Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-14
PERSONALITIES.

JEFF Davis is called the Prince of Bour.
bon.
Plaft retired from the senatorial race by
rapid transom.
Guiteau handed the arrestinp officer his
card on the way to Jail.
Proctor Knott has been delivering
temperance lectures lately.
"Truth is stranger than Eli Perkins, (" is
the new way of putting it,
Guiteau has at last got into a place
where he can't dodge his board bill
Bishop Harris of the Episcopal church
in Michigan was a confederate soldier.
Writ Skies has written another book.
Writ is well known as Mr.. Oliver Logan.
A wild.eved Indian paper says that
Prince Leopold is ''a skinny little runt
with turned-up nose."
Major Pond, divorce suit notoriety, has
been visiting Providence, hunting up evi.
dence, it is alleged, but another lawsuit.
Robert Tirrol of Cambridge, Mass, a
colored student of Harvard College, is
head waiter at an eastern summer hotel.
The young Duke de Morny is said to be
one of the coming golden youth of France
clever, witty, discreet, sceptical and a
sportsman.
Donaldson, who jumped from High
Bridge into the Harlan, is to Jump from
the Brooklyn bridge into the East River in
four weeks time.
Secretary of the Navy Hunt, like the
fine old-school southern politician that he
10, has all his sons in office, in one depart.
ment or another.
The Latest item about Mrs. Langtry is
that she looked worn and faded and was
plainly dressed at the Coyent Garden
Theatre few nights since.
kallooh says he will give up politics and
devoted himself wholly to religion here.
after. Religion ought to have the sympa-
thy of every honest man just now.
The German papers say that Count Won
MOltke gets but three hours sleep per
night. Mrs. Won Moltke must have the
greatest case of cold feet on record.
Wickedness from the Boston Post: ''The
Herald came out yesterday with the big
headllne Thank God, and we thought at
first that Gen eral Butler was dead"
Susan B, Anthony says she has been
preaching female suffrage for thirty years.
What she preached during the earlier and
greater portion of her life is not stated
Jay Gould works seven days week and
ffty-two weeks year. Small and deli
cate in figure, he tolls with tremulous
energy. He carries fifty million on his
back.
Mr.. Charles Stewart Pamell has two
brothers, one of whom is O cotton planter
in Georgia and Land Lacquer, while the
other who owns an estate in Kilkenny,
Ireland, is a strong Conservative.
When Midhart Pasha, the fallen Turk
ish minister, was brought into the pres
ence of the sultan lately, he was dragged
along the ground like bundle of rags.
When deposited at the foot of the throne,
his majesty bent down and spat in his
face.
President Garfeld's relatives in Ohio say
that, with the exception of an attack of
fever and ague years ago when boy, and
occasional touches of dyspepsia in late
years, he hasnever been ill. His habit has
always been to live on plain. substantial
food, and he has never INDUCED in late
suppers.
Long John" Wentworth, cx-m ayor of
Chicago, is entirely bald, except a little
tuft of hair behind the ears, and on one oc.
casion, when riding in the cars, he FIRE.
quently took off his hat and scratched the
back of his ears, when waggish back
woodsman shouted; stranger, drive 'em
up in the clearing and you can catch 'em
all in five minutes"
Galbraith McMullen, aged 1903, is visit
ing in Erie, where he was in 1912 as one of
Commodore Perry's men. He is hale for
one OF his great age, has fair eyesight, and
is highly entertaining in conversation. He
has issue sixteen children, whohave among
them 1l3 grandchildren. AS near as pos.
sible a count was made ON the great grand.
children, and they figured to nearly 24O.
A few of these are married. and SO far
about 40 gre great grandchildren have
been born, being children Of the fifth gen.
Grafton.
The Denver News positively states that
VIM. II. Salisbury, alias VIM. ii. Canty,