Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-20
IN

William Il. Dodge's estate is said to be
worth els, COZ, 1000.
Julia Ward Howe is said TO have aban-
doned the principls Of woman suffrage.
Alexander II. Stephens Is seventy-one
years old and weighs seyenty.one pounds.
General Grant has had TO let the tucks
out OF his pantaloons. Gained twenty.
one pounds tins winter.
III David Davis should cross the ocean
the stewards might not avoid him, but
they would be apt to give him q wide
berth.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor is said to be the
only lady in New York or any other city
whose earthly possessions include q dinner
service Of solid gold.
The proceeds Of q sale Of the real estate
Of Signor Blitz, the magician, have just
been paid over to his heirs in Pennsylva-
MIA. They amounted to s34,043.
George Edwards, Of Goldsboro, N. c.,
on a wager, ate o quart OF oysters and
''wasbed them down" with q quart of
whisky. They buried George the next
day.
The late ex-Congressman Lewis Selye,
OF Rochester, N. Y, began life as q COM
mon blacksmith, but soon rose to be the
leading manufacturer there OF edged tools
and engines.
Mr.. Gladstone, sitting every Sunday In
thrown back and closed eyes" to the ser
mon. His snore probably resemble, the
drowsy hum Of the shard.borne beetle.
General Fitzhugh Lee says that after
Appomattox an old Virginian remarked to
O party Of returning soldiers: "Oh, it's
that - Fitz Lee who surrendered;
old General Lee never s~urrende's."
At her christening in Freehold. N. j.,
Mr.. WINS baby girl wore around her neck
some lace that had decorated her great.
neutrality-suspicious., Mrs. Margaret
Mccall Swift, Of Philadelphia, in 1760.
Oscar Wilde is writing o drama for
Mary Anderson, In which she will appear
az o duchess and o murderess. II he will
only cast stepfather Griffin as the man to
be murdered, how happy some folks would
be.
The dying words of young Commander
RawsoD, leader of the Highland brigade,
to Sir Garnet Wolseley after the victory
at Tel.el-K ebir, deserve o place in history.
They were {: General, did / lead them
straight
Ingersoll says plug hat, and s~uspenders
are needed In the south before she will
make much Roadway, as no people who
wear SLOUGH hats and let their trousers
hang slovenly on their hips can ever be.
come really civilized.
Samuel j. Browne, q wealthy Cincin.
NATHAN who died several years ago, left O
large part Of his estate to found q "Browne
University" The heirs, to whom small
sums were left have succeeded In breaking
the will, and now by agreement, $4C0 COO
from the estate poes, one-third to Lane
seminary and twc.thirds to the city OF
Cincinnati for university parposes.
Mr.. Kalloch, the preacher who was once
mayor Of San Francisco, and who then
cast a very dark shadow, Is 10 further
trouble. His congregation has decided to
give him q years vacation, without pay,
because he let the church for o Sunday
evening sparring match that was attended
by o crowd of hoodlums for whom the re-
gular organist played sacred music before
the sparring began.
'Bill" Nye, of The Laramie Boomer.
ang, has been seriously i'll tor two months,
and Is not yet able to leave his room. Al
soon as he gets we'll he ia coming to New
York on . visit People here will find
him, says The Free Press of Bodie, Gal
"a tall, well.shaped fellow, about SO years
Of age. with regular features, a close-crop'
ped brown beard, sharp brown eyes, a fine
forehead, and q bald head with q fringe Of
brown hair. He dresses simply and II
good taste. 1t is only occasionally that
his humor crops out in conversation. auc
his manner are otherwise mild. He ap
preciates o coed story, q we'll made cock
tail. q mild cigar. and plug tobacco