Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-06
HERE and THERE.

Towns contemplating big fairs should
make n mental notch Of the fact that the
Columbian show cost S2S,iiS.52l.
The machinery Of petty justice in Chicago
is so adjusted that the litigant possessing
the ready wherewith is invariably favored
with the costs
Premier Rosehery conducts milk bust
ness in addition to the affairs Of state. In
the latter, at least. party scrutiny viii oblige
him to toe the chalk mark.
a Florida jury has come to the conclusion
that Corbett and Mitchell did not fight by
appointment 1t probably considers their
meeting a striking coincidence.
The project of generating electricity by
wind promises to radically cheaper munich
pal lighting and at the same time put alder
manic breath to practical use.
A creditor of defunct real estate firm in
st, Paul received 2-cent postage stamp an
his share OF the concerns assets. The JOY
of realization was increased on discovering
the gum on the stamp had not been removed.
Tho extra session of the Colorado legisla-
ture Just closed cost SIS 900. In the opinion
of Governor Waite the session was worth
the expense "if for nothing else than to
prove that we had such set OF BANKED
fools In the senate"
A high. stifTly starched collar that Cassiua
n. Lawson of Chicago wore the other day
saved his life as a pistol cartridge fired at
MN DN ~. j. SOpeT STRUCK lUe tOlluT anu
glanced OF If 1t had been a turn-down he
would have been one. too.
Edward Beamy, whose peculiar COM
munistic views are exploited in Looking
Backward" is A years old He was born
at Chicopee Falls was educated at Union
college and admitted to the bar at Spring
field, Mass. His noted work has been
translated into almost every language
Melvin Grubb Of Wythe county. Virginia,
is 10 years old and weighs 535 pounds. He
is not merely mountain of flesh, but an
active and intelligent boy He can follow
plow all day without unusual fatigue, and is
a bright and intelligent pupil Of the public
school.
The country home of the late George w.
Childs has been purchased by his business
successor, George w. Childs DreXel Wootten,
tho name 1t bears, is a magnificent residence,
surrounded by 900 acres of forest and culti-
waited land, located near Bryn Mawr station
on the Pennsylvania railroad.
Alexander II. Stevens weighed only sew,
enty pounds when he left college, and when
he attained ninetyfour pounds later in life
he was greatly elated. "He was a littlo
bundle of skin and bones" most sensitive to
cold melancholy, and so tender-hearted that
when his dog died he was ill from grief for
a week.
Things are coming to a pretty dangerous
pass in New York when an election pusher
is condemned to the prison for returning
didate in one district If this is the
measure of reward for party loyalty and
activity, democratic majorities are doomed
to shrivel below the Harlem.
If one should step to the senate door and
exclaim Hello, governor!" Senators Gel
quit, Gordon Harris Bate, Hawley, Vance,
Coke, Perkins Shoup, Proctor and Hill
would be apt to look around. Hello, gen
eral" would attract the attention of half
the remainder, and Hello, colonel!' would
plNnlNl oh loft iIn
exception of Sherman and PETER.
Idaho boasts of a resident who straddled
an avalanche and noated unnjured to the
foothills. But this does not loosen Colora
dos grip on the belt. A resident of the
Centennial state. with more nerve than dis
cretion, squatted on a shovel, clothes
pin fashion, and tobogganed from the top
to the bottom of a peak. The blistering
friction of the ride developed into stand
ing joke in mining circles.
The most remarkable exodus-or, rather,
an epidemic of official wearness-is that of
prominent Tammanyites from New York
City. While few of the ward heelers have
gone to Sing Sing for recreation and medita-
tion, the leaders are plunging into the will
derness of the southwest and the Pacific
coast. The threatened investigation of
Gotham affairs by the state legislature and
the offensive activity of the courts have
created an irresistible desire for healthier
localities.
Phil Scheg, the crooked bank teller of
Minneapolis who was apprehended in Eng
land, detailed how he looted the bank in
court last week. His stealings amounted to
$124 00O Over $4,000 of this he embezzled
prior to January /, 1892 The bank officials
found this first theft out and discharged
him, but in a few days re-employed him at
increase of S25 month in salary. He
resumed his stealing almost the moment he
resumed his place at the teler's window and
in twenty months stole $73, 900 more. This
drove Cashier Bofferding, who was Seheig's
constant friend and companion, to suicide
Scheig is already serving a sentence of seven
years in Saltwater for his gigantic theft and
the testimony he is giving is in the case of
Frank and Lou Floyd, his pals.