Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-06
PEOPLE IND THINGS.

Tommy Edlson's compressed coin project
mas the merit OF being well-bread.
Millet is no longer regarded with favor by
the emerald agriculturists of Chicago.
There is every Likelihood tina the purchase
clause IN Mouocle Van Aliens contract will
be carried out.
Prof. Pasteur is past 20, but there is no
ammunition of the energy with which he
tackles the pesky microbe.
The Michigan State Board of Health has
placed consumption on the list of dangerous
and communicable diseases.
A Maine man offers to prove that the earth
is fiat. The facilitating effect OF senatorial
WIND pudding Is becoming conspicuous.
Things have come to such a desperate pass
in Kansas City that men steal tombstones
ana hypothecate the certificates thereon.
Senator lrby, the jag statesman of the Pal
mctto state, declines to take the gold cure.
lie prefers free silver with "a corkscrew at
tachment.
y, fame, where is thy reward!
The Chicago Herald refers to the founder
OF the tarnam Street theater rs "eX-Gov-
ernor Bird"
IN Leavenworth Kan, the populists have
nominated Il young woman for coroner. Her
election would mitigate somewhat the dis.
tress of having the coroner sit on n fellow.
Etfie l.. Canning. who wrote '1Rock-a-Bye-
Baby,' is still living in Rockland, Me. The
author of After tho Ball" is also alive, but
he Is prudent enough to keep his where
abouts a profound secret.
A New York grand jury brought in a pre-
sentiment TO the effect that cOroners have
ceased to be useful or ornamental. Many
people have entertained a similar present.
ment for some time.
The Russell family having secured a
blanket mortgage on the democracy of Mas
Sachusetts produces a confusion of names
ana pictures; 1t is needless TO rcctify the
mistakes. They are all in the family.
James Magyar, who is said to have a we'll
authenticated record of his birth Ill years
ago, is living IN Fairfax, Va. though he is
sinking gradually from old age. Mr.. Magyar
is n native OF Ireland and came TO America
in 1S4S.
A disciple of Herr Most landed in San
francesca recently with an 'elevating tend
teen half-pound sticks of dynamite, a can of
explosive. coils of fuse aud other vociferous
ingredients.
John d. Rockefeller is to build a 81, 900, 600
mansion at Tarrytown on an estate of 500
acres, for which he is to pay $3.50. 900. This
land adjoins his brother Williams country
place, which consists of Sl4 acres and a
81, 900, 600 house.
John f.. Russell, the democratic candidate
for governor of Massachusetts, is 60 years
of age and resides at Leicester. He has
been out of business for the last TWENTY-FIVE
Luis ~ tx pihCi an CUlNe llUeTcSU III
politics. He was a member of the Fiftieth
congress. Mr.. Russell is not related to the
present governor of Massachusetts.
Ex-senator Philetus Sawyer was one of
the bondsmen of three of the ex-state treas
urers of Wisconsin who were prosecuted for
withholding interest on state funds, and was
obliged to make good nearly 5000, 600. He
says, however, that his estate will not lose
anything, for he intended to bequeath $780,
600 to the State university, but now the
state may look after the interests of it's
university itself.
Miss Ella Darling, a student in the State
Normal school at Westchester, Pa, has got
the authorities all stirred up. She is an ad-
vocate OF the bifurcated skirt theory, and
last Wednesday Mortified the old maids of
the staid Pennsylvania town by DOMINIC a
pair of trousers and galloping through the
streets astrlde a horse, a performance which
she repeats daily. The spinsters want Miss
Darling arrested, and Miss Darling wants
them to try 1t. She is anxious to test the
right OF woman to wear trousers. The local
constabulary, however, refuses to interfere,
and there the matter rests.