Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-26
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

| The movement of the Turkish army out o
| Greek territory establishes pace that snai
might envy.
| That gleesone refrain "Put Me on a
| Buffalo," appears to have been a popular ont
with a quarter of a million people.
| Kaiser Wilhelm is a great collector o.
| autographs and he specially prizes the sigma
lures of military commanders of the end o.
| the last and the beginning of the preSen
| century, of which he has large collection
| The disposition of Horace Boies to kick
over the traces without the aid or consent
Of anybody in Iowa renders the position o
| the driver one of grave peril. AS measure
Of safety it is proposed to use armor plate
| for dashboard.
! Bernard Bettmann of Cincinnati tas accepted
| the presidency of the Saengerfest jubilee
which Is to commemorate the fiftieth ami
versary of the North American Saengerbund
| and TO be held in Cincinnati in 1899. Mr.
| Bettmann is prominent citizen and a mar
| OF broad education.
John James Audubon, Miss Maria Audubon
of Salem, n. Y, has worked for twelve
years in the translation of her grandfather s
unpublished journals, which were written in
French the letters being small that a
magnifying glass was necessary to decipher
many of them.
j. NJ. Sjodahe editor and part owner OF
the Deseret News of Salt Lake City, has
sailed for Sweden with a box of gifts from
Scandinavians of the west for King Oscar,
who celebrates next month the twenty-fifth
anniversary Of his accession to the throne,
Mr. Siodahe carries letters of introduction
from the governor of Utah.
John l. Blair of Blarstown, N j., the well
known railroad man, celebrated the ninety
firth Anniversary of his birth at his home last
Monday. He is in his usual health. His
son, d. c. Blair and his Oldest living grand
son, Charles scribner of New York City, spent
the day with him. There was a display Of
fireworks in the evening on Prospect Hill,
the highe-t point in Blairstown, in honor of
Mr.. Blair.
A New Orleans man, who wanted to be a
policeman and made preparation for the
civil service examination found that he had
studied along the wrong lines He deter
mined to make use of his newly acquired
knowledge, however, when he came to a
question that struck him as absurd. The
question was: ''If a bullet Is dropped in
well and it takes five seconds for it to strike
the water. how far is II from the top OF the
well to the surface of the water?" The
candidate answered: "Heathen mythology
says that when Jupiter kicked Vulcan out OF
heaven it took him forty days and
nights to fall II so, how far is heaven from
Kosciusko Miss, ?"
The grandfather of Ethan Allen Hitch
cock, the new minister to Russia, was Judge
Samuel Hitchcock one of the most eminent
CltlZtnS OF burlington, Vt. He was the first
attorney general OF that state, holding office
from 1890 to 1898, and presidential elector
in 1892, when Washington received his sec
ond election. In the same year he was ap-
pointed judge Of the United States district
court, becoming later judge of the circuit
court of the second circuit of the United
States, receiving the appointment from John
Adams. Mr.. Hitchcocks father was the first
attorney general of Alabama whittier he
had gone from Vermont a young man.
Later he was chief justice of the state.
A novel crusade and commendabe one
Ia gathering strength in Chicago The OBJ
ject OF the movement is the removal OF look
ing glasses from passenger elevators in office
buildings. Any one riding on an elevator
having a looking glass will observe how
women, young and old, stand before II, not
alone to sec il their hats are on straight,
but to put a few finishing touches on cuTls
or ribbonn. Even when one reaches the floor
she desires, delays are frequently necessary to
enable her to finish her toilet. II one fair
ono should pass the glass without a peep,
the elevator engineer would be thrown into
commissions. Few OF them have had proyoca-
ton for a it. This feminine weakness Is
noticeable In Omaha. 1t has reached the
proportions of an epidemic In Chicago, and
the only cure for 1t u to remove or smash
the glass.