Omaha daily bee., 1891-12-27

secret in the breasts Of the dead who lie
buried under the shadows of tho Big Horn
mountains ut the forks of tho Plneys.
SHDRT SsOhiH ~GaaT4RLY rom.
The following anecdote of Daniel Webster,
VINO was, in lI96, n mombcr of Phillips
Exeter academy SAYS the Boston Globe, vas
related to Il friend of mine by Samuel Law.
renee of Exeter:
a few days after Mr.. Webster had entered
Exeter academy he returned to his boarding
house ono evening in a very dcsDondent mood
and told his friends there that tho city boys
IN the academy were constantly laughing Mt
him because he was at the foot of his class
and had come from the blckwoodS.
lhe next day MIR. Nichoias Emery, who
was then an assistant tutor in the academy,
urged Webster to think of nothing but his
books, and added that all would yet come out
right.
The advice was needed. and at the end of
the INST quarter Mr.. Emery, mastering his
class in a line. formally took the arm of
young Webster and marched him from the
foot TO the extreme head.
AT the end of the second quarter, when
the class was mustered, Mr.. Emery said
daniel Webster, gather up your books
and take down your Cap.''
The boy obeyed, and thinking that he was
about to be expelled from school, was sorely
troubled.
The teacher soon d~ispelled the Illusion, fer
he continued: Now. Sir, you will please
report yourself to the teacher OF the first
class! And YOU, young gentlemen, will take
an atfcctionate leave of your classmate, for
you will never see him agaln.n
They never did see him in that classroom
again, but the day came when the eyes of the
nation oeheld him.
Down on South Broadway, standing beside
n stairway which leads upstairs to the Office
of an electro medical company, says the New
York World, there stands u little glass case
IN which is Displayed the life-size figure of a
human leg from the thigh down.
The other day two very well.dressed Young
men were standing in front of the case. Two
or three other people were standing over
their shoulders to SEQ what 1t was that made
the noise.
Finally one young man said to the other,
very Solemuly:
In i've minutes that leg will begin to
move" #.
His companion looked at him very wisely,
pursed his lips and nodded his head. Then
they both walked away.
The other people stood in front OF the case
for half an hour waiting for the leg to move.
Suddenly a thought seemed to strike one of
them. Then the same thought occurred TO
another member of the group, and so, one by
one, they silently moved away.
A lady belonging to community called the
Sisters OF st. John the Baptist in New
York city, says Kate Fields Washington,
was spending n month not long since in one
of our backwOOds districts. Going to the
postoffice shortly after her arrival, she asked
If any letter had come for Sister Bernardine.
The rural postmaster looked bewildcred for
a moment.
SISTER who"' he asked.
SISTER Bernardlne," repeated the lady
IA Sister of st. John the Baptist.n
"Wcll, l should rather think not" replied
the man with an uproarious laugh, II guess
he's been dead pretty near a hundred years
now"
Mark Twain's wife was a Miss Langdon,
of Elmlra. When 'Mark'' first met her. says
the Hartford Courant, he was not so dis
tinRulshed as now. Her father was a Judge
and doubtless expected family and social
Importance in his son-in-law. Clemens, how
ever. became interested in his daughter ana
after a while proposed, but was rejected.
"Well," he said to the lady, II didn't much
believe you'd have me-, but thought | d try"
After a while he tried again, with the
same result ana then remarked, with his
celebrated draWl:-
81 think a great deal more of you than if
you'd said yes but it's hard to bear"
a third time he met with better fortune
and then came the most difficult part of his
task-to address the old gentleman.
Judge he said TO the dignitied million
aire, nave you seen anything going on be-
tween Miss Lizzie and meP'
"Whatl what!n exclaimed the Judge,
rather sharply, apparently not understand
ing the situation, yet doubtless getting IL
glimpse of it from tho inquiry.
Have you seen anything gong on between
Miss Lizzie and meH'
mo, indeed replied the magnate, sternly;
mo, sir, | nave mott
'Nell, look sharp and you Wlll,n said the
author OF 'Innocents Abroad; ~ and that is
the way he asked tho judicial luminary for
his daughters hand.
Two ladies', evidently mother and daugh-
ter, got on an elevated train at twenty sec
ond street last night and encountered in tn o
car a young man who knew them quito well
apparently, says the New York Recorder.
When the young lady told him she had Just
been buying her wedding gown, he said:
"Bg iove! | must 20 ard be measured for
my clothes"
Haven't you done that yetin she asked in
an amazed way. "Well, you're the worst
| actually expect 10 walk down to the altar
and find you've forgotten to meet me there.
/ suppose you'l forget IT'S your own wed
ding day, unless | send YOU a telegram in the
morning to remind you.n
mo, | won't dear" no replied as no looked
at her until shc dropped her eyes. Then he
asked her how much tho gown cost Il yard
and how it was TO be made. When she said
with n low cut corsaCe and short sleeves he
entered Il vigorous protest.
mot your wedding gown he said, Mar
riagc is a sacrament, my dear, and deserves
something better than a ball room dress. l
know YOU have pretty arms and u lovely
neck nevertheless ! want you TO cover Thorn
up on your wedding day, You can wear
them uncovered the other great days in your
life; but hope in all the days to come there
Will be no other day just like your wedding
day. Am | not right, deartn
There was a suspicious moisture in her
eyes as she answered TREMENDOUSLY:
"Yes, Tom"
And no bent down to murmur, Sweet,
heart ~ unheard, unnotlced by any one save
the woman who sat next TO them, apparently
absorbed in the evening paper,
Married men usually reserve their compli-
ments for other ladies than of their own fam
illes, says the Washington Post. In the hall
way of the Arlington there was u pleasant
exception TO tho rule. A colored BOY sells
flowers there. A gentleman with his wife
and daughter were on their way out from
dinner the other evening, when the party
were accosted with Buy some flowers Nico,
fresh flowers. Have n bunch OF American
beau ties :n-and the fragrant roses were he Z
out for their inspection, With a bow TO the
ladies that a Chesterfield might have copied
from, the gentleman said; II have tive
American beauties with me" and they passeC
on into the parlOrs together,