Omaha daily bee., 1898-01-07
Personal AND OTHER WISE.

The governor of Idaho, Frank Stennen-
bug, never wears a necktie.
Nearly 5000 sentences have been inflicted
for lese majestic since William III came to
tho throne.
EX-Judge John F. Dillon is confined to his
home at Far Hills, N. j., with a broken leg,
due to fall on Christmas eve.
Miss Virginia Montgomery of New Orleans
is the designer of the confederate monument
to be erected at San Antonio Tex.
Address your letters to the various divi-
sons of Greater New York just as before.
The postoffices have not consolidated
The Norwegian residents of San Francisco
are making preparations for an elaborate
reception to be given to DR.. Nansen on his
coming visit to that city.
Tho laws delays are illustrated by the fact
that case has finally been dismissed in the
st. Louis courts because everyone who was
ever connected with it is dead.
In 1870 the duke of Galiera began to spend
thousands of dollars a year collecting rare
stamps Today his collection is believed to
be the finest in the world and Is valued at
81 200 900.
The rumor that British admiral had fired
on q Russian vessel in Chinese waters sug
gestS that nowadays, the report of a shot
may be heard round the world before the
gun goes Off
The National association in charge of the
John Brown statue is being urged to place it
within the limits of Chicago and to have it
made by Edmonia Lewis, the colored sculp-
tor, now living in Rome.
Rev. d. Anderson, a negro preacher in
Georgia, has created a sensation by a de-
fense of lynching, which he contends Is
sometimes justifable. Some persons of his
own color have threatened to try 1t on him.
Halleck. the poet in Difference to an old
woman passenger who entered the same stage
coach, threw away a fine cigar which he had
just lighted and which was his last The old
woman produced Qipe and wretched tobacco
and puffed away for fifteen miles.
The Rochester committee has cent out an
appeal for funds for the erection of the S10,-
900 statue to Frederick Douglass in their
city. The state gives $4,000 The con-
templated statue is to be of bronze, eight feet
high, on a pedestal nine feet in height
Eugene Field once told Mrs. Humphrey
Ward that he slept In the hollow of tree in
Missouri and lived on wild fish and fruits
WAen Barnum took charge OF him and edu-
Gated him. Mrs. Ward afterward told some
friends that Field was typical American.
Countess Wilma Hugonnay, the only woman
physician IN Budapest, recently made an APP
plication for admission to the medical So
cety of the Hungarian capital, After
stormy session the society refused her ap-
pllcation. The countess-doGto intends to re-
new her application next year and expects
to have it granted
White Plains, N. Y, enjoys the distraction
of having three millionaire deputy sheriffs.
They are Percy Payne Louis of Tarrytown,
George b. Murray of Larchmcnt and Fred
erick Remington OF New Rochelle. They took
an active interest in the last campaign and
we're earnest supporters of the preseot
sheriff, MullOy. In recognition of their serv-
ices he named them as deputies
Miss EVadne La Venda Leeds Is a saks-
girl at the perfume counter of large store
in St. Louis. She is one OF the direct heirs
OF the Ball estate In Philadelphia which is
valued at $50 900 600 Miss Leeds Is said 70
be a pretty, attractive young woman. whose
head Is too sensible to be turned by the
prospect of securing fortune. Her great
Washington.