Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-30
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters Of Much and Litfie Moment
Tersely Treated.


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Many Matters Of Mach and Litfle Moment
Tersely Treated.
TRUE grit-A man with sand.
THE ugly theater poster must 20.
AFALsE report-A gun misses ire.
A LIGHT remark-Gimme match.
PUBLIC opinion-'Twas windy yesterday.
GENERALLY too forward An advanced
| woman.
THERE is Georgia barber named speci-A
| case of money talks.
THE Stevens school receptions came to a
successful close yesterday
PHYSICIANS say disease can be spread by
kissing. Yes, 1t is catching.
ANOTHER society woman threatens to 90 on
the stage as asTAR-RATs.
LYING is such q low habit with some people
they become too lazy to rise.
QUNINE has gone down. Financial note
That's where 1t generally goes
STRANGE that Halstead is just learning 1t ID
not always best to tell the truth.
THE average number Of births for each mar.
riage is 4Sa The 3Sl00 is the dude.
THE second-class sleeper idea will never pa y
for the true American would rather walk.
PooR Marlowe is worse. She is going to be
as good an actress as Anderson If it kills her.
In regard to that handshaking business,
Harrison seems to have given them all the
shake.
THE donkey isn't generally considered very
intellectual, but his brayin' is something inn
mense.
CHARLES E1LENBERGERi is jail charged by
81. Fenna with embezzling money he had col.
lected.
AN East End Electric street lamp got tired
waiting and fell down and lit on the street yes
terday.
A MEETING of the committee Of the Ameri-
can Flint Glass Workers Union will be held In
Wheeling on April7
IT's said Cleveland was insulted by waiter
who asked him if he would Havana soup.
There is some color to this.
A NEW YORK millionaire works l6 hours a
day and saves all his money. He probably
wants to get into the Cabinet.
THERE are indications Of an improvement
in the coke trade. All the ovens in the region
viii operate five days next week.
MARCH lost her temper yesterday and began
to blow. Fortunately she will soon go out and
stay year-shopping probably
CoNTRoLLER MORROW yesterday issued
q warrant for Sl83, III so to pay the interest on
city bonds held by Eastern capitalists.
THE quarterly meeting of D. A. 8, K. Of l.,
will be held on April lS The call will be issued
by Master Workman Ross next week.
ALL the merchants in the city with but two
exceptions have signed the salesmen's scale.
1t is the same scale that was in force last year.
UNITEDSrATEs camera clubs are exchanging
views-photographic views. Though most of
the members are standing mp they call them
sittings
SURVIVORS Of the proud Sixty-second Penn
sylvania Infantry meet in City Hall tonight to
make final arrangements for the Gettysburg
dedication.
THAT pen prisoner-Swansee-who cut his
throat will probably have his resignation from
this life accepted. He win die, the doctors
say, tonight.
REV. ]. M. MERCER will open the discussion
in the ministers meeting Monday morning on
and in the Pew"
WHEN winter fingered in the lap of spring
The cable car started suddenly and the old gen
tleman begged the blushing girls pardon and
said he didn't mean to do It.
JOHN FRrTCHLEY, a well-known old river
captain. has assumed charge of the ferry
William Thaw, and hereafter the boat will run
every three minutes instead of five.
THE Sons of Temperance viii hold gospel
temperance meeting on Sunday evening at 7S0,
in their hall, 6S Ohio street, Allegheny. Prom.
Mat McMANUs and Taylor Freeman were
arrested last night on the charge of stealing a
Bible in Allegheny They probably wanted to
be sure about the eighth commandment
AT the Spirit Cabinet-Harrison = Whose
hand is this don't see before met Wana-
maker-Mine Quay-Mine. Harrison, family
Il call. Wat yer got? Both-Four aces
GENERALS RossER and johnson repeat that
one Southern man is better than two Northern
men. Well. those two probably make one
| Southern man. Now, where's Colonel Sui.
| livan? -.-
JUSTICE GRIPP committed William Faust
to jail charged with the larceny of some books
He Just came from the pen, but had a relapse
as naturally as if he had never seen good Chap
lain Milligan.
MERELY EXISTING - Higgins - Where's
smithson living now? Muggins-He's not liv
| ing; he's quit it. Huggins-What?. He isn't
dead, Is he? Muggins-oh, no. He's staying
at boarding house.
COLONEL W. D. MOORE and Rev. D. P. Ken
| nedy will address a meeting in favor of the
Constitutional amendment on Monday evening
at 7:S0 o'clock, in the First q. p. Church, Union
/ avenue, Allegheny.
BOOTH & FLINN commenced putting down
| the big gas main connecting the Equitable Gas
Company's wells in the Murrysv1lle district
with the manufacturing establishments along
the Allegheny river.
THEY are irving to boom volapuk again. Il
vii, never win. 1t is unnatural, and the South
erner can no more change his liquids, or the
| Northerner his gutterals, than some people
can a five dollar bill
A SERIES of addresses to young men will bt
inaugurated, Sunday, April Z. by the Y. M. G
A. Rev. G. E. Locke, Rev. b. B. Grose. Rev
D. s. Kennedy and Rev. ]. T. McCrory arr
mentioned as lecturers.
II ,1,o-h hae
disappeared in Denver. By the judicious mix
ture Of moral 'suasion, arevolver. and bottl,
of nitro-giycerine, he secured $2l 900 and playeC
the nerviest game on record.
MEssRs. H. K. PORTER, Ben Thawa and ]
F. Robinson, of the Y. NJ. c. A, viii meet will
the State Committee Of the Y. M. G. A. il
| Philadelphia April 5, when the time for hold
| ing the annual State Convention will be fixed
THE Fire Bureau is considering the sdvisa
bility of utilizing natural gas as . fuel TO
steamers while working at fires. The plan is Il
| connect pipes with the fire plugs. At frst thu
| cost would be great but in the end 1t would b.
more economical and efficient
THE semi-annual meeting Of the Disciples
Church of this and adjoining counties will b
held in McKeesport April and 10 Papers ol
| different lines of work will be read by T. D
Butler, P. Y. Pendleton, G. G. Brelos and Mrs
T.W. Phillips, Mrs. r g. White and Mis-
| Newcomer. There will be sermon on Tues
day evening by A. NJ Harrnot, of Greensburg
and on Wednesday by Rev. w. F. Cowden, o
Allegheny
Now comes Virgins nodding sweetly, with
smile upon his phiz. as he tells the guileles
farmer he is dead onto his biz. Virgins say
light rains may follow, perhaps with snow q
light as down, but in the end fair, grateful
| warmth will encircle this old town. He simpl
means the old, old story Of umbrellas. shoe
and fan, so the pretty girl is ready to receiv
| rain, shine and tan. Still there Is no use deny
| ing Virgins has his sayings pat, and the SUI
will shine serenely when We issue from tn
| mat.
JOHN JENNINGS DEAD.
One Of the Early Pioneers From Pittsburl
i Rnannn-