Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04

public duties that he could not attend to the
matter Immediately. AT length, becoming
a little aggravated and being moved to &C.
ton by the urging ofhis wife, he determined
to come to Washington. He came, and
shortly after his coming he called upon the
Senator. He was received In the most ef-
fusiye manner. The Senator was delighted
to see his old friend. Other Senators were
passing through the corridors OF the Capitol
at the time thew met. The Senator stopped
them. "You must know my old FRIEND"
he said to them and introduced them to him,
one after another. The next day he took
his friend to see the President; took him
through the Departments and showed him
the most ~profuse, though inexpensive, at
%tention. 1t was four days after his depart
ure for the Capitol that the farmer returned
TO his home. His wife greeted him with
open arms. "Did you see Senator -"
she asked.
"See him?" said the husband. "See him?
WHY, he took me all over Washington. He
is the finest man in the country. He took
me up to the White House, wife, and in
troduced me to President Cleveland. He
took me everywhere"
The eulogy continued for a long time.
When it was concluded, the wife said:
"But, John, did you get the SCOOP"
The question seemed to embarrass her hus-
band a little. 'To tell you the truth, Man
dy," he said, 81 didn't. To tell you the
truth, l loaned the Senator another 5000"
Colonel Bill Morrison tells a good story
at his own expense. He has a red-haired
brother living in Illinois whose custom it
is, when occasion serves, to take his gun
and go in pursuit of the wary duck. While
he and a companion were on an excursion
they were noticed by two Germans. One
of them said to the other: You see dot fell
low? Dots Bill Morrison's brother"
Ssh dot 500" said the other, and he re-
garded Mr.. Morrison with some interest.
In a few minutes a duck few up and both
of the sportsmen shot at it. 1t fell and Mr..
Morrison said that he had shot it about
eight feet from the ground and that it had
been killed by his bullet. His companion
insisted that it was his shot that had brought
down the game and that it was 80 feet from
the ground when it was hit. After a few
minutes of argument, they started after the
duck and as they returned Mr.. Morrison
had it in his hand. But he still argued in
a rather violent manner that the duck was
but eight from the ground when it was shot
and that his bullet had brought it down.
The second German thereupon spoke to the
first. you say dots Bill Morrison's
bruder?" he asked.
Eyes, dots him, was the reply.
mo, it isn't" said the other. eff dot
was Bill Morrison's bruder he don't give q
tam whether dot duck been tree feet or tirty
feet from de ground-so long he got de
duck"
Not long ago the Hon. Matthew Stanley
Quay started for Florida. Before hisdepart-
ure he gave the two press associations a
notification that he would oppose the
appointment to Office of any one who ap-
piled to him for an Endorsement before
4. The reason for the announcement
is to be found in the enormou proportions
that Senator Quay's mail was beginning to
assume before he went away. He was re-
at the time he left Washington
about 100 letters a day. written by Office
They came from every part of the
Union. He received one from Oregon the
day before his departure addressed to 1.-THE
Hon. Senator Colonel Matthew Quay, ESQ.,"
1t was written by an entire stranger. That
the climax. He issued his pronun-
on that. His mail has not sensi-
blv diminished, but his announcement will
give him excellent excuse hereafter for get
ting rid of bores and those to whom he owes
nothing, and will not prevent him attend
ing to his friends. O'BRIEN-BAIN.