Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-22
A LOOK AROUND.
Things thatyou chance upon eue,y day
iSketched In q liberal, charcoal so0v.

A LUX AKOUND.
Things thasyou chance upon eus,y day
Sketched In q liberal. charcoal sc0y.
The corridors of the big Office buildings
are favorite lounging places for tdlers these
hot days. The Court House and the post
ONCE come in for . goodly share of this,
and the elevators in these public and semi
public edffices are also sought Tor cooling
draughts as often as practicable.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company's
local trains are running full in spite of cable
and electric rapid transit. 1 fancy this is
partly due to a desire for seats during the
ride and partly because it Is more comfort
able than street car riding. Then too. many
little groups of suburban residents have
grown accustomed to morning and evening
chat with their friends and gossips on the'
trains and habit has rendered them proof
against the alluring novelty Of street cars
on one hand and the cinders of locomotives
on the other.
IT is amusing and instructive to watch the
groups of immigrants at the Union station.
They have an Old World gravity and sober
ness and a childish air of wonder and
credulity. They believe in collective rather
than individual wisdom, and gather in rings
to discuss matters before they take action.
1t must te onfessed that the types one sees
from the land Of art and olives, music and
Malta, are not precisely those Of Angelo or
Titan. These imperial Caesars. dead and
turned to clay, now open holes wherein the
gas pipes lay.
THE oculist is an important parsonage
these days II you want to do business
and keep the usual number of legs and arms
you need your eyes. In East Liberty the
other evening 1 found myself in danger of a
complex turnover from two lines of cable
cars, an electric car, drove of horned
cattle, a team of mules, q carriage and pair,
much until you close your house or office
door. --.'''
THE Blaine resolution at Chicago yester-
day took everybody iDa soft spot. 1t was
admittedly politic, kindly and thoroughly
American. Alter all Columbia's bosom nur
lures all parties and creeds and this touch
of nature makes the whole world kim"
The housewife should delight this year
in the local markets. Things to eat that
have come up out of the earth are plen tiful
and cheap. How do strawberries strike you
at to cents bo1f
WoMANKIND has invaded the Court
House offices. The lawyers use their stenog-
raphers to copy papers on record ana they
say the girls do this work neatly and well.
THE illustrated weeklies are no longer
the power nor the marketable articles they
used to be. The progress of illustration in
the daily papers has effected this, the news.
dealers say;
DAVE STEWART, the oil man who used
to be Secretary of the Tidewater Pipe Line
Company, before the Standard engulfed it,
is lively member of the new Producers
Protective Association. He says that the
association has membership of over 4, 900
which 1900 more than the old organiza-
tion had away back in 80 when it fought the
Standard and the railroads. The commercial
end of the association, the Producers OIL
Company, has called in 60 per cent of its
capital, which has produced $500. .0O0, and this
money is being put into refineries and other
things necessary to reach the public.