Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-17
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

Tersely Treuted.
Do be pleasant.
SHALL oui go to Paree?
BoULANGER should go into Bologna.
IT is long lovers lane that has a turning.
THE girl probably springs from her seat be-
cause she sat on her hustle.
SLANG indicates a poverty OF language, but
it's mighty convenient, you bet.
MONTREAL capitalists are making an attempt
to pad the defunct cotton combination.
H. w. HARTMAS, of the Hartman Wire
Company, went to Harrisburg last night.
THE stage ballet is only 200 years old. Pitts
burg front rowers Will hardly believe this.
TALMAGE thinks he can save the world in
ten years. The newspapers, then, must do it
BASEBALL prophets are rating the Bostons
second in the race. The Allies are still berated.
TIME heals all things, but gentlemen travel
ing on their uppers had better consult cob
bier.
RICHARD is himself again, and Booth may
yet be a veritable Brutus to hasty Barrett's
Caesar.
AGENT O'BRIEN will inquire to-day into the
charges of cruelty in the Allegheny Protestant
Home for Boys
IT is one of the beauties of the English Ian
guage that the man who slips up, or slips down,
does the same thing
NATURES delightful balance is maintained
by the ushering in of the snake season just as
the oyster leaves us.
THE Board of Trustees OF the Western Uni
versity is taking steps to secure better front
age on Observatory Hill.
A GANG of outlaws has captured a Colorado
town. 1t is thought the intention is to plat the
place and sell off city lots.
THIRTY-EIGHT commissions of Aldermen
and Justices elected last election have been re-
ceived from Governor Beaver.
JUDGE THURMAN calls Wanamaker a
''breeches maker" Quay probably considers
him a breaches maker" also.
THE Exposition contractor has been ordered
to double his force, if necessary, in order to
have the building ready for the May festival.
The Manhattan Club will give four outside
exhibitions during the coming season. 1t is
supposed that Cleveland will be one of them.
A DRIVER, S. U. Bair, was thrown from his
wagon on Beaver avenue, Allegheny, the fall
dislocating shoulder and fracturing an ankle.
VISITORS say Pittsburg young men are
among the best dressed in the country. Public
opinion is gradually clothesing in on Wana-
maker.
IT Is stated that the members of the National
Guards of Pennsylvania in this city will pretty
generally attend the Centennial celebration in
New York.
A TYPEWRITER" girl says the dime novel is
as improving as the conversation of the aver
age young man. This is a deadly blow at yell
low-backed literature.
PoE's old residence is said to be haunted.
Did not that throbbing genius say "And my
soul from out that shadow that lies floating on
the floor, shall be lifted nevermoreT
JOHN WHITMER, charged with having COM
mitted several robberies in lower Allegheny,
had hearing before Mayor Pearson yester-
day, and was held in $500 bail for trial at court.
NEW WORKERS are learning the true in
wardness of whist. When an East End young
man hears a stealthy footstep coming down
stairs at midnight, he knows all about whist"
THIRTEEN Governors will be at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel during the New York centen-
nial. When these 13 remark to each other
what long time it is, the number will surely
prove fatal.
FULFoRD the husband of Annie Pixley, in
reply to criticism says she never needed or
asked aid from anyone. Now many Pittsbu.g-
ers know very well that the little lady has often
been in sad need of good support.
THE case before Alderman Porter of Mrs.
Bessie Norman against Patrick McCullen and
Patrick Connolly, charged with conspiracy to
murder the tw0psons of Mrs. Norman, was dis
missed yesterday for lack of evidence.
MR.. THOMAS E. HEWITT has returned to
Pittsburg, and announces the first publication
on April 20 of Facts, new social, political,
commercial, speculative. sporting. labor and
financial journal, with Truth" for its motto.
He fingered long beside the brook
Waiting for the trout to bite.
This is the one that grabbed his hooks