Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-16
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Minnesota will encourage the raising of
sugar beets with bounty
Events continue to demonstrate the pecu-
liar talents of Japan as decorator of China
1t is conceded by critical observers that
this years Easter bonnet does not come up
to the size of the bill
Josh NJ. Sears is one of the most valued
citizens of Boston He pays $4S, ,OOo taxes on
real estate valued at S3751 900.
MOle Fuller's new entertainments the
| Trilby dance is considered in Chicago a big
| lecture. the more marked because it is ac-
complished by her with light effects"
1t is given out on the highest authority"
that Mr.. Cleveland will not he a ctndldate
| for reelection. Evdeatly Mr.. Buchana s
touching suggestion las not yet reached the
white house.
The reform street cleaner of New York
proposes collecting ashes in canvas bags.
His suggestion commends itself to those who
| think the city should hold the sack. Their
name is legion.
Oliver Curtis Perry, train robber and al
| legged Iunatic, demonstrates there is consider
abl. method in his feigned madness. He
is too sane and shrewd for the average
prison keeper. in New York or elsewhere,
These are days of revelations. resident
! OF the City Of Churches claims to have been
advised by the Almighty to put away his
fourth wife. The name Of the angel who
brought the message is discreetly withheld.
The czar is the most comfortably fixed,
| financially, of any European monarch. He
has no civil list, salary or allowance. He Just
helps himself to all he needs, and the treas
urer's only duty Is to see those needs sup
piled.
| The Columbus (OJ Dispatch 'prel1 itself
| over the adjoining township enc cay ,ast
week in a commendable effort to pCNe its
faith in the Ohio capital, and incidentally
to celebrate the introduction of a compete
modern equipment. There were seventy-two
pages comprising pencil and pictorial
| sketches of the Columbus of today and the
Columbus of the past
| Ssnor Canovas del Castillo, at the head Of
! the Spanish ministry, is one of the
| homeliest men in Europe, being squat,
paunchy and unsymmetrical, with face that
! is intensely unprepOssessing He is a reac-
! zionist of the most pronounced kind and a
! thorough believer in the divine right Of kings
| to do as they everlastngly please. His wife
is very naughty and unpopular woman.
distinguished practitioner contends in a
medical journal that the danger of cOntagiOn
| from kissing is the veTiest bOsh He holds that
| it is a wholesome and healthful exercise, and
his opinion is shared in by thousands who have
| had experience in that line. IL may as well
| be stated now as at any other time that the
| attempt to check the delights of osculation
| originated with a grumpy old doctor who
| had more mittens than patients. This fact
| is one Of the open secrets of the Woman S
| club,
Colonel Cockerill writes from Japan that
| KOyama, the assailsnt of Vicaroy Li has
| for some time been a thief, vicious sort of
! political Guiteau, a vagrant Soshi, poll
! tiCian around Toxic. discarded by his father
and summed by his former friends He tried
] to be a lawyer and failed; he took refuge in
| turbulent politics. He was vain, feeble and
| desirOus Of creating a sensation. His crushed
| spirit and the public's lack OF appreciation
| OF him led him into the depths of species
! of insanity that was truly Guiteaulsh.