Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-02
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

General Humidity is giving Calamity &
hot chase out Of the country.
Major Mckinley has received his bust
Mr.. Bryan's will be rendered in November
Candidate Watson's hair is said tc
harmonic beautifully with his remarks or
the head OF the ticket.
During the week just closed the elements
hereabouts placed the stamp of approval
on the candidacy of the prohibition nominee
The new woman has leaped over the bar
riers of custom in the Norwegian Parliament
and become official stenographer of the pro
ceedings.
1t is ffty-nine years since Sir Isaac Pit
man was busily engaged constructing his
photographic alphabet, and ffty-four years
since he taught his system of shorthand in
Glasgow to Lord Kelvin.
A shrewd Yankee has designed what
promises to be a money maker for himself
and summer resort hotel keepers. He has
built a thermometer that will register ten
degrees below the actual temperature.
Every summer nature heeds the pitiful
cries of Chicago. The standing warning,
Boil the water" was taken up by old Sol
last week, and the merry old scorcher pro-
ceeded to business on wholesale lines. The
creek steamed and the lake boiled. Yet
the natives were not happy.
Major Sanders of Louisville, who served
In the confederate army, recalls that In
January, 1865, he tried to buy a handker-
chief in Meridian, Miss. but found he could
not afford 1t, the price lin confederate
money! having been $500, and as a conf
promise he bought a paper collar for 1925.
Reports of sea serpents lashing Lake Mich
igan into a foam are worthy OF some credence
in view OF the fact that a lakeside fisherman
the other day landed a bass TO which was
attached a hook and line lost by the fisher
man six years ago. The wonders OF Lake
Michigan tax the descriptive abilities Of
adjacent residents.
1t seems to be pretty hot in Kentucky.
Six bushels of apples piled up in a heap
on a farm near Lexington were sufficiently
baked by the sun last week as to permit
them to be served with sauce without
further preparation. AS the story comes
from a silver organ, some allowance should
be made for its whiskers.
A man of rs put an end to his life In
Central Park, New York, the other day.
He left a note stating, as reasons for the act,
that he was troubled with %neuritis, nervous
prostration. rheumatism, congestion OF the
lungs, loss Of strength, cataTTh OF the
tract, pain and dyspepsia. Verify,
he had troubles OF his own.
AT last accounts the people down near
Waterloo, Ind, had all stopped talking poll
tics and were out trying to capture a snake
reported to be from fourteen to
twenty feet long. The latter figures are
probably nearer correct, for nothing short
of a stroke of lightning or a snake twenty |
feet long will make an Indiana man stop
talking politics this year.
Prof. Roentgen OF "X' ray fame refuses
absolutely to be lionized. He recently in
tended to spend a few days in Florence, but
hardly had his arrival become known when
200 students came to salute him. He
bluntly told them they would have done
better TO attend their lectures. Later on, |
that other demonstrations were
planned, he took the first train out OF the
city.
The sudden death OF Ex-Governor Russell
adds one more name to the heightened list
Of Massachusetts, honored dead. BY a seem
lngly remarkable fatality the old bay state
lost within two years six OF her gov
ernors, a. Of them of national reputation /
Banks. Rice, Robinson. Greenhalge
and Russell. Today Massachusetts has
only four OF her governors OF the past
Long, Bracket, Clafin and Boutwell,.