Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-23
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

This country has so many things to be
| thankful for that every man can keen
| Thanksgiving to suit himself.
In one room of the Maine Central railroad
general offices are employed a son of Joseph
II. Mlnley, nephew of Arthur Sewall and
nephew of Thomas b. Reed.
| 1t is to be hoped that congressmen-elect
are pasting in their scrapbooks -he good
advice so lavishly rendered them. There
isn't room for 1t in their hats
Few people are aware that the female
drummer is among the varieties of new
woman recently developed, but she is hero
and has tight grip on the business
The sultan of Turkey not only has rigid
censorship of the press but he has ordered
that no newspapers be published until the
afternoon, so that the censors will not have
TO forego their morning nap in order to
supervise them.
An attempt to colonize seventy-six Hebrew
families from Philadelphia and New York
in Logan county, Colo, has proved fail
ure The failure is partly explained by the
statement that every vocation except farm
ing was represented in the colony.
The Drummer Boy of Arcola," who saved
the day for Napoleon is not a myth Az
least France does not consider him mvth
and is about to erect statue to his mem
ory at Castanet, in Vaucluse. his birthplace
where he was known as Andre Etienne
The first "Mc" to sit in the white house is
a descendant of family which in the old
Celtic days did not spell it's name "McKin-
ley" The original Gaelic name is supposed
TO have been Mac-au-Olaimh "the son of
the bard, corrupted later into McInally.
Alexander Stephens Clay. who will succeed
General Gordon of Georgia in the United
states senate, is known all over Georgia as
Steve" Clay. He worked on a farm as a
boy, studied law and went into politics, serv
ing several terms in the state legislature.
In 1889 he was elected speaker of the house
AiterWari he became state senator, and was
elected president of the senate. He became
chairman of the state executive committee
OF the democratic party in 1894.
One day last week Hamilton Cox of Brook
lyn went hunting near Eldred. His guides
placed him back of runway, and told him
to keep his eyes well peeled if he wanted
deer. He sat there till he was tired, and
then moved back to the shelter of a bush
deer leeped over Mr.. Cox's bush, knocked
the gun out of his hands and discharged IT,
all in the jump. The charge struck the
deer amidships and it fell dead within a
few feet of the frightened hunter.
President Britlin of the New Orleans city
council has directed the committee on bud
get and assessment to transfer the amount
of his salary $4,000, to the contingent fund,
es he does not intend to accept any money
consideration for his official services. The
Times Democrat says of Mr.. Britlin that he
lis an able as well as public spirited OF
hcial and as his services in the city's
interest are not only to be gratuitous, but
are likewise very valuable, he Is laying IL
under double obligation May his kind
increasen
stephen w. Dorsey, the man who once put
the state of Arkansas in his carpet bag,
and who posed in the senate as one who made
and unmade presidents. is now in San Fran
cisco, trying to win from mining ventures
a fortune to replace that which he lost
when the star routes along which he gal
loped swiftly ended in a slough of dis
grace and disaster. Dorsey has interested
some London capitalists In certain mines
north of Yuma and Is planning a big stamp
mill at the end of branch railroad six |
miles long