Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-02
PERSON aLITlBS.

President Arthur has FIVE sisters and one
brother.
Jere Black recently became o great
grandfather.
Wendell Phillips hopes that the day
will ccme when no man will smoke on
the streets.
J., r. Booth. an Ottawa lumberman,
cleared $500, 600 from hi, business during
the past year.
Lieutenant Powell, Of the Ninth
cavalry, Is the only ex-Coufedesate
soldier now an officer in the United States
army.
Miss Sarah Brown, daughter of "o5sa-
watomie Brown" has been appointed to o
position in the United States mint at San
Francisco.
The cuts in Lady Florence Dixie's
corset may have been made after
the manner of the cuts in Cadet Whita-
ker's ezra.
The Hon. John G. Knox, once justice of
the supreme court of Pennsylvania, and for
many years o leading politician of the
state, has gone to the asylum, hopelessly
insane.
The Hon. A. G. NATION, Of Oswego,
claims to have been the first drummer who
left New York City. having started out in
the employ of Lee, Busting & Co., of New
York.
Jeremiah Curtis, a New York million.
aire, is dead. He was the propr etor of
many patent medicines, and he once ran
for governor of Maine on the prohibition
ticket.
Mr.. Conkling is said to be the only man
who ever made q speech before the United
States supreme coust clad In q business
suit. On the occasion thus noted he was
clad in dark gray. Custom requires black
and a frock coat.
By the death of Sir George Jessel,
master of the rolls, England loses the
nblest Judge OF the century. and perhaps
the a6lest iurist ever known in that
country. He was the rrst Jew
} holding any Judicial Office in Great Bin
ain.
{ Lord Granville recently apologized t.
Mr.. Lowell for a short dinner notice t.
l ''the most engaged mar las diner out) ii
piled that mo notice could be too shor
} which came to the most engaged from tn,
most engaging man."
art that her whole manner changes will
the sutjecs of her singing. If it is som,
great o~ratorio aria that she is rendering
she rises to'the dignity of the theme ant
, puts On her grand manper. Ii it is a bal
? lad, che Is simplicity itsslf.
Will Carleton, the Farm Ballads" poet
> il described ~ having "shrewd, good
t na,ured face, whose Yankee like boldnes
, Of outline is further emphasized by a tut
= of hair upon his chin. His voice is full
resonant, nd agreeable, though not w'del,
varied ia it, tones, and his manner unpre
tentious, and mace attractive by q certain
4 awkward ease."
: 1t takes four ladies of the bee. chamber
Q very one of t'em must be ~ peeress, eigh
o oommon ladies of the bed. chamber AM
twelve bed.chsmber women to put Queel
. Victoria to bed. But it must rot be sup
. posed that all take part in the pleliminar,
l process. They just hang around until sh
one, are sent off by the queen on littl
errsnds, such as opening the stove door
shutting off draughts, fastening forgotte
windows, bringing the flower pots in, put
ting the cat out and attending to numel
4 Gus other little things which Q wema
never thinko of until she gets under th
j. covers.
General Sherman is going next summe
to the far west for the last time as the ger
= eral Of the army, and will be back in tim
. to attend the notable army meeting l
10 Washington in October. He has Away
had a partial side for the western posts an
d the off cers and soldiers of the frontisl
and he has long made it q practice to 60 I
:, the furthest posts once a year, to sho'
n "the boys" they are not forgotten. On thi
trip he will devote himself particularly
Montans, Oregon and California. MUG
le of the distance will be made on horseback
I. and the general will always have a'cavalr
escort. He will be ACCOMPANIED by onl
g. two members of his staff, Colonies Tourte
b lotte and Bacon and but two of his pa
ticular friends will go as his guests, nam
D., ly, Chief Justice Waite and Justice Gre
4. Of the supreme court.