Omaha daily bee., 1898-10-30
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

The comic opera season in Paris is cons
fined for the moment to the boulevard and
the environments of the palace of justice
Thomas Katz kicked up disturbance in
Denver recently and was run in. The mis-
fortune of Thomas was in starting a row
in daytime.
or the 1900 United States mules sent to
Santiago twenty two have died. One kicked
dynamite and the others were discouraged
at the climate.
An eastern critic, after viewing the statue
of Rufus Choate, recently unveiled in Boston.
says 'it looks US IL it was holding it's hand
out for a retainer" That is to say the pose
is professional.
Since the decision of the national suprem>
court against railroad pools several news
papers pronounce the old business maxim,
Competition is the life of trade a mild
grade of anarchy.
Senator Vest is said to have the most
marvellous memory in the senate and is able
to quote verbatim surprisingly long extracts
from any speech to which he has listened
during given session.
Some people in Wisconsin insist that the
new battleship bearing the name of the
state should be Christened with the fluid
that made Milwaukee famous" Loyalty
to home industry is the motto of the brew
erS.
Some people in this country harbor the
mistaken notion that the Filipinos are sadly
in need Of the blessings Of civilization. Ad
vices from that region show the natives to
be the peers of the most favored in kicking
against taxation.
The municipal employees Of Havana, who
are clamoring for overdue wages, had bet
ter go slow. Spanish officials will not toll
crate symptoms of treason while dividing
the foot. The clamorous crowd will dis
cover presently that there is mighty little
honor among Havana rogues.
"Ill blows the wind that profits nobody"
Since his arrest on the charge of train rob
berry young Jesse James has trebled his
cigar sales. He has a stand in the rotunda
Of the county court house at Kansas City,
and takes in as high as 500 day instead
Of SIS, as a result of his notoriety.
Admiral Schley married Miss Annie
Franklin of Annapolis and has three chill
dren-two boys and girl. Virginia is mar
rled to Mr.. Wortley, an English gentleman
nephew Of Earl Wortley, and resides in
New York. Scott Schey has just COM
menced the practice Of medicine in New
York and Frank is in the army.
New York Truth puts out picture of the
remodeled "Cozzens House" as the hotel
which George Francis Train built at Omaha
in sixty days. The psychic sage would not
recognize his offspring now, with its pro-
fusion of porches, pillars and what Bill Nye
pronounced architectural warts" For the
benefit Of Truth 1t should be added that the
building Is occupied as theological semi
nary
Kipling got his queer first name for SEN
timental reasons. His father when designer
of decorations for pottery firm at Burslem,
England, attended a picnic near the village
of Rudyard, not far from the pottery works.
There he met and fell in love with Mary d.
Mcdonald, the daughter of a clergyman
whom he shortly married. Their frst-b born
arrived while the young couple were in
Bombay, whittier Kipling had gone to direct
the art schools Of the Madras presidency
In memory OF the place where they first met
the parents decided to call their boy Rud-
yard Kpling.
People who are not posted on the intri-
cacies Of the game Of golf may extract in
formation and delight from the description
Of game: Facing the fourth, crossing
the ravine, Miss w. was short, while Miss
II. drove the green. Miss w. was well up
on her approach pitch and the hole was ul-
timatefy halved in 8. On the fifth Miss
H. gained thirty yards in driving off, fol-
lowing up this advantage by a we'll played
brassey, while Miss W., who half-topped
her second shot, only reached Miss HIS
second on the odd. Miss II. was short of
the green on her mashie."