Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-24
THE sTRoLLER,s STORIES.
Odd Opinions and Quaint Observations FrOn
Curb aud Corridor.


JAMES O'NEILL is now playing his seventh
year Of monte Cristo" During that time
he has had few departures. For short time
he played THE American King'' in the West
and "Hamlet' in the South. He said, the
other afternoon, at the hotel Il am growing
tired of the one thing, but l suppose will play
Monte Cristo'' as long as the people like it.
However, L have made preparations for COM
panion play, with which will change of. 1t is
an old play, in which I acted Is years ago, but
it viii feel new to the great majority Of theater
goers to-day. Up its general plot and atmos-
phere it Is very much like Monte Cristo," but
the detailed situations are different. No one
situation win remind you much of Monte
Cristo." Its locale is Paris, IN the days lead
ing into the Revolution, Instead Of the chateau
d. If we have the Bastile. The fall of that
famous prison is the heros liberation. The
play will be liked, know"
THE sensation caused two weeks ago by the
appearance at Northside church Of dark
haired man who claimed to be the Christ, gave
occasion for a club discussion. the other even
ing, concerning the complexion Of Jesus. Some
held, by the traditions, that he was fairs others,
because of his race, maintained that he must
have been dark LET us see what James
O'Neill says" was suggested, and his view was
sought He is the only man who ever played
the part Of Christ on the American stage,
having acted it in the Passion Play at San
Francisco. about II years ago. Hemade care
full study of history and tradition at that time,
and collected many ancient portraits: He said:
II made up as blonde. It would hardly do,
in this country, to play it any other way. It is
probable, however, that Jesus was dark. The
man who acts that part at Oberammergau. Mr..
Meyer, wears his own long hair and beard, care
fully cultivated TO the traditional shape, but
they are Of ravsn hue"
THE matron at the police station was
seen to pick cigar stump from the floor.
That naturally caused query. She said: ~
save them for the poor women who are brought
in drunk. They cannot have whisky and their
next craving is for tobacco. They love these
stumps because they are full Of nicotine and
satisfy their depraVed taste. don't believe
they are good for them, and have made up
my mind to get plug tobacco for them. Do
YOU know, it is fact that nearly all besotted
women chew topaoco?n
ttIIIE have Just signed q new Brotherhood
w player" was the announcement which
Jimmy Calvin made yesterday afternoon when
he came down town, land he weighs IA
pounds" This is the eighth boy, and, as
Jimmy's friends said, there are now just
enough to form nine. with himself in the
pitchers place.
THE young bloods of Pittsburg put on as
much style nowadays as their models in
New York. With many of them 1t has become
the proper caper to wear evening dress when GO
ing out on a lark or swallow any similar orni-
biological diversion. OF course, the gentle.
men go only by carriage on such occasions.
The young man who desires to be au fait, In
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tector made Of blue silk, plush or satin, which
covers the entire shirt bosom when wearing
evening dress. It is worn upon the street or in
the carriage when going to or from society
affair, The other evening very young young
man entered downtown restaurant wearing
gorgeous pleated and frilIed breastplate. a
party Of newspaper men were In the place, and
they were dazzled by the strangers appear
ance. Itwas soon seen that he was not exactly
sober. One Of the most hardened OF the pencil
pushers made 3 wager-tobies, Of course-that
he would interview the young man, learn his
name and borrow dollar from him. The feat
was accomplished. Names can be bad on re-
ceipt Of Scent stamp.
CHARLES A. MILLER is probably the best
known hotel clerk in Pittsburg For seven
years he held down the desk at the Mononga-
jokes on millionaires and travelling men, Then
he went to the Hotel Lafayette, In Philadel.
phia and tried to be frolicsome and happy in
the City of sedateness by the schuylkill's
wave. It was vain. He had too many friends
in PIttsburg. In the nights silence he would |
hear the plaintive voices of the paving stones |
on Smithfeld street calling him to return to |
his septennial love- So he came back. At |
1890 O'Clock on the morning Of December he
rose up behind the desk at the Monongahela
House and smiled at Front" At 1l:40 o'clock |
the fire broke out, and the ancient hostelry |
went out Of business. Mr.. Miller has trans
ferred his affection to the Hotel Anderson. and |
for several days he has been shaking hands
with old friends across the desk at that hotel. |
He says that be is dead stuck on Pittsburg,
and that nothing short Of an election to Con- !
gress will persuade him again to leave it.
THE daily registry lists at the hotels are |
growing short. Business men have ceased, |
for two weeks, to travel and even the drum |
mers are at home for their Christmas. Mer- |
chants revel in the holidays, but the hotel man |
groans. His principal patrons are from the |
adjacent country towns. They come in to buy |
Christmas presents, and they stop at the hotel /
only for dinner. As porcupine bristles with |
uuiIIs. they bristle with bundles; bundles big |
and little, round and angular, long and short.
They strew them upon the desk and about the
corridor, and are continually losing them and
calling for numerous porters to aid in the
search. No one will give the New Year a
heartier welcome than the weary hotel man,
when 1t gives him an Opportunity to turn over
new leaf in his register.
n will be white Christmas, in the store win
dows It is already white there. Santa Claus
and hosts of children, in efigy deport them
selves amid drifts of whiteness behind the big
plate glass windows. Outside crowds of real
children stand in the sunshine or the drizzling
rain and envy the efigies in their furs and
dumb frolics. In one show window the figures
Of children are skating on floor covered with
powdered isinglass which shimmers like actual
snow. In another host of little ones are hav-
ing a shedding picnic on hillside of white
wool. When the weather man fails to deal out
! genuine winter, the enterprising merchants
Of Pittsburg can be depended upon to supply
the deficiency.
Weather man says rain Christmas.l
CAPTAIN DAN SIL.vIS was the recipient, last
y evening. of a neat package, delivered to
him at the Central Station. He undid it care