Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20

against Beecher after many years OF close
intimacy, by declaring him unit for the
ministry, and intense bitterness had arisen
therefore between them. But sermon by
Storrs in Plymouth Church would heal all
wounds of the past, it was thought, and
make Plymouth healthy in orthodoxy for
the future But the makers of this plan
| did not take Mrs. Beecher into considera-
| ton. That aged, white-haired and appar-
emily decrepit old lady reused herself for
| truely Beecherian effort. She gathered
around her all the firm and fast friends Of
her dead husband, appealed to them to
prevent what she regarded as disloyalty to
his memory, and so melted them that they
fell upon the project and killed 1t. Ihat Is
why Plymouth voted to have no lnstalla-
tion formalities whatever, and so Aobott
began his regular pastorate last Sunday
without one word of special ceremony.
The fashionable dogs in New York to-day
are undoubtedly the bull terriers and French
pood1es. Girls prefer the terriers and the
young sports run with the poodles. Ihere
is way of shaving a small Newfoundland
dog to look like French poodle, and
great deal Of this deception is Practlced
The real article is a rarity, and Its char
acteristics are unmistakable to anyone VINO
knows anything of dogs. He is just as clean
fine as ebony and shaves like rich piece
of satin. He puts his feet down when he
trots as though the pavement was hot, lift
ing up each paw daintily, as you have seen
an old lady try the heat of flatiron. They
can be taught more than any dog there Is,
all the great trick dogs being of their breed. |
The ones owned here are always doing some |
thing for their masters-carrying bundle |
or an umbrella in their mouths, and often, !
just for the humor of the thing, pipe. |
Most of them wear silver bracelet on one |
fore paw. The poodle is very naughty |
dog, never taking any notice OF strangers,
and repels all advances from dogsof another
beeed.
The bull terriers, who are most loved by
the girls, are faithful little fellows but
awful fighters They look as though they
intended to chew all creation up fine and
swallow it, but they never think OF biting
anything but chicken meat and other dogs.
/ find that the most swell girls prefer
pure brindle dog or else clear white one
with brindle patch over one eye. girl
friend of mine paid S1OO last week for
brindle pup two months old She sold her
pug the week before for 500, and it was un-
doubtedly more valuable dog than the
terrier; but fashion did the business.
a novel where one man can do so, and that
is why SO much of current fiction is sickly
with sentimentallty, or riskily unique in
its representation of the divine passion.
Mrs. Langtry has just begun to prepare her
memoirs for a publisher. But really it
should not be secret that clever journal
list on New York paper has engaged to do
the greater part of the literary work in this
book. The public will lose nothing by this
arrangement, for the writer is, of course, a
more skilled expressionist than Mrs. Lang
land can cast halo of artistic beauty over
her gentle experiences that the lady herself
must have missed. A book of this charac-
ter will probably prove profitable, for it will
be bought by the big, curious crowd of
women. A good literary production is only
sold to comparatively small number of
people, and the aim of the new body of nov
,lists is to hit the ordinary level of feminine
interest which makes book sell like the
oroverbial hot cakes. But deliberate efforts
o capture the eapricious attention of women
eldom succeed. As everyone knows, A. C.
Iunter's remarkable bit of fortune with
Mr.. Barnes of New York" surprised the
writer as much as it could have anyone
Use. remember going into friends rooms
bout three years ago and picking up the
of this book from a table. 1t
vas for sale at that time for S400, and even
hat figure was merely nominal, for as far
IS the authors affection for the work then
xtended he would have disposed of it for a
.ood song. Even for some time after it was
Mr.. Gunter only hoped that the
'ook would clear expenses, and thus give
i'm courage to try his hand at the business
gain. But it was caught in popular
ide and had a voyage that these later copies
annot reasonably hope for. Now he could
ct almost his own price for novel, and it
night after all turn out worthless. There
undoubtedly demand for an absorbing J
ook at all times, but women's caprice as to
ovels seldom strikes twice in the same
lace, and it will probably catch up out of
ext summers bids for idle women's favor a ,
ook quite different from "Mr. Barnes" So
nese writers who are endeavoring to be so
hrewdly popular in their promised work
lay be as much surprised at their failures
5 Mr.. Gun:er was at his success.