Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16

People who run lunch counters are not
generally very long lived. only knew one
of these people to linger to great age, and
he had his meals brought to him. Some
kinds of food are improved by age, but not
all. Among those that are not impervious
to atmospheric influences or the extremes of
heat and cold are eggs, mushrooms and
wafies. Celery also suffers somewhat, like
a senatorial election, by exposure. It does
not thrive under such circumstances go much
as ballet, but pines away and gets coal
dust on it, and loses its ambition and hangs
over the edge of the glass like love sick
angleworm.
In 1878 Captain Thomas Bullitt. who was
called son Of gun by a Kentucky humor-
ist, who only lived long enough to ejacu-
late, ''Adieu, kind friends, I'm going
home" discovered the city of Louisville,
Ky., at the mouth of Beargrass creek at the
Ohio falls, and he could not have discovered
better town If he had tried. The water
was very low at that season of the year and
of about the consistency of farm. Though
the water was low the price of whisky was
almost equally as low, and so the party
thinned out the water with the latter. It
gently exhilarated them and made them
glad they came.
LoUIsVILLE'S FIRST HOUSE.
There are now 275, 900 people in Louis
vile, might say, mostly colonels, but 1
will leave that joke for the use of the large
army of bright men who were first to think
of it. When Captain Bullitt discovered
Louisville there was not decent hotel in
the place. Now there are great quantity
of them. The following year house was
built, but the boom was a kind of sickly
effort and lots were quite low.
Louisville was named for Louis XVI
The above will give the reader an idea of
Louisville at about the beginning of the
present century. The building with the
flag on top is the Gait House. Mr.. Henry
Watterson has just gone inside the door,
softly humming to himself:
Am Pirate King.
He will be back in O few moments. The
large building on the opposite side of the
street is general store kept by gentleman
who is since deceased. He kept hides, pelts
and molasses; also real estate, ice cream and
feathers. He sold ammunition, hoarhound
candy and hardware, gents neckwear, cedar
posts, honey, plastering hair, straw hats, di-
mension lumber, suspenders, timothy seed,
cofins and salt mackerel. He also kept the
postoffice and took in washing. He adver-
tised hard cider, playing cards and embalm-
ing while you wait. The other houses in the
cut are occupied by Many Citizens, Taxpay-
er, Justice, Old Subscriber, Veritas, etc,
etc.
The high fence in the right foreground is
designed to keep out the Indians, at least
the largest of them.
Agriculture, blue grass, trotting horses,
Bourbon, ginger ale, iron ore, hams aspar-
sgus, butter, eggs, literature, distilling, pro-
slavery, store keeping, railroading, etc.,
etc., have each risen to a great height in the
table of industries of the State. Kentucky
is no doubt a choice State. Nature did
much for her, and Henry Watterson has
not fooled away his time, either.
Proctor Knott is feature of Kentucky
which must not forget as 1 hurriedly pass
along. He would have been more infiuen-
tial if it had not crept out that he was a hu-
morist. No man can be respected quite SO
much after he has shown symptoms of this
kind. Mr.. Knott made funny speech on
Duluth once, and now people come from
away back of Little Hickory and Hominy
Center and stay all day and bring their din
ner, hoping that Proctor Knott may be
funny again some day.
A SPEECH WITH THOUGHTS IN IT.
Governor Knott said once, in an address