Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-21
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

WhltelaW Reld'S Title Is clear 10 q mission
in France.
President Harrison and six members OF
his cabinet are Presbyterians. Proctor and
Rusk are outside the pious circle.
The Philadelphia North American sug-
gests that three Of kind ought to beat a
king high in the Samoan conference.
Postmaster General Wanamaker declares
that the stamp of piety may pass st. Peter,
but the postage stamp goes in his business.
Some brilliant statstician estimates that
the diamonds in the country are worth
81, 900, 900, 900. This is exclusive of the hotel
clerks,
Jake Kilrain sailed for Europe last week.
When Sullivan heard the news he rushed to
Boston and drowned his grief in a bucket Of
booze.
Miss Tin Kats is the name of a Japanese
student at Wellesley college. The stock of
bootjacks in the neighborhood has vlsibly
increased.
Postmaster General Wanamaker recently
said in Washington that in the preceding
two days he had met only two men who did
not want postoffice.
The Chicago clergyman who attacked the
divorce courts a few weeks ago is congratu-
lating himself on having made an impression.
His church is closed.
Mr.. John Scott Harrison brother of the
president, is talked of as the democratic
candidate for mayor of Kansas City, but it is
not believed he would accept the nomina-
ton.
The dignity that doth hedge chief justice
is as useless as the barriers of the poetic lock-
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and Matt had not gone to Milwaukee all
would have beon forgiven.
A colored crook in Jail in Kansas City was
visited by ten women, all claiming to be his
wives. The heartless turnkey refused to
turn him over to their tender embraces, fear.
| ing a sudden raise in the wool market.
Charles Z. Bonner, of Montana, was an
office boy in New York twenty-three years
| ago, and borrowed the money to take him
| west. He is now worth S4,000,000. The
| west is full of such examples, but the ma
| iority of them lack. the four millions and q
receipted bill for the passage money,
The preliminary hoot of Waterloo's shoe
| maker mayor has relieved the anxiety of the
| town. His sole object IN accepting the
| office is to mend the ways of the town, tc
| heel the lame and crooked and stitch the
| rents in the uppers stratum. His awl is
stakcd on the work, and he is ready to peg
| out if failure follows.
Senator Sherman said at recent dinner
party: "If there is any set of men in the
| United States who deserve the sympathy of
| the people it is the officers of the cabinet >
And there are several able statesmen in the
country who are hungerng and thirsting
after that kind of SymDathy
The appointment of Mr.. Palmer to the
| Spanish mission will break up one of the
| pleasantest senatorial coteries which ever
exisisted in Washington. SAYS local jour
nal: 1T will also break up noted vocal or.
| ganization, viz, the quartet composed OF
| Messrs. Palmer and Manderson. When they
sang they sang so hard that no other persons
were necessary to the quartet"
The approaching state election in Rhode
| Island on April 3 will receive it's chief inter
| est from the fact that seven thousand OF
| more naturalized citizens will cast their
| maiden votes Mt that time. The proportion
| of this new vote, together with the registry
| additions from native born citizens with the
total vote of the state is difficult to obtain al
| this time; but in Providence there are Is, 42C
names on the registry list, of which 1899 are
| new voters under the Bourn amendment
| and 2,4l7 are ordinary additions to the regis
| try list. If the personal property and real
estate voters this year equal last years list
| the total vote in Providence will be about
q, ,OOO or nearly {, 900 more than in 1883.