Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

theatrical people much surer and safer than
that sought by Ponce de Leon. 1t Is the
window lithograph. Some OF US who are
/ just old enough to regret we are not younger,
but old enough to be glad we are no older,
| can remember the birth of these familiar
Circean advertising devices. We can recall
when the notables were first dipped in their
preserving. time-defying bath OF photographic
ink and then made their bow and an inn
preston on the public.
"HoNEsr LITTLE EMMA" was notable
| offender. She looked out from an oval
plate in Marie Stuart arrangement, Iumin-
GUS of eye and round of cheek. This was
some time along about 1S76-77 AMI that same
face could be found on any available city
window up to the time of her death. Helena
Modjeska, who was here so short time ago
as to be fresh In the minds eye of the most
casual observer, stands at three-quarter
length on the single sheet pictures
with all the grace and round lines
OF beauty which characterized her
in the days when she was a belle at the Con-
tinental Hotel in London, or when she braved
the wrath of Alexander by refusing to play
in st. Petersburg. And then there is Maggie
Mitchell. 1 do not pretend to remember
when first saw the prevalent pictures Of
her. They have grown up with me since
about the time of Appomattox, and have
become more comprehensive since the pub
lfcation of Mr.. Rider Haggard's South Afri-
can romances on the same lines. What O
fair-skinned, rotund, vivacious Joe jefferson
Is he of the windows-would, indeed, he
were so in fact Kate Castleton is really too
young to go without a chaperone-in the
pictures; and she is almost as slim and
graceful as she was when she made herself q
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heaven forgive US, what a thing it is to have
lingering memory! Rose Coghlan's face is
one of the few that keeps company with its
presentment and looks as near life as you
could well expect with the footlights OF
imagination between you and its reality
Rhea is another absolutely changeless one,
and she has not added a day to that time
when she bade adieu to Petersburg and Paris
and was exploited as a second Modjeska.
which she is not. But what is the use of
naming them? They all sail in the same
pictorial boat, and the young men who
smoke cigarettes and wear yellow shoes
admire them, instead of generating, as they
should.
You hear funny things sometimes in the
brokers' offices in the usual course of bust
ness. broad-gauged speculator, who had
rules of his own. dropped into his brokers'
one day and, after reading financial paper,
remarked "TOm, see Central Arizona has
advanced within a week from to H." Tom
grunte to show he heard, but continued to
smoke meditative toby. "Tom," remarked
the speculator after five minutes OF silence.
BUY me 500 Central Arizona at best to-day"
Tom pulled the crank of the messenger call,
and another deal was born. Two or three
days later the specuator sauntered in
mir rod 6Y,on nj
of later date, to be sure-and presently re-
marked complacently, "Tomr "Eh?" II
see Central Arizona Is down to9. Don't
say sot' "Yes. Say Tom! What is Central
Arizona-a railroad or miner" "Damfino,"
said Tom in the technical parlance OF the
street. Find out, will you?" Another
turn at the crank, another messenger boy
and then there came the quiet of lunch
time, during which no man of gentlemanly
instincts will ask another to exert himself.
By and by, when it was afternoon, boy
turned up with a telegram, which Tom
reads. Central Arizona's mine," he says
nonchalantly. "The deuce! Sell it ~ re-
plies the speculator in equally unruffied man.
ner, and so it was. -. .......
A DRILLER of oil wells took quiet little
flyer on his own account and leased some
territory. Then he proceeded to a capitalist
who had tried his hand on Developments"
"1've got a map here" said the driller, con-
fidently, "of about the best piece OF terri
tory in the Mcdonald field. If had enough
capital wouldn't let anybody IN with me. 4
but haven't, and so thought 1 would show it
to you" The capitalist listened with silent
and grim politeness which presaged ill for
that particular deal. Then he said with the
tone Of man really desirous of informa-
tion, "Jim, how long have you worked for
met" "Ofr n on for more'n two year."
EXACTLY. And in that time how many good
wells did l strike" "Well," replied Jim,
uneasily, "you did have streak of powerful
mean luck: didn't strike any as know Of"
Jim, you are certainly thoroughly we'll in.
formed. And now how many dry holes did
l get?" "Nine," said Jim, ,and his eyes Sought
the wall as If he thought he had some OF the
taste of Belshazzar for mural Inscriptions.
swell, Jim,"-and this came with emphasis
-"you are correct on every point, and,
furthermore, Iwant to say that at this pres
ent moment 1 wouldn't drill we'll in a
whale. Good dayr'
TABBY CAT, TOO.
Now dere's little tabby tat s'eepin outen der
sun,
Ever sence wemember dat's all dat de tabby tat's
done,
See don't det tailed inter de house as soon as 1t
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