Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17

right through Laidlaw if the latter reall
was held in front of Sage. If that had hap
pened Laidlaw would not be alive now.
Mr.. Sage was very graphic as he aete
out the dynamite scene in his sitting roor
uptown, using me for the dynamiteS and
chair for Laidlaw. Briefly he says that b
and the dynamiter faced each other con
stantly, while Laidlaw set off to one side
the three forming triangle.
The dynamiter backed away, dropped tn
satchel, and the explosion came. MIR. Sag
had never once spoken to Laidlaw, and ha'
not touched him. When the explosion wa
over Mr.. Sage says he found himself KNOCKED
fiat. Laidlaw had been knocked TOWARD
him. His head lay across Mr.. Sage
knees. Mr. Sage picked himself up, theI
grasped Laidlaw under the arms and l1ftet
him up.
Who Laidlaw Really Is.
Laidlaw, according to Mr.. Sage, was EN-
ployed by Bloodgood, the distinguished
broker, to go from office to office and con.
fde to big men in deep confidence important
pieces of news calculated to affect the mar
ket to suit Mr.. Bloodgood. Mr.. Laidlaw'
conduct has hurt Mr.. Sage's feelings. 1t II
not likely that the case will ever come t.
court. 1t is probable that Mr.. Laidlsw teeli
hurt also. II was not his dynamite satchel
and perhaps he feels that Mr.. Sage ought to
make some cash acknowledgment OF Fate's
discrimination against Laidlaw.
Mr.. Sage's hearing is now almost as good
as before the accident Mr.. Sage has heard
from Inspector Byrnes that the annals OF
crime do not show any case analogous to
| his. That fact interests him and he has de-
| termined himself to write and to sign, tor
| the benefit of history, complete account OF
his adventures. That writing will be inter'
esting. 1t will give to every newspaper
man chance to calculate just how much
poorer Mr. Sage would be now if he had
gone originally into journalism instead oi
groceries. Mr.. Sage speaks of the gentle
man who blew himself into the other world
as "My Dinnamitter, with the accent very
properly on the ''din." Mr.. Sage does not
share the belief that Norcross dropped the
valise accidentally.
Doing the West With a Penknife.
Richard Harding Davis, who is going to
do Mexico Texas and other wild places for
the Harpers, will surprise these places. He
will wear his best clothes out there and has
bought no daggers, boots, leggins, saddles,
revolvers or sombreros. He will be able to
write a piece entitled, Through the West
With Penknife. After the West he goes
to London, also for the Harpers, and next
fall he resumes the management of Harper's s
Weekla
As everybody has said something un-
pleasant about Billy McGlory, dive keeper
of this town, and as he is now in prison, it
is only fair that someone should mention
the good that is in him. He once jumped
from his buggy, stopped runaway horse
and saved young girls life. The horse
was going so fast that many quieter men
than McGlory, policemen and others, had
let it go. He is certainly one of the brayest
men In New York. so far as physical cour-
age goes. He is thin man, and consump-
tive, but the biggest rufians in the city
stood in terror of him. When knocked
down by McGlory, their habit has always
been to get up and walk of.
What McGlory Might Have Been.
On the side of morals nothing can be said
in McGlory's favor But It is possible that
if he had been born under different con-
ditions his name might have had different
meaning. He would have made a wonderful
fighting cavalryman if he had had chance.
1t is quite possible that he is thoroughly
bad, but it is certain that he does not know
or feel that he has done wrong.
The interesting story concerning James
Gordon Bennett which comes across the
water, and which perhaps is true, tells how
were disposed to play with boxing gloves.
Stanhope, of the Herald, knocked out one or
two rivals in play, whereupon Bennett
challenged him to do as much for his
superior officer. Stanhope, after warning
Bennett, did so most successfully. Mr.
james Gordon Bennett got an unlucky
upper-cut, where upper-cuts are most eff
fective, and, in the language of sport, was
dead to the world. When he recovered he
made Stanhope a present of 81, 600. The
story is told now about the Herald Office.
If true it is calculated to drive Mr. Sulli-
van from the stage to the newspaper Office.
He could easily make $4,000 q day while
his popularity lasted
Patti and Change in Clothes.
Patti, charming and everlasting monu-
ment to the wisdom of careful living and
careful eating, is singing here again. She
has not changed, and the preservation of
her voice is marvellous. She has secret
that would be valuable to all who pretend
to preserve peaches, asparagus and other
good things.
The feature of the opera this year, a more
interesting one to some than Patti or the de
Reszkes is the marked change in the dress
of the women. Gowns are not worn as low
as they were; in fact, nothing like. Long
sleeves and dresses almost high in the neck
prevail. The comforting deduction may be
drawn that when women are fools the only
thing to do is to let them 60 on and they
will recover all alone.
The End of the World.
An astronomer consoles us with the state
ment that We shall not have to handle all
the water now visible, because as the inside
of this earth gets cold and contracts it will
leave gaps below the crust into which great
volumes of water will pour. That, by the
way, explains how we are to die, once and
for all.
Whenall the water has sunk out of sight
the atmosphere will follow, men will have
to dig one well for air and another for water,
using pumps on both. It will be workaday
world. Birds will all be dead, and no fish
or oysters to eat An imaginative gentle
man inclined to write up the end of the
world could do fine picture of the rich
man boarding his air while the poor sufo-
Gated, etc.
The moon is alleged to have died that sort
Of death-queer sort of a corner this corner
of the universe will be with two moons
lighting each other up and not young man
to walk with isyoung woman in the double
ARTHUR BRISBANE.