Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-08
THE TOPICAL TALKER.


Fighting Grip With Grip-In the District
Attorneys Den-Afr. FIorence's Muse.
| JIJHEN a Ptttsburger opened his satchel at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City
last Thursday night, he was surprised to en-
counter these articles at the surface: A case
of mustard leaves, half pint flask of whisky,
roll of flannel, a small vial of somebody's
cough cure and box of quinine pills.
The discoverer of these things is hearty,
robust business man, who has not been in bed
day for six years. He was astonished at his
discovery. He had been called East suddenly
and had to request his wife to pack his valise
and send it to the Office The valise usually
held on these expeditions the smallest number
Of toilet articles and so on-and nothing else.
The presence of the other wares was
explained by the following rhyme writ
ten on the back of one:
WHEN GRIP MEETS GRIP.
Some medicine and just nip
or whisky straight l send, sir
You'n I'm d the contents of your 'grip"
Will knock out influenza.
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nIsTRICT ATTORNEY DICK JOHNSTON has
not been suffering from influenza He has
recovered from very natural collapse OF the
system that followed the labors of the CAM
paign and a very busy life for the last i've
years
Mr.. Johnston looked well enough yesterday
when found him disposed in wooden chair
without castors-in his den at the Court House.
Mr.. Porter was cleaning out his desk for his
successors use yesterday. This involved the
disposition of a revolver or two and other
relics of murder trials and criminal cases of
all sorts. But Mr.. Porter had not accumulated
many of these relics; he says that the articles
offered in evidence did not interest him greatly,
and other court officers picked them up.
These perquisites used to belong to the
Crown in the old days, and in this regard as
Mr. Johnston admits, the modern District At
torney has taken the place of the King.
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0pY the way. Mr.. Porter" asked, as the ex-
District Attorney presented an officer of
the Court House with a six shooter, shave you
ever had occasion to use arevolver in your Off
cial capacity?"
'tNo" he replied, 'as District Attorney I
have never had any violence offered me. OF
course have had rough people to deal with
often enough, but they have never bothered
me. think most criminals are able to see that
the denunciation of them in court is done by
the District Attorney in his official capacity.
See how seldom you hear of public prose-
cutor being assaulted. Some prisoners harbor
resentment against the prosecuting attorneys,
when he was District Attorney. but his assail-
ant was q maniac"
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A MoNG the pleasant reminders OF very
happy marriage in theatrical life are the little
bits of verse which one is always encOuntering
these days in the papers signed w. ]. Florence.
They are all dedicated to his wife by name, or
thinly veiled by sentiment They all breathe
the real affection which exists between the
happy old pair of comedians.
Mrs. Florence went over to England last
summer and Will not return until next season.
Mr.. Florence is playing with Joe Jefferson. and
enjoying it. But he misses Mrs. Florence
dreadfuily.
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THAT some extraordinary affection of the
nose and throat is troubling the majority
of Pittsburgers can be readily discerned at the
theater. As soon as the curtain descended on
an act of Shenandoah at the Bijou last night
there was frightful storm of coughs and nasal
trumpetings. 1t sounded lridiculous-but the
sufferers did not see the tun of it.