Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-30
THE PASSING SHOW.

A proper understanding of the outcome oil
Saturdays convention shows more lefts thar
rights.
The scarcity of Spanish victories in Cubs
indicates that General Campos is harassed by
a fountain pen.
Cy Warrants health is reported seriously
impaired, and Sweet Marie is SLOWLY con.
tracing the marble heart.
Ex-Governor Flower of New York believes
in honest money as well as philanthropic real
estate deals that net 6 per cent.
The variety OF political rumors started in
Indianapolis has no effect on the visible sup
ply. Natural gas is constantly on tap.
What strikes all those who come in con-
tact with Lord Wolseley is said to be the
confidence he has in himself. There is
enough of it to make up for the outside
deficit.
The governor of Minnesota, who cherishes
hopes of promotion, adheres strictly to the
slogan, Let no county fair escape He
has taken in every one on the bills and signs
for more.
The name of the treasurer Of the Home
Mutual Aid association Of Kansas City, who
recently absconded with all the ready cash
of the organization, is Charles II. Vice. And
yet he was trusted.
A Kentucky colonel who held Office con-
tinuously for f~ifty-ive years died recently
full Of years and official honors. His heirs
expect to realize handsomely on the recipe
OF his marvellous pull. .
With the first day Of the approaching year
THlmanism will be strictly in the royal
SWIM in Russia. The government will, after
that date, dispense all the liquor deemed nee
essary for the peace and comfort of the peo-
pie.
There is a shade of borrowed humor in the
report that the publisher Of London Tid-Bits
VIII build a yacht to race for the Americas
cup. If the fellow is serious, it behooves
the owners of American yachts to anchor
them securely. Tid-Bits parades with Dor
rowed plumage.
Prof. Charles V. Riley. the eminent ento-
mologist, who met his death in Washington
by being thrown from his bicycle, was Eng
lish by birth, cosmopolitan in education and
experience, a practical farmer and journalist,
a soldier in the last year of the war, when
he was Il years old.
Rev. Henry NJ. Field, d. D., proposes to
write during the coming winter a biography
OF his brother, the late David Dudley Field.
For this purpose he will spend the season at
Washington, where he will be near his
brother, Justice Field Of the United States
supreme court, and can confer with him.
Henry Hartean, a prominent citizen Of
brooklyn, has left $35, 900 in his will for
the erection of a statue of Lafayette in Pros
pect park. He does this, he says in the doc
unlent, AS an expression of my admiration
lor that HoDle anu patriotic man, ana or my
appreciation, in which my country shares,
of his aid in establishing our republic"
When women attach themselves to the be-
nevolent and fraternal orders nothing but the
highest offices within the gift Of their
brethren and sisters will satisfy them. Mrs.
j. w. Story, wife Of the librarian Of the
Eastern penitentiary Of Pennsylvania, has
just been elected supreme chief companion of
the strong and popular order of Companions
of the Forest, defeating w. Sullivan Of Law
renee, Mass, after a spirited campaign. The
convention was held in Boston.
Report has it that John r. Mclean of the
Cincinnati Enquirer has abandoned journalism
in New York. Four months ago the hustling
Clncinnation satisfied a long felt ambition to
inject a few tanks of western ginger into the
provincial press of Gotham by securing an
option on the New York Morning Journal.
Every journalistic star within range of Nc
Leans millions was employed to renovate the
Four months trial was enough.
Mclean declined to complete the terms of
purchase, and the Journal reverted to the
original owner. The experiment, it is said,
reduced the Mclean surplus by $3.50 900.