Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-08
CURIOUS RECORDS OF 1910
Some Minor Events spiced with
Human Caprices.
ODD DOMes HERE AND THERE
New and strange Figures set
in Matrimony, Divorce. Print
ing, MIX, Money and a
villain

in the first twenty-four hours o. its ex-
istence last August, reported a water
works company a newspaper and a claim
for the county seat it also offered itself
all unconseiously as index to a year which
has been marked by nothing 80 much as
BY It's records" II has been a twelve
month Of high prices and high flying
noted alike for the Polish immigrants that
have come in and for the political lights
that have gone out. And. apropos OF i'm
migrants. Mistress Marie Tufer. formerly
Of Vienna, but now Of New York. has set
little record all Of her own by importing
twenty-one brothers. That Is. she came
over a year or so ago as the family
scout" so TO speak. liked Il here. and
now has invited the rest OF the family to
come and live with her. Mother and father
did not appear only because they died be-
fore the exodus began.
With such items as these two entered
upon the balance sheets Of its news ard
with ball player named Tucker pitching
eighteen hitless innings in a double
header" down at BesFemer. Ala; and with
Oscar Tamm Of St. Louis running his AUTO
mobile with the Stars and Stripes flying
from the steering gear Cof courseD. across
the arctic circle in far northern Sweden:
anu with one ROMAN lNOlhnQ puDusuluH
an eight-voIIme novel C'Jean Christopher
over in Paris. and the South Dakota
electors wrestling. on election day, with
ballot seven feet long-with such details
as these to be recounted, It becomes obvious
that 1910 has removed itself distinctly from
the rut of usual happenings
Pretty Pauline Chase. the well known
player Of Barrie roles. did an unusual thing
last May. for instance. She sailed from
England on the Fourth. reached New York
the 10th, took a prominent part that
night IN the Actors Fund fair and started
home the Mauretania next morning.
Comparing the relative sizes and general
attractveness Of the two trim little craft.
this was really a more noteworthy feat
than the nonstop voyage which the French
submarine Archimede made in October,
steaming from Cherbourg TO the mouth Of
the Gironde and back d,625 miles) in less
than five days.
A month after London's favorite Peter
/Pan'' had taken its transoceanlc jaunt
two Venetian blacksmiths, vianello
EugeniO aud zanardi Attalio, started round
the world on the oldest Of all tours. They
have undertaken TO push a barrel with
them-an ingenious contrivance divided
into two compartments one fitted with
swivel seat and the other other with a
bed-and they have wagered $4,000 they can
make the trip in twelve years, which allows
them something like seventeen miles day
for speed. But one wonders II blacksmithy
in Venice. of ell places under the canopy
is so lucrative as to mean capitals OF 5000
or more to each Of the fraternity.
Freak Festivities.
After this a Dancing Marathon" pales In
interest. though perhaps It's worth the
mention that six san Francisco couples
broke this particular record in March BY
waltzing increasingly fourteen hours and
forty-one minutes.
AS to years. 1910 has this to tell. A Hazel
ton CPa) silver wedding anniversary saw
the guests served with peaches put up by
the bIushlng bride the week before she
had gone TO the altar-and the guests didn
object either. At OrmOnts, Switzerland the
board at a village festival has been graced
by a cheese made In 17S5, hard as stone
and served with a saw, but. nonetheless'
most excellent" as the local paper
averred Thirdly, Mrs. Amy Winship Of
S2acne, Wis, has entered the Ohio state
university at Columbus. The peculiar fea-
ture OF this bit OF news is that the fresh
man has passed her eightieth birthday, now
electing philosophy. psychology and litera-
ture as the studies best suited to supple
ment the work she has been doing at a
summer school near home.
II was "A pathetic sort OF record which
George Hawkins. an inmate Of the Win
chester England workhouse, established
last spring. For the eleven years OF his
enforced residence there, though Of per-
fectly normal mind and with no impedi-
nent in his speech he had spoken never
a word; when spoken to, he would merely
smile an answer and obey orders. Il want
my clothes" ne suddenly said-the infer
ence being that he wished to leave for good
and all Refused the request. he sickeneo
and died. adding two other words not lona
before he breathed his last. Il want
he began; but the sentence was never com
pleted.
II there Is the suggestion OF freak in
this little tragedy, so there is, too in sucf
announcements as that Baltimore building
inspectors have been asked 70 pass upon az
application for a building, two inches wide
10 be erected on the corner OF Baltimor'
and Light streets that the Venice Part
Trolley company has begun business, neal
Atlantic City. over a line just eight block
long and that James Cummings of Custer
Mich. after thirty-two years OF patient an'
accomplishing waiting, has at last receives
from the federal treasury department
medal for his bravery in assisting In tn
saving Of forty-four lives during No
The Voting Record.
II paternal government was, In thi
case, a very dilatory Lady 'Bountiful,
It had company in its snall-like progress
There was the democratic convention, 4
the Fifth North Carolina district whic
took 43S ballots before IL could make up IL
composite mind that Major Charles Mani
OF Gulford was the proper one 70 nom
mate for the lower house Of congress
Then there was that Cornell professor VIII
made a standard-size cigar last him eighty
five minutes In the smoking-a fea
promptly outdone by Harry McKeddon.
Washington telegraph operator. who keI
his alight nine and half minutes longe
and he, in turn. then forced TO yiel
precedence IN this most economical Of a
contests 70 c. A. Butler, an insuranC
agent OF ArdmOre, Pa, who has ceruf
Gates 20 show the skeptical that hi