Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-07
PERSONALITIES.
DR.. Mary Walker has n new high hat.

DIR. Mary Walker has a new high hat.
Young James Mutt, the Uniontown, Pa,
avenger, will settle in Kansas.
Kaiser Wilhelm always appears before his
people in brass buttons and military cap.
Carlos Aguero, the Cuban revolutionary
leader, Looks as fierce as a lion, but weighs
only 1l5 pounds.
"You Russians do have such funny Names,
was a remark made by Miss Hogg to q diplo.
mat at Washington.
Abe Buzzard, the Pennsylvania outlaw, Is
back in his old haunts. The Missouri climate
did not agree with him.
Bedford, of Colorado, Is ''stuck" on Sunset
Cox, and the formers demonstration are the
laughing stock of theIhouse.
Fanny Davenport has reduced her weigh
from leo to 12S pounds. But there is no
course of treatment that will reduce her age.
General Sherman is said to perfume his
whiskers with q cologne which fairly takes
away the breath of the girls whom he
kisses.
The Younger Dumas at 60 looks not more
than 40. His famous Madeline Duplessis was
originally a washerwoman, but he converted
her into Camille.
Representative Luke p. Poland, of YER
mont, Is mainly distinguished as the only man
in the house who peisistently appears in the
old time blue swallow-tail with brass buttons.
An Illinois admirer of General Logan says
John doesn't sling fine grammar at all times,
but that 1t is further from the roof to the
basement floor of his mind than some people
suppose.
Aimee tells q reporter that she wears out
1850 worth of stockings every year. But
~ stockings comprise her entire wardrobe
the figures are not 30 very appalling. -Elec.
tic Light.
Miss Parlor is lecturing on CO oking at De-
troit, and Miss Kitchen has brought out a
book on Parlor Decorations at Boston. The
two accomplish d women seem to be out of
their sphere.
Rose Coghlan, the actress, smokes cigar
cites, and is said to be the only woman in
America that can puff rings of smoke from
her mouth. Rose is undoubtedly a very &C.
complished woman.
Alfred Chadwick yoked his wife to a pillow
with a steer, for which Judge Jennings, of
Detroit, gave her q divorce. He insisted
that he had only follswed the general usage
among the market gardeners of western
Canada
1t is related that Representative George d.
Wise of Virginia and Townshend of Illinois,
and Senator German of Maryland, were once
pages in congress, along with the actor, Stuart
Robson; and German was afterward president
of the National base ball club.
Marx Twain lives in his own house, near
Hartford, a house with its back kitchen on the
street, its front entrance ON one side, bristling
with peaks and chimney pots, aged in style of
architecture the crystalized expression of an
encounter between Mark Twain and Queen
Anne. Mrs. Clemens is the source of wealth
from which all this springs.
EBret Harte, ostensibly United States consul
at Glasgow, lives at the house of the Belgian
ambassador at London, whose wife thinks he
is the greatest genius of the age. AS long as
he will dictate, which isn't very long at a
time, she will write. All his recent manu-.
scripts are in her handwriting, and some of
them don't read very much like Harte. He is
becoming lazy and addicted to brandy and
soda.
Emma Abbott, according to a Chicago re-
porter, is as whimsical as a full-hedged spin
ster. The first think Emma does when she
secures the top room away from everybody is
to ring for some blankets with which she has
all the doors and windows hung, to keep out
the light and noise. Then she takes out q
small card which runs: Engaged between s
a. m. and z p. M. Please do not knock.
Guests will please not make a disturbance in
the hall. When this placard is nailed out
shs gets q paper OF pinl, pulls the bedstead
out in the center of the room, goes down on
her knees, and pins all the bedclothes down
to the Mattress, leaving just the width of one
pillow by which to enter. When she gets her
quilted night gown on she stands up against
the headboard and lets herself in feet first.