Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-15

The Klondike fever is not dangerous UNI
less aggravated with Chilkoot chills
Span's debt requires an annual interest
payment of $4,000 900. Most of it is tribute
on borrowed trouble.
Kansas City is catching on gradually
Mule power has been dispensed with on one
of the street car lines.
What changes short year brings. Here
are countless sheayes of ripened wheat bear
ing crosses Of gold, and nary kick is filed
by the owners.
Wyatt carp has gone to the Klondike, and
those persons who require the services of a
referee will do well to have quiet talk with
Wyatt before submitting their cases
Grasshoppers of Jackson county, Michigan
have undergone change of appetite, and
have been eating the binding twne from the
bundles of wheat, causing farm hands the
extra labor of rebinding.
Three thousand thirsty voters of Topeka
petitiored Governor Leedy for permission to
run clubs for dispensing liquors. But the
governor said nay and winfed the other eye
Kansas wink is better than kick to a dry
man.
Charles Trautman famous rife shot
died at his home in Elizabeth, N j., re-
Gently, aged 81 He spent twenty years in
the wilds of Africa with Livingstone and
Stanley. He left room full of trophies
won by his skillful shooting.
EX-Mayor Frank f. Olney of Providence
r. l., president of the American Philatelic
association. which will have its annual ses-
sion in Boston this month, has collection of
stamps valued at 100000. Mr.. Olney is a
woolen manufacturer and is enthusiastic
over his hobby.
The shipbulding firm of Cramp & Sons
Philadelphia, has instituted suit against the
government for $l,736, 1929 damages said to
be due the company for delay in furnishing
armor plate for six vessels of the navy. Az
the company made over a million dollars
from extra speed prizes, it might drop the
% cents without cramping its nerve.
The Swedes of Philadelphia are to present
a magnificent silver vase to the king OF
Sweden and Norway on the occasion of the
twenty-ifth anniversary of his reign next
month. The vase is thirty-two inches high
and stands on an onyx plinth about eight
inches in height. The style is a modifica-
tion of the Gothic. The body of the vase
is oval, with two graceful handles bound or
applied with the Linna borealis, the Swed-
ish national flower. The gift is beautifully
decorated
Senator Hale describes himself as follows
Here l am, well dressed, and my tailor
never has to wait for his pay. | live well
| have never done anything very mean.
am rich / enjoy my riches. l am a gentle
man in walk and in talk. Sometimes | an
ennui and can't conceal it. If the PersianE
De right that every man Is as God make
him. then | am that man, and if every mar
be as he fashions himself then l am thai
man too, and the senate is full of bigger
fools than | am "
Assuming that telegraphing without wires
will soon be an accomplished fact. the New
York Herald says there are only two re.
naming puzzles. Somebody must discover
tho secret of the fish's tail, which puts oul
best propeller to shame as a sort of stage
coach affair, and then we shall have rapid
transit across the ocean with a vengeance
Some one else must find the secret of the
birds wing, and then we shall have air
ships for passengers and merchandise
When we have made these two discoveries
and applied them we shall look for the mil
lennium 4"