Omaha daily bee., 1890-09-14

been AWARDED 10 u plum OCT tto pcfnhpS got
more feet into It than any Of his competitors,
thinking that he was writing n bill.
Kelley, the motor man has Just completed
his fifty-third year. This is about all that ho
has mpletcd, however.
1t is laimcd that fungus parasite is kill
ing Off the coffee plant in all parts of thx(
world, and that tea must be the drink of tdb
future. This should give Purchasing Al gent
Hartley new hope and few more ches Is ot
Alliance tea should be ordered, and the COM
mission divided with Mr. Burrows.
Two Irishmcn were walking down Farnam
street yesterday and one Of them said TO tle
othcr
''rm, see that the id Mckinley bill
places an embargo on our countrymcn, and
but few of them will be apt to come over If
passcs.'
"And how is thatW asked Tim.
''rhercis thlrty-fivopcr cent duty on
M ik-a, said Pat as he walked away,
Itisquite evident from the odoro camphorin
the opera house these evenings, that tho cool
season has arrived. A few society gentlemen
have taken their coats out Of camphOr while
the remainder Of them are yet in soak
America levies on her sugar and threatens
retaliation, If what purports to be Jamaica
rum is the pure article, the retaliation is al.
ready complete.
A Toronto umbrella company has assigned
Persons who have borrowed their goods
should return them in this, their hour of mis-.
fortune.
1t is announced that George Pullma
started in life without a penny. But by the
first time the train reached its dcs tination "A
division with one Of his porters made him u
rich man.
The twenty or thirty thousand whites in
Mississippi who have been disfmuuhs be.
cause of the adoptionof the educational Clau,e
in the new constitution should forego the
pleasure of night riding and attend might
school
Edison has made another startling discov-
cry, He has carried ou;a successful series
of experiments by which lithium salts can be
carried into the system by external applrl.
tion and through the use of electricity This
settles a long felt desire. The discovery does
not stop at one drug. The man VINO here
tofore has stood alone at IL O'Clock at nightu
cold room administering paregoric to his
darling can sleep on uudsturbed, and bat
terry can be adjusted and light current VI
the soothing syrup be administered during
the night. "A man can attach himself to "A
distillery by a single wire and thus get
wholesale rates on a townpain ting pro-
granme. Waleyed science is moving down
the superstitions of the dark ages,
Now that William Tel has been abolished
tom history as mostly myth, some long
N airnl Stu1nnt Ghnul1 .ltt r,tt tO ,b,t
freedom didn't carry on when Kosciusko fell.
For idiocy in the superlative, the young
man whohas charge Of the growing quc5-
tion" takes the bakery.
The man who has been wir king at the soda
fountain all summer will now have a vacl-
tion.
The report that one of the city councilman
who was exercising one of the giasticutuscs
on the city hall was overpowered by Count
Pulaski and the giasticutus run in, lacks con-
tirmation.
The highly gratifying information comes,
and direct from headquarters, too, that the
hustle is not to be resumed. AS pamdoxical
as it may seem, it is relegated to the rear,
and will be fr0wned out of existence Mrs.
Whitney, wife of the eX-secretary. says that
she has information from Worth that tho
hustle is never more to adorn fair womanS
form. This will be sad blow to n ewspapcrs
which expected to increase Their circulation,
butthe fact that the few additional yards of
cloth which would be consumed in construct
ing dress are saved, horrid men will hail 4
this statement with delight. +
George Lemon, the big pension man was
placed on the stand to testify in the Raum
inves stigation. The committee however failed
to squeeze him.
Congress having passed the river and harbor
Appropriation bill and left out all refer
ence to the scow line, it is notOut of place to
ask: Where is the Scow Mani He dropped
down on us few months ago like a wad Of
dew from heaven. He claimed to be from
New York and his scheme was very simple,
All he wanted was the trifihg sum of five
million dollars and he would put in line of
mud scowS, each one of which would
pe more bewildering than the FURNISHED
scow in which Cleopatra steamed down the
Nile few years ago. But the ScOw Man
did not tarry long. He perhaps would have
compromised on five dollars instead of tlvo
millions. His card and his circular simply
Stated that he hailed from New Y ork. did
not indicate to the curious whether he lived
on the Bowery or on BrOl1way. He left his
affairs of navigation in the hands of tho
double -ender and the dOublc-ender has had
visions of countless thousands Of mud scOws
painting and screaming, heavily laden with
freight between here aud Pittsburg by the
way of New York and the Deai SEA. b Itthc
Scow Man remains in the shadows. Is he in
pawn! The able advocate of the visionary
scheme should wire the president not to sign
the appropriation bill until the scows were
included. 1t should denounce the con gress
and bring the ScOw Man from his hidiugj
place and let him explain There is dismal 4
and yawning vacuum in the history of thfs
affair and it should be speedily and promptly
filled with Information.
Prohibitions Battle Axe