Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-04
PEOPLE avn 1HINGS.

Medical science is a trine slow In applying
machine oil to headaches.
Be conteDted with your lot. Observe how
the postage stamp sticks to its job.
Justice is snail-like in its movements, but
IT. has recently shown an eleyating tendency
Schock, the bicycle champion, doubtless
turned an alternating current on his COM
petitOrs.
Judging by the amount of vituperation
atlout in Kansas, IL is evident that Mary
Lease has run out.
Henry Irving requires fewer hours Of sleep
out Of the twenty-four than almost any man
now prominent in public life.
j.. Sloat Fassett wants another trial for
the New York governorship. III MIR. Fassett's
legs could maintain a parity with his mouth
he would have some show OF success.
Mr.. Carnegie supplemented q reduction OF
the wages of his men with q LIBERAL con-
tribution to the poor fund of Pittsburg. a
reasonable per cent was retained as compen-
sation for the exchange.
The new assistant prosecuting attorney in
New York, Hugh q. Pentecost, possesses the
convenient qualification of knowing mighty
little about the law. But he has an mex
haustible mouth and a power-house pull.
A New York man suggests as q means of
utilizing the surplus unemployed the building
of u boulevard from the Atlantic TO the Pa
citic. The inducements for ''hittlng the
ROAD at present are abundant. Why in
crease them2
Hosea Sprague OF Homer, N. Y, was 100
years old Thursday. He was born in Brim-
field, Mass, but has lived in Cortland county
since 1921. He is very active and is quite a
wrestler even now in his old age. His wife
is S3 years old.
Wee Hung Pen, q Chinaman who left Ari-
IONA q year ago with his pretty American
wife after losing a fortune, is now reported
from Africa as having a good claim in the
Matabele country that will more Than replace
his vanished million.
Miss Jane b. Adams recently picked up
on the beach near Jupiter inlet, Florida, a
bottle which contained a message written on
board a federal transport during the war
while the vessel was in the Gulf of Mexico,
near the mouth of the Mississippi river. Inc
soldier who placed the message in the
bottle was Joseph Fl. Johnson, who is still
living in Middletown, N. Y.
Roscoe Howard of San Diego, Cal, has
presented to the Smithsonian institution q
white king eagle from Ecuador, where it
was captured in the Andes, and said to be
the first one Of Its species ever brought to
this country. 1t is a magnificent looking
bird and although but six months old
weighs nearly fifty pounds and is about
three feet six inches in height.
President Wilson of the school of biology
of the University of Pennsylvania, in accept
ing the exhibit of native woods, worth
$3.50, 900, which the Argentine Republic dis
played at the Worlds fair, said that the
approaching exhaustion of our cherry and
some other woods would compel the United
States to import these fine grades of wood
from the Argentine Republic and other
South American countries.
Colonel Hampton S. Thoma Of Phila-
delphia has just been awarded a medal of
honor under the general act of congress for
gallant services in the action at Amelia
Court House, Va, April 5. 1865. In this act
ion Colonel Thomas, who commanded the
First Pennsylvania cavalry, lost his right leg
below the knee. He has four other wounds
made by shot, shell and saber, in different
engagements. Uncle sam is sometimes slow,
but he gets there eventually.