Omaha daily bee., 1894-04-17
HERE and THERE.

Congratulations to Senator Hill on his
speech exceed 1000 in number.
Paderewski's luxuriant crop of hair is said
to be ripe for another farewell tour.
Commander Kelly may be a great leader,
but he is not at all stuck on a walkover.
If advocates of cremation practice what
they preach they will make the hottest
retort at the windup.
In view of recent events the Overland
route might properly change its name to
the "Commonwheeler.'
Though times are somewhat dull just now,
in about two weeks the country will enjoy
considerable moving activity.
Natural gas is flowing from fifty wells in
southeastern Kansas. The Lewellin' the
state capitol hasn't sprouted lately.
Death got the drop on Morgan G. Colt
without warning. His sudden taking on
differed from the method his father invented,
Missouri boasts of a man with whiskers
seven feet long, No senatorial bees are
permitted to roost in his luXuriant lung
protector.
Colonel Al Fairbrother has launched the
Daily Earth at Lynchburg, Va. Heretofore
the colonel has modestly confined himself
to a slice of the planet, but his ambition
broadened until ii Encompasses the Earth.
Lynchburg is famous as the birthplace of
a crude though effective plan of rapid tran
sit to the "echoless shores" Perhaps it
was on this account the colonel chose it.
Possessing a we'll matured pull" he may
here exert it for the public good, and help
dispose of the mossbacks
and idiots which he announces aiIlict the
benighted region with their presence. Here's
hoping he will keep on the Earth.
Colonel I~ngersoll told a reporter of the
Boston Journal the other day how he came
to make the speech nominating Mr.. Blaine
in the convention of 1S7G-the famous speech
in which he used the expression 'plumed
knight" He had been made a delegate to
the convention from Illinois without his
knowledge or consent, and when Mr.. Blaine
learned of his election he sent Colonel In
gersoll a letter asking the latter to present
his name to the convention. The colonel
had previously been on the stump with Mr.,
Blaine in Maine, having first met him In
1865. Colonel lngcrsolls brother, r.. G. In
gersoll, represented one Of the Illinois dis
tricts in congress for n number of years
while Mr.. Blaine was in the house, and Mr.,
Blaine frequently visited him, 1t was the
nominating speech Of 1876 that brought
Colonel Ingersoll instantly into national
prominence,
Hon. Frank L0wler of Chicago has an
nounced himself as a candidate for con-
gress. When the great endorsed jOurnCyed
to Omaha to lend eClat to the JaCksOnian
banquet last January he was enveloped in a
fog OF melancholy that even DR.. Nlller's
exhilarating apostrophe to the dove of peace
could not dispel, At one or two subsequent
gatherings Hon. Frank Lawlor unburdened
MS soul In pdthtllt tones ne dlnouhCeu ne
was done with political affairs. The thought
Of office he put aside as an unclean thing.
For him there was no further attraction In
the giddy whirl of the machine, no irresisti-
BILE magnetism in setting up Of political pins.
From out the wealth Of his discouraglng eX-
perience he drew this lesson, towit: BE
ware Of policies! The path TO office Is lined
with wrecked ambitions, shattered hopes. in
gratitude and ruined friendships" Putting
this and that together, 1t Is painfully evil
dent Hon. Frank Lawler occasionally emits a
breeze through his beaver.