Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-20
PROMINENT MEN OF THE TINES
Stories of Great Men Of the
World.
GENERAL GRANTS DlPlOM ACY
The Grand Old Observation-Disclosures
Haie's Experience - Matthew
Arnold's Jump-A Story of
n Crown Prince.
How Grant Got Jcwelrs Resignation.

How Grant Got Jcweli's Resignation.
Springfield Republican: A story
which has probably never been in print
is told on the authority of Henry Will
son as to how Grant succeeded in getting
the resignation of Postmaster General
| Jewell OF his cabinet. The story runs
that Grant and Jewell were alone toge-
Their, talking over matters, when, with
out any previous suggestion of the sub
ject, the president said to his cabinet
adviser: "Jewell, how do you suppose
your resignation wauld look written
outp" Jewell, thinking the question a
pleasantly of Grants, SAID he would
write it and see. "All right" said
Grant, ''you just take ONE paper and
write it down and see how it looks"
Jewell wrote and handed the paper to
| Grant. The latter looked at it a mo-
ment and then replied: THAT looks
we'll. 1 will accept that" He was in
earnest, and Jewell was out of the
cabinet.
Matthew ArnoId's High Jump.
1t is not so surprising that Matthew
Arnold should have made an attempt to
Jump the low fence which he came upon
in the course of the walk he took on the
day before his death, says the London
Figaro, when it is remembered that he
was at Rugby at a time when the high
jump was cultivated more, perhaps,
than any other athletic exercise. 1t is
written in the annals of Oxford, too,
how on a certain Sunday afternoon,
some forty years ago or so, SOC after
young Mr.. Arnold had been elected a
Fellow of Oriel, he cleared the well
known spiked ratings in front of Wad-
ham college. The actual height Of
hoo x.1.,-, &, E,1 fNNx %l-a. ..zl--
and the fact that Arnold jumped them
from the college side and alighted on
the fagstones of the street pavement is
considered to add to the merits of the
feat. In his Rugbyday Arnold cleared
at least two inches more than this,
though he was never able to clear
"DixOn's gate" OF the Barley road, u
jump which the late Mr.. Dixon, so well
known later on as a sporting writer
over the signature of Druid, was alone
able to effect.
Knew 1t and Didn't Care.
Los Angeles Tribune: Senator Pal
mer, of Michigan, is one of the most
tender-hearted men in the senate. Not
long ago he was called upon by a wo-
man who has some connection with an
obscure paper, and after listening to a
sorrowful ale was asked for n oar Of
300. A friend of the senator's stand
ing ear by heard the request and talk
ing him aside informed him that the
m was a fraud, a perpetual beggar
and n who would stop at nothing to
gain her point. Armed with this
knowledge Mr.. Palmer left his adviser
and approached the woman, bent upon
| giving her nothing but a denunciation.
His first words were met by a storm Of
tears and Il heart-rending tale of zoe
The woman admitted her fnan-
cial shortcomings, pleaded distress
and poverty, shed floods of tears and
wound up by speaking Of a coming evic-
too much for the Michigander, and he
almost blubbered himself as he asked in
a voice as gruff as he could make it:
'How much must you have?"
Not a cent less than $50 will do"
walled the woman.
"Well, here" said Mr.. Palmer,
handing her a $50 bill, "go and pay
your rent"
"You are a fool" said his friend,
when told of it,.
81 know it," replied the senator, but
| can't help it, and | don't care" The
woman left to look for a fresh victim.
A Story About Charles Mathews.
Pail Mall Gazette: At the height of
his troubles, when things went very
badly, the expenses of the vast theatre
being %ruinous, Mathews one morning
saw a ballet girl in a dark corne of the
the stage crying bitterly and evidently
in pain. The ever-gay comedian at
once jauntily approached her (for moth
ing seemingly could dash his spirits)
and said cheerily: whats the mat
ter, my dear?" The girl sobbed in re-
ply: "Oh, Mr.. Mathews, | am in sucq
pain! | have got such a dreadful tooth
ache!" ''Toothache!" said he; ''poor
thing, / AM SO sorry. I'll let you OFF re-
hearsal; go and have the tooth out"
II can't, Mr.. Mathews" Cant; why
notg" said he. II c-a-nt-aff-o-rd it,"
blubbered the girl. Cant afford it!
N~onsense!" answered Mathews; run
round the corner to st. Martins lane,
where you will get rid OF it for a shill-
ing" But | haven't got a shilling,
Mr.. Mathews" mot a shilling?" he
replied 40 once; "neIther have /. But
come into the green room and will
take your tooth out myself ~
| mr. n-x..a OFT np.ouA.1ou.