Omaha daily bee., 1884-02-01
PERSONALITIES.

Oscar Wilde no longer wears a sunAower in
his button-hole.
Carlotta, the widow of Macmillan, is forty.
three, but looks quite old.
Matthew Arnold looks at his audiences
through q single eye-glass.
Prince Napoleon announces that he Is hold.
ing himself in reserve. He had better 90 TO
work.
Colonel Tom Bowen is considered the best
poker Mayer In Colorado. He sometimes sub
~stitutes his photograph for q jack.
Old Crow, q prominent Indian chief, evil
IDENTIFY inclined to become civilized, has sub
scribed for a Bozeman, Montana, paper.
Miss Hamilton. the English he.ress, has an
income of $3.50, 600 a year. It is said that
she Is very homely, but we don't believe It.
Henry Sawyer, who recently died in the
penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo-, was born
In prison, his mother being a convict at the
time.
There is one Vanderbilt who does not say
damn. Cornelius has been elected a director
Of the New York Young Mems Christian asso.
citation.
Sergeant Bates was arrested in Griffin, Ca,
the other day, as o lunatic, but as soon as it
was discovered that he was the flag tramp he
was permitted to move on.
just as Hon. John 8. Aver was comfortably
seated in the Maine legislature, along must
come u woman and sue him for So, 600 damage
for alleged breach of promise.
Wife-murderer Dillman, in Jail ut Easton,
Pa, charges visitors SO cents o look" and it is
stated that one day when the Teachers Insti.
tute was In session he made S1.25.
General Butler hat stopped smoking. 1t
will not do from this fact to conclude that the
old mans fires have gone out. He has only
hanlpA than fill fha xvipfar'u nx,ar
Frank James has made his will and he shows
his gratitude to Missouri for all her goodness
to him by bequeathidg 20 her $50 gold watches
q pair of horse-pistols, and an iron jimmy. A
more touching legacy could not he imagined.
Judge Tourgee, about the busiest man in
America, is flying around this country like a
kite without a tail, telling the people that
they are doing too much work and need rest.
A inch of example, judge, is worth a mile of
precept.
Mr.. Huntington, the man of railway enter
prises and other kinds of business, is de-
scribed by a correspondent as "a large, rather
hard-faced man, weighing $50 pounds, perhaps
six feet high, of a face without pride in 1t and
without much resentment. There are a good
many 81. 200 clerks in Washington CITY who go
to their desks at 9 in the morning and 20 away
at 4 o'clock who look like Huntingdon"
| d. O.. Mills, the capitalist is q ''forty-
miner" but not a miner. Instead of trying his
luck with the pick, when he went to Califor.
mia he put his small capital into q stock of
! groceries, and in ten years had accumulated
| quite a fortune. He supplemented his first
venture by embarking in innumerable enter.
prises, the principal one being the Bank of
California, of which he was president.
Romulus Bonhomum is the high sounding
name of q Baltimore Italian who has made a
small fortune selling, at great bargains, North
Carolina farms that did not belong to him.
| Forty of his purchasers met at the depot
Tuesday, ready to go with Romulus to their
new farms; but Romulus, oh, where was het
of catching more suckers from among that
| gullible class of persons who are always try.
ing to buy something for less than it is worth.