Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-05
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

1t took General Gomez four years to reach
Havana. And then Uncle Sam paid the
freight.
A dealer in fuel dropped dead at Mime
apolis the other day. Signs of a thaw af-
fected his heart.
Old Geronimo is feminist" Imperialism.
He has been through the mill and mar
rowly escaped with his scalp.
Speaking about long distance races, Hon.
Wharton Barker has covered one-half of
his two-year race for the presidency with
out a serious punCture.
That Wisconsin statesman who introduced
in the legislature a bill prohibiting tight
lachng necessarily advocates women bearing
arms-the masculine variety.
An Indian youngster who predicted his
own death is now a dead prophet. In order
TO prove that he was not a false prophet
he took an overdose of cigarettes.
Captain Arch Homer, an eminent Ken
tuckian, is reported dying. Advance obitu-
aries pronounce him one OF the most pic
t~uresque characters of the Blue Grass state
Representative Grosvenor of Ohio always
keeps a tin box on his desk filled with
broken bits of peppermint candy. When
attacked in debate, or before a set speech,
the first move of the gentleman from Ohio
is to dive into his desk and begin to jam
his mouth full of peppermint candy. The
gallery can thus always tell when the gen.
eral is loading up.
The Ohio man is enjoying a large slice of
life's cake just now and is loath to let go
when the grim messenger beckons. One of
the number, a man of means, answered the
call recently, but before responding directed
that his friends assemble frequently In an
elegant mausoleum he had fitted up and en-
joy themselves playing cards and otherwise.
In order ito promote the hilarity at the func-
ton, proper provision was made for the es-
s~entials, SO that if he failed to take a hand
in the game, his spirit would not be absent.
The jenkins and Jenkinnesses OF Chicago
s~orrowfully admit the superior merit of the
Jenkins OF India. One of them thus de-
scribes Chicago's titled daughter who re-
Gently arrived In Calcutta: al the god
desses of the Hindu pantheon must hide
their heads in the presence of Lady CurZon.
Her color is like molten gold, its white
ness having assumed a tinge of red in the
warm climate of this country. Her teeth
are like a set of pearls, her waist is beau
tifully slender. Her raven tresses setting
off her white complexion make her look like,
we imagine, the Goddess Saraswati, Her
neck is like the neck of a wan and her
voice resembles the voice of a cuckoo"
A friend in Albany has received a letter
from the daughter Of the late Harold Fred
eric, in which she says the family has been
left absolutely unproyided for, with debts
amounting to several thousand pounds. A
subscription amounting to about 81, 500, she
explains, has been collected for the purpose
of providing for her mothers future, This
money it was proposed to invest by taking a
house, furnishing 1t and taking boarders. I
But upon applying to the trustees they We're
told that the money had been collected for
the education and maintenance OF the boys.
and could not be risked upon such a venture.
Mrs. Frederic. the letter explains, Is exceed
ingly III. and something must be done at
once to get her settled or else it will be too
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