Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-26
People in the Lime Light of Publicity

ut was law. your honor, until your honor
just spoke" III your honor please" said
Payne one day, beginning at a motion. sit
down, sir; don't you see that | am talking
with another Justice Numbered the then
chief Justice. MIR. Payne took his hat and
walked out Of the courtroom. 4 half hour
afterward a messenger reached his office
with a note saying that Judge Gray was
willing to hear him. II am not willing to
be heard" answered the old lawyer, until
Judge Gray apologies" The apology fol
lowed.
The world is indebted to Donizetti. the
musical composer, for greater benefits than
were conferred by any Of his operas. de-
lightful as they are. 1t is claimed that he
was the inventor OF the ulster, that garment
which enables man to laugh to scorn the
fercest Of wintry blasts. One day at Paris
he sent for the tailor to measure him for
an o~vercoat. The tailor found him at the
piano surrendering himself to the rapture
Of a composition. Nevertheless he was per
suaded to quit the beloved instrument and
deliver himself up to the man of tape and
chalk. The tailor made the first measure
ments and then, STOPPING, began to take the
length Of the garment.
~ NHN NhN'' ~ ~ '"A 'A''''
Lower, lower" answered the composer
in a dreamy voice.
The tailor brought the measure half way
down the leg and paused inquiringly.
Lower, lower"
The tailor reached the ankles. Lower
lower"
But, sir, you won't be able to walk"
Walk, waikiki Who wants to walk"
with an ~ecstatic lifting of the arms. 81
never walk; I soar"
At the time when Grover Cleveland was
president DR.. Robert Maitland O'Reilly,
whom President Roosevelt has just made
surgeon general Of the army, to succeed
General william H.. ForwCod, retired, was
the official physician at the White House.
Or. O'Reilly is a republican, says the
Saturday Evening Post, but with Cleve.
land that was not to be weighed against
his skill as a surgeon.
one day during the second Cleveland adj
ministration a number of army officers at
a social moment were talking informally
to the chief executive.
Are you not afraid, Mr.. President, 81
v%entured one loosely, ito retain as your
medical adviser a physician who is an un
compromising republican,"
The president had just refused to sign
the Wilson tariff bill, and the menace Of
detection from the ranks hung over the
democratic party.
, "NC,' he laughed in reply. "Dr. O'Reillv
is a physician of excellent judgment, and
he knows that good democrats are scarce.
A few weeks ago, says the Syracuse Even
ing Herald, a caller at the house of a friend
Of the "Hoosier Poet" heard a fragment of
conversation botr,cp ,i,i,,, ,,l I...-
Whitcomb Riley, who had been talking of
how poorly paid was the profession of lit
e%rature. But, Mr.. Riley" she said, surely
you have no cause for complaining. You
must be a very rich man. I und arstand TINT
you get a dollar a word for all you write
"He-e-es, madam" said Ri'cy, with his
slow drawl, but sometimes | sit a | day ard
can't think of a d-n word!"
Nine. Melba's welcome to Australia after
her sixteen years absence has been sadly
supremacy as the silk weaving center of the
world. Similar schools should be estab-
lished at Paterson and otherwhere in the
country and the silk worm industry of the
south, now in its infancy, should be en-
couraged.
The wonderful silk manufactures Of
France originated through the encourage
ment of the silk trade by the French mon
archs in the past. 1t was not until the
fifteenth century that much silk weaving
was done. Before that time the best Of
the silks came from Italy, the finest of
silks, satins, velvets and other cloths being
woven near Venice. Lyons, however, was
a great fair city and many Italian silks
were brought there for sale. Then Louis
XI imported Italian weavers and along