Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-02
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
The Favorite Dissipation of the Fair-DoGs
Turn Brignnds In the East End-H ow

The Favorite Dissipation of the Fair-Dogs
Turn Brisnnds In the East End-H ow
| Atlantic City Looks in Early spring.
ga ND how is Mrs. --?' asked a friend
whom met on Fifth avenue yesterday.
81 am sorry to say" he replied, "that my wife
has taken to dissipating."
| There was au awkward silence for minute
you can understand how 1t was.
II ought to explain, perhaps" my friend con-
tinued, "that her dissipation is confined to dry
| goods. You will find her in one OF the stores
now, I'll be bound"
| And when one comes to think of it dissipa-
| tion in drygoods is prevalent among our better
halves. The term is novel, but it fits the
| crime.
The residents on North Highland avenue,
| are considerably exercised over the depreda-
tions of determined band of robbers. 1t may
interest the Department of Public Safety to
| know that the robbery of meat safes. ice chests
| and ash barrels has been reduced to a science
| and followed out with most practical results
| by number of individuals in the East End.
| That th ese individuals are of the canine race
| lends an unique flavor to their operations. But
| they rob with all the neatness and complete
| ness of human beings.
Night before last large roast of beef and
| several pounds of chops and steaks were stolen
house on Highland avenue. The lid of the
chest is as much as a muscular cook can lift,
but the dog or dogs who operated upon it ap-
pear to have had no difficulty in raising it. At
ter they had stolen it, with fidelity to thievish
| traditions they fell to fighting over it in the
yard and the marks III the snow showed that
the fight bad been vigorous. 1t is suspected
that the dogs who make practice of visiting
the houses i'll this neighborhood are of the st.
Bernard or mastiff breed. Annoyance at their
thefts is mingled with admiration for their
cleverness.
A GENTLEMAN who has just come back from
Atlantic City points out the attractions of
that suburb of Pittsburg in glowing colors. He
says that the weather during the past two
weeks there has been glorious. On two days
only out of IA did any rain fall. The place is
thronged with visitors, and on Sunday last it
was estimated that 5000 were there. 1t is
neither too cold nor too warm there; the air
being crisp and cool, while the sun shines down
on the long beaches with q good deal of
warmth.
One of the pleasant features of the place is
that inyalids IN the last stages of consumption
do not flock there as they are wont to do to
some resorts. Most of those who go to Atlantic
City at this time of the year run down for
a winters business. The moral atmosphere is
cheerful therefore.
THE great storm of last September pretty
well annihilated the old board walk on the sea
front, but this may be regarded as an advan-
tage, as the new board walk now in course of
construction is much more ambitious affair,
being fully "a feet wide. There is some oppo-
sition to the line upon which the new board
walk is being laid down. Before the survey
was made for it some of the owners of the sea
front erected buildings, sun parlors bathing
houses and the like on the land which is now
wanted for the walk. They refuse to give way.
and the city is resolved to have its way. There
is an interesting deadlock, therefore, which
the New Jersey Legislature is now invited to
break. The legislators came down week or
two ago to survey the seat of war, and had
gay old time, as legislators generally contrive
to do. When the matter is Strengthened out,
and all the contemplated improvements are
made Atlantic City will be good deal the
better for the storm which threatened to wipe
her out last fall.