Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-11
NOTES AND NOTIONS.

NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Muck and Little domsn
Tcrscly Treated.
A HOT argument-82i in the shade.
DISSATISFACTION is not ambition.
MAY showed her temper yesterday.
AGE goes to the grave before beauty.
QUESTION of the day-What's the score?
RUsK uses gold pen. Clarkson's is plane.
T. q. JENKINS left for New York last even
ing.
THIS section certainly got hail Columbia yes
terday.
CLIMBING the Eiffel tower must be a sort Of
giddy amusement
THAT painted ship upon painted sea must
have been in water colors.
A TANGLED thread-the thread of life. and
far more knotty than nice.
SINCE it was prophesied, that shower yester.
torday ushered in Virgins reign.
MRS. EAST END calls her young husband
Fad, because he is the latest out.
1T is rather contradictory that shallow and
talkative man is full Of sound argument.
B. F. GROVE charges J. L. Orr with perjury.
alleging that he testified falsely in a recent
suit.
THE Allies are now getting there as expected.
with both feet-the other fellows' feet, how
ever.
THAT unknown lover who sent his Western
girl live serpent by mail must be Adam some
thing.
AS deaf as an adder was probably first said of
the business man involved in column of
figures.
J. B. TIMMoNs is charged before Magistrate
Gripp with stealing watch from So Second
avenue.
THOUGH man lose everything but hope, he
can live on that to the miserable end and then
die. hoping.
THE man who saw the largest hailstone fall
will please bring it to this Office as guarantee
of good faith.
THE Glenwood W. c. T. U. meeting will be
addressed by b. @. Christy, Esq, on Sabbath
evening at 730
"Is it warm euough"-bangl 'Is it warm
enough for"-bangl bangl us it warm enough
for straw hats?"
BERNHARDT says American actresses are
Beginning to show talent This is a new name
for Potters tights.
The difference between spring suit and an
Italian is that there isn't any. They both
shrink from water.
ONE who has a fund Of philosophy need
never sigh for bank account He can draw
on his imagination.
A DETROIT journal offered prize for the
best snake story, and the sale of whisky in
creased 100 per cent
BEN BUTLER says Porter ran away from the
Battle of New Orleans. Somebody must have
pulled cork on him.
JUSTICE is always severity II every man
had his due, it would consist, not in what he
has. but In what he has not.
THE stationary engineers will hold their
annual picnic at Idlewlld on May 30. A special
train will leave the Union depot.
GEORGE Dyes, there Is a kind Of fish in
India that climbs trees. The man who bet you
a box of cigars is also up tree.
MAYOR PEARSON is dissatisfied over the fate
of his raiding ordinance, which was defeated
IN Select Council on Thursday night.
THE announcement that the Rev. DR.. Scott
is quartered at the White House creates the
suspicion that Baby Mckee is a cannibal.
MRS. AND DR. DANIEL 7. DAY, of the United
States Geological Survey, are visiting Mr..
Charles A. Ashburner at his residence on
'Hiland avenue.
The Pittsburg Committee held short meet
ing yesterday to classify articles that were in
doubt for the benefit of the Weighing and In
spection Bureau.
The Pittsburg Association of the Allegheny
College, will hold their annual banquet at the
Seventh Avenue Hotel May II. Judge White
will act as toast master.
SECRETARY MARTIN. Of the Amalgamated
Association. went to New York last night to
attend q meeting Of the Executive Committee
OF the Federation of Labor.
THE Union Pacific have put on two fast daily
trains to San Francisco and Portland instead
of the Goloen Gate special The time to both
these cities has been reduced IL hours.
NEXT week the International Railroad AS
sociatioh, of Texas, will be reorganized. A
number of new roads will be admitted and
successor to ]. Waldo will be selected.
DARKENED is the blue horizon,
Gloomy and somber is our fate;
Let us drown our cares in pizen,
The Georgia melon crop is late.
THIS world is but fieeting show,
Please ring the curtain down,
For when sad actors older grow,
They learn that each is clown.
THE messenger of the Pittsburg Poor Board
who took Canadian pauper back to Hamilton
has arrived home. He denies that he was put
out of Canada for attempting to land the
pauper.
YOUNG Harry Lev claimed to have been
by man named William Weiss. of
Bedford, while hunting for his uncle, John
Emery. of Allegheny. He was sent back to
Bedford.
B. C. CHRIsTY, ESQ, will address an OPEN
air meeting in front of Salisbury Hail. Twelfth
street, Southside, tomorrow at 4 P. M. The
meeting will he under the auspices of the
Moorhead W. G. T. q.
Hon. G. P. STRoME, Secretary of the E. B.
A., will lecture in their hall on Penn avenue,
near Thirteenth street. Sunday evening
Prominent Southern members of the E. B. A.
will also make addresses.
JOHN GALBRAITH, young man aged Is
years, was in Allegheny yesterday searching
for his uncle, Joseph Bradley. He could not
locate the man, and Secretary Hunker fur.
nished him with ticket to his home at Prlm-
rose.
THE Boston Ideals will give sacred concert
tomorrow night at the Bijou Theater for the
benefit of the Society for the Prevention of
Crueltyto Children. They have permit from
Chief Brown, Of the Department Of Public
Safety.
THE High School Committee met last night
but transacted only routine business. The
County Superintendent of Schools asked for
the use ef the High School chapel for the
Teachers Institute from August 26 to 30. The
request was granted.
AT 2:30 yesterday afternoon a window in the
Philadelphia Companys building, corner of
Penn and Ninth street, on the eighth floor, was
allowed to remain unfastened, and piece one
md half by two feet fell the whole distance,
coming down edgewise, and only missing man
about one foot
MARY SIEGER, aged IS, who has been for
warded by the authorities at different times to
Cincinnati and Alliance, has been sent to Al
;oona on her way to New York She is sup
posed to be demented, and at one time owned
valuable oil lands about Franklin. She has
habit of carrying big roll of bills in her stock
ng.
a LETTER FROM COOLEY.