Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-17
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

The proposed pine pool in Minnesota ha!
gone by the board.
1t Is evident Mr.. Maher has the sand, bu
1t is all in his eyes.
So-called spell binders should consider tn
ways of the punctured bicycle and be wise
Plug the windpipe and alrs well.
President Kruger is going to England. He
will take notice that Chamberlain has made
no arrangements to meet him half way.
Mans humanity to man almost stagger.
belief. Look, you bachelors. the cathode
| were developed in time to Photograph the
sincerity Of leap year proposals.
An enthusiastic p~ulpiteer suggests that
Abraham Lincoln be canonized as the Amer
lean saint. The suggestion is rather late.
Old Abe was pretty well cannon-noised dur.
ing life.
Justus C. strowbridge of Philadelphia has
commissioned a sculptor to model"a status
Of Benjamin Franklin and have it cast ir
bronze. 1t is to be presented to the city OF
Philadelphia, and will cost about SIS, 200.
Frederick Price, who used to be the center
| rush in the foot ball team I'm the University
of Georgia. is now fighting in the Cuban in
| surgent army. He gest S24 a week, and he
says the work is not half so exciting and
dangerous as foot ball.
The prevailing tint in the trousseau Of
| ex-President Harrison's bride is pale blue.
Those who may think that this is a delicate
ttiputS ~ az 'aN' VI hiS VI w 'Nbii ~
mind over the presidential prospects that
went glimmering will be pleased to learn
that in the language Of the heart pale blue
means true love.
DR.. Edison, whose cure for consumption is
one of the reigning sensations in the medical
world, writes: ''To such practicing physi-
clans in good standing as will follow my di-
~rections to the letter, / shall be glad to send
two-ounce bottles for purposes of experiment.
/ must add that my laboratory and its out
put are as yet small
John Stemme, a wealthy New Yorker. Wis
tied Egypt recently and was astonished at the
obelisks. On his return he ordered a fac
smile made out of Vermont granite, and the
great monolith has just reached Gotham. 1t
will be mounted on a pedestal in Greenwood
cemetery, and its summit will be ffty-one
feet from the ground.
When a state embodies in its statutes the
principle that Honesty is the best policy"
there is no lack Of persistent effort to nullify
1t. New York has a law prohibiting, under
severe penalties. the stamp of sterling on
silverware, unless the article is Of standard
~fneness. Bills have been introduced to null
lily this law and open the doors to silver
plated crooks.
A former weary waggles of California is
camped on Easy street. San Francisco. He
claims TO have discovered a wad of $4,000
supposed to have been cached by train rob-
bers, and as a tribute to the source Of his
Joy he sports a diamond headlight. Mr..
Waggles intimates that his method Is an
Improvement on the Nebraska prohibition
plan, In that no security was required.
Has anybody noticed how many very old
people have figured In the papers recently2
Here is a collection from a single column of
paragraphs: Horace Staples of Westport, the
Oldest school teacher in Connecticut, cele-
brated his Gath birthday last week. A lady
OF 10. at Deed Isle, Me-, walked two miles TO
a pond for a couple OF hours SKATING. James
Gould of Barnet, VT. "a years old, is busy
chopping his years supply Of wood. George
Leonard of West Rutland, VT, Is dead. aged
81 years and 10 months. His wife died three
years years ago, at the age OF 80. The list
closes with Lady LlanoYer. "the Bee Of Mon
mouthshire," a Welsh poetess. whose bardic
name was "Gwenyen Gwent." and who d ed
recently, agad "a.