Omaha daily bee., 1884-06-09
CITY WALKS AND TALKS.

-"Omaha is a one-horse town" exclaimed
a well known horse man who, upon being
asked his reason for making such o bold asser-
ton, said: ut will never amount to anything
until we have some decent horse racing here.
| don't understand why it is that we can't
have o spring and fall meeting every year Just
as well as Kansas City, st. Paul, Minneapolis
Council Bluffs and q dozen other places in
Iowa. We have got the people to patronize
good races, and we have a good driving. park.
If some of our enterprisinP men would take
hold of the driving park and get Omaha into
the circuit with Kansas City we could get
some of the best horses in the country to come
here and money would be made by it. 1t has
been a long time since we have had any first
class races in Omaha"
--"While I was attending the grand
lodge of the Knights of Homer in Chicago, the
other day" said DIR. Conkling, 81 saw Elan
nagan, of Texas, who was attending the sess-
ion. When he got up to speak upon some
subject some one yelled out What are
we here for?' and it broke Flanhagan all up.
Tho audience roared for at least five minutes. y
WHY don't you put up a handsome
bank building?" asked the BEES Man About
Town, of one of the officials of the United States
national bank. "We are we'll enough satisfied
with this building" replied the official. ut is
our advertisement. This is the only brick
building now standing in ths city, built as
long ago as 1855. 1t was erected by three or
four gentlemen connected with the old Ne.
braska ferry company, for a business house,
and when it was completed in 1856, it was
occupied for a time by the Western EX-
change bank. A. u. Wyman, now treasurer
of the United States, was the teller of that
bank. No, sir, we don't want any new bank
building for some time to come. We are tn
oldest banking house in Omaha, having COM
menced business 1856, and we have got the
oldest bank building, a sort of land mark,
-"You remember Will ID. Eaton, who
used to live in Omaha some years ago." re-
marked a gentleman the other day. well,
here is a little newspaper paragraph that may
please his friends. 1t is probably considera
bly, exaggerated so far as the income of Eator
Is concerned" The paragraph is as follows:
"W. ID. Eaton, one of the best all.around
newspaper men of the Chicago press, anc
known as the prosperous author of All thu
Rage, Is rusticating in the Turtle mountain
country. Eaton has an income of S20,OOO
year from all literary sources. Before any on
suspected his acquaintance with the German
language he announced that he had Translates
: B)aine's book into that tongue and anothe
source of wealth was added to his exchequer
: Mr.. Eaton is tossing in his mind an inclina
. ton to settle down in st. Paul.
r TT have attended several auctions late
: ly," said a purchaser of secondhand goods
''and 1t always amuses me to see what
8 strange but irresistible fascination an auctio
. possesses for the average woman. Only tn
female suffragist Of long experience can resis
u the attractive power Of a red flag hung out !
, front of o residence. 1t may be washing day
{ and she may have sternly refused to go il
e town on such q day of manifold duties, eve
a to follow the pleasing pursuit of shopping
But the auction will lure her from all hous,
u hold cares. 1t doesn't matter at all whethe
the furniture and carpets and fixings to /
sold are what the average woman of famil
4 really needs, In whole or In part. She goes
see, catches the infection Of the hour wal
auctioneer for a while, and then joins rockies
ly in the bidding. The average woman gene
,r ally buys some damaged piece Of bric-a-brac
II twice its value when new, and Is rewarded /
contemptuous remarks concerning broke
back by her unappreciative husband. Bl
~ she doesn't care. She rests In the calm cont
Y dence of having bought a bargain, And Il
man of the house Is fortunate IL the good wi
81 has not sold off all his old clothes to a ragms
N in order to satisfy her craving to buy Target
at the auction sale, and fill the abode of We
70 ded bliss with a Heterogeneous collection OF SO
ond- articles, summed up most concise
in the masculine word truck"