Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-25
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

a Stradivarius violin was sold at auction
in London recently for 5000.
CoNey is now looking for party that will
properly respond to his ideas.
BY sending your gun to Cuba and staying
at home yourself you will please both Cuba
and the United states.
Russell Sage is said to control more ready
cash than any other man in America. He
hasn't a child or a chick
Emperor William has $4,000 worth of
uniforms and costumes, and yet he SAYS
whoever insults his coat insults him.
Recent testimony in the London mayors
court developed the fact that the head waiter
OF city lunch room paid the underwriters
and made weekly profit of S25 entirely out
of tips.
Prof Charles Lane Poor of Johns Hop
kins university has just finished a construc-
ton of an equatorial telescope which he
viii take with him to the north next sum-
mer in order to photograph the stars.
There is being exhibited just now at Brus-
sells dinner service in glass manufactured
In the Val st. Lambert works to the order
OF Ii Hung Chang. 1t consists of $50 pieces
enough for an elaborate banquet of sixty
guests, the pure crystal being lined with
rose color.
Coils p. Huntington some time ago built
palatial residence on Fifth avenue. New
YORK, at a cost of 81 500 900 Bur his
family has never moved into IL on account
OF superstition of Mr.. Huntlngtons that
itS occupancy would be speedily followed
by his death.
Lord Mayor Fraudel-Phillips of London
broke down while introducing Ambassador
Bayard at a meeting recently owing IN
the weight of his official robes. He sat
uown suddenly, took the robes Off in the
presence OF the audience, and was brought
to with Mrs Bayards smelling bottle.
The emperor of Austria, who is a great
smoker, restricts himself to so-called ''Vir-
glnla cigars manufactured of the rankest
tobacco at Trieste, with a straw running
through the middle of them in order 70
make them draw" They are so green and
damp that they have to be held in a none
Tor several minutes before they can he
persuaded to ignite.
senator Sherman says that General Grant
proDably got more real service out of his
CaDlhet officers and more protection from
trivial details than most other presidents
III was ms custom to accept their recom-
mendatlons upon all ordinary matters and
approve them without personal investigation,
IeseINlns MS strength and time for broader
'leNS anu the elaboration of general policies
The professional funny man has ALWAYS
lad good deal to say about the wiTes
new bonnet and the husbands objection TO
It's cost but 1t Is seldom that these three
factors OF an ancient Joke get together in
the police court. This happened the other
dday. however in Baltimore. the husband
having been placed under arrest by the
injured wife for having torn UP her bon
net along with the bill This misguided
man evidently took the time-honored
pleasantly as serious production.
A monument to Carl Loewe the German
ballad composer was unveiled in Kiel on
the hundredth anniversary of his birth
November 30. The monument is the worl,
OF the Berlin sculptor +. Schaper, and
bears the inscription. Born in Lobeiun
November 30. 1886; died in Kiel. April 20
1859, beneath which are the words
Erected In memory of the master of the
German ballad, by admirers of his music
on his hundrodth birthday" The monu-
meht stands in a grove which was one of
Loewe's favcrite resorts.