Omaha daily bee., 1893-07-21
PEOPLE IND THINGN.

1t is as much as ones life is worth to rec
ommend the gold cure in Colorado.
The mercury clings tenHciously to the
notion that there is room at the top.
So far the faithful hereabouts have re-
ceiveu the laugh rather than the office
The feeble minded institute yawns and
yearns for the fool who locks the boat.
What does it profit a man If he gains the
w hole world and puts it in Denver bank2
The run on the postoffices of the country
subsidized as soon as Maxwell took q vaca-
tion.
The vagaries indulged in by the Bonum
comet strengthens the impression that it is
pcpulist planet wandering in space.
American haymakers are working up a
profitable business in Europe, but the politl-
cal haymaker is excluded from the deal.
Adlai dips his pedals in the Pacific and
Grover ditto in the Atlantic. Thus the
equilibrium Of the continent is maintained
President Cleveland is industriously fish
ing at Buzzard's Bay, but care is taken to
prevent diminution of the stock of con-
gressional bait at the white house.
st. Louis is talking pavements with ten
dency toward modern blocks. The old
shaking off weakness for dry rot.
William f. Walters, a mine boss in one Of
the Reading collieries died at Ashland, Pa,
last week. He wore the queens medal for
meritorious service in the Crimean war.
Samuel Edison, the father of the great in
ventor, will be 81 years old in August. He
lives III Port Huron, Mich, and has a little
daughter years old, of whom he is exceed
ingly proud
Buttermilk drank with moderation is said
to be u preventive of sunstroke or heat
prostration. The statement is made on the
authority of an Iowa man who has seen 1t
successfully tried.
meeting of the council of aldermen the other
night, stopped some supplementary re-
marks from one Of the members and re-
duced him to subsection by unstrapping his
wooden leg ana giTing the alderman what
may be termed a few hand directed kicks
with it. The marks he left on the legis-
lator were quite legiDle
MIR. Henry Ewart Gladstone q nephew of
William f. Gladstone, is IN Baltimore, the
guest of Patrick Martin, treasurer of the
fund started at the mass meeting held there
recently in aid of the Irish home rule move
ment Mr.. Gladstone, who is % years old
has been making tour of the United States
for the last six months, and will sail fer
England within the next two weeks.
Now Jersey grows more and more like the
land OF Egypt in the jovial times of the
plague. Recently a swarm of flies swoopcd
down upon Elizabethport. They filed
every store and house that had an open
window. Horses went frantic in the streets
and pedestrians rushed INTO saloons, and for
once the excuse was valid. But Now Jersey
went the land of Pharaoh one better, for the
insects had bite similar to a mosquito.
Mrs. Grants book of personal reminis-
cences is ready for publication. Her hopes
are centered on Ulysses Grant, son of Colonel
Fred Grant. The boy was born the Fourth
Of July twelve years ago in Chicago His
grandmother wishes him TO be West
Pointer. Mrs. Grant, with Colonel Fred
Grant and his family and Mrs. Sartoris and
her children, intends making trip this
autumn to all the places where there are
monuments to General Grant