Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
The Key-Hole False-Not He.

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reputation as a husband was detained in
Pittsburg by pressing business matters the
other night, and on reaching home after
midnight could not get his latch-key into
the key-hole of the front door. If he had
been good-for-nothing roysterer 1t would
neither have perplexed nor grieved him. As
it was he was both puzzled and panied, but
being a considerate husband he concluded
that the best thing he could do was to return
to Pittsburg and stay the night at hotel.
This he did, and the next morning sought
first home, and then an explanation. He
thought his wife had left her key in the lock
on the inside of the door, but she denied this.
and, sad to say, received his account of the
hunt for the key-hole with an air of incredu-
lity. AS it afterward transpired she suspected
his nocturnal business in Pittsburg was not
altogether unconnected with liquid refresh
ments.
Again several nights later circumstances
compelled him to remain in Pittsburg till a
late hour. His wife cautioned him that she
would be careful to take the key out of the
door and he approached the latter with
confidence. But his key struck an obstruc-
tion as soon as it entered the key hole; in fact
it barely entered at all. While he was
fuming, and, as even the best of men will do,
saying things in covert way about the door,
it suddenly opened, and his wife stood befors
him in cool attire, which hardly balanced
the warm tone in which she asked: George,
what does this mean?"
This is not q nice sort of question for a
backsliding benedict to answer, but more
riling far for a pattern of propriety and he
could hardly be blamed for replying: Don
be a fool, Maria!"
The door was still open and the light from
the hall lamp, which the suspicious wife had
graceful condition of the sinner she ex-
pected to confront, fell upon the exasperat-
ing keyhole. They turned upon it together,
and the secret was out in a moment. The
4 +ha1 1ofa l.
hole, leaving in deceitful prominence a false
keyhole below it. She blessed the key
hole-with faulty logic-for ridding her mind
of hideous doubts but did not protest when
fate the perverted ingenuity of the carpen-
ter who invented dummy keyholes.
Raining in Spots.
"Ir seems to have rained here" said a
Cleveland and Pittsburg conductor to me
yesterday as the train was running into
Glenfield owe had no rain in Bellaire
when left there this morning."
This is merely another instance of a curl
GUS phenomenon to which the weather has
treated us in the last week. namely, violent
storms limited to a very circumscribed area.
The storm which washed Pittsburg clean on
Thursday night appears to have had far
more violent electrical features few miles
away. The lightning was unusually vivid
and the thunder terrific, for instance, in Sc
wickley, a dozen miles down the Ohio. A
resident on the hillside above Center ave-
nue. states that the rain was much more con-
siderable than the lightning which accom-
panied tt.
On Tuesday evening sewickley was visited
by a heavy rain storm which lasted of and
on for an hour while a mile away in Edge
worth everything was as dry as logarithms,
although people living there could see the
rain falling up the valley. On Wednesday
after getting pretty thoroughly drenched in
q quick passage over two blocks on Fifth
avenue, met man alighting from Man
chester street car who declared that not q
drop of rain had fallen in Allegheny. The
passengers on Fort Wayne train on
Wednesday evening were surprised when
they ran through q binding rain storm at
Ellsworth, passed by Saharalike stretch
OF road near Glentield two miles lower down
and landed in a slough at Sewickley. This
sort of thing has been eyerybody's expert
ence in the vicinity of Pittsburg on all it's
sides. The rain falls impartially on the Just
and the unjust, it is said, but it will take
some nice work to adjust the balance de-
ranged by the preferences of ]. Pluvius dur
ing the past week.