Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-10
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OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

| In a suit to recover the price of a bicycle
sold on the i4stallment plan an Albany
| court has decided that a bicycle is not "A
necessity to girl under age working out as
a domestic.
At Johannesburg the telephone system
! Is operated by the Dutch, and one has to
pay a years subscription in advance
about $75 month-and no service is fur
nished after p. m.
Under government control of the sale of
Intoxicating liquors in Russia there has
! been a noticeable diminution in drunken
! ness and I'm those crimes and misdemeanors
which are caused by into%ication.
The present consumption of water in New
| York county Is 2G5OOOG01 gallons a day.
| In Brooklyn it is 95,00)0J0 In Queens 35gO,-
| CO., and i'm Richmond, according to sundry
estimates, l,5Oo09Q total of 3ojOJO,OOO gal
| Ions for the whole territory.
| a recent police order in Chicaso prohibits
| freak advertising in the streets. TO one
man arrested, dressed as an Irish knight OF
olden times and bearing a tin shield with
an advertisement upon it, police captain
said: "Why, that rig would make an auto
mobile balk. 1t shall not be permitted
Pugilist Jeffries has a cousin of the same
name, who lives on a farm near Celina, o.
He, too, is a man of vast strength. He is
and, recently while his father was visiting
him. having occasion to move a COW from
one stall to another, picked her up and
lifted her over the dividing partition. She
weighed over 1000 pounds
In Milwaukee recently nineteen aspirants
for the position of keeper of a city
natatorium We're required to plunge into
the tank in their street clothing and swim.
1t was part of a civil service examination,
james S. Galloway a millionaire lumber
merchant Of Hlllsdale, Mich, has purchased
the whole Of Morgan county in that state
for the white pine timber there. lie could
now cut leo OOJO00 feet, but intcnds to hold
most Of 1t awaiting developments.
The collection OF books, antiques ana
objects of art which belonged tJ Augustln
Daily and which are to be sold In this
country early next year are thought TO rep
resent an expenditure of I,jOlOOJ, but 4 IS
not hoped that that amount or half OF II
will be realized from the sale, though many
of the objects have increased in value since
their purchase. The folio Shakespeare i9I
which Mr.. DAILY paid 5000 Is now sald
to be worth at least 5000 more. There are
about 10000 lots I'm the collection, equally
divided between books and other articles.
what makes some OF the S"llLGIIlHu
hotels so bad Is probably an unsolNaDie
partially explained by Consul lNdgely re-
port from Geneva that for this year only
and up to October y no less than 2,oGlODO
tourists visited the country, leaving thefe a
total of S3s, COO The population OF
Switzerland II only 293},3O0, so that every
himself, while the per capita wealth Oi the
country heretofore estimated at Sli, is
brought up by this outside money to
S294j .., H.,
New York over century ago by Alexander
Hamilton, are about TO be feled and soon
row of modern houses Will stand on the
ground once occupied by the grove IN front
of the old Hamilton grange, OF whlch me
thirteen elms are the sole remaining
Convent avenue, near one Hundfen ana
Forty-hrst street, were planted by Haml-
ton in commemoration Of the union OF the
thirteen colonies.