Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-07
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Bulldogs Aret the Thing-New Pictures Here
-Lenten sacrifce ee--Odds and Ends.


-Lenten Sacrifices--Odds and Ends.
One hardly expects to see bulldog sitting on
a chair. with napkin tied around his neck, at
table in fashionable restaurant. But the
other night the sedate guests ut a restaurant
in this city beheld this very sight. The dog, a
fine animal of correct behavior, took dinner in
this fashion with HIS master and some other
gentlemen, and it was noticeable tnat the
walters showed him great respect.
Upon inquiry you will find that it is just now
the very properest thing, If you are anxious to
keep up to the jeunesse doree to take your
English bulldog with you wherever you 60, and
to treat the animal exactly as If he were your
equal in intelligence and social position. Un-
fortunately we cannot ascertain how the dogs
regard this fashion
The pictures of Collins exhibit which had
not been sold, were removed from Gillespie's
gallery yesterday. A considerable moiety OF
the collection has passed into the possession OF
Pittsburgers,- but, strange to say, Hagnette's
sea piece, and the vigorous painting by Beaug-
nesne, called Defending the Dispatches"
were not sold. The former picture, it is true,
could only be hung to any advantage in very
large room. Suitably placed, Hagnette's work
would be almost as glimpse OF the sea itself,
with the added virtues of a brave breeze wet
with the salty foam.
But the choice Of one man is the rejected Of
another, and this is truer than ever where
pictures are concerned.
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SAID doctor yesterday: "If my patients
were wise they would keep Lent in the strictest
manner imaginable. 1t is not my business to
tell them that they ought to fast and abstain
from indulgences and the pleasures OF the
world for the good of their souls. though am
persuaded that what is good for the body's
health is GOOD for the souls also but I do
whenever can impress upon my patients the
virtue of rest and abstinence at this season Of
the year. 1t is the law of nature and doctors
would have great deal less to do if Lent were
recognized and observed by the community
generally"
In making personal sacrifices at this season
it is well not to give up just the practices and
pleasures that we are tired of following A
good many of US are like the young woman Of
whom the following story is related:
HER SACRIFICE.
maiden to her mother came,
Her eyes cast down. her cheeks aname,
And said, ''My mother, Lent to-day
Begins, and in the proper way
I'll keep it."
1t made that mothers heart rejoice;
There was quiver in her voice
As she inquired, in accents mild:
''Come tell me how, my pretty child,
You'll keep it?''
Replied the girl, with lowered eyes:
az thought 1t best to sacrifice
The dearest thing have-my heart!
Igave it up-'tis Harry's part
To keep it!''
IF the railway mail service is to be turned
over to the Republican patriots lhave no doubt
that in the West particularly devout prayers
will ascend that the result of the 'spoils to the
victor" plan won't work so disastrously as it
did when the Democrats put it into operation
four years ago. One of the high officials of the
Western Union Company told me that it was a
J common thing during the first half of Cleve-
lands administration for the linemen to find
bundles of mail beside the railroad tracks. The
new men in the West seemed to think that the
only way to expedite the disposal of the mail
when it came upon them heavily in the postal
cards was to deliver it into the ditch wholesale.
This was not our experience in this part Of
the country to anything like the extent of that
which Western men of both parties have de-
scribed to me as their afiiction.
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Mr.. CLEVELAND must have thought it an
odd coincidence that his departure from Wash
ington occurred on Ash Wednesday.
1T would be good thing to shove inaugura-
ton day ahead into warmer month-say
June, at the earliest-if it were only to give
the poor men a chance to lay the roseate hue
of their noses at the door of the sun. 1t isn't
easy to make the most confiding wife or
mother believe that rain storm made q head
light of your nose.