Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.


NJ. L MYERS and wife went to New York last
evening.
THE bachelor probably knows where all the
pins go TO.
GENERAL MANAGER MCCREA went to Phil
adelphia.
RIvEs is going to Nice. This must surely be
a foreign joke
THE Modern Building and Loan Association
elected new officers last night.
OKLAHOMA is greatly agitated. About 81, 600
Americans will soon settle her.
A. c. RANKIN spoke for the amendment in
the Grafton Presbyterian Church.
LEWIS KoUscHINsKI is charged with tax
ing lumber from Southside house.
CORPORAL TANNER thinks the pensioned
soldiers are worthy of their higher"
SULLIVAN says he has ''blowed" Boston for
good. The aristocrats will now feel blue.
"CHEEKs" CLARK is accused by Mrs. Miller.
of the Yellow Row, with relieving her of So
ODE to a model business man: He hustled
He hustled. He made money. He died.
GEORGE W. CRAWFORD has been elected as
sistant cashier of the Diamond National Bank
HowELLs has discovered writer in Canada.
Will Canada please discover writer in Howells.
oCHILTREE is in Washington. If somebody
don't chase him away this will soon be re-
versed.
THE tea gown and the house gown define the
figure more than ever this spring. The figure
is about SIS.
THE ladies are wearing slippers without
heels at Partisan balls. Those without souls
are common.
REPRESENTATIVE ROBINSON is in the city.
His twin, Al Smiley, is holding up his end at
Harrisburg.
THE Keystone Construction Company enter
tanned party of Cincinnati gentlemen at the
Duquesne last evening.
NEW YORK has received Mrs. Cleveland
with open arms. Pittsburg young men would
know enough to close them.
A WESTERN paper says to own share in
gold mine is to have feeling of wealth. That's
about all the further it extends.
JAMES CALVIN, of the East End, fell
through a window and cut an artery in his
arm. He is at the Homeopathic.
SEVERAL meetings must be held before the
committee named for the appraisement of
Lock No. will be ready to report.
WOMAN may be superior to man, but it will
never be acknowledged until she can stand on
one foot1nd put on pair of-gloves.
THE jury is out in the case of Hattie Ray
mond, alias Schafer charged with taking
clothes and laces from Mrs. Van Ostrand.
CHICAGO boasts it is no longer a center for
legal separation. St Louis, then, is justified in
calling it the scenter OF illegal separation.
DIR. JAMES H. MCCLELLAND is very ill. He
is suffering from blood poisoning, contracted
by performing an operation on patient
THE Pennsylvania promises to make special
rates for the Washington Centennial. Dona-
tions for the expenses are coming in rapidly.
A LONDON paper goes into a long description
of Chicago girls first appearance there. 1t
began with her fete pronounce a-la-Pittsburg).
Miss FANNIE GREGORY and Miss Maggie
left for California yesterday where they will
apply for positions as school teachers. This is
pluck.
MRS. HARRISON has been seen going about
Washington with brown paper parcel under
her arm. Two to one they were a size too
small.
THE Pittsburg Traction Company is now
running an extra car in the morning and after.
noon. It is reported ten new cars have been
ordered.
THE members of the First district of the
Christian Church cooperation will meet in Nc
Keesport to-day. About 200 delegates are ex-
pected.
MRS. MARY STEINwAY alleges that Lena
Finger took some clothes, cuff buttons, etc.,
from her. Papers will please crack jokes on
light-hngered people.
NEW WORKERS are going to build monu-
ment to John Bright Though thousands of
miles apart. this puts John Bright and General
Grant in the same box.
THEY say Brooklyn has more churches and
less police than any city in the country. If
crime depends on the number of officers, why
not reduce the local force.
MRS. ELIZABETH KoCHLER says Messrs.
Fields and Coates tripped her son and kicked
him when he WAS down. Justice Gripp will
give them hearing Friday.
H. L. CASTLE, ESQ, addressed an amend
ment meeting on Mt. Washington last evening.
A meeting will be held in the Smithield street
NJ. Z. Church this evening.
BUILDING permits issued for March were for
IS brick dwellings to 1856 frames. The outlying
wards lead in improvements Just q iron clad
buildings will be erected within the fire limits.
OWING to the Washington Inaugural Cen
tennial taking place on April 80 Select Council
p, instead of April %, the regular meeting day.
WILLIAM ROBINSON says James Brown in
suited his lady friend on Fifth avenue last
evening" Mr.. R. knocked Mr. B. down. and
Justice Gripp will see what chivalry there is
left in Pittsburg this morning.
I'D. WATSON asks the Court for 3 citation
on ]. C. Courtney, of the Ellsworth Courtney
estate, to show why he should not file an &C.
count. The plaintiffs are William Roberts and
wife, nurses of DR.. Courtney, who claim they
have not been treated as was intended by the
Doctor.
THE statement is anonymously thrown out
by an evening paper that the Welsbach natural
gas burners, adopted by this city as substitutes
for incandescents in lighting the fire engine
houses. are sold outright to Indianapolis and
other Western cities, while Pittsburg must pay
a high royalty and rental for them.
WORK has been mapped out for the further
ance of the prohibition amendment in this
county. Plans for volunteer speakers and
literature to combat that of the Liquor League
have been decided upon. The Governor of
Iowa and the Governor of Kansas will probably
talk of prohibition in their States. 1t will be
interesting to know what the Governor of Iowa
says to the Governor of Kansas.
SING a song of Virgins, pocket full of
pence. When he gives the weather he's surely
on the fence. The fence is very narrow so is
Virgins seat. For acrobatic balancing he
surely can't be beat. The maid stays in the
parIor, the mistress scrubs the floor, the nurse
can spank the baby till the innocent rs sore
The hostler darns the master as loud as he may
dare. and everybody's feeling good; the weather
will be fair.
LEGISLATIVE CHATS.
M Cr4haru Has M ComnIuiufa IN NTolra