Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-23
PERSONALITIES.

Young Mr.. Thurman has deferred in,
definitely the self-imposed task Of straighten-
ing the kinks in Cal Brice's locks.
Lawyers have the tab.es turned on them
occasionally. A Chicago barrister had his BIZ
cycle stolen while sonorously defending a
crook.
Indiana prohibitionists find nature ranged
against their efforts to enforce the Nicholson
law. The average rainfall is seventeen inches
short this year.
No one can fully appreciate the depth of
indignation prevalent in New York on Sun
days who has not tarried for a drink in Jersey
City or Hoboken.
In figuring On American trade in China
home manufacturers run against the insur-
mountable difficulty Of competing with the
3 and Decent wages Of the celestials.
Captain John Human. a Coney Island life
guard, has saved 113 lives. The last was on
Sunday, when the rescued party presented the
rescuer with a SIS bill in token of his graft
tude.
Lewis Baker, formerly publisher of the st.
Paul Globe and now minister to Nicaragua, is
said to be negotiating for the purchase of the
Washington Evening News. Mr.. Baker APP
p~reciates the uncertainties of SO and is on the
lookout for the future.
John l. Blair, the New Jersey railroad man,
who is said to have more than s25, 900 900 in
vested in western railroads, boasts that he
has never bought a road merely for s~pecula-
ton, and that none Of his money has been
made by building or bearing stocks.
OF the prominent republican candidates for
the presidency there is not enc, excepting
Governor Morton, who has not too much
stomach. Harrison, Reed, Mckinley and All
son would be in better shape physically for a
little banting. Feeding on the honey begotten
by a presidential bee seems to conduce to cor,
p%ulency.
Mr.. John Blakely, a successful business
man, who died in New York a few days ago,
had a curious method Of dlsposing Of his
money during business hours. He had seven
pockets in his clothing, and in each pocket
he kept a special denomination Of coin, and
he made change by diving his hand into this
or that pocket, whichever was necessary.
Two of the warmest chums in Washington
are m General Wilson ami Comptrol.
Ter Eckels. They breakfast together at the
Arlington, dine together in the evening and
invariably drive together until bedtime. They
are known to the cabmen and hostlers about
town as the light weight statesmen" their
combined avoirdupOis being a little over zoe
pounds.
John Wesley Hardin, one Of the eminent
%rufians of Texas, died recently with his boot:
on. Hardin achieved distinction as a kille
on the Rio Grande and had nine notches OF
his rife stock when he ran up against {
pugnaciOus sheriff who plugged him p.enti
fully. Besides promoting frontier cemeteries
Hardin had put in eighteen years Of his life
in varicus jails.
Jerry Simpson, when twitted for drinking
champagne at Topeka the other night. said
1T is part of my purpose to secure some Of
the luxuries Of life TO the common people"
John Fiske. the scholar and historian, whC
read Latin while yet in pinafores, and Greek
before he had left of knickerbockers, has ar
i~nfantile rival in Richmond Bonn Of Wichita
Kan, who is not yet 8 years old, Richmond
reads elementary French aud Latin with ease
and has a familiarity with mathematics tina
would DO credit to a boy Of IA.