Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-14
QUAINT NEWS OF The YEAR
Odd and Interesting Happenings
!. Bunohed for Review.
BARIOUs BUGS OF HUMANITY
Coincidence and Cnpers Of Infinite
Variety which serve as spice
for Current News.

for Currsnt News.
Human interest"
The newspaper reader. consciously or
not. Is always looking for il. and it takes
no long experience to show him that Doe
is not apt TO find IL first page. top col
umn." History may be chronicled there.
but. an sood Hannah More once wrote:
It's trifes make the sum Of human
things" and back" I'm his paper, half
buried, perhaps, among the real estate
items will be usually come upon the un-
considered little things" which best tell
the Joys and sorrows in response 20 which
the worlds heart beats
Nineteen ten has proved this over and
over again. January began the story on
It's very first day when a Philadelphia
man. Frank Angelo. reported himself at
the Pennsylvania hospital for treatment
His heart was giving him no end OF trouble
every time he looked az pretty girl He'd
turn dizzy and the pavement would rise
and fall like the deck of ship at sea
The doctors said they hadn't had a case
on the records ike # since 81. and Angelo,
when dismissed. took a solemn vow al
ways to look the other way when passing
the Quaker city maidens
To jump across the continent. the same
initial month Of the twelve. brought the
oldest OF happenings 70 p. w. seversen
OF Portland, ore. Back in 80. rather than
lose a weeks wages and a shotgun. which
he had lent his employer. he took (under
protest. a corner lot. 50xlOO feet. On the
day in question Il sold for just $4,000.
Looking for her share Of something OF a
like sort. Mrs. sumeral Dennis Of Dade-
IN. rutrrra a claim n ueuHi0n
in January, and loi the bureaus annals
showed that her very patriotic husband
had died three times; in 1876. after service
in tina war OF ~; In ~. after having been
present al ali the Mexican fighting, and
now (again) few years ago. with a civil
war experience for grateful government $
consideration.
A sOIOmOneaque Rule.
Under the Identical date Of this last dis
patch. Indianapolis told the world Of a
local solomon, Mayor Shank, hearing two
cases Of violation of the saloon closing
law. ordered the saloons in question shut
up untf1 the owners had attended church
on at least one Sunday morning and had
remained throughout the service. The
clergyman must attest the fact in writ
ing,
aid as well as this when, last March. he
decided that John Buckson, arrested for
drunkenness. couldn't fairly be fined the
usual dollar as he had wooden les, which
naturally was not affected. You're prob
ably two-thirds drunk" was the decision.
'1tn cost you just 81 cents"
When Judge Mulowney Of Washington,
examining William Thomas as to the state
Of his mind. asked him the name Of the
president OF the country, and heard the
replv; "Ah doan rightly know jedge'
There's Mist Taft an there's TEDDY ne
found the man wholly sane.
Most curious of all the legal causes OF
the year. however. was one reported from
stockholm. where Albert Vystroem had
heen fRhtinR Ia the courts for his skele-
ton some years ago he signed con-
tract with the Royal Institute OF Anatomy
making over his body, after death In re-
turn for a present sum Of money Ihen
he came into an unexpected fortune aho
tried 10 cancel the deal. The case was not
onlv decided against hiR but he was or
dered 10 pay damages TO the party OF the
second part for having had two teeth e&-
traeted without their permission.
Another couple OF items of not dis
similar sort were these: Judge Lea OF ~
Paso showed his regard for ST. PatricA
- v.,eas,nq ALI Irishmen brought before
him on March II under bail OF a shain-
vocl, zach and an East Liverpool COhlol
rand turv found George Browns theft OF
come ostrich plumes, valued ordinarily
NJ s5O. only a petit larceny as was
harQain day when he helped himself-the
v1,,mea had been marked down to t2S
fAna possibly the figure suggested the
attemptD -,
w snenoer Smith Of New York. dinins
a. the ST Charles at Atlantic city maae
vet better bargain on January % Tor IN
a single oyster he bit upon no less than
nine pearls, which later proved worm
several hundred dollars. fornigh'
later. Andrew Carnegie announced We
made ND my mind not TO make any more
money If can help it," It's matter o.
polnt-of-vtew as to which happening wa
the odder.
Novel bargains.
somewhat like the Swede and his
sheleton was Chicago man who otrerec
h,s corpse (when there should be one!l
10 the highest bidder, and poet-chap II
Omaha who advertised to lease hiiilsei'
for a year under any reasonable terms
nut Cornelius Pace Of Beverly n .
want Ali these a rev petNoi' 80 w.
ing n shoelnaking business TO one Anto
Mo Flourers, and his wife deciding ina
sha preferred Flourers to Pace she wal
throv,n in" for full measure; shop VIII
and All changing owners for 80
This naturally brings the ladies into TN
question. and 1919 made several entries
conosrning them. In the first place ther
~ Mrs. Elena d. Smith, who Tor nv
vears posed successfully as q man. all
Vim A g. 500 bet from Boston physi
clan. Then there was Mrs. Amy D. WIN
snip of Racine. wis, who. in spite OF ne
40 wears. entered the Ohio state uniVersi''
Al columbus, elecung philosophy psy
obolosy and literature as studies pes
suited TO supplement the time she ma
lust been spending at summer sehoo
near her home.
In october, South Bend lnd.' wlthesss
the marriage OF Grace Gilbert and Gle
Is. CALVIN. the cutoff he-ordinary oeOA'
here being that the bride had bear
eighteen inches long. while the groom
could boast Of no more than very shn
mustache.
49,. nath.rt Ysvas heat all OF thes