Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-05
HITS AND MISSES.

Inere is painful lack OI truun III une
assertion that everything remains at dead
stand still because the postoflice is not defin-
itely located. With a total of eight and
threequartcr million dollars worth of build
ings aud public works undertaken aud pro-
iected, there is no cause for alarm outside of
the few people interested in lots near the
Planters house.
The apostles of ST. Paul threaten to invade
the Rlack Hills and unrsot the seeds of COM
mercial amity planted there by the Omaha
excursionists. They are welcome to the
crumbs.
Omaha enterprise is spreading in all direc-
tions in Iowa. An Omaha contractor hes
secured a job of granite paving in Burling
ton, and Omaha architects are furnishing
plans for buildings in Sioux City.
Charley Beck, the reporter who recently
achieved fame by personatlng lunatic and
investigating the methods and management
of the Cook county insane asylum for the
Chicago Times, is well known in the west
having received his cary training from the
wild and woody of Cheyenne. Beck sue
ceeued in securing the indictment Of the
keepers for numbering one of the inmates.
The incident recalls the mercenary Cry of
rival papers against'TuE BEE because it at
tempted to secure, by similar means. a true
insight into the management of the Douglas
county poor farm.
The Rapids City Journal roasts the Omaha
Republican for its uncomplimentary wrlte-up
of Deadwood. ut was not what was ex-
pected," says the Journal, latter the lavish
entertainment, of the visitors. 1t may be
said that there was truth in it, but it must
70 ,,nl hat
inence might have been given to the dark
spots in the city character and more promi-
nence to much that may be seen to commend
Deadwood deserved better than she received
at the hands of at least one of her guests"
The Journals structures are just, but allow
ance should be made for the source. A guest
who abuses hospitality is beneath contempt.
Our esteemed contems. are exceedingly
cheerful and supremely happy. The Herald
boasts that it is "the Sunday paper" The
Republican patheticaly points to two cent
piece, while the World drops in a fresh bar
rel to grind out the ancient tune, 'I'm Sad
dest When 1 Sing" Meanwhile The BEE
prints all the news, Sunday and week days.
It's literary features, its correspondence from
all sections, and its unsurpassed cable letters
speak for themselves, while its advertising
their money is placed where it does the most
good
The surgeon Of the motor proposes to ap-
ply the knife to the consolidated company
and amputate the limbs of the concern. Mer-
GERS experience as scalpel wielder comes
handy TO the motor company.
A caveat for patent has been granted to
G. M. Hitchcock. of Omaha, u. S. A, for an
ingenious device for exhibiting a constant
and failing increase of newspaper cir
cuation, whether subscribers discontinue,
move away or refuse to pay. This ingenious
arrangement is very simple. Instruct your
carriers to throw papers right and left, keen
up the glft-dehvery for few months and
help the pressman to make true statement
of the number of papers printed, and have
the bookieeeper supplied with the names
necessary to make an exhibit of bona tide
subscribers on his list. BY this process your
circulation will never show decrease.