Omaha daily bee., 1898-02-04
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

| A Georgia editor describes a defaulter as
''sx feet tall and $4,000 short"
The way to convert General Grosvenor to
| civil service reform would be to retire him
| from congress and give him postoffice.
The decisive vote by which the Virginia
| senate defeated the anti-firting bill sug-
| gests that tho grave and reverend senators
were once young themselves.
| Mayor s. F. Smith of Davenport, Ia, who
attended the recent Monetary conference in
| Indianapolis, is the son of Rev. S. f. Smith,
| tho author Of the famous hymn. America" 4"
Governor Tanner is at Hot Springs, Ark,
and is winning all kinds of distinction. Fri
| day he carried off the honors at trap shoct-
| ing and Saturday night he presided as chief
| judge at al colored cake walk
Dr.. Carl Johnson of Denver, who has been
appointed consul to Annoy, China, is well
known to the medical profession as the
| authcr OF a book dealing with researches
and discoveries in morphine poisoning
Rudyard Kipling formerly lived in India.
Then he moved to England, and thence to
Vermont. Leaving there he went to Eng
land again, and now he is to remove to Cape
Town. South America end Australia yet
await the honor OF his citizenship.
The notable fact in the case of the new
American provincial of the Order Of the Holy
a "Darwnian." He avowed his belief in
evolution years ago. The heresy hunters
pricted up their ears. but Pope Leo made
him doctor of divinity.
Nathan Strauss, the new president of the
New York Health department, has some
phi,anthro hobbies, among which is the
delivery of '.erized milk among the poor.
He says proper food for children in summer
would reduce the death rate among children
to that among adults, which would save
many thousand lives.
Carroll d. Wright, United States commits
sloner of labor, is in receipt of a cabegrnm
announcing his election as member of the
Institute Of France. He has also been in
formed that he has been elected an honorary
member Of the Imperial Academy of Science
OF Russia, the highest scientific distinction
that can be awarded in that country.
Uncle Russell Sage is said to be- delighted
with tho story that Mrs. Hetty Green has
received 5000 worth of medical attendance
free, and that the president of one of New
York's largest Insurance companies was at
q public dispensary with the lowest classes
for FREQ treatment, until discovered and
ordered away by the attending physician.
The Norwegian poet, Bjornstjeme Bjorn-
son, has written to NJ, Emile Zola saying
that he enylos his present privilege of rem
derlng service to humanity. They have
not" he says, made you retire! You have
marched upon them with the Tyre ard the
sword Alone against millions! Is there a
nobler scene ON earth? 1t is what France
required"
Policeman william NesbItt of the New
York force h. a preacher OF twenty years
experience. He breaches every Sunday at
some church, is an old-fashioned Methodist
end believes in muscular Christianity, Es=li-
Tested by experiences. noise, shouting ald
enthusiasm, He has a splendid record aud
Is noted for the number of tough characters
and desperate criminals he has arrested.
Tho doctor of the steam yacht Catana,
having on board Cornelius Vanderbilt and
his family, is Jean Charcot, the son of tho
late famous specialist. He married Jeanne
Hugo. the divorced wife of Daudets son
Mrs. Jean Charcot accompanies her husband
on this trip. 1t is said that young DR., Char
cot receives 800 q day for his three months
services, but he is immensely rich him
self.