Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-21
PERSONAL NOTEs

Make way for the coal trains.
Captain Arson, the former noted base
ball player, is going into politics in Chi
cago. He is known as a hard hitter.
Commodore Vanderbilt, the first Of the
Vanderbilt family, and founder Of the
fortune, used to say this: Never tell
anybody what you are going to do till you
do It."
Prof. Adolf Lorenz, the German special
ist, who has Just operated on Miss Armour,
in Chicago, says he finds more cases OF hip
disease in that city than In any other Of
which he has knowledge.
Another statistician rises to remark tina
on an average every man, woman and child
in the United States has on deposit in the
savings banks $10s. A good many of them,
however, can't draw any OF 1t.
United States Senator Knute Nelson
helped to pump a handcar Ave miles on
the Duluth, Mesaba & Northern road on
Tuesday in order not to miss connection
preventing him delivering a political speech
at Mining. Wis.
Surgeon Willard H. Crawford, who has
been in the service Of the Navy depart
we'll toward the top OF the medical corps,
Ano thANAN his SSNAo 49,
Of absence was denied him.
Another instance Of American COMPETE
ton crowding out English enterprise is fur
nished by the fact that an American sailor
has been the first to receive the prize Of
8 sovereigns which King Edward gives each
father of triplets in his realm.
Lord Methuen, when sufficiently re-
covered from the wound received at the
time Of his capture by the Beers. is to
have command OF a British army corps.
Incompetent generals with social backing
need fear nothing in England.
Chief Justice oliver Wendell Holmes,
lately appointed a justice Of the supreme
court of the United States, has accepted an
invitation to take President Roosevelt's
place, in the absence Of the latter because
of illness, at the installation Of President
Edmund ]. James of Northwestern univer-
sity at Evanston. ILL.,. on October 81. Judge
Holmes will deliver an address to the law
students.
DR.. E. CastellI Of Washington claims to
have discovered a sure preventive Of sea-
sickness. Gust sit and look in a mirror"
says the doctor, and you will experience
no inconvenience from the motion OF the
vessel. l infer from my discovery that
the pa~thogenesis Of seasickness is the
same as that OF vertigo. e.. the afiiction
is the result OF the consciousness OF the
oscillation OF the act of orientation."
A little more than 5000. 900 pieces of mail
turned UP at Uncle Sans dead letter Office
last year. Letters and parcels to the num-
Der OF $4,000 were opened, yielding S4s. 900
in cash and commercial paper Of an aggre-
gate face value Of 81. Ss9, s26. Yet there are
some people cruel enough to say that hus-
bands who neglect TO mail their wives let
tiers are the most absent-minded people on
earth. 1t will be oonsoling to the maligned
to know there are others.
Organized effort is being made for the
erection in Washington Of a monument to
the memory of Alexander r. Shepherd.
who did so much to beautify that city. A
committee having the matter in charge
has addressed a circular to those likely to
contribute and expressing the hope that
prolonged canvass will be unnecessary. II
is urged hat Mr.. Shepherd must rank with
Washington and L'Enfant as one of the
creators Of Americas most beautiful
city.