Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-10
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

| The admiral Dewey" rose now has the
call Perhaps any other dewey rose would
! smell as sweetly, but its value lies in It's
| lasting quality.
! Alexander Bowling, justice of the su-
preme court of Indiana and resident OF
| New Albany, bears so strong a resemblance
| to the president that he is known as the
man with the Mckinley head
General Wade Hampton was awakened
| one night not long ago to find the roof of
| his house in a blaze. He would not disturb
| the rest of his household Despite his cork
| leg he went up on the roof himself and
helped put out the fire.
Prof. Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins
university, by recent invention, has SIM
plifed the art of telegraphy so that it is
no longer necessary for operators to learn
the Morse system Any one who can work
typewriter can send a dispatch
1t is hardly to be wondered at that Ad
miral Camara declines the marine portfolio
in the new Spanish cabinet, preferring to
remain in command of his squadron. He
found that position last summer the safest
and most irresponsible Of any in the whole
shooting match.
Admiral Dewey is heartily thankful for
favors bestowed, but his countrymen can do
him one more favor, as important as any
yet conferred upon hm-quit writing letters
to him. The admiral is a busy man and
should not be bothered with letters of which
he receives thousands in every mail.
Like his father, the standard oil Croesus
young John d. Rockefeller who has just
been elected a director of the Lackawanna
road teaches a Sunday school class in the
Fifth Avenue Baptist church. New York
ale ,NIa hn ,rin In hain
member of the Rockefeller family orchestra
Speaker Reed and Mr.. Choate, now am
bassador to England, were at a dinner party,
in the course of which the latter happened
to mention that he had never in his life
ridden on railroad pass. A congressman
present said "Well, 1 wish I could say as
much" Reed looked at him solemnly for
moment and then drawled: why didn't
you? Choate did,
The portrait of Lieutenant Commander
presented to the city of Gloucester,
Mass, by Mrs, Wainwright has
been received by Mayor French. 1t is
three quarters life size. 1t will be hung in
the mayors room, together with the first
American flag raised in Porto Rico, which
was given to that city by the gunboat Glou-
cester.
Boston has declared war upon the English
sparrow, and the movement has the indorse-
ment of Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale,
Bishop Lawrence, Lewis C. Dabney, Alex S.
Porter, Charles c. Jackson, Henry L. Hig-
glnson, Mrs. John l.. Gardner and others as
prominent. The movement is based on the
ground that the universally objurgated SPAR
row Is a pubic nuisance and q general
expense and serious eSthetic injury"
ben Hur," General Lew Wallaces mas
terpiece, was first dedicated ITO the wife
of my YOUTH When the book began to
mako its way General Wallace was flooded
with letters of condolonce on the supposed
death of his wife, the writer's basing their
sympathy on the dedication. Mrs. Wallace
had herself written the words, but for the
next edition altered them to the following,
which has ever since been used ITO the
wife of my youth, who still abdes with
me-"