Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-21
NOTES.


The Cincinnati Chamber Of Commerce has
invited President Roosevelt to attend the
banquet 70 be held by that organization on
March 8 in celebration OF cincinnati's CEN
tennial.
William Henry Bishop. the novelist and
instructor Of Spanish at Yale, has resigned.
He will remove to Spain, where he will re-
main for some lime and devote himself to
literary work.
Secretary shaw asks the complaining
women Of New York to suggest some
scheme whereby the law to prevent snug
Cling may be enforced without SO much
annoyance to passengers.
Rev. DR.. Thomas e. Green Of Cedar Rap
ids, Ia, has been chosen as the orator at
the grave of Washington in April by the
Sons Of the American Revolution at the
society's t~riennial meeting.
Sir William Mcdonald, the donor OF the
gift Of s25.0OO for the establishment OF an
agricultural college at Guelph, in Ontario,
has already disbursed vast fortunes for
phllanthropic ends in Canada
Lieutenant Won Eichel streiber Of the
Third Uhlans, German army, recently wag-
cred that he could drink a quart bottle of
brandy In ten minutes. He did so and was
DuTtcu Win luil mlllldIy nouuIb.
DR.. Conan Doyle has scored a complete
failure In his attempt to get a German
publisher to take up and circulate in that
country his pamphlet on the cause and
conduct of the war in South Africa.
Some. Of the ~out-and-out New York chap
! pies have taken to wearing the monocle,
' which at present is in greater favor than
ever among London dandieA Eastern opti-
clans notice an a~ppreciable increase in the
demand for single glasses.
Governor orman of Colorado has received
a letter from General Funston accepting the
invitation rendered by the governor to be-
come the guest OF Colorado at a banquet to
be given to Generals Funston and Mac
Arthur at some future date.
M. Delcasse, French minister of foreign
affairs, has appointed Miss Jeanne de VII
leneuve Of New York secretary OF the
French consulate there. Miss de VII
l~eneuve. who belongs to an old French fam
lily, is tho first woman to be thus honored.
General Lew Wallace has q luxurious and
ideal authors den" 1t Is erected on his
lawn and at a cost which most people would
consider quite a fortune. In shape It re-
sembles an Oriental mosque and the in
terror is one large room, handsomely fur
utbuOu dhu ANOOAoNCNt eA
hangs a portrait Of the sultan Of Turkey,
painted by the general himself.
During the hearing at Albany on the pro-
posed bill prohibiting the shooting OF live
pigeons from traps Horace e. Henderson,
master of st. Paul's school in Garden CITY,
La l., where many such shooting contests
take place, declared that frequently he had
found wounded pigeons in the tower of the
school chapel and he and his n~eighbors had
found dozens of manned birds on the win
stills and doorsteps Of their houses.
They are having a laugh on Champ Clark
in Washington. A New Yorker told the
Missouri congressman that the only real
people lived on Manhattan island. Champ
snortingly replied: why, you are the most
provincial people in the country. You DOM
know anything about the United States
Hardly a man among you knows anything
about Missouri, but let me tell you there
are mighty few Missourians who don't
know New York" For a minute or &C
Champ did not realize why everybody
laughed.