Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-22
NOTES AND NOTIONs.,
Many Matters Of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Trented.


Tersely Treated.
| DANDELIoNs.
| SWEET viole-bangi
ORANGE blossoms again.
COUNTRY wisdom-A buckwheat stalk.
YOUR bonnet was just lovely, SO were you.
THE root of all evil-The root of the tongue.
RATHER cordial enemy than lukewarm
friend.
D. P. RE1GHAND and Captain Murdoch went
| to New York.
BISMARCK says he's sorry. Down with Ger
man beer anyhow.
GEORGE PULLMAN passed through the city
on his way to Chicago.
"TPPEcANoE, and nothing to do" growl the
| rejected Office seekers.
THE amazing speed with which a lie circu-
lates is apt to discourage dealer in truths.
IT'S said Boulanger has become the apple Of
Flemish beauty's eye. The crab apple. prob
ably.
In the case of the lost Denmark. the old
adage that no news is good news, has proven
| true.
GENERAL FREIGHT AGENT DEAN and At
torney Reed, of Knox & Reed, went to Phila-
| delphia.
| In Adrian, Mich, every man pays for his own
drinks. The barkeeper evidently has no slate
| to smash.
NooDLEs-well, how are you getting along
| at your new boarding house. Doodles-Oh, I'm
| faring badly.
NEW YORK papers think Pennsylvania will
vote against prohibition She will make stag
| ger at it anyway.
THE pretty girls probably went to the Epis-
copal churches yesterday because they wanted
to 1nchoir the fashions.
L. G. ROUSSEAU and wife went to Philadel-
| phia to attend the funeral of his wife's father
| William Henry Rawler.
THE Enames of McAllisters Four Hundred
are being peddIed in the streets. They have
been sold before, however.
F. MARION CRAWFORD says he has lust
| turned the half way post of a new novel" He
will probably lose by head.
THE Washington Inaugural Committee will
meet this evening. The arrangements for the
celebration are about completed.
BOSTON leather dealers continue to fail at
the rate of one per day. This constitutes the
difference between that city and Chicago.
THAT New York Legislature that defeated
| a bill to reduce telephone rates must have
taken some stock in the company's defense.
THOSE $50 Denmark passengers did not land
on a desert island as expected, but did the
next best thing and sailed for Philadelphia.
WANAMAKER himself once wrote an ad, call
ing attention to his striped women's stock
ings," and they weren't museum freaks either,
WILLIAM BOWEN, who is charged with hav
ing tried to rob ]. II. Wormser, was sent to
Jail. He acts strangely and his sanity is
doubted.
ELMER COCHRAN, an employe of the Alle-
gheny Street Department. accidentally shot
himself in the hand with small revolver on
Saturday
JOHN MANUTAMAKER will not allow post
Office to be kept in saloon. The old lady evil
IDENTIFY doesn't know it is an excellent place for
the males.
The Chinese Emperor presented his new
motherin-law with 50, ,25O.0O0. A frightful pre-
cedent of this sort would not be tolerated by
any but heathens.
WITH law suit pending between butchers
about bologna and SANDER, the true history of
that mysterious edible may possibly be read,
and its dogs-oIogy sung.
CANADA doesn't know what to do with
American boodlers. She ought to know
enough to return chased articles of gold. As
for Uncle Sam, 'Eno's enough.
AVENETIAN is making and selling thous-
ands of his famous new style glass bonnets
This is transparent scheme, but fortunately
theater-goers can see through 1t.
The gallant Louisville managers admit
ladies accompanied by gentlemen free to all
ball games. Pittsburg managers will admit
the ladies free providing gentlemen friends
pay for them.
A TEXAN pumped some snakes out of his
well. The snake part of the item is unimport-
ant, the main question being what in thunder
Texan was doing with well. Perhaps it
was milk made. .-e
| PETER TUCKER, a workman on the Central
| Traction Railroad, had his right foot crushed
by the crusher passing over it Saturday after
noon. He had to have one Of his toes ampu-
tated by Dr.. Scott.
WILLIAM GORE and wife who were arrested
for imbibing freely at hotel in the Allegheny
Diamond, were not taken from the Hotel
Rhodes. as at first reported, but from another
hostelry near there
JAIL services yesterday were conducted by
W. G. 7. u, No. 2. Singing formed the pleading
feature of the exercises, and after the service
the ladies went through the prison distributing
Easter cards among the inmates.
GEORGE o'NE1LL, of No patrol wagon, is
off duty on account of badly cut foot OBJ
tanned while running to strike box on Sunday
morning. Mr.. O'Neill was called out of bed
and run out without putting on his shoes.
WELL HARDLY.
This life may be very humdrum.
But we won't give it up just yet.
Sweet woman may be conundrum,
But we won't give her up, you bet.
MAME-Why, May. thought you weren't on
speaking terms with Miss Witty. May-I had
to make up with the mean thing. 1 couldn't
stand it any longer. Mame-Why? May
When we quarreled she always had the last
word.
WHEN one feels the hatred Of self and fell
low man becoming too great for concealment,
week in the green fields and forests and by
still waters, alone with natures eloquent
silence, will remove all morbid ideas of
crowded civilization, and will send that man
back to the city alover of his race, and at least