Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
NOTES AND NOTIONS
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.


A SEAsoNABLE Palindrome-Dum the mud.
LIE sense" said the Judge to an unsavory
applicant.
w1GG1Ns thinks the weather will remain fair
for day or so.
THAT is a small policeman who can stand on
his watch all night
THEY say S. o. Trent did the city proud in
welcoming the Royal Arcanum yesterday.
THE American base ballists have discovered
why England is called the slight little isle"
CHIEF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
SAFETY ]. o. BROWN went to New York last
night.
JOSEPH WEEKS, of this city, left last night
for Washington, D. c., on business connected
with the Patent Office.
THE gruesome mortuary report for last week
shows a total of 90 deaths in the city. The
Coroner held II inquests.
The unanimity which the plumber has been
let alone by the paragrapher suggests the idea
that the plumber is no joke.
The greatest imaginable ruin stares New
Jersey peach. growers in the face. There are
no hopes of the crop failure
A COUNTRY courtship of 20 years has inst
ended in marriage. He probably gave up try
ing to get acquainted with her.
THE beautiful adjustment of natures poise
is shown by the perfect assimilation of long
haired men and short-haired women.
BRIToNs are in great fear that American
Yacht building is becoming a lost art. They
yacht to shut up since Mayhower episode.
HARRISON has discovered the secret of
hand-shaking. He says make the first grab
and then you can let go whenever you wish.
A BRAKEMAN on the Pittsburg, Virginia and
Charleston named Charles Kambach had his
arm broken while attempting to couple cars.
THE Empress of Austria makes her own soup
while travelling. Wonder where that modern
Di Vernon would be after the first smash up.
E. BARRY WALL denies that he has gone
into the tailoring business. He does not deny
that he got into the business for quite sum.
AGNES HUNTINGDON has been made an
honorary captain of Uncle Sans navy. ''Tis
said she can handle the spanker to perfection.
DIss DEBAR is to get 81, 500 a week to vindi-
pictures" She leaves Lawyer Marsh in the
mud.
CHAIRMAN 6. R. BLANCHARD of the Gen.
tral Traffic Association passed through the
city last night on his way to Chicago to New
York.
The Birmingham Turnverein gave an enter
tainment last evening at their hall, on Jane
street, Southside. There were over $50 couples
present
JAMES McGowEN, the poor old man found
neglected and suffering in shanty boat last
week, died at the Homeopathic Hospital yes
terday.
IT'S said reward is offered by frantic tenn
perance speakers for a new argument against
whisky. Why not have some orators speak in
its favor?
THE first of the two new Amoskeag engines
will arrive here Saturday. Some people are
still throwing cold water on it as compared
with the Silsby.
DUDE CLARE and young SullivanTwin be
given a hearing before Justice Gripp this
morning on the charge of robbing a hardware
store in Allegheny.
ALLEGHENY Common Council will meet on
Thursday evening to consider the appropria-
tion ordinance. 1t will be the last session of
the present Council.
MRS. A. E TANNING was furnished by the
Department of Charities with transportation
for herself and two runaway boys back to their
home in Ioungstown, o.
SCHOLARS of'the High School went in for
realism yesterday, when each wore a rose while
debating the war between the English houses
of York and Lancaster.
MICHAEL HEIsER, living at No 40 Taggart
street. Allegheny, was sent to the Allegheny
lookup last night for abusing his wife. 1t is be-
lieved that he is insane.
detectives, but he is shrewd enough not to try
to palm off the vice versa of the proposition
upon an intelligent public.
MRS. ANN Cook, of Brownstown, charges
Mary Loringer with beating her 10-year-old son
and then abusing his mother. There will be
hearing tomorrow evening.
EVERY loyal telegrapher has a kind regard
for Lizzie Annandale. the handsome singer.
They remember her kind regard for them dur
ing the strike, July IL, 1888.
BoGGLEs-I tell you the cigarette is a nui-
sance. Goggles-And 1 say that you are mis-
taken. 1t isn't the cigarette but the man that
smokes it that is nuisance
BIDS for the new machinery hall will be ad-
vertised at once, so everything will be in readi-
ness to open the Exposition September l. The
hall will be of Steel iron and glass.
AFTER being fired by the Government, the
Oklahoma boomers have been fired at by the
regulars. Attention, Battery q! Sideways!
Shift! Hay foot, straw foot, hustle!
WELL, good-hy, boys. I'm off on foreign
mission" "Where?" gssped the envious hear
stead of Minister to England. That's where
am off,"
A LONG lost art has been found-That
dreamy and puzzling Alexandrian blue, found
on Pompeian frescoes, is said to be beautifully
reproduced and frescoed on the faces of Wash
1ngton ONCE seekers.
IT must be trying indeed to be left alone with
no one to help take care of 100000 estate.
Several lawyers and a few alleged heirs are
now trying to share the burden with Mrs.
Thomas Sheehan, of Sharpsburg.
AT an adjourned meeting of the Humane So
ciety yesterday the board was increased from
13 to 16, and in all probability the number will
be increased to Is Agent O'Brien reported an
unusual number of cruelty cases abated.
CORONER MCDOWELL is trying to clear up
that fatal Harrisonville gas explosion. EN-
ployes testified that Inspector Irwin had turned
the gas on without giving the men notice
Irwin told one of the men he had given notice
THOSE lady guides who are to take care of
American innocents abroad this summer have
talked the British lion cross-eyed practicing on
him. Over anxious mammas need not attempt
to pick out the homely ones, as it is said they
are all pretty.
IT is said the Prince of Wales notebook
like the sweet girls dancing card-is filed with
engagements for every day in the year 49, Old
Father Time has an engagement with the gen.
tleman he has forgotten to note. Still it will
only take moment for the old gentleman to
fill it.
In the Moot License Court-"Prisoner," said
the Judge to anxious applicant, 'are you natu-
II am a free born American citizen"
was the reply. "Sir." thundered the Judge,
answer my queStlon. nave you ever Deen nat
uraliZed?' "N-no, SIR" and the unfortunate
gave way to "naixt."
IDA BAxTER's vague and sensational tale
has been disproven. The man Ellsworth, now
in jail on her prosecution, and against whom
she makes such ridiculous charges is not even
the man she refers to. A telegram from Con-
nellsville says she has been mixed on account
of two men having the same name.
BETTER PENNSYLVANIA ROADS.