Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Eighteen cadets who were graduated only
last week from the naval academy are on
the Solace bound for Manila.
General John NJ. Palmer is suffering from
severe attack of THE grip, which. at his
age, is considered decided danger.
For forty years Jules Verne has averaged
two stories annually. All have had fair
sale and many have met with tremendous
success.
DR.. Lyman Abbott suggests that Richard
Croker and Matthew Stanley Quay ought to
be sent to the Philippines TO show the ma
tves the errors of their way.
With the Nile damned for the purpose of
irrigation and with trolley cars whizzing out
to the pyramids, it may be said that Egypt
Is booming after the most approved Ameri-
can fashion.
John V. Quarles, the new senator from
Wisconsin, is a graduate of the University
of Michigan, and, being a foot ball enthu-
siaSt, attends nearly every game played by
the eleven of that college.
Joseph H. Choate once said he did not
have much faith in letters of introduction.
when | first came to New York" he said,
Il had but one such letter. but then it was
from Rufus Choate to William M. Evarts."
Though Congressman Galusha A. Grow,
eX-speaker of the house, is now a very old
| man, he is wonderfully active In dress,
manner and habit he is old fashioned and
| is one Of the characters Of the lower house.
The late DR.. Henry Harris of Ashtabula
o., was the oldest living underground rail-
road man in the country. He was the asso-
ciate of Joshua Giddings, Senator Ben Wade
and other free soilerS, and personally as
sisted in the escape of hundreds of negroes.
A tablet has just been unveiled in the
house in Liverpool in which Mrs. Felicia
Dorothea Hemans was born. 1t bears this
inscription: Erected by the Historic So
ciety of Lancashire and Cheshire. Felicia
D. Hemans, Poetess, Born in this House,
September 20, 1793.'
In an article about newspapers in the
| current number Of the Independent Rev. DR.,
Parkhurst suggests as a remedy for some
OF the abuses of the freedom of the press
that newspapers shall be requred-presum-
ably by statute-to publish under each arti
Gle or news item the name of the writer
thereof.
The movement for the formation of Peo-
pies clubs in New York is now well under
way and the first club is to be established
somewhere in the noighborhood of Cooper
Union. The object Is the study OF problems
or the Gay ana SOClal intercourse. All per-
sons of good character over 16 years of age
and of both sexes are eligible for member
ship.
Whispered comment is being INDUCED in
by republicans at the national capital over
the fact that the red. green and blue par
lors at the White house are now closed to
visitors 1t is remembered that when the
late Mrs. Harrison was mistress there she
vetoed a proposition to close these rooms,
declaring that nobody has a better right
to wear out the carpets there than the peo-
pie who pay for them"
Sir Henry Blake, the new governor OF
Hong Kong, recently announced that at his
leyees men would be expected to put in an
appearance in top hats and frock coats, and
there was great CONSERVATION in the llttle
colony in consequence. The hats were the
trouble. There were only about half a
dozen mail kegs" in the place, and 1t was
not expected that the local halter had any
in stock To the JOY of all, however, he
rose to the occasion, and was just able to
supply the demand.