Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-11
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Trented.
OvERsHoEs.
WHAT was the text anyway?
PLEASE don't look back on the street.
B. c. CHRIsTY has gone on a business trip to
Philadelphia
WIN. A. STERN, of Stern & Silverman, left
for New York last night
THE boys at the Duquesne have been rugged
out in smart new braided suits
The usual chimney scare chased the fire de-
partment out to the Thirty-sixth ward
DANIEL McINEER was committed to jail for
trial on the charge of illegal liquor selling at
Soho.
SOME people put on their Sunday behavior as
regularly as their Sunday trowsers, or bonnet,
and take them off as easily.
THE members of the Southslde Medical
Society will meet tonight at the Office of DR..
Thomas, on South Thirteenth street.
THAT superb Masonic Temple looms up a
thing authoritative and beautiful, as if con.
scious of the tremendous power behind it.
JOSEPH LEWIS is a 10-year-old boy. His
companion pushed him off a board walk on
Jones avenue yesterday, and he broke his leg.
W. c. BURT, a brakeman on the Pennsylvania
Railroad had his arm badly crushed while
making coupling at Rankin station yesterday.
CHAPLAIN 'MILLIGAN, of the Western Pen,
conducted jail services yesterday, with the
singing under the direction of Prof. Martin, of
Allegheny.
THROWING stones in a candy store on Wylie
avenue yesterday afternoon caused John Cody
to be arrested and locked up in the Eleventh
ward station house.
VIRGINIA TAYLOR and Henry Washington
IN niOht
that Virginia's mother got tired of it, and had
them both locked up.
THE limited was late last night, having been
held by the snow and broken airbrake. This
is the tram that is always on time, according to
the Pullman Company.
YESTERDAY was one of the days medieval
corporations could not extort pennies from
nineteenth century people for the privilege of
walking themselves over bridge.
THE unfortunate man Felona, of Bedford
avenue, who was SO badly injured by prema-
ture explosion at a stone quarry, died at the
West Penn Hospital yesterday morning.
LAST night looked like Christmas eve, and
the throngs of well-dressed people going and
coming indicated desire to hear at least once
week what the good ministers had to say.
IT'S queer idea of domestic economy that
causes the prudent wife to turn the kitchen
clock half an hour fast in order to be on time,
and then counts on it being half an hour fast.
PRESIDENT C. H. W. RUHE, Samuel Nc
Michael and ]. M. Allen, of the Musical Union,
left last night for st. Louis. They are dele
gates to the National League, that meets to-
morrow.
THE Duquesne Club has made the old, old
mistake of attempting to gild refined gold, and
has smoothed off to fiat monotony Medina
stone only beautiful when in its natural rugged
simplicity.
A MAN whose name was not learned re-
ported to the Allegheny police authorities last
evening that he had been knocked down on
the railroad bridge. and robbed of gold watch
and chain.
MAGISTRATE McKENNA evidently thinks it
wrong for a hanson cab driver to sit inside
his cab insead of on the box, because he fined
Jacob Morris $40 and costs yesterday for driv-
ing with passenger that way.
A CHIMNEY caught fire yesterday in the
house of a man named Wharton, near Sawmill
Run; but as Wharton's neghbors ''sooted the
action to the word, !" the Gre was extinguished
before anything else was affected by the flames.
WHEN mother must sue her daughter for
a breach of domestic discipline its about time
when it was applied where it would do the most
good. Mothers still have some rights.
How easy it is for a reporter to write down
the figures S541,5 ,571 09, as representing the per-
sonal estate only of the late William Carr; but
how difficult for even the most imaginative
scribe to realize what eight figures of that sort
mean!
TIMELY hint to young men-The School of
Design has organized plate club, and will
present decorated earthenware to any member
rash enough to marry. The plates are heavy
and warranted not to break, even if thrown
downstairs on lodge nights.
THIEVES jimmied the back door of Beaver
avenue tobacconist yesterday and stole SIC
worth of weed, including small change in the
money drawer. 1t is hard, very hard on the
dude, to chronicle that the thieves refused to
touch single cigarette.
SUBURBANs are signing for the day, or rather
the night, when the electric lights will guide
them on their homeward way, and obviate the
necessity of fumbling in the dark along line
fence, or stumbling into the same old pool in
order to assure themselves they are on the
right track.
NOT all restaurant keepers, but some res
taurant keepers are paying heavy fines for
serving margarine to their customers. They
evidently believe in noted Latin professors
etymology of the word restaurant-ReS, a
thing. Taurus, a bull. Therefore a bully
thing. Therefore oleomargarine.
WITH book in hand and thoughtless eyes,
Turned upward to the realm of skies,
Lovely Murvine wends her way,
To the church at 10 to-day.
With sanity face and mein so meek,
Doth the girl salvation seek.
Little use. twill little cost,
To save a soul that is not lost.
A RACE war that hasn't figured on the
dockets occurred in Allegheny Saturday night.
Several white men surrounded three colored
men. and, of course, wien row started, began
to get away with them. Driven to the wall,
one of the colored men drew a razor and made
through the crowd, cutting right and left