Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15
Personal AND OTHERWISE

1t is believed Abdul Hamid would enjoy
the game better if he were quite sure of the
umpire.
Hot weather helps corn incidentally, but
its real purpose is 10 give croakers a taste
oi their future state.
The agricultural department Of a Texas
paper is conducted by Green Meadows
Browne. He grinds out copy by the bale
1t is easy enough to put cannon ball into
cannon, but the only way to get it out
again is to fire it out Same with the Turks
in Thessaly.
The family of the late secretary of the
treasury, Daniel Manning, has had cast in
Troy N. Y, 100-pound bell for the United
States cruiser which bears his name.
Charles Henry James Taylor the we'll
known colored man. who has taken up his
residence in Baltimore, has just been ad-
mitted to practice in the supreme court in
that city.
An energetic Kansas City judge scored
fourteen divorces in two hours and half
the other day. 1t was a preliminary spurt
for a record on the ninety-siS cases remain
ing on the docket.
The Kansas City man who converted his
stomach into junk shop carried on the
business successfully until he swallowed the
bowie knife of a Missouri marshal. Then
his troubles began.
Apirna Turapa Ngata, a full-blooded
arts and of laws from Canterbury college,
has been admitted to the bar at Auckland
being the first of his race to accomplish the
feat.
The representative of the Ottoman gov
ernment at Washington scored a point the
other day, when he took occasion in denying
story of Turkish atrocity in Epirus to re-
fer to the Urbana lynching as "a great
cruelty"
A naval court of inquiry has decided in
the case of Ensign Stone that falling in
love with pretty girl does not constitute
man." The old salts may be bald and
wrinkled, but their hearts are young.
Charles H. Hackley, millionaire philan-
thropist OF Muskegon, Mich. restricts him
self to simple living. It Is said of him that
he has ridden in his family carriage only
once and then to attend funeral, and that
although he owns a fine summer residence
on the lake he has rarely seen 1t.
The question whether the governor of Min
nesota can legally refuse to give state papers
to a grand jury investigating the wreck of
banks in st. Paul has been decided in the
affirmative by the state supreme court. But
while affirming the right OF the executive to
refuse access to the documents (reports of
the state bank examiner), the court takes
occasion to say that the governor should ex-
pedite the administration of justice instead
of placing obstacles in it's way.
General Green p. Garner, who died in Chi
cago recently, took part in thirty battles in
the Mexican and civil wars, and was wounded
at the storming of Chapultepec. He was In
the battles of Palo Alto. Cerro Gordo and
Buena Vista. At the latter engagement he
became cannon deaf" and never entirely re-
covered his hearing After the Mexican war
he engaged in his profession as a civil engi-
neer, and when Fort Sumter was fired upon
he helped raise the Eighteenth Illinois regi-
ment, In which he insisted on enlisting as a
private. In the campaign OF Grant from New
Madrid to Fort Donelson, he was promoted
from the ranks. He then served with Grant
in the east and left the service with the
title OF general.