Omaha daily bee., 1893-04-13
People or NOTE.

Josiah Quincy, the assistant secretary Of
state, is a strong believer in cremation as "A
means Of disposing of the human dead.
Abe Buzzard, the pardoned Welsh noun.
lain outlaw of Pennsylvania, proposes to
make lecture tour through the country.
The presidents mail has now reached an
average of 500 letters day. 1T takes the
entire time of five clerks, besides Secretary
Thurber himself, to dispose of IL.
The democrats of Palmyra, n. Y, have
nominated Samuel W. Sawyer for president
of the village, and the republicans have
nominated his son, $ Nelson Sawyer, for the
same Office.
Edwin Dun of Ohio, the new minister to
Japan, is nephew of Allen G.. Thurman.
lie is farmer and has never been heard of
i'll Ohio politics. He has lived in Japan since
1913, and married the daughter of Il Japanese
general.
Herbert Spencer, 1t is said, is the most
fortunate writer of philosophy that ever
lived, so far as his incomes is concerned.
His First Principles brought him 81 900,
his Principles of Psychology" about S3S, 600
1t is reported that his total receipts from his
works will not fall short of 100000.
Edwin Booth watched the performance of
Alexander Salvini as Don Caesar from a box
at the Manhattan opera house in New York
the other night The part was one in which
the veteran actor eXcelled in his prime, but
none who recognized the feeble old man as
he was assisted to his place in the box could
believe that he will ever act again.
William l.. Douglas, who is talked Of as a
probable democratic candidate for governor
OF Massachusetts to succeed Governor Rus
sell, lives in BroCktOn and is one of the
largest shoe manufacturers in the state He
was born in Plymouth III lS45 He has been
in both branches of the legislature, has been
mayor of Brockton and once ran for congress.
Perorations are Mr.. Gladstones strongest
point. He may confuse his audience with
rInl,, ,Hrith hut
when the time comes for him to round off
his speech and when his voice, dropping in
volume. takes on the magnetic thrill that
has helped to make its owner power in
England, then the audience mentally rises
to meet the orator.
General Lew Wallace is not one OF the
literary lights of the lana who are in conf
dent expectation of a piece of pie from the
presidential cupboard, but he is not unhappy
The latest returns he has had from his pub
fishers show that fully 5OO,00O copies of Ben
Hur" have been sold to English readers,
while there is Il steady demand for transla-
tions of the book in foreign languages.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton was
seated in his hotel lodgings the other even
ing, breathing freely after a hard day s
work. A card was brought in on which, in
addition TO the mans name, was written: /:
Don't want an Office For Gods sake
show him up, cried the secretary eagerly,
and the message was translated literally to
| the caller down stairs, to the great amlse-
ment of the auditors.
Mukhtar Pasha, recently recalled by The
| sultan from the Egyptian mission to please
| England, was one of the bravest of the Turk
| ish generals in the war with Russia in 1877
! rs He was sent to Egypt in 1886 to further
the cause of direct control of Egypt by the
| Porte, but could do nothing. He was the IN
| fiuence behind Khedive Abbas in his late at
| tempt to establsha Il ministry hostile to Brit
! ish ascendenCy.
Governor Brown and eX- X-GOvernor BucRner
| of Kentucky have been engaged in a bitter
| war of words, the ex-governor claiming that
| Governor Brown reflected on him and his
! administration in some of his pubic and
official utterances, and Judging from the Ian
! guage he uses he wants to fight, Unless
! there is a reconciliation before the eXpira-
! tion of Browns term, and some suggestion
! like that made by the governor of North
| Carolina to the governor CT South Carolina,
! the matter may end seriously. Both have
records as fighters.
What is regarded rs absolutely the last
! letter penned by George Washington was
/ sold in Philadelphia Wednesday for $3.50.
! The purchaser was the Historical Society of
| PENNSYLVANIA George w. Chids mas what
| was long supposed to be the last letter writ
ten by the father of his country, it was
! composed six days before his death, but the
letter sold the other day was written only
twenty-four hours before George Washing
tons decease. 1t is dated Mount Vernon,
! 18th Dec, 1199," and gives very unromantic
| directions about matters connected with the
| m 9nnuempnt of his farm.