Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-01
Personal AND OTHERWISE.


Senator Hoar is known as one of the best
livers in the senate and as such enjoys the
most exalted respect of all walters in the
senate restaurant.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago wants to try
the public bath business and has recon-
mended the establishment of a number at
a cost Of 50 900 each.
Chicago women are agitating against the
use of pictures Of women as advertisements,
and the women in the movement have pro-
vided the newspapers with their portraits.
Judge Ross, the new senator from Ver-
mont, paid his way through Dartmouth
college by teaching for several years pre-
vious in the roadside schools among the
Green mountains.
When Joseph H. Choate. as a young man,
was once arguing before a magistrate, the
latter cut in with, What you say is fit
only for an ig%noramus." Mr.. Choate replied,
II am addressing your honor
1t is proposed to cut down the staff Of
California's governor about 80 per cent.
1t Is thought that so much gold braid can
add nothing to the lustre OF the the Golden
state.
Governor Shaw Of Iowa has just purchased
1900 acres Of land in Woodbury. county.
Two OF his predecessors firmly believe in
Iowa soil. Ex-Governor Larrabee is re-
puted to be the largest land holder in the
state and Ex-Governor Boies' possessions
are considerable.
Senator Roger @. Mills OF Texas, who has
been for a number Of years in public life,
will retire March 4 as poor as the proverbial
church mouse, and declares that he will
devote the remainder Of his days to acquir-
ing money. His home is at Corsicana, a
mall station near Dallas.
Commenting on the achievements OF New
Englanders in the west, the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican instances the case OF a
Hartford man, who has accumulated fifty or
more wives in California and adjacent states
and territories. He evidently believed a
man could not get too much Of a good
thing"
Two brothers OF the name OF Moore failed
for 81, 900, 900 in Chicago two years ago. and
the crash closed up the Chicago Stock ex-
change for three months. The two men
have now paid all their debts and are re-
ported to have 81, 800 900 each besides. They
have, in other words, made something like
81, 000, 900 in two years.
Congressman Brosius one day recently
rose to a question Of personal privilege and
entertained the house by severely tongue
ldSnlnR u lOleuO newspaper correspondent
who had accused him OF sleeping during
sessions Of the house. Mr.. Brosius called
the writer "a human bedbug'' and all sorts
Of other names. 1t now develops that the
correspondent is a woman and Ohio mem
bers are having no end Of fun with the
Pennsylvania.
New Jersey Is threatened with rivalry in
the business of chartering corporations Of
doubtful character and intentions. 1t is
said that the charter of the ice trust granted
by the Maine legislature cOnfers the privi-
lege of doing almost any kind of business,
from storing ice to running an European
steamship line, building railroad or trolley
lines, or establishing a bank or an insur-
ance company. Its authorized capital stock
OF $50, 900, 900 indicates a disposition to "cut
Ice for various undertakings.
New York's aldermen were called upon to
mourn the death OF a colleague recently
and they did 1t handsomely. They I'M
loosened several tanks of tears as the cold,
pitiless clods beat the final tattoo on the
coffin. then adjourned to a hotel to refresh
themselves at the expense Of the city.
The bill Of that sorrow-laden lunch calls for
sl0l. 40 and comprised these pathetic items:
Fifty plates oysters, $40; fifty plates soup,
$l2.50: fifty order smelts. etc, $50; fifty
vegetables, $3.50: forty coffee deml-tasse,
IS; sixteen Manhattan cocktails, 81; sixty
bottles ale. SIS; ninety bottles beer, SIS;
mineral water, 30 cents. Congress could
that.