Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-22

PiiHO ~" jill viz lSuulnB Jug SllONS Vi tht
country.
Miss Whitney is not q lady of extern.
sive means, and her kennels lacks the
elegant appointing ats to which other
breeders owe so much, and she was re.
Gently chosen president of the st. Ber-
nard Breeders club of America, but
declined, and was chosen vice-president
instead.
White House Pets.
Detroit Free Press: Nellie Arthur
had a spotted Indian pony for the apple
OF her eye.
Mrs. Pierce was very fond of the
black nag that her husband rode.
Mrs. Monroe brought the first white
rabbit to the national premises.
Harriet Lane had a large stag-hound
that was presented her in England.
Dolly" Madison's particular pet was
a fine saddle nag. AT Montpelier she
had a pet sheep.
Mrs. Adams had a great goldfish and
one of q blush tint, sent her by q New
England sea captain.
Mrs. Hayes had a magnificent i'm
ported japanese cat that was presented
to her by a naval officer.
Martha Washington's chief pet was %
beautiful green parrot. Mrs. Wash
lngton was also very fond of a fallow
deer.
Mrs. Grant had a strawberry roam"
COW that was a superb mixer and sup
piled her table with milk and cream.
Mrs. Bliss, President Tay!or1s daugh-
ter, who presided over the white house
until her fathers death, had a splendid
white owl.
Miss Cleveland's pet while at the
white house was a beautiful rose which
h found in the conservatory and
which now bears her name.
An eagle occupied a cage at the man
sion for a part Of President Fillmore's
term, a gift from a political admirer,
and the noble bird was often fed by Mrs.
Fillmore.
Mrs. Jackson never presided at the
white house, but a large black and
white coon that had been caught when
young and trained by one of her faith
full slaves had the run of the household.
What She Told the Burglar.
Washington Letter to the New York
Tribune: An amusing illustration of
the strength of involuntary impulses
was recently afforded by the visit of
burglars to the home of a certain we'll
known official of this city, who lives
just outside of the district limits in the
country. About 3 o'clock in the morn
ing he and his wife were suddenly
aroused by the appearance in their bed
room OF three masked; men. Two of
them stood at the headof the bed, and
with revolvers cooked and pointed at
the temples of the bedfellows, ordered
them to lie still and save their lives by
so doing. They complied with the re-
quest, while the third ruffin began to
explore the room. His bull's-eye lantern
being awkward he took u candle from the
bureau, and lighting it began to ransack
closets, drawers, boXesa n bureaus in the
room. While so engaged he carelessly
let the paraffine taper drop in swift
The housewife, though bound to the
pillow by the muzzle of a revolver,
could not restrain her impulses, despite
the blood-curdling threat of the bur-
glar st her side. She half arose in bed
and cried out:
''Shame on you, don't you see you are
spelling my carpet?"
An unintelligible grunt was the only
answer.
"Now look here, you william" again
crisd out the housewife, II want you
to stop splitting grease all over my car
pet"
The startled thief, who could not have
heard her first command, turned around
and net her blazing eyes.
Eyes, MN; | will do it, seem as how
we can't take it with U.S." he gently re-
marked.
The scoundrels at the bedside only
chuckled. At that moment an alarm
clock set up Its call for an early-rising
servant up stairs. The thieves became
suspicious at once They snuffed out
the candle and threw a big bag contain
ing their plumber over their shoulders,
closed the dror behind them and stole
down the stairs, out OF the front gate
and decamped.
And then it was that the good house.
wife tainted.
A Mighty Female Nimrod.
Philadelphia News: While at Che
wela recently 1 met Nancy Mckenzie,
q noted half-breed woman who is known
throughout the far northwest from
Montana to Puget Sound. She lives in
q log cabin in one OF those little fertile
valleys which abound in the mountain
GUS districts of Washington territory OF
the Chil-charl-a-mouse. Nancy, as she
is familiarity known, is a large-framed,
tall woman, about sixty years of age,
who takes more after her Indian mother
than her Scotch father, who was an en-
listed man in the service of the Hudson
Bay company.
Notwithstanding her sex, she became
a noted marksman and hunter, which
characteristics distinguish her to this
day. She was married young, as is the
custom among Indians OF her moth
who, like her father, belonged
to the Hudson Bay company, and, after
buffeting with the tide of migration
which had begun TO. pIpw across the
Rocky mountains and up from Califor-
MIA, they settled in the valley where
she now lives, alone and unfriended,
save by the wandering bands OF Indians,
who never pass her cabin by. She is
a widow, her husband, Patrick McKen-
ale, having died of consumption a few
years ago.
Nancy may be seen every day riding
astride IN her tough cayuse pony, driy-
ing her small band OF horses and cattle
to the ranges in the mountains or gal
Looping away down the worn Indian trail,
followed by two powerfully knit and
d~eep-voiced deer-hodnds, as she goes
out hunting the deer along the noun
tain sides. or the black bear in the