Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-07
A NOVEL EASTER EGG.
IL Contained All the News of the World and
n Complete Library of Romance, Sci
ence, Humor. Travel and Current Com

Ii Contained All the News of the World and
Complete Library of Romance, Sci.
ence, Humor. Travel and Current COM
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The Easter morning sun shone yesterday
upon nothing brighter and more in unison with
the season than the 160column issue of THE
DISPATCH. 1t was as full of news as the sea-
sonable egg and was considerably more piq-
uaut in flavor. Some of the more prominent
features are mentioned below, although it is
difficult ask to particularize where all is good.
THE DIsPATCH's special cable service init
mates that the Cars sickness is alarming and
is the result of Nihilistic attack. Boulanger
has determined to emerge from his obscurity
and make another bid for fame or fortune.
Emperor William is hard at work formulating
a national policy, while the Germans, as peo-
pie, mourn the removal of Bismarck. Coming
nearer home, General Hastings avows his deter
mination to stay in the Gubernatorial fight. and
the prospects are good for exciting contest.
A New Jersey man, weary of being ridiculed on
account of his big ears, has them trimmed by
physician and the operation is highly successful.
A Chicago servant girl poisons the family that
had befriended her. A member of the defunct
drygoods firm of PlummeT q Co., is missing
and the accounts are involved in obscurity.
The Mississippi river has burst its banks and is
flooding town and country with disastrous re-
suits Pringle has comprehensive review Of
the world of sports, and full report of current
sporting news.
Locally the last hours of Lent were stained
bv a brutal murder for which there appears to
have been no provocation. Several men were
arrested, and the police are confident that
among them is the murderer. The Department
of Public Works is projecting gigantic I'M
provements which will employ thousands of
men this summer. Successful license appli-
cants are hustling to get ready for business by
May l. Postal clerks indorse Postmaster Nc
Kean's efforts to obtain vacation for them.
Machinery molders will fight non-union firms.
Judge Slagle judicially criticises England for
sending paupers to this country. Senator
Quay drops into town.
The second and third parts Of this issue were
devoted mainly to articles of literary charac-
ter. The opening chapters of THE
Ace OF Clubs" powerful story of
Russian life, by Prince Josef
Lubomirski, appear IN this number.
David Dudley Field talks about lawyers and
law and Claire A Orr describes a journey on a
special train into the interior of Africa. Scient-
lists and theosophists discuss the miracles of
the Bible, while Bill Nye shows how latter day
prophets give the land speculator good bar
gains Ella Wheeler Wilcox defends the
American nobleman. Colonel Annoy Knox
tells story of bluffing the Bank of En-
gland directors. The relations between Moody
and Sankey form the theme of an article by S.
N d. William Churchill produces evidence of
the existence in the past of a vast continent in
the Pacific, and Bert E. V. Luty offers an inge-
nious theory ON the relations of sun spots to
finance. Among the other contributors to this
issue were Hepburn Johns, Frederick R. Bur-
ton, Bumbalo. Bessie Bramble, Rev. George
Hodges. d. L. J.. Clara Belle, 81. Rider Hag
gard, John G. Brennan, r. w. Shoppell. ]. F. H,
Paysie, Fannie B. Ward, e. R. Chadbourne,
Shirley Dare, Miss Grundy, Jr, Meg, Eleanor
Kirk, Caroline sipton Pepper and Marquise
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