Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-22
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Guests invited to a recent wedding in the
suburbs of New York were also reques ted
Please don't send presents for fear OF rob-
bers."
A Paterson, N j., stenographer has just
become the wife of a millionaire who fell
In love with her at first sight and gave her
check for 100000 as a wedding present.
The Illinois woman who wants a divorce
because her husband snores will have a
great deal of public sympathy The illus
trious bard struck a popular chord when
he sang, "Yawn, and the world yawns with
you; snore, and you sleep alone"
When one formerly went to visit folks in
out of a heavy, thick photograph album
with white porcelain knobs at the corners
of the covers. Nowadays they show one
their collection of souvenir postals.
An eminent scientist addressing a meet
ing of other eminent scientists in Paris, de-
, scribes kissing as that unpleasant Gus
TOM" and wishes 1t entirely abolished. The
professor must have been an uncommonly
chubby and kisSable small boy with an I'M
commonly large number of female relatives.
Certainly it is an interesting question
that has been propounded to the devotees
of Lady Nicotine-if 1t takes ten or twelve
pounds of tobacco to make 1000 cigars, how
do they produce 10000 600 clear Havanas"
out of 10000, 600 pounds of Cuban tobacco
The cigar makers could tell us. but they
won't.
Two more men are sadly contemplating
the truth Of the old saying that riches have
wings, A Californian buried all his savings
in his cellar and his daughter took them
away in her satchel when she eloped An
Ohio farmer recovered half a bushel OF
paper money hidden by his grandfathers,
only to ind that It had been chewed TO
small bits by rats
The thief who robbed Admiral Bowles'
house and afterward restored the booty
out of admiration of the admiral, reminds
the Boston Transcript of the bandit who
held up Bishop Whipple. Sir" said the
bishop. II am the bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese OF minnesota! THE
devil you arel" replied the robber. ''why,
that's my church, too!'
President Finley of the College Of the City
of New York has an old-time school desk
used by Grover Cleveland, when the ex-
president was learning his alb abs. MT.
Finley obtained the desk through Nathan
Straus, from the old school in Fayettes-
willie, n. Y, and will return IL TO It's old
owner at Princeton. His name is carved
on IT with a iackknfe.
President Zelaya OF Nicaragua will soon
receive a curious gift which has been
manufactured for him by Pittsburg glass
/ Arm, II is bottle three feet high and
/ holding seven quarts each in a separate
! compartment. The bottle, which has just
/ been shipped, contains a quart each OF
bourbon, rye and Scotch whiskies one OF
| claret and three of different cordials.
| What probably will be the costIiest monu.
| ment erected TO the dead in recent time,
will be placed above the grave OF Mrs
| Margarita Alyarado, the late wife of Pedro
| Alvarado, the peon mining king OF Mexico
! and solid silver. Two tons Of silver from
J Alvarado's famous Palmilla mine In tn,
/ Parril district will be used steel fran,
| will be built around the grave to guar(
| against the theft of silver from the monu
ment