ground here. The women should be
adopts in kissing"
GEORGE LONG charges George and Jesse
Connors and David Haley with knocking him
down and beating him badly. They will have
hearing Friday before Gripp.
IT was reported in Allegheny yesterday that
fortune of $4,000 had been left John C. Boyd,
D.
on duty, and his story could not be learned.
JOHN CoNNELLY, the proprietor of the P Oint
speak easy was held for court in $1,000 bail
on the charges OF keeping a disorderly house.
selling liquor on Sunday and without a license.
A FESTIVAL for the benefit of the Home for
Aged Colored Women, will be given at Lafay-
ette Hall, April ii. Music, supper, a gold
ring in cake and pleasant time are all on the
bill.
JOHN HOFFMAN had hearing before Mag
istrate Brokaw yesterday on the charges of
selling liquor without license and selling on
Sunday and was held in s., 900 bail to answer
at court.
Is there anywhere in the world more un-
complaining lot of citizens who brush the mud
off their boots when it rains and the dust out
of their eyes when it doesn't? Patience is not
always virtue.
THOSE poor girls in Buffalo received only SIS
year for acting on the variety stage. For
tunately it kept them in clothes, though even
Buffalo acknowledged their dresses were as low
as their salaries.
Two boys, named Con Ryan and Joe Simp-
son, were locked in the Twenty-eighth ward
station last night, having created disturbance
! on Twenty-sixth street by smashing a lot of
! empty bottles-empty bottles, remember.
GEORGE JACOBS, clock peddler, died at the
Allegheny Hospital yesterday morning. He
had an exciting career having been under
| police surveillance, as he was believed to have
been implicated in murder some years ago.
AT meeting of the Prohibition Executive
Committee yesterday Rev. j. II. Hector and
Colonel ]. W. Custer, of Illinois, made ad-
| dresses: the latter stating that the West con-
siders the fight in Pennsylvania as a crisis in
the cause.
JAMES CROW charges his sister, Bridget
Moore, with assaulting him and scratching his
face. She says he is Jim Crow sort of fellow,
and threatens to make a scarecrow of him. A
| Southside magistrate will investigate this
| carrionon.
THE Rev. Charles A. Locke presided over a
meeting of the w. c. 7. u, in the Smithfield
| NJ E. Church, to further the cause of temper
ance, last night. Rev. John Hector, a colored
minister from York, almost, but not quite,
| rivaled Broadax Smith.
PLEASANT variety was added to the usual
street scenes yesterday, by well-dressed and
| down Fifth avenue. 1t was a beautiful sight,
| and the round brimmed beaver bowled aheer-
| fully along. landing winner by foot-the
mans foot, as he stepped on it in sheer des-
| peration.
THE DISPATCH is glad to notice the general
interest shown in the Exposition movement.
| One of the latest projects is a big theatrical
performance on Friday afternoon, April II un-
| der the auspices of our evening cotemporary,
| the Leader for the benefit of the fund.
4 of of 10 off
! everything tends to keep alive public interest,
we trust the entertainment will be proper.
| tionate success.
| PARALYZED the Cockroach.-"Fresh, write
that fire up quick" the city editor ordered
and the new reporter began: I'm the beginning
| God created the heavens and the" "What?'
| yelled the editor, and Mr.. f. began anew
| when, in. the course of human events, 1t be
comes necessary to" Somebody dragged the
editor away il time. and the scribe started in
again: ANTE bellum ct" "Who are you?''
! gasped the Office in one breath, and the Oldest
cockroach fell dead at the proud answer: "a