Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-09
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Prosperity has struck Gomez too hard
The old warrior is i'll from overindulgence.
| Another expedition is preparing to go
| down to capture Honduras. These people
| take Cecil Rhodes too seriously.
| 1t is claimed for Josiah Bailey Of Dickin-
| son, n Y, that he is the Oldest oficeholdel
| in the country. At the age of 90 he has
been chosen town clerk by the republicans
of the place named.
When the new state board OF charities Of
| Kansas investigated the insane asylum at
| Topeka it found four lunatics running the
heating plant, while the men employed to do
! the work were sitting around beer keG
| playing cards.
Ex-President Cleveland, Captain Robley D.
| Evans and Z. C. Benedict are hunting in the
| Carolnas. Dispatches from coming tower
at the scene of attack assure their anxious
countrymen that they We're on hot trail
Of game-poker.
When President Eliot was put at the
head of Harvard university he at once
donned for the first time in his life high
silk hat. In all the years since that time
he has never been seen out of doors in any
other style of headgear
In his eulogy of the late Mr.. Dingley
Representative Dockery spoke Of the great
changes in the house since it met at the
opening of the Forty-eighth congress. or
the 356 men who were then sworn only
seventeen are still there, and in the next
session there will only be fifteen.
Rev. Frank B. Hoagland, secretary OF the
Young Mems Christian association of Pat
erson, N. j., is out with a declaration that
the wearing of the Scottish kilt is immoral,
this opinion being the outcome of an at
N ba aEsnpiation hall for q
entertainment in which some of the partici-
pants were to appear in kits.
Michael Angelo Woolf, who died in Brook
lyn last week, is said to have been the orig
inator of humorous pen and ink sketches
in this country. His pitcures of poor chill
dren, which he was very fond of drawing
and which became known as "Woolfs
Waifs," were particularly clever Thomas
Mast was Woolfs friend and coworker
Sir Martin Conway, who has returned to
England after an extended mountain climb
ing tour through South America, says that
he has had all he wants of that sort of
thing and he won't go there any more"
He may do a little modest picnicking in the
Alps, where there are railways, but he has
given up forever the conquest OF new peaks.
Among the residents of New York City
are seven former cabinet officers. Cornelius
n, Bliss has Just retired as secretary OF the
interior William NJ. Evarts was in the cab
met under both johnson and Hayes, General
James was with Garfield, General Fairchild
with Cleveland's first cabinet, Mr.. Carlisle !
and Mr. Lamont with his second cabinet and
Carl Schurz with Hayes.
Dr. Merrill L. Gates, late president of |
Amherst college, is to succeed General Eli |
lGaIet Whittlesey as secretary of the Board |
OF Indian Commissioners. He has been a |
member OF the Board of Indian Commission
ers for a number of years and its presi-
dent. He is thoroughly acquainted with the
Indian question. General Whittlesey will |
still continue 10 live in Washington, and
will probably spend good deal of his
leisure time at the boards office as here
so that Dr. Gates will have the
benefit OF his advice and assistance in all
,ases where two heads are likely to be bet
er than one.