Omaha daily bee., 1892-06-05
DeWitps Sarsaparllla is reliable.
MEN OF NOTE.

Ex-Judge Mcguire OF the superior court OF
San Francisco. who has been nominated for
congress in q strongly democratic DISTRICT
will dispute with Representative Durborow
the distinction of being the handsomest man
in congress.
Mr. Gladstone is the only living member Of
the Peel administration. No American states
man now living was in active public life
when MIR. Gladstone had already taken
prominent position In affairs.
Mr.. George w. Childs has reached the
western limit OF the country without finding
any limit to the affectionate regard OF his
countrymen. And his speeches get better
the more he makes Of them.
Whitelaw Reid is not the man he was four
years ago. His form is bent and his gait is
that of q man well along In the sixties Act
ing on tho advice OF his family physician he
has taken to horseback riding and carriage
drives.
A fine stone bust of Henry Clay in the en-
trance of an Old building In Chicago used TO
attract Kentuckians who visited that city,
and its removal, when the block was torn
down to make room for new one, is greatly
lamented by representatives Of the Blue
Grass state.
Among the public benefactions OF Mr.. T.
Jefferson Coolidge, the new, minister to
France, are $4,000 for public library in
Manchester -the-Sea, his country home,
and $4,000 for the jefferson physical labora-
tory at Harvard.
Eppa Hunton, who succeeds John S. Bar
bour as United States senator from Virginia
was brigader general in the confederate
army and was imprisoned at Fort Warren for
three months. He has had several years. ex
perience as a congressman.
Acting upon the same idea that causes
some big corporations to insure their own
property, Freddy Gebhardt announces his
determination to establish q Keeley cure in
stitute of his own.
Joseph Arch, the leader OF the agricultural
laborers' unions OF England is weak and
worn man of 66, who has thoroughly ex-
hausted himself in his efforts to gain political
power and recognition for the toiers ,upon
tho farms. He is self-educated man, and
| knows what it is to have labored from sun
| rise to sunset for 60 cents q day. o.
| Francesca Lamperti, the once famous Ital-
| ian singing master, who died q few weeks
ago. was the son Of prima donna of some
| excellence. Having studied at the Milan
| conservatory, Lampertl went to Lodi and
| organized an opera com pany from the peasan-
| try in order to test some theories of his own
| regarding voice culture. So successful was
! the result of the training he gave them that
| his fame spread far and wide Pupils locked
| to him and in 1850 he was induced to retura
| to Milan as vocal chief Of the conservatory.
| There he remained until 1875, when he re-
| tired on q pension, but still taking private
pupils, some hundreds of whom came from
| the United States.
| Ex-senator Jones of Iowa, who is brought
| into public prominence once more by his en-
| deavor to get a pension, was minister to
| Colombia when the war of the rebellion
| broke out. President Lincoln recalled him
because Mr. Seward, the secretary OF state,
| had heard that the minister was giving aid
and comfort to the confederacy. On the re-
| turn OF Mr.. Jones to Washington Secretary
| Seward gave him q most hospitable dinner
| and the next day had him arrested as rebel
| sympathizer and sent to Fort Warren. where
! he was incarcerated for several months
II dped the diplomat one day and arrested
| the rebel the next" said Mr.. Seward after
wards in talking of the matter.
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