Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-22
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Cervera's fleet is estimated to be worth
from $40, 900, 900 to S12, 900, 900. No wonder
Sampson wants to capture it before the army
gets there.
Trolley parlor cars are now running to
Coney Island. The law forbids a higher
fare than 5 cents, but you pay 20 cents for
a reserved seat, and sometimes it's worth it.
George N. Curzon, the English under
secretary Of state for foreign affairs, is
threatened with a physical disability which
may remove him from active public life for
some time.
In discussing cables and cable bills a
western paper makes the statement that the
United States paid SIS, 900 for cable notice
to Napoleon III to keep out of Mexico.
Four companies of Canadian militia will
come down to help the citizens of Portland
celebrate the Fourth of July, but they will
not bring with them the brass cannon cap
tured at Bunker Hill.
According to an estimate made by John
Wanamaker, the people of the United States
have within the last twenty years expended
over So, 900, 900 in the purchase of national
flags and the demand is still going on at an
increasing rate.
The last example of a yellow journalist
comes from odH FTdnClSCO, nclc ohu,
editor of a Chinese paper, has opened a sub
scription for the Red Cross society among
his countrymen and is booming it and his
| circulation in the columns of his paper.
That fellow Carranza, who neglected to
burn his letters, is the same party who
challenged General Fitzhugh Lee and Cap
tain Sigsbee to a duel. Failing to shed
Yankee blood he proceeded to shed ink, to-
gether with some light on the situation.
The decision Of the New Jersey supreme
court declaring the anti-gambling amend
ments to the constitution carried salts
f~actorily ends the struggle against race
track sports. The fight against race track
gambling was a long and bitter one, but
good morals triumphed in the end.
Negus Menelik of Abyssinia, the Lion OF
Judah. is preparing to visit Jerusalem in
1900. lie wishes to visit the scene where the
mother of his race, the queen of Sheba, was
entertained by King Solomon. According te
his own genealogical tree, Menelik is the
ninety-seventh successor of the queen,
representative w. w. McIntire OF Balti-
moro, now possesses every one of the three
flags that foated from the capitol when the
declaration of war was made against Spain
Mr.. McIntire has a fad for collecting unique
historic relics and has been applying himself
to securing these three flags for weeks.
Paul Deschanel, the newly elected presi-
dent of the French Chamber of Deputies. is
not only a great fayorite of the American
colony in Paris, but is a student OF ouT
parliamentary institutions and an admireI
of Thomas Is. Reed, whose methods he II
expected to initiate during his term OF
office.
Galusha A. Grow. whom the republican
of Pennsylvania have nominated as a con
at large, was born in Connection
in 1923, and is accordingly now rs years o
age. His colleague on the republican ticke
for concentrating in Pennsylvania
S. A. Davenport OF Erie, was born at Wat
kins, N. Y, in 1884, and is therefore GA year
OF age. The republicans Of the Keyston
state evidently believe in the merit OF "ol
men for counsel"
Long before Mr.. De. LONE was found ou
In his Letter writing he wrote to Captain {
C. Dillon, a Cuban hlibuster, offering a larg
sum II the captain would allow himself I
be captured by a Spanish cruiser when b
had a good cargo of arms and ammunitio
on board. The idea was, OF course, TO st
cure evidence that the United States wa
I secretly helping the Cubans. Captain Dillo
. is himself the authority for this story an
says he has the letter,