Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-16
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters Of Much and Little Moment
Teraely Treuted.

REV. MELLEY made prohibition speech Il
his own church in Soho.
Mr.. AND MRS. A. j. DULL, of Harrisburg
are registered at the Duquesne.
THE man with frayed trousers evidently go
the worst of it in this worlds affray.
WHEN the Allies win game will pass int
history with the letter that never came.
WI. MCCONNELL addressed prohibition
meeting in the Southside market square.
CONGRESSMAN ScULL, Of Somerset was cir
culating among the politicians yesterday.
| ELLA WHEELER says her husband is
masher. A small potato masher evidently.
PAT MARTIN was arrested last night while
trying to sell gold ring supposed to be stolen.
OLD friends are best, else they would MOI
have lasted long enough to become old friends
| AN ingot fell on Chris. Koch's arm and
crushed it badly at the Keystone Bridge
Works.
THE contract was let yesterday for the build
ing of substantial eurbiDg around the Second
avenue park.
DR.. MAYER went to Chicago last evening to
attend the funeral of s. Hifsch, q well-known
Hebrew rabbi.
By the Coroner's directions Miss Lizzie
Nolan was held on charge of abandoning a
new born babe.
| IHE QueSClon arises IN tne East, Ian an ed1
\ tor be a Christian % He probably can be, but
he probably isn't.
Mr.. W. s. ANDERSON, of the Monongahela
House, returned from Philadelphia with his
family yesterday.
THE Monongahela Gas Fuel Company will
build an Sinch pipe line from the Bellevernon
| field to Pittsburg.
JAMES ALsoP, an inmate of the Childrens
Temporary Home, fell and broke his deg at the
Forbes school yesterday.
LITTLE things, not the great, show the true
man. Little things are done naturally; great
things are premeditated.
JAMES GIBBoN was killed on the Baltimore
and Ohio road at Braddock last night. He was
taken home to Port Perry.
MRS. GRADY charges John Murphy with
kicking her boy in the side. The latter is said
to be in serious condition.
AN adventurer claiming to be the son of Sir
Dick Sutton worked New York's 400 so beauti-
titully they all turned sour.
JOHN SHERMAN tells London reporter the
politicians can run America. He forgot to say
where they were running it.
The Mayor of New York went fishing on
Sunday, and the Mortified clergy rose en- masse
and inquired what he caught.
WILL the Signal Failure Service man please
ten US what kind of weather we are not going to
have within the next two days2
The pupils of the Thad Stevens school, West
End, are preparing to give an entertainment
for the benefit of a school library.
TROUSERS are getting so wide and newspa-
pers are becoming so careful, they will soon re-
Ter to the dude as an alleged man."
THE Government Is going to stop the annual
sun dance of the Indians. This means the
usual stoppage of some more Indians.
THE suspension of operations on the Govern
ment building leads to the hope that it may be
finished in time for the next Centennial.
SIR CHARLES dixie is trying to re-enter
public life. and not a single London paper will
even mention his name. This is scandalous.
MAUD-Yes, dearie, there is great differ
ence between the court marital and the court
martial. The latter generally means business.
DANIEL DAVIS employed in the West End
mill Of ]. Painter & Sons, had his hands
crushed yesterday by an ingot falling upon
them.
HoeGITT is the name of the Guthrie, Ok,
Dis, District Attorney: t;-,--,--s. This blank
exchanges.
CAMPMEET1NG season opens up in McKees-
port at Beulah Park next Sunday. Well.
known ministers and temperance speakers will
be in attendance.
Mr. s. NJ MOODY, District Passenger Agent
of the Pennsylvania lines west. left yesterday
afternoon to attend the Traffic Association
meeting at Chicago.
Mr.. DIFFENDERFER. agent at Williamsburg
for the Pennsylvania Railroad, has resigned,
and Mr. Kline, formerly of East Liberty sta
tion, has taken his place.
W. A. HUGHART and wife, President of the
Grand Rapids and Indiana road, are at the An
derson Hotel. Mr.. Hughart attended the an
nual meeting Of the Ft. Wayne.
THE intellectual atmosphere surrounding
Boston, or q change IN the drinking water
made our Allies play verv loose game with
the usual result in favor of the other fellow.
GIRLS, don't wrinkle your pretty faces so
this sunny weather or you will find it isn't at
all pleasing to have new wrinkle. Besides, It
is entirely unnecessary to frown SO dreadfully.
IT is a charming thing to see the universal
respect and regard showered upon Editor
Childs by all newspapers, but it is discouraging
to think one must reach his sixtieth birthday
ere he is appreciated.
BoURAD SCHIFRAE, a brewers driver,
claims Andrew Rholl struck him with a stone.
He sued him for assault and battery, It seems
o crowd tried to take some beer from the |
wagon, but the driver would not allow it.
KATE FIELDS says her lectures won the day |
for the Massachusetts liquor party. These |
aren't the first lectures that have driven men \
to drink. Kate is coming to Pennsylvania, and |
the Prohibitionists had better fence that Field |
In.
SIX more private boxes at 500 each for the |
May Musical Festival, have been sold to the |
following gentlemen: G. 81. Jackson and E. H |
White. G. G. Andrews, of Youngstown; 8. |
Johnson and James Dewast, ]. E. Schmertz, |
Joseph Brown and Marvin Scaife.
WHILE they are suspending operations on |
that Government building that doesn't build. |
why not suspend architects, superintendent |
and contractors (there are no workmen) Then !
pluck the moss off of the gentlemen and adorn |
the walls, and train few vines Century plants |
would be apropos) over the stones It would |
make superb ruin, with the moonlighted /
Monongahela zephyrs and ward buns stealing
through 1t.
IT is positively true,
Sometimes we really do,
Make a joke.
And we think that we are smart,
When we see our bright remark.
And we go to bed and court sleep, soothing
'lumber, and while we do SO the vigilant proof |
-eader gets in his deadly work and when we