Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters Of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Trented.

Tef0ety ITeuteus i
A LOCAL ensation--toothache
A FALSE charge-a dentists bill
A FAIR showing-the girls on the ave.
IT is the tramp who makes non est living.
Iris the driver who frequently repeats his
tale of whoa.
In drinking contest the dog should win by
several laps
THE man who tumbled to himself probably
| took drop too much.
Coon nature is an excellent thing when It
does not mean weak character.
THE Allies should engage Webb, the famous
swimmer. He always strikes out.
THAT Oklahoma newspaper called Get Up
probably makes good fire lighter.
4 PATRoLMAN scHAFFER was bitten by
large dog on Bluff street yesterday.
IT'S said Mrs. Fred Vanderbilt has big
heart. Wonder how much it weighs.
~ CARRY the Prohi bition banner still."-
General Fiske. Can it be an Illicit still?
THIS world has no time for sentiment It is
the bashful man who is always backward.
AMERICANS Will not be surprised to hear
that Rives is attraetin G attention in Paris.
! DEsPAIRING of their baseball club, Chicago
papers are pitching into the administration.
CONTRARY to rumors VIM. Bader says he is
still in the fight for the Mayor of Allegheny.
HARRY AIRY was instantly killed by a piece
of steel falling on him at the Edgar Thomson
| Steel Works.
GOVERNOR GORDON says justice hasnot been
done Hayes. Why can't they let the poor ex-
President alone?
FOUR big gunboats are going to take a trip
around the world, and Secretary Tracy is ad-
vised to kiss them good bye.
THE fact that the streetsprinkIer makes mud
| of the dust is merely law of nature and the
fault Of the Street Department.
CAPTAIN BARBOUR, Dr. Bullen, A. M Brown
and w. ]. MoreIand addressed prohibition
meeting in Braddock yesterday.
THE Chicago policeman who shot and killed
mad dog at the first fire must have loaded his
pistol with the Carter divorce case.
RICHARD BANKERT has been appointed
night gateman at the Union depot, to serve
from II o'clock until in the morning.
FREDDY GRANT and Bob Lincoln are at
their respective posts, and puzzled foreigners
are trying to find out which is the post.
THE Queen recently gave Irving set of cuff
buttons The rest Of the outfit IS probably
locked up in her second bureau drawer
IF George Francis doesn't slow up on that
fast he will soon be a funeral Train. [169th
joke on Train and he still lives and moves.
Russ HARRISON is suspiciously quiet and
mean-spirited persons will probably soon say
some one has put ant exterminator on him.
SwNEBURN has been asked to write small
book of stolen poems on Battenberg's latest
baby. It should be Of about English taxpayers
sighs.
A LARGE rock from the hillside above
Painters mill fell on the Panhandle road yes.
terday afternoon. Trains were delayed an
hour.
A NUMBER of boys stole keg of beer from
Mrs. Mary McClean's cellar yesterday on
Second avenue. Officer Fitzgerald caught
them.
STOLEN ideas are worse than stolen money,
for nature originates one and man the other
and he who steals from nature pays double
penalty.
AN Eastern sleeping-car conductor forced
Secretary of War Proctor to pay his fare. This
explains what has become of the naval appro- |
priations.
THE funeral of Patrick Mieskell, the Pc.
mickey brakeman, killed on Saturday, took
place yesterday. The Brotherhood of Brake. |
men attended.
LYONS and Smith. the brothers-in-law, who |
fought with razors Saturday, were ashamed of |
their conduct yesterday, and declined to prose- |
cute each other.
Wheeler Wilcox that dress parade is in pros |
pect. This is wise, for the public is weary Of |
their undress parade.
A MAN whose name could not be learned fell |
of the platform of a moving passenger train at
New Brighton Saturday night, and died shortly |
after from his injuries
THERE is nothing strange in the fact that
Jay Gould disagrees with Bishop Potter The |
good Bishop should have known better than to
swallow anything connected with Jay Gould.
TIMOTHY BOWLING claims his wife slashed
him on the cheek with case knife and then
threw boiling water on him. This was more
than he could stand, and he had her arrested.
JOHN s. DRAvo and Colonel George Wool
ford, of Iowa, addressed temperance meetings
mittee will meet tonight to outline the work.
THE diplomat and hunter
Have both learned, alack;
That the clever old fox
Will turn on his track.
FREDERICK SExANER was sent to jail yes.
terday for singing on the street. Atthe Twelfth
ward station Kate Toole got 90 days and John
Smith 30 days at the workhouse for disorderly
conduct.
BARKEEPER kindly-You look tired, but Pm
not allowed to set out more than five beers at
a time for one man. Did you just get home
from the Centennial? Weary and footsore
licked?" Nope" From OklahomaT "Nixey,
I Just walked from another saloon"
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