Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19
QUAINT FEATURES OF LIFE.

Some society girls of Babylon, Long
Island have formed the Giddy Girls Darn
ing club, the avowed object OF which Is to
keep in order the hosiery of their deserving
bachelor friends. These gddy girls, how
ever, will only darn the socks of such
estimable young men as do not smoke drink,
play cards or do anything really naughty
the kind OF men, in short who are perfectly
able to darn their own socks.
The young duke of Manchester is making
a er-riveted donkey of himself. When
Otero appeared on the stage at Lyons the
other night, the duke ran down toward her,
scrambled among the orchestra. and, with
clasped hands. implored her for the cigarette
she was smoking. She gave it to him, he
drew two puffs ecstatically, then ex-
tinguished it, placed the butt in his card
case, threw a kiss to the Spanish girl and
went out, leaving the audience in an uproar.
The duke needs a guardian.
For ways that are dark the "Heathen
Chinee" still holds his own. Many of the
Cinnamon who have been working on the
Mexican Central railway and who now want
to return to their native land free OF ex-
pense, have crossed the border into Texas
where they have been taken into custody
pending deportation, in accordance with the
provisions of the exclusion act. There are
several hundred OF them and the cost Of re-
turning them will be about $500 per capita,
but perhaps Uncle Sam, who has just dis
covered this little game, may find some way
to beat it,
Rosie Davis. a bearded lady now in Chicago
waiting to fill an engagement with circus.
got lost the other night while out walking in
Lakeview and not desiring to be conspicuous
went to the back door OF house to inquire
her way. The result was a great fright on
the part of the people who lived in the
house, three women going into Mysteries
and man running out the front door in
search Of the police. The bearded lady fled
and tried another house, at which her ap-
pearance caused a woman to faint. BY this
time the police arrived with patrol wagon
and the free exhibition for which people gen.
orally pay to see was suppressed.
Leo Frankel, Chicago peddler who sold
books, argued for nearly an hour with Mrs.
August Schaak OF POI Fletcher street, to
induce her to buy a photograph album.
When she agreed to take one he dropped
dead. At first Mrs. Schaak refused to buy
anything, but finally he went out to his
street, and brought forth an album with
bright. green cover which he offered for
Sc. She exclaimed that she would buy it.
"At that moment" said Mrs, Schaak. in
telling about the affair. II looked up and
saw the man looking at me with an express
sion Of bewiderment on his countenance.
The next instant he staggered and sank
into a chair, his limbs twitching convul
siyely" Mrs Schaak sent her little boy for
doctor. When he arrived at the house
life had passed from the body OF the ped
dler. The physician pronounced the case one
of heart failure, superinduced by a mental
shock.
Whether a man has or has not right to
employ and place in a position Of trust one
who is known to him to have a fondness
for liquor is a question that has been brought
to the public attention by a decision rem
dered by a Philadelphia judge. Peter Lynch
was employed by Stern & Co. as driver and
II was charged he collected money to the
amount CT $40 and spent II on liquor The
charge was embezzlement and Lynch had
pleaded guilty, but the judge ordered him to
withdraw his plea and instructed him TO
enter enc of not guilty. In his decision
the Judge said Where a firm intrusts
with money a person whom 1t has reason
TO suspect OF Incorporate habits. and he
does not appropriate the money to his own
use or make off with 1t otherwise than to
indulge in the qualification Of his habit
employers must understand that 1t is ex-
tremely doubtful whether the crime OF EN-
bezzlement can be made out under such cir
cumstances."