Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-30
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
The President and the Ailartus-Two Tales
Of Kess and Boliles--The Lay of a

The President and the Ailanfus-Two Tales
Of Kegs and Boltles-The Lay Of a
Bore.
THE ailantus throws grateful shade. Its
leaves are large and heavy, but its blossoms
are anything but sweet If, as has been re-.
ported, President Harrison ordered the allan
tus trees which grow in the White House
grounds to be cut down nobody ought to COM
plain. The odor of q bone converting estab-
lishment Is not more rich or delightful than
the pungent phosphoric odor which the antlers
of the ailantus give out The White House
trees of this order were brought by General
Grant from China, believe, but they are COM
mon enough in some parts of this country.
New York City, and particularly Harlem,
abounds in them. They are priced for their
outrageous qualities, but freely abused for
their free distributions of SCENT
1t shows the taste of the Malays that they
call a species of this tree which is found in the
Moluccas, or Spice Islands, the ailantt Nor tree
of heaven. The American notion of heaven
certainly does not include ailantus trees. They
are not even plentiful in this region.
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A wholesale liquor merchant In this city told
me yesterday that he has more orders for
liquors of all sorts from little town near
PittsbuIg which bears the name of being very
faithful to prohibition ideas than from any
other community he deals with.
Il have to tax my brains" he said, ITO invent
novel shapes and denominations for the pack
ages Dry goods is the most favored Of the
deceptive titles, and the furthest from the
truth. was sorry to hear of one of my Gus.
tomors having mishap the other day. he Or
dered a quarter of beer and asked to have it
marked vinegar. His order was filled ac-
cording to his directions and all went
right till the keg got to the railway depot of
the town I've alluded to. The trainmen handled
the keg roughly and started the head. The beer
ran out and the baggagemen drank the health
of the temperance man to whom the Reg was
directed.
Between ourselves, it must be said that at
this season of the year the above tale is slight
a fact.
TALKING of wet goods. some time ago very
well-known legal light in this city, who liked
nip of the very best whisky to be had now and
then, discovered that q bottle OF rare old
whisky which he had obtained for his own con-
sumption was being emptied too rapidly. He
suspected that one of his servants liked good
whisky. The girl was great favorite with his
wife as well as him, and consequently he did
not make his suspicious public,
But he bought bottle of the cheapest
whisky on the market and set in the place
hitherto occupied by his treasured liquor.
Though he never drank a drop of it the cheap
whisky disappeared gradually in a week. BY
watching closely he found that the girl he had
suspected was the thieving bibbe..
He did not want to lose such a valuable girl
and worry his wife, SO after that he kept his
good whisky carefully under lock and key, and
filled up the bottle which was easy of access
regularly with cheap whisky as it was emptied.
And for all know he does this to-day, for the
servant is still in his family.