Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-27


but the other night an exponent Of union
labor drew the line when he refused 10
/ gulp the button OF the Barteuders union.
He stepped into a Bowery saloon and or
| dered one OF those twenty eight-ounce
glasses Of beer which are served for s
cents. While the tough citizen behind the
| counter was drawing the suds his blue
/ union button became unfastened and fell
| into the beer vase. The customer. while
draining his glass, swallowed the disk with
its sharp brass pin, He began 20 choke
and cough, and after he had been pum-
muled on the back by prize fighters and
other patrons of the place he coughed up
the button, Then he began to abuse the
barkeep, whats de madden wild yer
SAID the spigot jerk, II couldn't help It.
Think 1 wanted to lose me button on guy
like YOU Yer no good union man or you'd
held 1t down, see!"
! 1t is a pity that all babies born with the
prospect of being adopted out of an or
phan asylum are not blessed with blue
eyes. Most persons who wish to adopt
children show a preference for the blue
eyed variety.
They seem to think" said the matron
of one such institution in New York, that
blue eyes give promise of greater intelli-
gence, honesty and general stability OF
character, That is pretty hard on the
youngsters with eyes of brown, black. gray
or hazel. Undoubtedly those children will
grow up TO be just as worthy citizens as
the blue-eyed tots. but IL Is impossible to
make most of the. prospective parents-in-
law believe So They have been Influenced
by the arguments of certain half-baked
scientific writers who claim that all the
virtues are found in blue eyes, and the
dark-eyed children, no matter what their
parentage. suffer from the discrimination"
With the completion a few days ago of
the second of the twin tubes by which the
| rapid transit system of greater New York
is being carried beneath the East River,
says the Scientific American, the linking up
of Brooklyn aud Manhattan by, an un-
broken stretch of subway tracks is brought
one step nearer completion. Compared with
the work of driving the longer tunnels be-
meath the Hudson river the construction
of the tubes beneath the East River has
been far more formidable task. II we ex-
cept the difficulties encountered by the En-
glish company which attempted to drive
the first tube beneath the Hudson river,
the work, of connecting Manhattan and New
Jersey has not been attended with very
serious trouble; at any rate If there have
been difficulties, they have been overcome
SO quietly that the. public has heard very
little about them. .. .f.s t.. s., +.
The East River, however has proved a
very difficult proposition, largely because
OF the varying character and consistency OF
the material through which the tubes had
to be driven, sand, rock, and mud being
successfully encountered. 1t is to this vari-
alton OF material OF the river bottom, to-
gether with what we have always consid-
cred to be overnight construction Of the
tubes, that the trouble In the way OF faulty
alignment and elevation and the distortion
Of the tubes themselves is largely due The
bending stresses at the point where the
tubes pass rather suddenly from solid rock
into soft mud have been so great as TO
crack some of the plates, and most OF the
delay on these tunnels has been due to
the necessity or repairing these broken
plates and restoring the grade of the tun-
mel at points where II had fallen below the
proper elevation.
The newest electric sign to glimmer on
Broadway reads mo tips" It is displayed
in front of large barber shop whose fur
nishing and equipments eclipse anything of
the kind in town. The shop is located In
the heart of the Rialto, In the first place,
fellow may get a feather edge hair cut
or a scrape at any hour of the night at
the regular matinee prices charged at the
other tonsorial houses Every known anti
septic measure has been provided for the
shop, which is thing of beauty. The bar
bers are not permitted TO tell customer
that his hair needs trimming or ask him II
| he wishes a massage or a shampoo no
tice has been posted on the wall of the
shop which reads: IF you have tipped
the barber please do not call again" The
| shop promises to be a great success, be-
cause In this city 10 cents for tip to your
barber is as essential as the 10 cents for
Woman's suffrage has received another
knockout blow, this time in Harlem. The
tale runs that a woman up there ven
| tured into the vicinage Of vice with SIS
and gambled away so out of that sum.
When her high finance was objected to by
the winners she broke the bank, or, rather,
its front windows, and summoned the DO
lice. This most ungentlemanly refusal to
bear an invited loss proves that woman
kind could never succeed in the political
| arena II the Harlem lady were defeated
In an aldermanic contest me glass trust
would die Of OyerWOrk