Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-19
NOTES AND NOTIONS
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.


New York last night.
NELLIE says Mr.. Languid is her Waterbury
because he never goes.
THE man who has outlived his friends has
| outlived his usefulness
MRS. HARRY WHITE and her daughter, Vir-
| ginia. are at the Anderson Hotel.
Ex-STATE TREASURER s. NJ. BAILEY, of
Uniontown, is at the Monongahela.
GENERAL ToRRENs, U. s. A, passed
through the city en- route to Chicago.
=. 81. FINK, of Washington, Pa, went to
Foxburg, pretty little oil village, last night.
STREET hose is a seasonable sign displayed
by down toYn storekeepers and other people.
THE Moot Court is not loot court. no mat
ter how else it may resemble the actual thing.
NAME says her Charlie must think she is
afraid of horses. He drives with both hands.
THEATER parties are certainly pleasure to
the participants but undoubtedly pain to the
| public.
E. D. SMITH, G. P. A. of the B. & o., went to
Chicago last night to attend the sick bedside Of
| his sister.
IT is real mean for that acknowledged club
| man to call his wife Time because her seedlings
| 60 on forever.
LADIES may turn on their heels if they wish,
but they must be plain pompadour, or they are
THE Carnegie Library in Braddock is open at
last. and it devolves upon some chronic grum-
blers to shut up.
THOSE Wylie avenue thieves had more fear
of starvation than the law when they stole S25
worth of groceries.
THE superb March weather brings such
| well-dressed crowd upon Fifth avenue that one
wonders at the appalling poor statistics.
THAT man Marcus who acknowledged to
breaking into barber shop. had close shave
when he said he didn't sponge anything
IT is suggested that foreign nations will hesi-
tate long time before insulting flag with AZ
individual stars staring defiance at them.
MAGISTRATE HYNDMAN, of the East End,
| held Benjamin Jefferson in Sl,500 for assault
| with intent to rob, on oath of Addie Jones.
THAT drunken man who hit companion
with shovel certainly had spade flush, but
| the latter's wife was there with heart full
A. E. CLARK, General Passenger Agent of
| the Lake Erie, passed through the citv to at
tend the National Association at New York.
E.A FORD, General Passenger Agent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, went to New York to
attend the meeting of the Passenger Agents
Association.
THE Constitutional Amendment Committee
meets this afternoon to discuss the literature
and lecture. The meeting of the opposition is
| not advertised.
IT is said that Henry Irving and his son re-
semble each other so much they are continual
| ly fattering each other, imagining they are
| gazing in mirror.
A MODEST emulator of Ben Butler, who
walked off with several spoons last night, will
probably find some trouble in fishing himself
| out of his own soup.
MEssRs. LUPToN AND GILL, of the Exposi-
tion Society, report a trifiing falling off when
| 4h
proach of the Exposition.
EDWARD GREGG, Of Allegheny, was sent to
the workhouse for 90 days yesterday. for tap
| ping barrel of cider in a neighbor's house.
sort o. buying without license, as it were.
RIvEs nightmare has been exhumed long
enough for one Lang to call it a shock of de-
ranged epithets and deplorable style. The man
who said that is either critic or farmer.
WHEN this weather turns colder the too pre-
vious blue birds will be apt to contract pneu-
monia, and, by the way. pneumonia is about the
| only thing Booth Finn will not contract
GREELY, alias Virgins, says the weather
will be fair and cooler, the moon says it will be
| cloudy and warmer. and the latter expects
every young man in the city to stand by her.
MANY razors have been taken from barber
shops in the city, and Inspector McAleese says
he has few in his possession. This is tough
on the Inspector, but he can probably explain.
| what kind of a husband each Individual lady
wants. The correspondence editor is said to
have gone mad. The answer was unanimous
'any kind"
| CHARLES HUFFMAN is wanted in Cleve-
land for high larceny. Sol Coulson says steal
ing couple of watches would be low thievery
in this city. We can't afford Fidelity Bank
| that doesn't fidele.
So far the Coroner has ascertained that the
! afoI od 10 cdov haao
busted. A continuation of the investigation
| Wednesday will probably evolve the fact that
| it busted because 1t exploded
CONDUCTOR JOHN BARR, of the P. R. R.,
complains that he was knocked down by a
member of the Margaret Mather combination.
This is rather turning the tables-the conductor
| is generally the one who knocks down.
WITHIN the past two weeks the kindly men,
| bers of the Society for the Improvement of the
Poor have distributed 1,O79 loaves of bread. $50
pounds of meal besides innumerable bushels
of actual necessities to 2,054 unfortunates.
THE double track on the Pittsburg, Virginia
| and Charleston road has been finished, with the
exception of the trestling. The company is
| putting down third track between Home
| stead and Thomson station near Braddock.
OLIVER FORCE, for policy writing, gave
$1,000 bail for court, and Valentine Guekert
gave $500 bail for court. The hearing of James
Force on the same charge was continued until
| April Is. as Sol Coulson testified the gentleman
| was not in the city.
THE splendid Carnegie library at Braddock
was opened without any formality yesterday
This allowed the real students, the men with
| out dress suit or perhaps even a white shirt
| to feel perfectly at home, and that was the in
| tention of the founder.
THE man who dramatized Robert Elsmere"
has learned what the promoters of the Passion
| Play knew long ago. The great and uni
versal American will not listen to religion on
the stage, for he has splendid idea as to the
eternal fitness of things.
MEssRs. ROBINSON and Watson raised fuss
in a restaurant, raised crowd. and will have to
| raise the wind or be razed. Officer McTighe
| found one of them lying in front of Liberty
| street car, but received no thanks for saving
his neck-probably it wasn't worth it.
In the License Court-"Prisoner," erowls
the Judge to an anxious applicant, II don'tlike
your face" "Its the only one ] have" said the
unfortunate. "Naixt," says the Judge. This
is blank outrage" yells Ammon. Ten dol
| lars, for contempt" says the Judge "Make it
| 20,' says the counsel, "for 10 can paw as well
| as 20, and 20 as well as TO-" 'Naixt" saws the
Court, and the funeral proceeds.
HER FATE UNKNOWN.