Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-15
PEOPLE avn 1HINGs.
Hawaiian situation is mainly a want

The Hawaiian situation Is mainly a want
of one.
Pottawattamie county, Iowa, contributes
a bride and groom TO the matrimonial world
aged respectively 10 and 60.
Mrs. Luncinda Estes OF Rocklaud, Me, is
% years old and is yet able to take q tramp
of several miles Il day and like IL.
Chicago did some clean AID clever pluck
ing a few months ago. The tables are now
turned, but the change Is not relished.
Claus Spreckels proposes to make a dash
in the social affairs of Frisco. His advent
in the swim is expected to sweeten life on
Mob Hill.
If the spirit of &c was invoked in Homo.
lulu, it only proves the Yankee squatters pos
sess rare good taste In the interior decora-
tive line.
Brakebeam tourists find it difficult 10 de.
eide between Chicago and Kansas. They
would be happy with either were tother
dear charmer away.
There 3 an unnecessary amount of agita-
ton about the Hawaiian business. Trouble
there is not u new thing. The country is al
ways raising cane.
Interest in the coming Corbett-M Mitchell
SCRAP is at a low cbb. Fistiaua fails to real.
ize that it is outclassed. The country has
had n turn at foot ball.
Doubtless some OF the guarantee bond com
panies could be induced to furnish the guar
autee asked by Lilu in return for the prlvi-
lege of p%lucking the natives, The promoters
are short on snaps and guarantees cost
nothing.
4. Calamity Phatt of Me-Too Is convinced
that Providence and Cleveland administra.
tions are divided by spcechloss antagOnisms.
Since his involuntary retirement from poll
tics the Me-Ioo statesman has shown mar
velous aptitude in discerning the handwrit-
ing on the wall.
Slddhu and linda Ram, two Hindoos. have
| arrived In St Iptls IN nppiu tho work pf CON
verting the city TO the tenets of the Arya
Somaj. Last Sunday Emin l.. Nabakoff
sounded the Mussu)man call to prayer in
Union Square, New York. 1t might be n
good idea to send n few Christian mission
aries to those benighted cities.
Twenty-Five years ago there were 800
bearers of titles in the French Chamber of
Deputies, where now there are but sixty
five. Only three marquises are left out OF
thirty, While the counts have declined from
fifty-two to fifteen. AT this rapid rate OF
disappearance only a few decades more will
see almost the entire extinction of titles in
the republic.
Frederick Ruckert, the famous German
painter of animals, committed suicide by
drowning himself in the river Spree, neat
Berlin, a few days ago. He inherited a for
tune from his father. n wealthy Hamburg
merchant, but spent it in aiding unfortunate
colleagues, paying for the education of many
OF them, and in purchasing the work OF pool
uTllSlS. ~ StJOuu lOIIuUC, ICIClNSi ailSi
the death of his brother, went the samc
way. Ruckert was 62 years old. He had
travelled over the entire Orient.
Eugene Kelly, one of New Works.. Wealth.
est Irish Cntholics, and by his benefaction:
the leading Catholic laymen in that city, /:
to retire from the banking house of Eugene
Kelly & Co. He came from humble parent
age in County Tyrone and is 80 years old. HI
was in California during the gold times ant
opened a banking house with Joseph A. Don
oboe, a partnership still existing. He ha:
been a great friend of the Irish home rul'
movement. In appreciation of what he ha'
done for the church the pope last year ap
pointed MIN a "Came1iere di Cappa
Spada,' or Chamberlain of the Cape ant
Sword, an honorary Office in the household
of the holy father. Only two other Amcrl
cans have been honored by the pope witt
this Office. Mr.. Kelly was reluctantly com
PEELED to forego this distinction, as it re
quired Il personal visit to Rome, which hi
advanced age ana enfeebled health pre-
cluded.