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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

GOVERNOR GooDELL, Of New Hampshire.
is slowly regaining health.
GARABALD1's son Menotti is a member of
the Italian Parliament and an Alderman of
Rome
THE Prince Of Wales recently appeared in
public with q yellow waistcoat and green
gloves.
DIR. MCCosH, ex-President of Princeton, is
looking well and seems to take pleasure in So
cal intercourse.
FRANCIS WILSON, the famous comedian, is
a very nervous man. A first night is a source
of dismay to him.
BISHOP PARET, of Maryland protestant
Epscopal) is organizing relief fund for the
widows and orphans of ministers
Miss JOSEPHINE SIMON, the young singer
adopted by Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone as o pro-
tege, is an Oakland, Cal girl.
GENERAL ADAM E. KING and General Ma
hone are still wondering on which side of the
fence that Paris consulate is to fall.
Mr. ]. R OsGooD and Mr. William Bliss.
President of the Boston and Albany Railroad
Company, will sail for Europe on April 30 on
the Teutonic
BUFFALO BILL receives about ten letters a
week from women who want to marry. Some
Of these espistles are from this country, though
most of them are from Europeans.
THE Duke of Connaught and party arrived
at Toxic, Japan. Friday. They will leave Yo-
kohama on the 10th of May tor Victoria stop
there two days and then proceed to Ottawa.
PLATT and Quay both began their political
careers by holding the office of county clerk
Platt's first public office was that of county
clerk of Tioga county. N. Y. Quay began his
Office holding as Prothonotary (the Pennsyl-
vania name for county clerk) of Beaver coun-
ty, Pa.
IT was popularity of the late Samuel ].
Randall that he left the handling of his own
financial matters to his wife. 1t was COM
mon occurrence for those who were frequently
at home to hear him call to his young son
Sammy to ask mother for SO cents or 81
wherewith to buy postage stamps
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
LITTLE THINGS THAT HAPPEN.

George Russell Jackson's Funny and Philo
sophical Observations.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH.
The Spring Dude.
WHEN soda founts begin to fzz,
And meads assume their verdant hues,
His ulster coat discarded is,
Likewise his arctic overshoes.
He then becomes n man of note
A fact that no one will dispute;
He wears q Short light overcoat
Above a nobby, new spring suit.
Thus dressed, and furnished with a cane
(Like to the club OF Hercules),
he eyes the beauteous, chattering train
That issues from the matinees.
And thinks 1t is q splendid joke
An action worthy of applause
To puff in ladies' eyes the smoke
That from his cigarette he draws.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
THE SIDEWALK QUESTION.

The steps taken by the Department of
Public Safety for clearing the sidewalks of
obstructions has evoked some protests from
merchants who have been in the habit of
using considerable share OF the sidewalks
for the display of their goods. Some of the
opposition is advanced with moderation and
good taste. The petition for an ordinance
permitting merchants to use three feet Of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
THE NURSERY DRAMA CONDEMNED. 9
The London Times severely Criticises Mike
and the Pnuper and Prince.

The London Times Severely Criticises Mike
and the Pnuper and Prince.
TBY CABLE TO THE DIsPATCH.I
LONDON, April 10. - Mrs. Burnett's play
"NIxie," with Little and Webbing in the lead
ing parts has been slated" This play and
Mrs Beranger's version of The Prince and the
Pauper," with Vera Beranger in the chief role,
has brought about an outcry against the nursery
drama. The Times says that 'Nixie'' is the
worst conceivable specimen of n play ever
written for the exploitation of child actress,
and calls it "farrago of pernicious sentimental
ity." Other papers are not much kinder. "The
Prince and the Pauper" has received a trife
better treatment, and the little girls in each
play are lavishly praised. In spite of the fact
that the critics unanimously condemned "a
Village Priest" at the Haymarket, the piece is
having a great run. 1 met Charles Overton.
who receives 10 per cent of the gross proceeds
for his share in the play, this morning and he
showed me a check Tor ELS as his return for
the present week, which makes the receipts
g.. $50. He told me that his share last week
was fl19.
Friends of Mrs. Harry T. Sergeant, who has
been left destitute by her husband, who Is now
managing Lady Churchill Jodrelrs tour in
America, are considering project of benefit
for her at one of the London theaters. Mrs.
Sergeant is entirely destitute and has two chill
dren dependent upon her for support.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

THE death of Ex-Governor Pollock, which
is reported elsewhere. recalls figure whose
prominence in Pennsylvania politics of 40
years ago is SO far matter Of the past as to be
beyond the memory of most of the active men
of the present day. As Whig member of
Congress Governor Pollock was the first advo-
cate Of railroad to the Pacific. He was also
the first Republican Governor of Pennsyl-
vania. His retirement from active politics
took place before the entrance into that field
Of most of the present leaders, and his old age
has been spent In pleasant and honorable retro
spect
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
The Scheme Did Not Work.

JOHN" said the talkative wife, as her quiet
husband crept meekly into bed, 81 did not hear
the strangers go.''
'No. they are still in the parlor; the servant girl
will let them out in an hour or two.n
who are they?'
''They are shorthand reporters. You see, I al
ways forget what you say to after we're in bed,
and sometimes go to sleep when you're talking,
so thought would have your lecture written out
and study 1t over at my leisure. They're all
ready; the doors open SOS they hear you, and
you can begin as soon as you Iike.''
The reporters were quickly hustled out. and the
lecture that night lasted three hours longer than
usual.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

PARAGUAY is complaining because the
agents of the Argentine Republic. at Buenos
Ayres collar the immigrants whose passage
money has been paid by the Paraguayan Gov
ernment and divert them into Argentine citi-
zenship. Could not these agents be induced to
come to Castle Garden and carry off the thou
sands of immigrants Of the class that we do not
wapt7
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

THE statement that thieves could break
into the United States Treasury, with few
hours work. has caused sensation on both
sides of the ocean. But tbe fact is ignored that
II the thieves did so, they would have to carry
of such an immense wagon load of silver coin
that none of them have ever deemed it worth
worth while to make the attempt
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

1t is sad commentary on our politics
when the esteemed Philadelphia Press finds
comfort in the fact that the Democratic
Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives
is as partial as Speaker Reed. Perhaps there
may come time when party journals may per-
ceive that there is no obligation on leaders to
be as reckless or partisan as the worst of their
adyersaries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

IT is noticeable that the charges found
against Commander McCalla. do not include
the ofense of drunkenness. Yet there IS no
room for doubt that most of that officers
peculiar acts were committed under the pres
sure OF heavy load obtained by dining with
aristocracy and royalty abroad. Under these
circumstances it may have been the opinion of
the court of inquiry that drunkenness encoun-
tered in upholding the social status of the navy
is not an offense at all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
To Be or Not Tuba.

From the NeW 0rk W orId.J
A musician in Pittsburg wants to know what
became Of tuba-player who came over to this
country from England to Join Barnum's circus
band and was stopped at Castle Garden as a
laborer. That great question of tuba
or not tuba has been settled in the musicians 8
favor. He took his intrument before Collector
Erhardt, like a second Orpheus, and played so
sweetly that the Collector at once rated him as
a irst-class artist free of duty. The tuba now
ranks with the tuber IN public estimation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

1t will be to the advantage of Mr.. Cleve-
land if he can show that large portion of the
interview attributed to him, which attacked
Mr.. Dana, was not his language While it
would have been better policy to have said
nothing at all, it was permissible to deny the
report but the other portion of the
alleged to have been manu-
by the einterviewers-was simply weak
abusa
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
How They Could Tell.

II CAN always tell when my husband has
been drinking" said young wife.
"Ies?" said mother young wife.
eyes, know it the moment he kisses me, ~
81 can also tell when my husband has been
drinking,n said the other.
'sYes?',
ayes. When be Doesn't kiss me.n
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

A MAN threw himself down from the
upper regions of the Albany capitol the other
day with suicidal intent His act would have
excited universal commendation as an example
for the members of the New York Legislature
If it had not been an utter failure as an attempt
1t seIf-sIaughter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
Always the Way.

Now that the streamlets are thawing,
And blue birds are singing all day,
The played out old furnace is drawing
And-well, that Is always the way.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
A Ballroom Dialogue.
!, not think I ever

He (during the waltz)-I do not think ever
met you before.
Shell do not recollect having met you before.
He-Do you live In the city2
She-Yes.
He-With your parents?
She-Yes.
Helm glad of it. 1may have the pleasure OF
meeting you again. Is your father in business2
She-No. My father is an officer.
He with inter est)-Indeedl In the. army or
navy?
Shea police officer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
APRIL'S MESSAGE.

More sun than shower April's rich in smiles,
ALI things to gold beneath her fingers turn;
From grassy seas spring up volcanic isles,
Where daffodillies burst and tulips burn.
From flower to bough the confagration flies,
Till all the orchard trees are in a blaze;
And If you look you'n see in DeHa's eyes
A new light shine-beware too long to gaze!
II every year the old earth wakes again
At Springs soft touch, awakes, and smiles, and
sings,
And gives glad thanks for April's sun and rain,
Then why not we? The season surely brings
This message to our souls that never die:
'.Death deals with dust, Springs yours eter-
nallyI', HEPBURN JOHNS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

THE cranky subject before the Quarter
Sessions Court yesterday who developed the
theory that "the man is to be the boss" in the
family, ELECTED valuable judicial opinion or
that important point. Judge Ewing held that
the Court did not know, and we venture the
assertion that this opinion will not be set aside
by any superior court
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
THE MISSING ERIN.
Another Bottle Containing Card Picked Up

at Cadgwith.
tBY CABLE TO THE DIsPATCH.l
LONDON, April 1a-London editors are OBJ
viously not up in cotemporary literature.
The following paragraph appeared in several
newspapers here to-day: "a bottle containing
a card on which were written the words
Steamer Erin, Captain McGinty, on the bottom
Lizard 1t was a business card on the reverse
side of which was printed, d. ]. Woelke,
banker and broker, New ork.' There is reason
to believe that this is a genuine message from
the Inflated mail liner, Erin, from New York
and seems to show that the steamer was lost
not far from England"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
No Further Use for RniIraads.

From the Philadelphia Record.
The Standard Oh Company is building at
Baltimore big steel tank steamer for the coast
ing trade. 1t will carry crude oil from the sea-
side terminals Of the Standard pipe lines TO re-
flung points that may be reached by water.
Since the Standard, owing to the provisions of
the Interstate commerce act, cannot make its
usual one-sided arrangements with railroad
companies, it finds no further use for them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

The announcement that Mr.. Murat Hal
stead is to be the editor of the Brooklyn
Standard Union is calculated to arouse in
euiries whether that ballot-box fasco has
produced such a stress of circumstances as to
induce the ambitious Ohiean to conceal HIM
self in the editorial rooms of suburban sheet.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
More Thnn the Sinks.

YARDLY-My wife was so mad at me when
went home last night for staying out SO late that
she wouldn't speak to me.
Wardly-Miue was mad, too, and what was
worse, she did speak to me.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

HUNTINGTON and Stanford have fixed up
their difference Of opinion, the former having
explained that all he said was to be taken in a
Pickwickian sense. The important reflection
came home to these railway magnates that they
knew too much about each other to quarrel
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
INDIAN PROPHECY.

No sooner have Virgins, the DOOM
sealers of San Francisco and the St. Louis
crank been disposed of by the obstinate re-
fusal of earthquakes and eataclysms to
make material manifestation of their In
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
Asking for a small Slice.

From the Philadelphia 1nquirer.1
Philadelphia is not greedy, but she would
like to have enough of the river and harbor ap-
preparations to dredge the channel in Delaware
bay, SO that full-sized modern ship can get
into and out of this port
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
PREHISTORIC REMAINS.
The University of Pennsylvania Secures Six
Boxes of Curious Old Bones.

Big boxes tull Of curious old bones have been
arriving lately at the Biological School of the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
pending a resting place in the working room of
Prof. Joseph Leidy, the famous anatomist.
They were found in Levy county, Fla. The
specimens have been carefully wrapped up in
Florida moss and other packing 20 prevent
breaking on the way North.
These bones are hundreds of years old. They
belong to extinct creatures of the quaternary
period. DR.. Leidy has been hard at work iden-
part and this identification is now complete.
His conclusions are very interesting. The
chief bones, he says, are those of rhinoceros,
mastodon, a llama, a three-toed horse and
giant sloth. There are also parts of tapir, a
small crocodile and gar pike.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
A Tame Affair.

"How did the football game come of p
'1t was the tamest affair ever saw
''Why. thought they were crack teams?"
''Ohl the kicking was all well enough; showed
lots OF science and all that sort of thing.''
s'Why do you call 1t a tame affair then?''
.'Why, man, the game ended without fight"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

IT'S, as YOU say, a first-rate catch;
For beauty there are few to match her.
And she has made splendid catch,
Fer she has caught q baseball catcher.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
he Couyn,e,cent Humorisr.

FROM smallpox just recovering he lay,
And said; '1f anyone for me inquiries
Inform them can say with poet Gray:
EN- in our rashes live their wonted hres.'"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

PRIMROSE DAY was celebrated in Eng
gland by the Tories yesterday. The ceremonies
consisted Of decking the statue Of Beaconsield
with primroses and resolving to hold on to the
offices till the last gasp.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
The Small Boy Makes More Trouble.

YOUNG man Ito little brother of girl on whom
he has caled)-Does your sister Ella ever speak Of
me. Johnnie?
Little BrotLer-Yes, often and often.
Y. M.-What does she say?
l.. B.-Well, she said to pa once, when pa said
you were rather fresh looking, that she didn't
think you knew enough to go in when 1t rained;
but that don't matter, for see you've brought
your umbrella.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
THE ROBIN-A FABLE.

| A robin, quite young-I cannot tell whether
| He was urged by the vanity born of fine feather,
A lady loves hint. or the charm of the weather,
| Or all Of these causes collected together
Announced t'other day, in the plainest Of terms.
That he was too good for a diet of worms.
'Tn future ~ said he with firt Of his tail.
Il shall dine upon butterflies, beauties that sail
From flower to flower. Earth worms, sir, are
stale:
can feel they are making my breast feathers
palel''
And he iatly refused to listen to reason,
When someone remarked he was rushing the
season.
So he sat on a fence and waited for-summerI
But minute by minute his claws became number.
1t was April you know, and the wind was q hum
mer:
1t made that poor robin feel RUNNER and RUNNER.
He was empty-ah, mel not q butterfly few,
And the robin-though red-felt uncommonly
blue!
He sat there all day; no breakfast, no dinner
When supper time came he was pslrably thinner;
And to MAKE matters worse for the poor little
sinner.
His sweetheart said NO such old scarecrow could
win herl
And of all the young robins about the Ke1t
Our hero dug hardest for worms in the lawn.
MoRAL.
The moral? This history simply afirms:
Be content when you've plenty-ot money or
worms!
WHEN the train stopped at a small place a
short way out from Charleston 8. c.. q
very small negro boy with most remarkably
crinkly hair climbed on board the last coach.
A Pittsburger was the flrst victim the little
dusly cherub selected. He asked for money,
of course.
The Pittsburger saw a chance for killing the
time which the trainwas bound to spend on the
side track. Said he: "I'H give you dime If
you say the alphabet correctlyr'
The cherub lost no time, and sailed into sea
of letters. He emerged all right on after con-
siderable foundering and pulling of hair The
dime was handed over and the elated recipient
fell off the steps headlong.
In less than two minutes there were a score
of negro boys, some mere babies, others almost
men, around the car, singing the queerest sere-
made ever heard. They were gabbling off the
alphabet, every mothers son of them, as fast
as possible and at the top Of their voices The
train began to move. but the alphabetical
chorus kept on till the engine had raised steam
and put half mile between the amused pas
sengers and this curious seat OF South Caro-
linian culture.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
Naturally So.

SHE was out in her new spring bonnet,
And no umbrella she had;
And a shower came down upon it
And the woman was hopping mad.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
DEATHS OF A DAY.
David Mccoy.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsrAr

ESPECIAL TRLEeRAM TO THE DIsrArcH.i
ALTOONA, April Is. david Mccoy, aged 4s
years, a prominent citizen OF Altoona died In
Phladelphia this morning. where he had gone
a week ago for medical relief. His death was due
to paralysis. He was member of the coal firm
of TAYLOR 4 Mccoy, OF GallitzIn and Greenwhite.
His wealth is estimated at $500 900.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

THERE has been some "ghoulish glee" in
the New York Suns campaign against Cleve-
lands feshly characteristics, but it has SUBJ
sided into mere scolding on both sides.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
To Make Him Brave.

IDoN'T know what to do with that boy Of
mine' said a fond father to a friend; ''he has no
spunk in him; lets all the other boys crow over
him-in short, is perfect coward.'
"Let him eat plenty of sugar, - said the friend.
"What good will that doY'
"It will put some grit into him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
Why He Ran.

First Messenger Boy-Say, that new feller
that gist come on last week was seen runnin' with
a message to-day.
Second Messenger Boy-Yes; seen him; it's all
right.
+. N. B.-But runnin's aRin the regulations.
8. NJ. B.-Dat's all right. 1t was a message for
the stage manager of the dime museum, and the
messenger wanted to get into the theater fore
der performance commenced. See?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

A FAIR concession to the demands of the
railroad yard men prevents strike, and makes
the Industrial course Of Pittsburg plain sailing
for the rest of the year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
How II Wus Done.

'How did Mary happen to catch the young
bridge architect?''
with arch looks, guess"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
Our Female Bread Winners.

From the New York Herald.1
The recent convention of the Association of
Working Girls Societies has attracted public
attention to great and worthy work, which
affects not only the present but the future
welfare Of a large class Of the country's bread
winnerA
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
A Gift That is Not Appreciated.

From the Mtfeer DIspatcn.J
Andrew Carnegies gift to Pittsburg does not
seem to be appreciated. Mrs. Schenley. also,
will have to run free electric cars to her dona-
ton to the city before the city will show any
appreciation of the gift. People who "look a
gift horse in the mouth rarely get team.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
II Would Prove q Bargain.
From the Boston Globe.1

DUsIOH OIOUtsI
Wsnamaker for Governor Of Pennsylvania
This would be counter move against Della
mater, and would prove a great bargain for the
Democrats.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
Their Pets.

How strange it is that womankind,
E'en those of stable minds,
At different ages are inclined
To pet OF different kinds!
We note. as through the world we jog,
The fact, most curious, that
The youthful maiden loves her dog,
The ancient one, her cat.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

WITH the baseball season fairly opened
Congress might as well wind up its futile DALI
ance with the tariff and subside into obscurity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

MR.. AND Mrs. JOHN NJ. WARDS mat
rimonial relations have undergone the mis-
fortune of being put out at home base.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

The bald-headed man, near the orchestra,
observed the curtain upward 90,
And smiled to see the rich display
On beauty, in the footlights' glow.
And as the coryphees began
Around the fairy queen to whirl,
He said, ''If clothes don't make the man
Their absence makes the ballet girl.n
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
The Nc inrity Will be the Same.

FTOlm 16UUsIIUI}'J
Whether it be Delamater Hastings. Mon
tooth or Osborne who captures the Guberna-
tor1al nomination in Pennsylvania, the Repub-
licans of the keystone State will roll up big
majority for the successful man.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
He may do almost as he Wills.
He Knew Him.

''Will you kindly help flood sufferer. sir?''
"a food sufferer You mean drouth sufferer. !"
GEO, RUSSELL JACKSON.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
Cause and Effect.
A Good Match.

WHEN man goes homo loaded there IL like
ly to be an explosion In the house.