Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-10
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

BEHIND the age-Woman.
A CUTTING remark-ouchi
AHARD row to hoe-shad roe.
A HIGH roller-The City of Paris.
ON high-the spirit thermometer.
SEES through glass dimly-The topper.
A FINE sentence-twenty-five and costs.
A SPLENDID copper-the Signal Service.
IT is now surmised that Tell drew the LONG
bow,
IT is no wonder the square man is SO seldom
round.
FUNNY that Miss doesn't shut up when she
doubles up.
CoRNER policemen certainly haven't a
pleasant sit.
JOHN SHERMAN would play an elegant game
of freeze out.
IF New York is the pulse OF the country it is
no wonder it gets SO full.
AND now it's said glass Of beer sports a
high Judge White collar.
FIRES are still raging in the West The fred
are also raging in the East.
THAT Western engagement was slow
match. It took 81 years to fire 1t of.
THERE are $1,000 tramps in this country not
including detectives and book agents.
TALMAeE plays the banjo, and New York
editors know better than to harp on it.
HARRIsoN's family physician says he isn't
sick. and gravitation will please resume.
THE colored gentleman from the Hill speaks
advisedly when he refers to boned turkey.
Now they say the new old Government build
ing is a job. 1t certainly isn't put up job.
Mr.. N. A GREENE, of the Altoona Manu-
featuring Company, was in the city last night
GOVERNOR BEAVER is an excellent horse
man, yet lot of scrub riders seem to pass him
every day.
"GIvE us arrest" as the tramp said to the
policeman who interrupted his MONDAY snooze
In the park.
LIBBY prison is certainly going to be ex-
hibited at Chicago. That city exhibits every
thing but good sense.
The engine of the limited express broke
down at Wilmerding last night. The fast train
was delayed As minutes.
A Miss ALDRIcH is the latest intense pas
sion poet aspirant for the laurel crown. There
will be no fig leaves in it.
W. s. ANDERSON, of the Monongahela
House, went to Philadelphia last evening to
bring his family to Pittsburg
VICE PRESIDENT MEssLER, of the Pennsyl-
vania Company, and William Thaw, Jr., went
East last evening in special car.
THE Allegheny Street Committee will leave
on Saturday for a tour through the principal
cities, to look at the different material used for
street pavement.
AND now they say when the Harrisons go
anywhere the procession looks for all the world
like a country family going to the circus,
gingerbread and all.
NINE. DE LUssAN makes a pleasant change
in the programme tonight. She will sing in
ia 0f fho anti of
"The Barber of Seville.p
TRAVELLING PASSENGER AGENTS w. II,
PICKING and A. G. Kolnig, of the Baltimore
and Ohio, were busily engaged yesterday get
ting out the new time table.
IT is surmised that Weather Prophet Greely
has punched his forecasts in order to give our
local sergeant a day off. OFF to-day, and to-
Of course, never comes.
MAGGIE WELSH, charged with infanticide
in concealing the birth and death of her new
born child, was committed to jail yesterday by
Coroner Mcdowell for trial at court.
The Cincinnati bellies are so loud tits said
the fire department is in chronic state Of
alarm. 1t is impossible to extinguish them.
bellies, though high toned, are seen,
not heard.
GREELY says there is no such thing as an
equinoctial storm, and the Southern gentle
man who has had everything but a mortgage
raised, rises to say that Greedy is a weather
prophet
CANADIAN papers refer to the idea
amongst" annexationists. It is no wonder
that papers olinging TO obsolete words should
Erastus Wiman and his ideas of com.
mercial union.
GENERAL MANAGER MCDONALD, of the
Pittsburg and Western, is inspecting the road.
BE issued an order to the effect that no change
will be made. and all he asks is that the en-
ployes will perform their duties faithfully.
In view of the present status of the nose
pulling contest short poem" might not be
napropos:
Better leave 'er
Governor Beaver.
SCIENCE received set back when she |
earned America used several times more |
,obacco than England. Some common, rude |
nan suggested there were several times more
Of us and science is looking cross-eyed at |
herself
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
There was young man from Xavier,
Who went down the road to Batavier.
BE was asked by a lass,
To lend her his pass,
But he said II can't do it to XAVIER