Omaha daily bee., 1895-03-29
SOME NOTED PEOPLE.

Miss Charlotte Bean and Miss Agnes HELEN
have been appointed as weighers Of coal, grain
aud straw by Mayor Perry OF Medford, Mass.
Goldwin Smith sizes up the situation In the
remark that this country has been passing
through a liquidation Of mismanagement."
Russell Sage stands up manfully for the
Monroe doctrine, for the reason that Mr..
sage Is genuine American, and for the
further reason that 1t doesn't cost anything
to stand up.
Commander A. T. Mahan, now OF the
cruiser Chicago. and famous in both hemi-
spheres as naval author, has another book
or two in contemplation, but has reached
no definite conclusions on the subject.
Wade Hampton declares that women and
horses are Just alike. and require the same
treatment. There's only one way to get
along with them. Use your strongest curbs
on the fast ones. and lash the slow ones
like the devil"
Among the thirteen lapidares detailed at
Ellis Island on suspicion Of being contract
laborers is Franz Won Reeth, who is said to
be worth at least $4,000 He is one of the
most noted lapidarles living. and the man
who cut the famous diamond, Rose Of Bel
gium."
Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote to his
publisher regarding the birth of the central
idea in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" as fol-
lows: 1T may interest you to know that
the main incident occurred in a nightmare
indigestion has its uses | woke up, and
before l went to sleep again the story was
complete
Colonel William d. Pollock is living in a
serious condition at his home in Hen Peck,
Ind. Several days ago Colonel Pollock made
a wager that he could suck three dozen eggs
at one sitting. He had disposed Of two dozen
and half, and on entering upon the last
half dozen struck a chicken, which stuck in
his throat and almost choked him to death.
IIota ~,
examination in law. Her course comprised
the constitutions OF the United States and the
state OF New York; public law, international
and constitutional; the law Of domestic rela-
tions intestate succession, the law of con-
tracts, agency, sale. partnership, bills. notes:
the law of real property, torts, equity, evil
dence, pleading procedure and crimes.
Apropos of the recent social incident"
which so utterly dsgusted" the governor
of Virginia, story is told OF red-bearded
and enthusiastic Englishman who was de-
voted to democracy, and who came to Amer
lea expecting to find the system developed
to It's fullest and freest extent He was
bitterly disappointed with the reality. and
while travelling in the south resented the
separate waiting rooms the law provided for
negroes. AS a rebuke to this undemocratic
race prejudice he always occupied the cars
and waiting rooms of prescribed 'blacks," in
variably remarking as he entered pardon
me for intruding, gentlemen! l know l am
very red, but 1 cannot help it,"
Wayfarers who wend the narrow roads of
Boston will stop to gaze with especial inter
est at the tablet recently unveiled at SO
Essex street. marking the site of the house
in which Wendell Phillips lived for forty
years. The inscription reads: "Here Wen
dell Phillips resided during forty years. de-
voted by him to efforts to secure the abolition
of African slavery in this country. The
| charms Of home, the enjoyment Of wealth
and learning, even the kindly recognition Of
his fellow citizens, were by him accounted
as naught compared with duty. He lived
to see justice triumphant, freedom universal,
| and to receive the tardy praises of his former
opponents. The blessings of the poor, the
friendless and the oppressed enriched him.
In Boston he was born 20 November, 1911,
and died 2 February, 1884. This tablet was
erected in 1894, by order of the city council
Of Boston,"