Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-15
PERSON AlAITIES.

John McCullou gh estimates his seq.
sons profits at $4,000. Think of 1t, ye
toilers!
John L. Hastings, one of the founders
of The Cincinnati Commercial, is a COM
positor in that city.
The Langtry receipts at Brooklyn last
week amounted to $4,000. Even injudi.
cious advertising seems to pay.
Mr.. Beecher said last Sunday that he
wholly r%epudiated hell. 1t ia not known
whether the compliment will be returned.
E.Gov, Begole, Of Michigan, when he
went to Lansing to be i~naugurated, de.
clinedto take O carriage and footed it to
the capitol.
Patti has been criticisipg Mrs. Langtry's
actions. Patti should order some iron
shutters for the conservatory in which she
resides 1T once.
Vanderbilt ought to be a happy man.
He is worth about 5000, 900. LOO, not one of
his sons is q scapegrace and the birth Of
his twenty.second grandchild is announced.
Register Bruce, next to Frederick Doug.
lass about the most noted representative
of his race, was refused a seat ia q white
BARRIERS chair in Washington the other
day.
Bob Iugersoll thinks that people are
fully punished during this life for all their
sins. This would seem to indicate that
Bob's next door neighbor plays the &C.
cordeon.
Some one has discovered q poem written
| by President Arthur in 1851. 1t is doubt
4m whether President Arthur or the man
who discovered the poem is most to be
pitied.
Mrs. Goddard, the widow of Delano A.
Goddard, notable as the late editor of the
Boston Advertiser. has refused to accept q
purse of 1925, 900 offered her by admirers Of
her husband,
Martin Chambly, of Cherokee county
Georgia, has been for fifty years a candi.
must have emigrated from Ohio at q Very
early age.
Elizabeth Stanton not only plays bill.
lizards, but advises it as o recreation for her
sex. Thebilliard cue ia a more formidable
| weapon than the broomstick, the rolling
pin or the poker.
The venerable Archbishop Purcell, who
il living in extreme poverty, received $50
as a Christmas gift, and promptly turned
it over to the fund for the relief of his dis.
tress-d CreIitors.
Brigham Youug's gravs is utterly neg
lected, and his wives never visit it. They
went there once to cry over his remains,
Tut it made the ground 30 sloppy that
they all caught cold.
State Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee, who
stole S400, 900, wears q wooden leg. With
two good legs and q fair chance it is thought
that Mr.. Polk would also have got away
with a pubic building or two.
Major Burke, editor Of the New Orleans
Times Democrat, went to work in a stone
yard as o common laborer just after the
war. Most men, however, start as editors
and wind up in the stone-yard.
Dominick Hoffman, q newly.elected JUS
tice of the peace in dubuque, got fright.
ened when called to perform his first off
cha act, = marriage ceremony, and re.
signed Immediately. A burnt child breads
the fire.
The wife of Charles E. Upton, the
Rochester City Bank embezzlsr, wrote
novel, Castles in the Air." which was
published in 1873. Even the worst oil
men seem to have some excuse for their
misdseds.
Gov. Hamilton's daughter, Mrs. Glare
II. Stanhope, has obtained a divorce from
her husband, John 7. Stanhopr, of Hsgers
town. The romantic marriage Of the
couple caused something Of q sensation ir
Baltimore about a year ago. Stanhope
who is q clerk, did not oppose the granting
of the decree.