Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-27
NOTES AND NOTIONS.

Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.
ONE, two, three and out.
LICKED and by the Chicagos.
FooD for thought-Brain food.
A MELANCHOLY tree-the pine.
No kicker-The man with the gout
1T is not unnatural that a jailbird wishes to
| fly.
THE Elsmere coat is out in Chicago. Out at
the elbows.
THEY are rushing everything, even the growl-
CAN ProhibItionist properly be called an
ardent supporter?
AFTER all the talk of the situation in Ohio
it seems to be the same old sit
THE humiliation is not all in defeat, but in
the fact that the other fellow won.
LONDON has welcomed Buillonger with open
arms. Ny but that city has the Gaul.
SECRETARY WINDOW orders bread and milk
forlunch. What does he do with the bread?
THERE Are 200 0OO, 900 people in the world,
yet some persons act as if there were but one.
HENRY FOLEY will have hearing Wednes-
day on the charge of assaulting Mary Lanahan.
HALsTEAD is recovering his strength and
yells for his pen. The Senate will now weaken.
PRESIDENT HARRISON is a great reader of
character, but he is fioored by Chinese wash
bill
A WEST VIRGINIA woman had her bangs
| cut by fash of lightning. 1t probably charged
her for it.
THE Board of Viewers yesterday held a final
meeting on the assessment for the sewer on
| Long alley.
THERE is a Filley at the head of Missouri
| 10 En0Uino 10oEinO Or
amares nest.
ARBoR DAY was not observed by the school
children yesterday. They haven't the ground
to plant trees.
THE Missionary band of the Mcclure Ave
| nue. Presbyterian church, Allegheny, will meet
| this afternoon.
JOHN Smith fell from a scaffolding in the
Union foundry and broke an arm and sustained
| internal injuries.
WHEN Boulanger crossed the French Chan
mel he rejected his military cloak. Perhaps it
disagreed with HIM
IT'S said George Francis Train is starving
himself Intentionally. This is where he doesn't
resemble other journalists.
AFTER a man has once secured the reputa-
| tion of getting up with the sun he can sleep
| until noon without losing it.
wANAMAKER will talk Sunday of the null
| tiplication table of Christianity. Wonder how
many times 900 makes 800 600.
ExPREsIDENT CLEVELAND has leased the
| Browne house at Marion. He released the
| White House quite while ago.
MARK TWAIN says he can sweep warts out
| of existence. In case they fail to kill each
other will he please try it on Sullivan and Kill
| rain.
A RUNAWAY horse attached to light spring
wagon ran over little Maggie Gray on Penn
avenue yesterday. The child is seriously in
jured.
As it will take all day for the New York pro-
cession to pass given point, the supposition is
| that the sidewalk spectators will not stand it
| that long.
JUST 5000 pupils were whipped in Boston
schools last year. Culchawed Boston ought to
know the difference between cultivating and
threshing.
AN employe of Carnegie's Twenty-ninth
| street mill had his leg broken and foot crushed
by heavy ingot falling on him while at work
| last night.
| CHICAGO claims supremacy over Pittsburg
| because she has had no cases of sunstroke this
year 1t is physical impossibility for some
! people to be sunstruck.
ADELAY of over an hour occurred on the
| Citizens Traction line about o'clock last
| night. caused by car No. 209 breaking grip at
| the Forks of the Road
| DAVID WILLIAMS and Thomas Barrett will
have hearing Tuesday on a charge of stealing
scrap iron, and Peter Strasberger was held for
court on the same charge.
THE order of Chief Brown directing the DO
lice of the city to report upon the sanitary
condition of the districts patroIled by them
| went into effect yesterday.
THE photograph of John Burk, who was cap
tured with a lot of watches and jewelry (sup-
posed to be stolen) on his person Wednesday,
| was added to the rogues' gallery yesterday.
Oh, what is the use of repining
For where there's dime there's a drink;
The star of Prohibit is shining,
But we're onto racket, we think.
THE Memorial Day Committee representing
the G. A R. Posts in the old city proper, will
meet for organization at 7:3O o'clock this
evening in Council Chamber, Municipal Hail.
ONCE more to the breach dear Ally,
| Show the world how to do and to dare.
But while with Chicago you daily,
Be careful the breeches don't tea-.
A MEETING of the General Committee hay
ing in charge the inaugural centennial parade
in East Liberty on Tuesday will be held this
evening at headquarters to complete all de-
| tails
JOHN SNIDER, a conductor on the Panhandle
Railroad, was running over the top of box
car in the freight yard yesterday, when he
| slipped, falling to the ground, and dislocated
! his right shoulder.
THOSE European military spies are going to
closely watch the $1,000 militia in the New
York parade. Now, for heavens sake, Battery
! B, if you can't look fierce and bloodthirsty
! please don't look ashamed of it.
THE Pittsbtrg Alumni Association of AIle-
| gheny College held meeting at the Office Of J.
Wesley Kinnear, Esq. and arranged 10 hold
the annual banquet of the association at the
| Seventh Avenue Hotel on May IL.
TODAY is the sixty-seyenth anniversary of
the birthday of General Grant. New York will
celebrate it by splendid banquet, but there
will be skeleton at the feast. The spirit of
| American patriotism that will sneer at a
banquet when the incomplete Grant monument
has become disgrace
For the Constitutional Amendment, to-mor-
row, H. l. Castle will speak in the Moorhead
building in the afternoon, Glenwood in the
evening; Miss Lee, A. Starr, at Liberty Hall
East End, and Mrs l.. E. Bailey at Salisbury
Hall, Southside, in the afternoon, and the
Binghamstreet NJ. E. church in the evening"
AT the New Oklahoma Postofice-Harsh-
voiced squatter Gabbing an Arkansaw tooth
pick through the windowsill-Anythingf for me-
tenderfoot2 Postmaster Fielder (tremulously
gazing at rule 5)-Who are your SQuatter
| (iercely)-pm the sorrel-topped rustler from
| Butte. Fielder drawing a two-foot navy ac-
cording to rule l3)-Let's see you rustic. and he
saw him.
DIR. B. NJ. HANNA. Eye, ear, nose and
throat diseases exclusively. Office. 71S Penn