Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-18
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
THE backbiter should be muzzled.


THE backbiter should be muzzled.
FASHION leads women by the nose. The
men are not so very hard to pull either The
ranks of the swellish squad are recruited
daily, and dress is demanding both time and
attention. A London tailor has one young
man on his list for 365 pairs of trousers in II
months. and the customer pants for more
| Here's the daily dress schedule of London
| swell: In the morning, tweed suit. After
| noon. frock coat, smarter waistcoat, bigger
| tie. Evening, full dress for dinner. Finale;
| smoking jacket. This leaves little time for
| business. And now comes the French tailor
with new and startling notions about full
dress. Black is too somber; they want some
| thing gay, bright, chic. They advocate pink,
| blue, heliotrope or other fashy dress coats.
These to cover embroidered or embossed vests
| the tails to flap against silver or pearl-gray
knee-breeches. Frilled shirt fronts and cuffs
| complete the rig, the whole overtopped by a
| French hat. The first to don this toggery In
| an American drawing room will take desperate
chances if he ventures forth. But fashion has
| its devotees the world over. Don't be sur
| prised if you across dainty darling
decked out in Partisan toggery next winter.
Don't shoot it, either. 1t cawnt help 1t, you
know, indeed it cawnt.
IT is pleasure to note that we are supplying
great many rural exchanges, as well as some
| metropolitan journals, with ready-made para
graphs A little credit now and then would not
be out of place, brothers.
WHEN politicians talk about feeling the
public pulse they, not the people, are ailing.
IF the sun shone all the while the fields
would be fallow.
Mr.. C. C. MELLoR, the musical man, has
Topped to Pattison. Chairman Andrews will
undoubtedly make note of this.
WHEN you send for the doctor don't dis
THE baseball season ends October 4. Let
Thanksgiving Day be shifted to that date this
year, please.
RACE HORSES should be well posted.
HAND-PAINTED shirt fronts are offered for
mems wear. You will not be able to tell drop
of tobacco juice from daub, hence slobber-
ing lovers of the weed will appreciate them.
PERHAPS if all the /. o. US were called in
the tight money market would be relieved.
IF you want to read what don't happen at
political convention peruse the organs. They
grind the same old tune day in and day out.
THE Blairsville Presbytery is Bealeing. Per-
haps the poul:ice of Christian charity will be
applied-perhaps not.
RICH soil is found in the shadow of a vol
cano.
WHERE are the merciful? At 7 o'clock yes
reIday morning fine-looking dog was hit by
cable car out Fifth avenue. A broken leg and
a bleeding head told the force of the blow. The
suffering brute was dragged to Chestnut street
and left alone in its agony. Passers by looked
at the twitching limbs and heard the painful
gasps. Probably policeman saw the specta-
Gle. At least one should have. as at 10 o'clock
the brute was still in its death throes. Surely
beats are covered at least every three hours.
II an officer passed, why was the dog permitted
suffer SO long, Be merciful, ye guardians
and people! Even dogs deserve pity at your
hands.
To err is human, except during game of
baseball.
IF ballet advertisement were introduced
in church services nowadays pew rents would
20 up anu WOIS0lpeES WOulu D6 LuTQeu away.
The Kreutzer Sonata might aptly be called
the DEVILS Hornpipe.
THE shopkeepers are busy in spite of the
weather. Many of the customers are country
folk, who are combining business with pleasure.
Make the bargain counters attractive, and be |
as attentive to the woman and man in home.
spun as the ladies and gentlemen in satin and |
diagonal.
THE opposition seems determined to give
Candidate Delamater something to talk about
Dignitied silence or the plea of mot guilty"
will hardly answer Editor Henseps charges
They are unique. but forcibe. The campaign
promises to be mighty interesting.
AS we journey through life we meet fu-
nerals.
THE spiritual needs Of the upper Mononga- |
hela folk must be well supplied, judging from |
the beer kegs and little brown jugs littering |
the levee.
House. For goodness sake, gentlemen, wait
until the present agony is over.
THERE'S no necessity to discuss the coming
man. It's the coming woman that calls forth
anxiety.
IT requires patience as well as bait to catch
fish.
SUMNER seems to think she has no right to
die.
WHEN English ship builders go into business
on our coast merchant marine is in sight
We have lots of land, water, oak, iron and
workers. gentlemen. They are all at your dis
posal, too.
IF the orange crop fails the wreck will be
complete.
as well on the Uranium of a blockhead as on
the brow of a brainy person.
BAKERS are kneady men.
If the praises sung for the dead were even
whispered while they lived lighter hearts would
have ceased to beat when the summons came
IL there be virtue in persistency and gable,
woman will eventually be recognized in poll
tics I
ELECTRICITY is the greatest freak of the
age and museum managers cannot corner 1t
either.
WHEN NJ. Flammarion, of Paris, adjusts his
gigantic telescope the world will learn what
the man in the moon has been laughing at all
the time.