Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-03


brella.
"Dutchy, where's my umbrella2"
| asked Sheedy.
"Gone NIT der ledders, so dot dey
don't got vet,n answered the innocent
Dutchman, as he wondered what
Sheedy's friends were laughing at.
Sheedy called at the postollice at once
and found that the Dutchman had
dropped letters and umbrella into the
newspaper box.
Coming back from the Syracuse con-
vention, w. Burke Cochran discovered
a select party in one OF the cars engaged
in little game OF poker, says the New
York World. The ante was ] cent
| and the limit 8 cents, but when Cock
ran asked to come into the game Mar
tin, winking at his companions, said:
81 guess it's too steep for you" What
| is itp" asked Cochran. twenty-five
cents ante and So limit" was the reply.
81 guess l can stand it If you can," said
Cochran. He bought $50 worth of chips
and started in to play. They led him
| merry dance. Quite Il party gathered
around the players and they were all
| let into the Joke except Cochran.
The latter bet boldly, but his associ-
ates raised him every time. Once he
opened n jackpot with n pair of aces,
| but dropped out when the others all
came in so promptly. Cochran s $50
| was soon gone, and at the end of
couple hours they had cleaned him out
of all his spare change and *i5 more
that Mr.. Gilroy kindly loaned him. BY
this time he had dofed his coat and the
| perspration was running off him In
small streams. Still he did not want to
| give up, but finally they all declined to
loan him any money. He offered his
check, but Gilroy, who was acting as
banker, refused to take it. Then the
| joke was explained, and, on the settle-
| ment, Cochran found that he had lost
| Sl.15. Great Scottl" he exclaimed,
Ito think that have mad all this sweat
| for $l.l5l' He took the joke good ma
turedly, however, and the supper will
| follow.
In Words on Wellington" we have
very remarkable instance given of how
absolutely his Fronch enemies relied on
his honor, says the London Court
Journal. Before the battle of Orthez
the bridge over the Gave de Pau had
been passed by the French army. The
| duke sent note to Marshal Soult, say
| ing That u battle would, of course, take
place on the following day, but that, as
it was desirable in the interest of the
| inhabitants of Orthez not to destroy the
bridge, he promised that, if Marshal
Soult would abstain from blowing it up,
no soldier of the British army should
cross It, Soult trusted him, and the
bridge is to this day in tact" 1t seems
that the duke, though his untlinching
courage was never shaken, lived in APP
prehension of assassination. After his
death an officer quartered at Walmer
visited the castle and begged for SOU
venir. The servant showing him over
the place pointed to q lot of umbrellas
and told him to help himself. He took
one, opened it, and found a sword. "Oh,
yes" said the servant, 'there is sword
In every umbrella"
Eyes, old Commodore Vanderbilt was
a money getter and a money saver"
said an old-time Wall street operator
to a select circle of younger men who
were watching the tape In downtown
office says the New York World. HE
looked after the nickels, and the dimes
and dollars followed after. 1t was in
1862, think, when concluded to take
trip to Europe, and l didn't want to
impair my capital wanted to make ex-
penses, you know. L had dealt con-
siderably in Mr.. Vanderbilt's pet New
would make deal in it while 1 was
gone. So l drew my check for 81 900
shares of Central at the closing price
of the day before. He hemmed and
hawed; SAID he didn't like to do busi-
ness that way. Finally, as a favor, he
would do it at per cent below the clos
ing. l agreed.
He was busy; his desk Uttered with
letters. In those days the government
required Il war stamp OF 5 cents on a
contract. Vanderbilt rewrote the put
he wanted it his own way-then he
took q penknife and for more than ten
minutes he was busy removing the 5
cent stamp on the put l had prepared.
Then, with a characteristic grunt of
satisfaction, there's cents saved he
glued the stamp on the new contract,
took my check, handed me the put, say
ing, There's money for you in this con-
tract; good morning and | was gone.
In less than ninety days the stock had
advanced eighty points, but had sold
long before"
The "clique" now running a corner in
October pork has thrown up its hands,
says a Chicago special to the New York
World. The decion by the board of trade
directors last night that the new pork
rendered to Stauffer and refused by him
was regular for delivery settled the
matter. "Old Hutch" who has re-
Gently shown SO much interest in the
October deal, was told on the curb last
night of the directors decision The
old man buttonholed his informant,
John Beazley, and proceeded to tell
him little story of case before a
justice of the peace down in Massachu-
setts.
'The defendants lawyer, who knew
beforehand that the judge had made up
his mind to decide against him, be-
gan reading Blackstone, and quoting
the law bearing on the case. The Judge
impatiently Waived him aside. and said