Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-11
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many rIatters Of Much and Little aIomenl
Tersely Treated.


A NEW iron ceiling is being put in the lobby
of the Seventh Avenue Hotel.
THAT inventor who has discovered perfect
separator is wanted in Chicago.
THE Board of Viewers viewed the antici-
pated opening of Boquet street.
FRED GRANT will get $4,000 a year, yet
some people ask, what's in name?
PUBLIC men are public targets, the more
prominent the more liable to be hit.
ANOTHER American actress has scored" a
success. She says Irving cannot act.
MRS. MAcKAY is to dine with the Prince of
Wales. HuhI Our Carol did that
AN Austrian woman has been decorated, pre-
spmably with the order of the Garter.
JUST 557 nuisances were abated last month,
and the Postoffice masher is still there.
JOHN CUMMINGS fell from scaffold yester-
day at Howe, Brown & Co.'s mill, and broke
his leg.
Marks SHERMAN charges Edward Wills
with larceny and the Marks will tell his story
Saturday.
Mr.. SAMUEL KILGoRE. of 1874 Wylie avenue,
entertained number of friends last night at
euchre party.
THERE were 394 deaths last month, the great
est for II years, This makes the rate very high,
20.6 per 1000
DIR. E. A. WOOD has written an opera which
will be given by the Boston Ideals about the 9TH
or eth of May
FoREIGNER-Yes. Persons over s., and ac-
knowledged idiots, are excused from jury duty
in New York.
Ex-EMPREss EUGENE is in Spain hunting
ruins. She should spend her time among the
English nobility.
GEORGE McTIGHE had his arm crushed by
machinery last night at Carnegie's Twenty
ninth street mill.
MANSFIELD wears $4,000 suit of armor in
Richard three times, and still it is penetrated
by carping critics.
SUBsCRIBER-Gracious,n no. joaquin" Mil
Ter is not a pedestrian, You probably never
saw his name spelled.
MOSES PARKER, colored, was arrested last
night on suspicion of trying to hold up William
Wilson, drunk. on Grant street.
A DINNER and festival will be given in La
fayette Hall, this evening, for the benefit of
the Aged Colored Women's Home
A POLICE commissioner is In the city trying
to choose police system for Chattanooga.
Some people think we can spare ours.
THIS weary, dull monotonous grind of every
day life is made bearable by but one thing.
There is something new under the sun.
WANAMAKER praises the new English hats.
"Well, Pll make it 81 40 seeing it's you; but
don't tell anybody sold one so cheap"
THE girls of Silesia prefer any sort of labor
to domestic work. That is where the women
of Silesia resemble the women of-Silesia.
LANGTRY's cousin is so poverty stricken he
is obliged to sell "Pigs in Clover on the streets
of New York. Mrs. L. still basks in clover.
THE French Government have made hero
out of Boulanger by convicting him, where
they might have made a coward by acquittiDg
him.
o. B. CARPENTER charges George King with
assault and battery When King files his
answer Carpenter may wish he had sawed
wood.
P. BR1ECKLEY is charged with hitting P.
Bnex with a brick. He will explain before
Justice Gripp why he used that particular
weapon.
THE time is almost here when ones ftiend
makes good figure with his new suit, innocent
of the fact that the cost tab peeps from under
the collar.
CHIEF BROWN yesterday ordered Alice
Hamilton and Minnie Taylor to close up their
places on Second avenue, or they would be
prosecuted
THE temperance people took hold of the
liquor question in great shape last evening.
They grabbed saloon keeper and threw him
downstairs
THERE are people and people. but the man
who does the right thing, and the woman who
says the right thing in the right place, belong
to the people.
THE building inspectors charged the German
National Bank S117 50 for the privilege of
erecting $320.O00 building at the corner of
Wood and Sixth. - ---
JOHN SMITH, Michael Jordan and James
Martin have been sent to Dixmont. Jordan is
given to falling on his knees and praying and
of course he's crazy.
JOHN SLooT, while engaged in cleaning the
Allegheny Market House yesterday, fell from
ladder and was caught on a meat hook, tear
ing the flesh on his right arm.
WILLIAM MULLEN tried to sell suit of
clothes to Wylie avenue pawnbroker. The
broker recognized the clothes as missing from
Joseph Fink's store. Mullen was arrested.
In the United States District Court yesterday
the assignee of Carrier & Baum, bankrupts,
was granted leave to transfer certain lands in
Clinton county to A. C. Hopkins for $S5, 900.
1T Is said to be fact that the majority of the
women who seek divorces are handsome. 1t
requires no philosopher to tell why this is So
Plain women don't find it SO easy to marry
again.
A CRAZE of writing is usurping the actress
fad among society ladies. Fortunately the
people need not read, where they must listen.
If there is dryer topic than prohibition it is
society.
LIGEi-naVe you SnuDDeQ BlalneT Yes, sire.
Have you boycotted the Senate? Yes, sire.
Have you insulted the oficeseekers? Yes,
sire. Have you paralyzed Quay? Yes, sire.
Then come to prayers.
THE surviving members of the old Volunteer
Vlgilant Fire Company met last evening.
They elected officers and swapped reminiscent
ces of the fire in lS45. the forty-fourth anniver
sary occurring yesterday.
LITTLE John Watts was sent to his home
of Woods Run. He confessed he had run
away from home. the citizens didn't want him
there and he was returned.
THE Board of Viewers appointed to assess
the value of Lock No. concluded taking the
company's evidence yesterday. The onus of
their song was that the dam is worth more to-
day than when it was built three years ago.
THE Milk and Meat Inspector condemned
S915 so worth of goods in March. The follow
Peter Shook, Jacob Kacher, ]. H. McNall, A.
Rammes and E. Erie. They had probably put
milk in their goods.
AN order was made yesterday, substituting
w. ]. Fawcett for Theodore Ortman as re-
ceiver of the Pittsburg, Knoxville and ST.
Clair Street Railway, Fawcett to give bond
with sureties in the sum of S25000 The change
was made on the petition of Ortman, who
wished to be released.
CAROLINE MULLER, Philip Kirsch and
others, the children of Wilhelmina Kirsch
yesterday filed a petition in the Orphans Court
against Mrs. Mary B. Benz, to annul an alleged
fraudulent transfer of a 81, 40 lot in Allegheny
of which, as executrix of the late Philip
Hauck, Mrs. Benz had control.
ALBERT MooRHoUsE alias G. W. Wood a
horse thief by false pretense, was yesterday
sentenced by Judge Magee for six months to
the workhouse. Mary Ridge pleaded guilty to
selling liquor in prohibitory district, to
minors and on Sunday. She was sentenced