Omaha daily bee., 1898-03-26
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Most OF the returning Klondikers appear
ti be richer in experience than in anything
else.
JOIN Hampdeh, the great English patriot,
who was slain at Chalgrove Field in 1913,
has Just had dedicated to his memory a
stained glass in the parish church at Great
Hampden.
Emperor Menelek Of Abyssinia has ordered
at the Paris mint 5000, 900 of golden pieces
to be coined after a new pattern, and the
Workmen are working night and day to COM
Dlete his order.
Two itinerant umbrella members were re-
Gently fortunate enough to be hit by an en-
gine on the Lehigh Valley railroad, and the
cour: mas Just awarded them $4,000 with
whlch to repair their damaged corporosities.
ceor-e w. Vanderbilt intends to continue
the development of his model village of Bit-
more more N. u. by the erection of a school
housd for white pupils. the building of sew
eral handsome dwellings and the establish
ment or an electric light plant.
Under an old ash tree In the quiet Como
,ery IN Milton, few miles out from Boston.
is huge bowlder which bears on the south
Pbi,ins,s f'bn MS @ Inscription: Ann and Wendell
1856 and 1884. each aged IS years
The real name of the distinguished French
painter known as Carolus Duran is Charles
Auguste Emil Durand Mr.. DuIand. who is a
seli made man and proud OF it, has inst
arrived In this country, and during his stay
WI, WI. pant tne portraits OF several well known
men and women Of this country
A bust of the German emperor ia to be
placed In the famous Walhalla of Bavaria
on Tuesday next, the anniversary OF his
birth. This hall of fame was founded bv
King Louis l. Of Bavaria, to Commemorate
the great men OF Germany. 1t stands on
beautiful summit overlooking the Dannbe
near Regensburg.
John c. KunitZ now a 1ivervmo, n. A.
pleton, Wis, was Bismarck's coachman
twenty-five years ago, and for years drove
the Iron Chancellor in Berlin and elsewhere,
he was paid $50 per month with board ard
livery, liberal and frequent tips, enabling him
to lay by quite a sum for investment on his
arrival In this country.
Booker T. Washington. in an address da-
llvered last week, said the trouble with his
race was that 1t is in too big hurry. The
preachers. he said, wanted to be D. ID. 8 be-
fore they knew divinity; they want blog-
raphies before they have lived; they want
Latin and Greek before they know pronoun
In English; they want postofices before they
know how many stamped envelopes to give
Tor IL cents whereas, they should stick to
intelligent farming, build better houses have
better homes ard never go to a town unless
they have something to sell.
Austin Gollaher, who has been remembered
In biographies Of Abraham Lincoln as hav
ing saved the future president from drown
Ing In his boyhood in Kentucky, died at his
nome at Hodgensville, KY, on February %
last. The incident referred to occurred when
Lincoln was about years of age In conse-
quence of his falling into swollen stream
which he was crossing on a log. and out OF
which he was dragged by Gollaher, who was
some four years his senior. The story 10
told on Gollaher's authority in Miss Tarbelrs
lie or Lincoln and In probably other biog-
raphies OF the great emnncipator.