Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-22
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

NUIED AND NUIlUNDs
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.
RAW atmosphere.
GUM coats and umbrellas.
THE blue birds have the Group.
IT takes coward to do rash thing.
WARNING to tramps-Sing Sing prisoners
are going crazy for lack of work.
TAKE care of the little troubles and the big
ones will take care of themselves.
WARM Cuba will probably reduce the sur
plus that has so long worried Cleveland.
IF one were to always do what he ought he
would never find time to do what he wished.
FORTUNATELY that colored man who struck
his girl with brick hit her on the head with it.
The office of the Board of Fire Underwriters
will be located in the Safe Deposit building
after next week.
JUDGE STOWE wife and son, with General
Pearson, left yesterday for Jefferson Barracks
near st. Louis r
A SCREW loose somewhere-when the City
of New York bobs up with a usual six-hours
delay in mid-ocean.
THE Sorosis Club celebrated its 2lst birth
day by dining at Delmonico's. The ladies all
ordered tea and rolls.
CAPTAIN WIsHART was probably referring
to his Mark yesterday when he said he had
seen boys over six feet high.
JOHN MCCAIN, employed in Painters Roll
ing Mill, West End had his hand crushed yes
terday by wagon running over 1t.
WILLIAM MARCUS, who was charged with
burglary by ]. Fierst, barber, was discharged
by Magistrate McKenna yesterday.
CONSIDERING the number of bad debts
afloat, the man who has only to collect his
thoughts should be reasonably happy.
HARRIsoN's loyalty to old friends will be
strained in trying to take care of the l30 appli-
cants out of his old regiment of lao men.
sCHURcHILL g. says England's ironclads can
neither fight nor run. Their elephantine
maneuvers last year told that to the world.
THE entertainments of the Thad Stevens
School, Thirty-sixth ward, will be held on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next
week.
THE election of Thomas M. King to the vice
presidency of the B. & o. R. R. is source of
much qualification to the many patrons of the
road.
The fact that only nine white horses an
swered a theatrical advertisement asking for
500 indicates remarkable scarcity of-white
horses.
MARTIN BRowARsKI was relieved of a
charge of selling liquor without license yes
",
did not appear at the hearing.
"As the wife said when she read telegram
from her husband, 1 don't recognize the hand
writing, but that name sounds familiar, some
how."-From modern Sam Weller.
THOMAS BURNS, an employe of one of the
Allegheny tanneries, in getting off train at
Benefits station Tuesday evening, fell on some
iron and was badly cut about the face.
CHARLES MONROE, who shot Susan Jones,
in the Yellow Row. on Wednesday afternoon,
was gwen nearing Yesterday and was COM
miCted to jail in default of $1,000.
ASSOCIATION with woman makes or mars,
'Tis white-winged peace or domestic wars
The real man is made more manly,
The suffering dude more namby pamby.
TRUST may wax and trust may wane,
Trust may bust and come again;
But there's trust they ne'er will sever,
The Standard Trust goes on forever.
l. CARvILLE was arrested by Officer Thomp-
son last evening at his home on Bedford ave-
nue.. He was beating his wife and breaking
the furniture in the house. He was locked up
in the Eleventh ward station.
BosToN's confidence in railroads and the
copper trust caused shrinAage of s7o.OOO.OOO in
her pocketbook during the last IL months. The
old lady has adjusted her glasses, and is study
ing ethics and morals to find out what's wrong.
THOSE Allegheny pickpockets who broke up
an auction yesterday are evidently unmarried,
else they would never have attempted to find
the ladies' pockets. No wonder several women
tainted. Their pocketbooks were afterward
found lying on the floor.
MAY O'NEIL took a fit on Homewood
avenue. yesterday afternoon. and was taken to
Mercy Hospital in patrol wagon. She was
was not regarded as dangerous. Nothing Is
known OF her beyond her name.
A FARMER sues several gas companies be-
cause he can't raise crops on account of es-
Gaping gas from the mains. If he touches a
match to it, guarantee is given by Pittsburg-
ers who have been there, that it will not only
raise the crops but several other things.
Mr.. HARRISON is recognizing newspaper
brains and ability. Halstead goes to Berlin. as
the gentleman with true reportorial wit knows
Berlin will not come to him. Should he de-
velop Klein's faculty in the Samoan affair,
Uncle Sam may as well send his navy along.
SAM JONES has dropped his slang. Good
gracious! Josh Billings without his spelling,
Langtry without Gebhardt Bernhardt without
scandal a Chicago belle without divorce, the
administration without Baby Mckee. and
Pittsburg without mud. The public will now
drop Sam Jones.
HYMAN BRowARsKY. the Fifth avenue
saloonkeeper, was yesterday taken from Cen
tral station, where he had been taken the night
before for disorderly conduct, to Dixmont
Hospital. The commitment was made out at
the request of his wife and he was taken down
by Offcer Coulson.
JOHN MITCHELL and Harry Butler were ar
rested by Officer Terry, last evening, charged
with disorderly conduct. 1t is claimed by, the
officer that Mitchell threw cobblestone at
Butler, striking him on the back. They were
both locked up in the Eleventh ward station
for hearing this morning.
"IN the spring the young mans fancy
Elopemenss are breaking out in spots Colum.
bus sends youthful couple to this city, but
cold-b -blooded Pittsburg laws tells them to move
on A funny thing about this elopement is
that the parent Of one is travelling with the