Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-29
personal AND OTHERWISE.

Tho race Of the incoming ocean liners last
week to beat the Dingley bill, or rather beal
the treasury, was almost pathetic.
A Brooklyn man spanked his wife and sent
her TO bed supperlcss because she would no.
obey him. Mr.. Mary Ellen Lease never did
that.
President Mckinley and Mrs. Mckinley
will attend the wedding of Miss Frances
hayes, a daughter Of eX-Prcsident Hayes. at
Spiegel Grove, o., on September /.
On the authority of the physicians the
Jersey City boy who swallowed the motto
Drtton with II have troubles of my own
printed on it now has trouble in his midst.
a Paducah paper having asked Colonel
WatterSon If he old not choke when he
swallowed the sound money platform in that
state, the colonel responds: "He wrote it,
you jaciass!"
The Rev. Thomas Needham, evangelist,
who declares that all the angels are males.
IS sadly at variance with the vaudeville poet
who proclaimed some years ago that there
are no angel men"
There is sn old philosopher, prophet and
poet in California who claims that he has
solved the problem OF living forever. He
ives q hermit's life, eats only three times a
week and never expects to die.
There is q negro man working near Dublin,
Ga, who says he is one of forty children
by one mother. He says his mother wes
i-4Ai L~1A Ipui l'iAiNS chi gave III W NbIIy
seven boys and thirteen girls in North Caro-
lima, and is yet living.
Mrs. Charlotte Smith of Boston, known as
several kinds of a social reformer. has sent
a petition to congress asking for an appro-
p~riation to send 100, 900 unmarried women
TO Alaska. a petition of protest is in order
from the msrried women whose husbands
nave gone there.
The tomb of President William Henry
Harrison, at North Pend, O., is being re-
constructed, the brick structure being re.
placed by one Of blue limestone. There are
twelve bodies, including four children, in
the tomb, and vacant receptacles for the in
tsrment OF others,
A stern parent at Dover Plains. n. Y.
who doesn't wish his daughter to elope with
ar obi actiopnble sutton, has put a deputy
sheriff in charge of the young woman while
he is away from home. So If the youth tries
to break into the house, the young woman
will not be the only person on the premises
who has an attachment for him.
Santa Fe tralnmen vouch for the statement
that FRIDAYS through California train was
tagged by section men two miles this side of
Lexington because the rails of the track had
been curved by the heat into the appearance
Of sleigh runners, the heavy spikes having
been pulled from the oak ties and trown
into the air by the strain Of the bending
rails.
John Bacon of Easton, Pa, has in his
possession Il copy Of the Weekly Museum of
March 4, 1897, in which is related the fol-
lowing anecdote: "At the conclusion of the
war Dr. Franklin, the English ambassador,
aud the French minister, Vergenis, dining
together at Versailles, "a toast from each
WIS called for and agreed to. The British
minister began with, George III, who, like
the sun in its meridian. spreads a luster
throughout and enliYhtens the world The
French minister followed with, The illus
triuus Louis XVI, who, like the moon, sheds
mild and benignant rays on and influences
the globe Our American Franklin then
gave. George Washington, commander of
the armies, who, like Joshua OF old, com
manded tho sun ard the moon to stand still,
and they obeyed him.