Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-03
Personal NOTES.

A Baltimore physician rises TO remark
that Americans have too much nerve for
their own good Certainly some OF them
have. Honore Jaxson OF Chicago, for ex-
ample.
The Department Of Agriculture Is soon
going to issue a bulletin devoted entirely
to beans. and 1t is believed that even
Boston will be able to learn a little some
thing from 1t.
Passengers on the Atlantic steamers have
observed red lights In the Iceberg district.
Managers OF tho ocean greyhounds are de-
termined to please and provide all the
characteristics of home.
Managers of the jamestown fair Jared
the historic harmony of the opening by
falling to give the Smiths a front seat in
the vocal exercises Is the pioneer family
a back number in Virglnia7
1t is the good fortune Of Vermont to have
fourteen living ex-governors, ranging in age
from "a years down to half century The
list is, Of course, headed by Frederick Hol-
brook of Brattleboro. the war governor
, DR.. Nelson C. y. Randolph, aged 70. a
great-srandson OF Thomas Jefferson. has
just died at Charlottesville, Va. For sew
enteen years he was a member Of the
Board Of Visitors of the University of
Virginia and for eight years rector Of that
institution.
Joseph Benson Foraker OF Ohio has been
fighting one way or another ever since at
the age of 16 he ran away from his home
to enlist in the union army when the civil
war broke out. AS a campaign speaker
he has been described as "a wizard and a
hypnOtist."
Thomas A. Edison has returned to New
York after spending a number Of weeks in
Florida and will at once start in the new
line of work he mapped out on his sixtieth
birthday. The inventor will hereafter do
vote his time to the purely scientific side
Of electrical work.
Senator Carmack, who is rather given to
telling characterizations of his colleagues,
said of Senator Spooners change of front
on the Philippine policy that the senator
from Wisconsin had endured the annexa-
ton of Hawaii, pitied the taking over of the
Philippines and embraced the seizure of
Panama
The German emperor has handsome in
come, but every penny of 1t comes to him
as king of Prussia and none as emperor.
The exact amount is one of the state
secrets. The fact Of his being at the head
of the German empire does not better the
king to the extent of dollar, though there
Is q certain amount given him to be used,
only, however. for charitable purposes.
]. p Morgan is preparing in London,
under the direction OF w. williamson the
noted English authority on miniatures, one
of the most sumptuous and costly volumes
ever published. It will contain reproduc-
lions in color of Mr.. Morgan's unrivaled
collection Of miniatures. Forty copies of
the superb book will cost $500 each and
forty more 8, $50 eAch-$l5o.O00 in all.
For the last eighteen months the car
has been virtually a prisoner in one Of his
own palaces and in the intervals of state
work he has solaced himself with compos-
ing music and writing verse. His poetry
is melodious and carefully polished and
his music is melancholy and inspired by
spirit of fatalism. Some three years ago
some of the cars poems were published
under the pseudonym of Olaf, with music
by his cousin, the grand duke of D'Assla
but he has himself set some Of his verses
to music with considerable amount Of
taste and a real knowledge Of harmony.
Nicholas II has a fine collection of violins,
of which he Is very proud.