Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-09
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

| George Parsons Lathrop has Joined Au-
gustin Days business stan as press agent.
Of the thirty-eight sultans who have ruled
| the Ottoman empire since the conquest oi
| Constantinople by the Turks thirty four
| havo died violent deaths
! Prussia's high eXecutioner, Herr Roindel,
! being about to retire, hundreds OF applica-
! tiOns for his position have appeared. He
| gets $37 for each execution and his travelling
| expenses
Mckinley will be the third Methodist pres
! ident of the United States. OF the others
! eight have been Episcopalians, six Presby-
| terans. two Unitarans, one Christian and
| one Freethinker.
General S. b. Buckner and Mrs. Buckner
| were liOniZed so much while they were in
| Boston that they have rejected as fables
| the stories about the coldness of New Eng
land people They say they might have sup
| posed themselves to be in the south except
| for the east wind.
Lane county, Kansas which has declared IT.
self bankrupt, is named after Senator Jim"
Lane the "red-leg," his enemies called
| him. II was Senator Lane who ELECTED from
President Lincoln the declaration that "in
| time OF civil war every foul bird flies abroad
and every dirty reptile raises it's head"
Said George Du Maurier once in a private
chat: 81 think that the best years in a
mans life are after he is 40. A man at 10
has ceased 10 hunt the moon. l would add
.hat. in order 20 enjoy life after 40 1t Is
perahps necessary to have achieved, before
reaching that age. at least some success. ]"
One of the valuable relics intrusted to
the care of the grand master of Massachu-
setts Masons is the Washington urn'-a
small golden urn containing a lock of Gen
eral Washngton's hair Mrs. Washington
presented the lock to the grand lodge in
1900, and Grand Master Paul Revere made
the urn.
Investigation shows the following stalls
tics regarding the United States senate:
Lawyers, sixty-siX; business men of various
kinds, including miners, ship owners, stock
raisers, etc, thirteen; preachers (studied
avn, one; farmers Zone having studied law),
three; journalists, two; surgeon, one; office
holders, three.
Max Muller, the distinguished philologist,
says in the current number of Cosmopols
that he remembers the poet, INLAND, al
Leipsic as Il little, old, wrniled man, who
was very shy and retiring. Once some
students marched to the poets house. sang
some of his songs, and cheered him, and
INLAND came to the window but he was too
timid to say a word
Baroness Burdett-Coutts is said to be
great admirer of the pluck of Cecil Rhodes
in his efforts to develop Rhodesia. For
every selected young man who promises to
settle in that possession, and who chooses
a wife from among the young women in
ner CnaIltaDle lUSllIullOnS, sNt VIII plGStiit
them with f100. Mr.. Rhodes will under
take to find employment for the husband.
The late Judge Thurman was invited at
one time to a meeting of certain weak
kneed democrats who seriously contem-
plated the breaking UP Of the democratic
party. As soon as the old Roman compre-
hended the object of the meeting he
promptly arose to his feet and said Cen
tlemen, this room Is too id small in which
to break up the party" and Immediately
left the meeting, That was the last ever
heard of the movement.
1t is recalled that 1t is not so many years
since it was deemed effeminate for a man
to play piano and unladylike for
woman to practice the violin. On one oc
oasion at a party given by Sir John Mil
lais Lady Halle rose to play the violin,
when TO her intense amusement she heard
Landseer excaim: Good gracious! A
woman playing the fddle!" On the other
hand an old-fashioned nobleman when he
say a gentleman sit down to the piano
contemptuousy remarked, Il wonder If the
creature can sew!'