Omaha daily bee., 1893-09-08
PEOPLE ND THINGS.

Bartholdi, the famous sculptor of Liberty,
is doing the Worlds fair.
From present indications there will be no
necessity for the Office seeking the man.
Alpheus De Haren. an Odd Fellow since
1924, died at Monroe, Wis, last Monday,
aged 93.
For some unexplained reason the Nebraska
populists failed to nail their planks with
single tax.
Signs Of prosperity multiply, yet the
Veragua improvement fund continues in the
throes of collapse.
General Cassius NJ. Clay claims to be a
Kentucklan, yet he drinks no whisky and
uses no tobacco. He will be SO years old
next month.
There is comfort in the news from medical
sources that the grip is "a thing of the past.
The grip of anthracite coal barons remains
as perilous as ever.
Congressman Bryan's m~etaphoric mute
and Napoleonic boy are expert
encing grave difficulty in establishing their
identity and habitation.
The House of Lords is struggling manfully
to maintain a close resemblance to the United
States senate. A me jority of the members
are classed as "tlresome takers"
Since general confidence took the reins
last month railroad and Industrial stocks
have advanced from five to twenty points.
And the trend is upward and onward.
The weather department is not only loyal
to the west, but furnishes a quality Of ster-
ling sunshine which puts corn in q mellow,
husky mood. More power to Junius.
A year ago the New York Worlu whooped
in the highways and hedges for Cleveland
and prosperity. Now its energies are tasked
distributing free bread to the hungry.
Barney Barnoto is the richest man in
South Africa. Only a few years ago he was
a dealer in secondhand clothing in London.
His wealth Is estimated at Sl0O, 900 900 and
he is part owner Ill every railroad, mine,
tramway and big 3Buiiding enterprise in
Cape Colony. q
A Society of Perfectly Pure Young
Gentlemen of the Stage' has been organ
lied in New York, for the ostensible purpose
of supplying second hand cigarettes and
cast-off clothing to poor but virtuous actors.
A reserve force of police has been detailed
as escorts for the ballet.
w. X. VanderbiltS new yacht. the Valiant,
has been fitted up regardless of the financial
stringency. The interior is hung in French
silk and the carpet y an artists dream,
When Bill gets seasiGk he can tumble into a
bed made of Pollard oak carved in the high
est style OF art and werth $4,000.
Henry Wolcott. brother of the senator,
has been In Washington recently. He is
Older and Weather than the free silver
apostle, and when some one asked him why
he didn't go Into politics he smiled and re-
piled that one politician in the family was
enough. A 1t is," he added, II have to
stay at home and make money for Ned to
play poker with"
II is announced again as a dead sure thing
that Emin Pasha, the African explorer, per-
ished in the juhgles. The copper-hued com
Inander has been resurrected so often that
the news should be allowed to cool before
digestion. Meanwhile the wires to Uiiji
will be kept hot until a c~ablegraph of the
corpse is secured.
Yang Yu, the new Chinese minister at
Washington, is a man OF prompt action and
Independent spirit. When he had been in
Washington three days he had selected a
home, which he will occupy Immediately. 1t
is not in the neighborhood which for years
has been chosen by the diplomats. but in one
OF the suburbs. Columbia Heights, command
ing q line view OF the city. He has taken
two houses, to be occupied by himself and
family and his twenty attaches and servants.