Omaha daily bee., 1884-12-17
PERSONALITIES.

Levy, the cornstiss. is said TO ha7e q .cot.
too taking mame
JOSH Billings suffers from catArrh. 1t is rot
known how he spells it.
Richard Grant White IL convalescCat and
school esammars tremble between their
covers.
Weather Prophet Virgins denies thas he
has joined CAe uniformed saints of the Sslya.
ton army.
The local Burglars Of Milwaukee are very
tastidious. They always ride to the house
which they are about to ''crackT in a hack.
n more sagscious nan il standing in
Swaim's shoes, would probably feel called
abruptly to Canada by pressing business.
David Davis is accused Of trying to learn
roller skating on the sly. The rink has q
concrete foundation with asphalt trimmings,
A Frenchman whcrecently died directed 10
his VIII that the sum of So, 00Gshould be given
to the wounded in the next war with Germ.
any
The average size o. the American family
10 5.O4. The decimal probably represents
the dude, but statisticians have gotit rather
latge.
Lieutenant. Governor Oliver Aracs. of Mas
sachusetts, although accredited worth SIS .00O,.
600, is said to wear q ten.ccnt BLACK butterfly
necktie.
General Grant never employs an amanran-
SIS or stenogTapher in his Htsrary york, but
writes 1t out himself in the most painstakiog
fashion.
For governor Of Utah: Miss Kate Field
of Massachusetts, There is no joke abou5
this, g~enSlemen; we mean it seSiously, tnhila
delphia Press.
1t is rumored that the bachelor PRESIDENT
Aect is very anxious to learn ths latest Wash
ington mo0es of sewing on buttons and darn
ing stockings.
Mr.. Connery, long the executive editor OF
the New York Herald cannot make Truth 20.
TIA newspaper, made infamous By the Nlorey
forgery falls under its load.
The family of Senator Pendleton 10 SPOKEN
of as one of tie most isStidious an ! exclusive
in Washington, and their home is \ model of
com etned luxury and somfort.
Fred Douglas told the woman's convention
at Providence tat their sex could ser the bal
lot aointelligently as nineteen.twerSieths of
the colored votcr5~.-the' mean thing.
Sir Walter Raleigh once asked Queen Eliz-
abetn TO smoke his pipe. She tried It once,
and Caly once. It's q significant fact that
inside OF q year sac ordered his head tc, be cut
off.
Il has been discovered that the man who
declared ne Was in Portland, Maine, o year
and did not see a drunken man told tie act.
uHl tTuSL3' TIC NSJ an lHlEdLS Vi IuS DlIuu
asylum.
Lord Tsnnyson's latest poem is entitled
Freedom, > and we, are inclined to regacd it
as u rem erkable production for a man who has
lived under the sans roof with his mother.in-
law for twenty sevsn, years.
TIL Prince of Wsles' second son he's been
entered ~ a law student in the Inner Temple
in London. The eldest soa, who is reported
as about 20 visit the Hrited States, is a pre-
t~entious s2ob of the first water.
Roscoe Conkling dotes on sweet cider, and
e%nlivens lis evening meditaSions with roasted
Irish potatoes. These are new designations to
which he was all D stranger in the old days
when he ran the world at Washington.
Mrs. General Cusser,ls said to have several
times haG the nape OF her neck and side lire
of the head taken in photographs for admiring
friends; who declare 10 to be of classic proper.
tions, rarely found except on a sculptured
form
Mr.. Worth, who is,coming TO this country, |
is the man who has succeeded in getting the |
cost of fashionable weddings up to $50, OOO, |
not counting the presents. We advise,
MIR. Worth to travei, incoG in an ironclad
car.
They aaye some tall men dawn in Southern
Kentucky. A OincinnatiaD, riding along the
road with a native, looking over upon an ad-
joining enclosure, remarked 81 observe, from F,
those beds, that you raise your own celery in
this region" Celery" exclaimed his compan- |
ion. Why, them's not celery beds; that's
our new graveyard"
Victor Hugo is remarkably active for an
octogenarian. He utters his CIRCULAR words
upon all subjects, and although his meaning is
not always obvious, the fact that he is able to
speak at all is pleasing; fer he Is a great man, |
who deserves from his connsrymen in his old
age all the reverence they may show him in
return for his genius and his suffering in ex-
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