Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-04
personal AND OTHERWISE.

After due inquiry Abdul Hamid seems to
think that James B. Angel may prove a
minister of grace
1t is just as easy for camel TO squeeze
through the eye Of a needle as for justice
to pinch a sugar trust.
In referring to the Grecian race writer's
should be particular not to omit the score
as shown by the time keeper.
If Almighty Voice wasn't on the wrong
side OF the border he would be suspected
of training for the Fourth Of July.
In Massachusetts, hereafter a person con-
victed of stealing bicycle is good for a
sojourn of five years in the penitentiary.
Singly and collectively, humanity is the
same. The Greeks and Turks talked loudly
before and after the scrap, just like two
prize fighters
A member OF the Arkansas legislature was
fined 800 and sentenced to one minute in
Jail the other day for shooting at and miss
ing an editor"
Wasn't it Goldsmith who gave this season
able advice: Woe to the man. to hasten
ins ills prey, who dons his summer under
wear the first sunny day?"
Gilbert Parker, the dramat!st. has been
in turn Canadian bear hunter, dramatic
critic. an editor. novelist and play
wright. He Is still on the right side of
fve-and-thirty
As means Of lubrieating the toboggan
slide Of corporation bills. reports from the
capital of Illinois show that boil ON the
speakers jaw Is a mighty handy thing to
have about the house.
The reduction OF the annual gypsy moth
appropriation in Massachusetts, appears to
be severe shock to the official moths
charged with the duty of drawing their
salaries from that fund.
Governor Bradley OF Kentucky attended
the Nashville centennial on Kentucky day,
but positively refused to abandon his white
faIt hat for a aI no
white felt hats for twenty-five years and
would not discard them now.
Rufus Choate, the famous lawyer and
statesman, in whose memory a statue will
be unveiled in Boston. is remembered in
western Massachusetts, for his speech at
Round Hill when, in his warmth and ex-
element, he became so spirited in his ges-
lures that he sDiit his tightly-buttoneI coat
all the way rp the back.
The monument of the Ninth New York
volunteers. known Hawkins Zouayes, un-
veiled ON the battlefield OF Antietam on Mem
orial day, Is monolith OF granite forty
feet long by four and half square at the
base. tapering to three and half at the
top. ana Is said TO be the largest single piece
oi granite ever quarried at Barre, vt. The
Ninth New York. had 1913 men in action at
Antietam, 54 being killed. 1876 wo',Gded
and % missing. They participated In
fierce charge on the position where now
stands their memorial shaft.
For years the scarcity OF young men at
summer resorts has been the despair OF
piazza girls and the JOY and hope OF the
joke factories He has been a poor joke
smith indeed who could not carry himself
through July and August on variations OF
this trite theme, illustrated and plain, and
she has been a triumphant girl who could
secure a male partner for one dance out OF
six at the weekly hop. Now an ingenious
Long Island landlord has arisen who pro-
poses to put an end to all this In adyertis-
ing the charms of his resort he adds one
line in bold. big type all by itself, thus:
"S2scial rates to young men"