Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-25
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

| Balloon voyagers to the Klondike are firmly
convinced that Andree stopped to pick straw
| berries on the return trip.
Senator Stewart is reported to have cleaned
| up $4,000 during his stay among the Wall
! street bulls-sound money, too.
| The sultan is distributing prizes and levels
among his faithful soldiers in Thessay, and
| yet carping critics aver that the eick man
| Is unable to "get move on himself"
Seven wagon loads of pool men and pool
room apparatus comprised single haul made
| by the police of st. Louis last Wednesday
| Yet st. Louis is classed as a slow town
Ex-Governor Morton of New York volun-
| tarily had the assessed valuation of his per-
@onal property advanced from $50 900 to $780,
| OOO thus setting an example in rather strik-
| ing contrast to that of the millionaires who
are making such great fuss over the in
| creased assessments in Westchester county
| Mrs. S. J. Field, wife of the justice of the
| nupreme court. and Mrs. George Hearst of
Washington have done excellent work in
| raising money for life size statue of Wash
| ington, which is to be presented to France
| in 1900. Up to the present time about $4,000
| has been collected. The total cost is to be
| $4,000. The statue will be of bronze. 1t
will be modelled by Mr.. French
| President Kruger of the Transvaal has
| so far departed from his usual simplicity in
| matters OF the kind as to order from London
state carriage which it is said, will cost
| him no less than $3,500. The arms of the
| South African republic will be painted upon
| the panels of the doors; silver eagles, the
| national emblem, will pose with spread wings
| upon the silver lamps and upon the four
| corners of the upper part of the carriage,
and the interior will be lined with light
blue satin.
Mrs. Caroline Westcott Romney, Chicago
woman IS about to start for the Klondke
region to establish a newspaper there. She
expects to reach the gold fields before win
| ter sets in, and is confident of the success
of her enterprise. She will take with her a
small hand prese and an outfit containing
| all that is required in the publication of
| small newspaper. Mrs. Romney published
J newspaper in Leadyille, Colo, for nearly
\ year when the excitement there was at
| it's height. She is therefore not without
experience in this line,
DR.. Clark Gapen, formerly OF Omaha, ap-
| pears to be cutting quite dash in Chi
| cago. e. Berry Wall, the prince OF dudes,
| never shone with greater glory or filed
the multitude with more astonshment than
| the ex-Nebraska medic. Just Imagine the
| doctor strutting along the boulevards in
garments hitherto the exclusive privilege of
the fair sex. Evidently the doctor has set
lively pace and consequently gathered up
some of the boulevard gumbo, so much so
that the Chicago Inter Ocean editorlally urges
| him to got a good example by clearing
| his skirts" He might yank his suspenders
| a notch
Some unknown concoctor of mixed booze
! has thrown Milwaukee into fit of indigna-
tion by pronouncing 1t superior to anything
yet devised for the stomach's sake The
| liquid is of Celestial origin, and is war
| ranted to produce the delightful sensations,
| including the Uranium expansion, which
come from hitting the pipe" sip OF the
| stuff generates soothing electric flashes
through the wind pipe and down the body
| and limbs" and ones being Is permeated
| with a faint, evanescent suggestion OF the
breath of living rose with the dew on 1t,
Perhaps the unconscious victim wandered
| into a conservatory and slept 1t off. But
why Milwaukee should wax indignant is not
apparent Surely loyalty to local institu-
| tions does not warrant an outburst against
| liquid suggestive OF roses II the writer had
| suggested the robust fragrance of cheese,
| Mllwaukee's wrath would have some justin
| cation.