Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-13
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
A Powerful nIonogram-senator Quay's
Plans-Rough on the Mice-Luilabies
From Chicago-The Time Horse.


Powerful Monogram-senator Quay's
Plans-Rough on the Mice-Lullabies
From ChicagO-The Time Horse.
AN intimate friend of Senator Quay, who
has just returned from Washington, tells me
that M. S. Q. make the most influential mono
gram to-day in Washington.
You never saw aman so besieged by ONCE
seekers as Mr.. Quay is to-day" said my in
formant. 81 don't wonder that he removed the
handle Of his door bell last Sunday. He must
have needed rest as badly as the door bell.
But under all the strain, constantly devoting
his time and his energies to the thousands of
people who think they have claims upon him,
he looks well enough, and he isn't worried
about his health"
"Is there any chance of his being induced to
take Office under the new administration"
"Not the slightest. He has been offered
three or four of the best places in Mr. Harri-
sons gift, but he has refused them all with
thanks He told me he was satisfied to be
Senator, and that nothing could tempt him to
be anything else. AS his plans are at present
he will stay in Washington till the Senate
rises, but his family which is now with him,
will return to Beaver to take possession of
their new home there on April l."
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THE women in Washington, especially the
young women, Republican and Democrats
alike, are still simply crazy about Mrs. Cleve.
land" said my friend. ''They are never tired
Of talking of her, of her gentleness and grace,
OF her good looks and taste in attire thought
the Inauguration would have swept Mrs. Cleve-
land from the attention of her sisters, but it
hadn't. Mrs Harrison has made an excellent
impression, and seemed to be woman OF dig
nifty and amiability nicely blended"
IS
"WHEN was shown over the Michigan Uni.
versity at Ann Arbor short time ago." said a
Pittsburg woman to me the other day, 81 was
rather astonished to find that one of the pro-
fessors made practice of raising white mice
in a room in the tower above the college library.
But was grieved when he told me that he
raised the pretty little creatures simply to ex.
pertinent upon them In his studies as chemist
and pathologist. Fancy devoting hundreds of
white mice to death by consumption, cholera,
and know not what horrible diseases"
So
NOBODY in the audience at the opening per-
formance of ''The Henrietta" attracted more
attention than w. N. or rather Billy Riddle.
He seemed to ENJOY the humors of Wall street
demoralized, but he doesn't look as well as he
did year ago.
EVERY mother in the land ought to be CRATE
full to Mr.. Eugene Field, the poet Of Chicago,
for giving them so many new lullabies, full of
tenderness and music. THE DISPATCH re-
prints one of his sweetest sleep songs to-day.
By the way Mr.. Fields muse has been very
active of late, and yet the quality of his work
daily mounts higher. There are great many
besides mothers and their babes who have lost
their hearts to Eugene Field.
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~ oH6oare of fba {rfopfrv rooiun nopfa
of the National Guard, who went to Washing
ton, contracted with liverymen at the Capital
for the horses they would require for the pa
rade three months before Inauguration Day.
But, of course, the contract did not contain
any specification of the horses to be furnished,
beyond the condition that the horses should
be such as could be ridden.
1t was not wonderful that some of the Of
ficers had a merry. merry time with their
charges. One of them told me that when he
got to Washington he went around to the liv-
eryman and asked him to be sure and give him
a tame horse-not a merely quiet horse but a
tame one. The liveryman took the officers
name and said he would provide him with a
suitable animal.
The morning of the Inauguration this officer
and number of Others were looking out of
the window in their temporary headquarters
when the assembly sounded and the horses
were brought up to the door. A band near by
struck up lively air at the same moment, and
a white horse incontinently threw his negro
rider about 40 feet over his head, and danced a
Spanish fandango on his hind legs.
When my friend came out he discovered
that his name was written with the words
tame horse" below 1t, on q card which hung
from the terpsichorean white horses bride.
The next hour was spent in an exciting con-
test between the officer and his tame horse"
The latter gave in at last; convinced by sharp
application OF the spur argument.