Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-03
PEOPLE IND THINGS.

The impression is growing in Colorado and
contiguous territory that President Cleveland
was born with a golden spoon in hissnouth.
The coal barons threaten a war Of rates.
Their winter victims will have the satisfac-
ton of seeing them sweat without paying for
it,
Mrs. Belva Lockwood will not be permitted
to practice before the Virginia supreme court
Masculine tyranny seems to cling to the Old
Dominion.
The Parkhurst testimonial fund amounts to
$4,000. The form of the testimonial has not
been decided upon, but it is presumed tiger
hide will figure in it.
Her name is Jane Adams and she is garb-
age inspector of Chicago ward. The re-
markable thing about her work is that she
attends strictly to business instead of fixing
up political deals or caucussing on the cor
ners.
The public has done some effective high
kicking at the theatrical box offices in New
York, with the result of kicking hole in the
salaries Of the kickers who disport at the
foOtlights.
A Chicago paper speaks of Henry D. Esta-
brook as a resident OF "Ottawa, Kan" In
view OF the succession of journalistic earth
quakes there it would be unfair to hold the
newspapers responsible for what they say.
If the coming woman should fail to come
up to expectations, the records of some of
Her TeCeulHS sisters VIII supply the 0efl-
cheney. New York woman, now on trial
demonstrated her ability to manage two nus
bands at the same time. She divided her
time half and half between them.
The Butte disaster In which ffty-eight
lives were lost has gone through an exhaus-
tive investigation and the investigators pro-
nounce it an accident. The tons of dyna-
mite which scattered buildings and humanity
over acres OF adjacent territory evidently
sneaked into the buildings without the own
ers permission.
AS conclusive test of his powers in that
line Chicago mind-reader was challenged
to tell how much an alderman received for
his last vote The alderman demurred
waxed red in the face, passing from that to
stage of indignation. you are too blanked
gay" he remarked, as he moved outside the
circle of the mind readers power.
A new woman's club in Baltimore has
named itself the "Quadriga." This is the
Latin name for a four-horse chariot, and
the suggestion Of handling the reins is obyi-
Gus, There is opportunity for an interesting
treatise on the fanciful nomenclature of
women's clubs, as the Washington "WimO-
daughsis," the Indianapolis "Propylaeum"
and others Of equally unattractive name would
indicate.
Mrs. Potts, a noted suffrage leader of Kan
sas looks upon her husband as a cracked
kettle, and has applied for a divorce Mr.
Potts is a gallant old duffer with a peculiar
appreciation of the fitness of things Find
ing Mrs. p. determined to wear the boomers
he showed his great love by permitting
her to earn her daily bread by the sweat of
her mouth. Hence the commotion among the
Kansas Potts.
In order that ancient history might dove
tail with the ideas Of advanced women,
London colony of the opposite sex have un-
dertaken a revision Of the bible with a view
to disabusing the popular mind on the rib
story. That will be put down as the COM
panion fiction of Jonah swallowing ithe
whale, while the mastcation of the Edenic
pppin will undoubtedly prove to be a s
o'clock pink tea. The revision promises to
be perfectly lovely.