Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
THE FRIENDSHIP RING.


THE FRIENDSHIP RING.
Love speaks through an emblem or token,
Some holding jewel rare.
To be placed when the words are spoken
On finger of maiden fair.
One tells US of two hearts united,
The other of vows fulfilled.
Their absence means love unrequited
Or philtre undistiled.
But there is another sweet token,
Fashion'd for friendships sake;
Not bauole made to be broken,
A relic for hearts that ache.
1t speaks of a souls warm devotion,
When love no comfort can bring;
Like lights on the shore of life's ocean
CLEANS the golden Friendship Ring.
1t recalls face that is cherished,
The clasp of firm, true hand;
Perhaps pictures form that perished
In a distant dreary land.
Let not time its bright luster tarnish,
To that golden circlet cling;
If another your finger garnish
Still treasure the Friendship Ring.
ON March next great many Congressman
on duty to-day will march forth.
PATENT grand stands mean that post
mortem will follow the football games Of the
future.
THE crab shells and the goose bones say cold
weather is on the winter bill of fare.
SOME folks say a tablespoonful of gin in a
glass Of milk taken before going to bed will
cure cold in the head. Don't reverse the
quantities or repeat the dose, though.
THE great national game called securing
quorum will reopen at the old stand to-day.
If murderers were executed they would not
destroy the fixtures in the State prisons to re-
gain liberty.
A CAPITAL crime-Committing burglary in
Washington.
THE year is on the homestretch, and it will
soon be time to shout whoa! January"
THE social outlook in Washington is being
discussed more earnestly than the business out
look. Pleasure before business is the motto
there, however.
THE President will tale unfold to-day. pro-
vlding Congress is in good humor and Reed
does not change the old rules.
AS between necessity and nonsense the courts
have decided in favor OF the former.
THE guinea pig market has been cornered.
| and the lymph makers are squealing.
THE DISPATCH has saved the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal from being wrecked by the
| MARYLAND railroad ring. Glory enough for one
year, at all events.
EAT, sleep,
| Strive, ply;
Laugh, weep,
| Live, die.
MRs. RoBERr RAY HAMILTON will go from
the prison to the footlghts Her manager
| saws she is fine emotional actress. Her first
appearance was in tragedy. however. and she
made hit.
THE lead men are forming trust. 1t will be
q heavy combination.
TIE woman who carries o bouquet to a
murderer would be the first to cast stone at a
sinner in petticoats.
THE party that defends fagrant violations of
the Constitution or official dereliction is bound
to be buried sooner or later.
| Jay GOULD says money will soon be drug
on the market. A dollar will always be worth
100 cents, no matter how many are in circula-
ton.
DUMAS the elder, once said: Art lives on
misery: it dies on luxury" This does not apply
to the dressmaker's art
MOTTO for the oil driller-Alrs well that end;
well.
AS soon as the negro is educated to think
| and act for himself he will secure some of the
spoils. Freedom without free will is slavery
| still.
EITHER enforce or repeal the laws on the
| statute books The dead-letter measures only
serve to breed discord and INSCRIPTIONS spies
THIS month contains Christmas, and thi.
, means great deal to the young men who have
not added wedding ring to the engagement
circlet.
! PEOPLE bitten by mad dogs have bitter ex
perience of course.
IL all the talk does not retire Parnell 1t viii
tire everybody else.
THE penitentiaries and jails are apparently
no safer than some of the specializing banking
houses.
"on with the dance. let Joy be unconhned," !" i.
Sitting Bulls war cry now.
r Ir's big meters, smoke consumers or soo
: now.
: BROKEN promises sometimes mean broker
hearts. WILLIE WINKLE.