Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-03
PEOPLE Avn rRISGS.

Bears Foot is making tracks for his
primitive haunts.
Ex-Governor Foraker is sounding prcsi.
Dental notes on Reed Instruments.
IL Is hardly fair to refer to her as Mary
Queen OF Scraps because she has been polit-
ically beheaded.
Secretary Hoke Smith takes precedence as
the smllor Of the cabinet, although Carlisle
halls from Kentucky.
There appears to be but one question on
which oil factions In congress harmonize. u
bears q Kentucky label.
Although rarely called upon TO preside
over assemblages policemen are effective
and impressive In rapping for order.
The Kansas City Journal speaks intel
ligently OF a nation which enjoys "a daily
ration Of bones" The writer got tangled
with horns.
A prominent Chicago club proposes to start
n pawnbrOking establishment on n large
scale, The club evidently has an extensive
list Of delinquents.
General Jubal Early will not supervise the
Louisiana lottery drawings in Honduras.
lie Is drawing his life TO u close, having
passed 50.
The festival season has come to a close
without a single weather prophet obtruding
his turkey bone on u surfeited public. Tho
country Is safe.
Rosa Bonhcur Ia still painting in her
quaint study near Fontainbleau. She is
now an old woman, small, sunburned and
wrinkled as u peasant. The gray hair is
cut short, and is still thick.
The life OF the boss is not q happy one.
Down in Now York the republicans, having
helped to shelve several OF the democratic
variety, propose to do some scalping within
the ranks. Platt's topknot Is now in peril.
Notwithstanding that Frank Hurd is
barely 80 he is now spoken of in Ohio politics
as a man who has seen his day. He has a
tremendous legal practice, probably second
to none In the state Of ONO, and he works
indefatigably. He is growing rich, and says
he is done with politics.
Hon. +. G.. du BiEnon is n candidate for
the United States senate in Georgia TO sue
coed Mr.. Colquitt, and 1T is said that he in
tends to invite all the other candidates for
the position TO meet him on the stump next
year to discuss the leading issues before the
people. Some of the other candidates
already named are Colquitt, Northen, Bacon,
Black, Garrard and Turner.
The Navy Register shows that of the 22l
officers above the rank of lieutenant in the
navy IN 1861, only five are now living, and
these are on the retired list. They are Rear
Admirals Thomas o. Selfridge, Samuel Z.
Lee, Joseph f.. Greene and Henry Wake
and Commodore Henry Bruce. During the
last five years death has removed, of this
class, Vice Admiral $. G. Rowan, eight rear
admirals and three commodoreS.
The little villa near Waterloo where
Napoleon planned the historic battle has
been offered for sale by the Belgian archi-
tect who has long been the owner of it. 1t
was here, too, that the emperor held his last
council of war. The charm of the villa is
its beautiful garden, in which Napoleon
went before the battle to survey the pan
Drama of the surrounding country and
perfect his plans for the fight. Prince VIC
tor lives but ten miles away, and it is sug-
gested that he should buy the property for a
shooting box.
One of the weaIthiest men in the Argeu-
tine Republic is Senior Jose Guazzone, the
wheat king" He owns 81, 900 acres of land,
according to South American papers. He
went TO Buenos Ayres in 1875, when 90 years
old, with only a few dollars in his pocket. In
the following year he saved $1,000. He in
vested the money in land, and in 1879 his
estate was valued at $4,000. With the
money which he had saved he rented more
lands, sowed them in wheat and borrowed
machines to reap his crop. Guazzone is said
to be of Hebrew origin.