Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-06
THE PASSING SHOW,

Governor Culberson caught on to that
knockout blow without going into training.
If the Chicago primary methods become
popular an extensive medical corps should be
attached to the party staff.
AS the prospect of a fight recedes the agi-
tat!on of swivel-jawed pugilists becomes more
pronounced and nauseating.
Carnot statues are the rage In France.
Nearly every town has ordered one and the
sculptors are overwhelmed with work.
The celestial son of heaven is wiser than
he looks. He comprehends the LANCER of
permitting John Bull in the china shop and
hastily comes down.
The widow of Diamond Joe" Reynolds of
Mississippi river fame has made a gift of
$3.50, 900 to the Chicago university to COM
memorate the name Of her husband.
Unless Joe Manley gives his views on
John G. New without further delay the
country will conclude that the gray eagle of
Sagadahoc has contracted that tired feeling.
Longstreet as he appears today is a tall
man. somewhat bent. with stoop shoulders,
lustrele5s eyes, hating step and scant white
hair. He dresses in loose fitting black
clothes, with no trace of color about him,
and he looks not unlike a country preacher.
Since Tom Reed has mounted his boom on a
pneumatic tire a great many lacks have been
scattered along his path without disturbing
his rotund equanimity. The willy Thomas
mounted a powerful magnet on his front
wheel and circumvented the Vaccinations
OF the envious.
A Chicago workingman, whose wife pre-
sented him with four babes the other day,
mournfully asks, Don't you think 1 ought
to get a job from the city?' Unless Chi
cago has lost all admiration for domestic
Industry the appeal will be needed. PEN
sion him for life.
A doctor who has had opportunities for in
vestlgation says he is Convinced that James
j. Corbett, champion pugilist of the world,
Is a coward" III the champion with a few
fr'eEds should meet that imprudent medic
alone his professional friends will have a
large job of surgery on their hands.
One OF the men who suddenly finds himself
rich by kaffr speculation in London is Flor
ence ODriscoll, a once penniless engineer,
who came over to this country as a delegate
TO the worlds fair. He has since figured
conspicuously in the mining boom, and Har-
old Frederic says he could retire today with
a fortune Of two millions.
There are many English aristocrats who
stand in sore need of wealthy wives. Last
week a son Of the late duke of Roxburghe an
peared before the bankruptcy court for the
fourth time. The earl of Ancestor is selling
his Welsh estate in small lots. Viscount
Hill has been obliged to sell his family heir
looms to meet the demands of creditors.
There is nothing left certain blue-blooded
Englishmen to do but to make a pilgrimage
to America.
Truth, Mr.. Labouchere's London periodical,
explains a royal weakness in this style: "a
paragraph has appeared in the Scotch papers
stating that the queens good health is owing
TO her careful dieting, one of her practices
being to take a small liquor glass of very
fine old whisky after luncheon and dinner.
This Is pure invention. for the queen never
drinks any spirit undiluted. Her majesty &C.
casionally takes a small glass of fine old
whisky mixed with a tumbler of mineral
water"