Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-08

and distributed ready for sale BY the fol
lowing Thursday evening
The harmless. necessary cow claims
place In such a chronicle as this. First
came a 3-year-old Holstein owned by
Dairyman lie Muuion Of Madison county.
New York. which Tor should II be 'who:''J
for a week In April averaged more than
eighty pounds Of milk a day Then Mis-
sJuu claimed first place with Josephine,
who earned S. 900 for her owner "a soul
less" corporation. by the way. being the
state university; for her 1875 pounds OF
milk was worth half that sum. at S cents
quart and her calf sold for the other
half But Illinois pressed beyond even this
and captured the prize. for A. o. Anten's
"Jacoba Irene" gave UP 1888 pounds OF
milk something over 5000 quarts. from
which 1000 pounds OF butter were made
Anyone who has been buying good butter
can figure out that Mr. Anten ought soon
to be paying off that mortgage.
speed Mania.
Mere speed has. as ever. played a big
part in all this record making and with
the grizzled soptuagenarian pedestrian,
Weston, covering 1855 miles from ocean to
ocean in seventy-seven walking days (he
receiving the handshake OF Mayor Gaynor
and the cheers Of a good twenty thousand
spectators on the second Of May. some
mention OF the way things have been go
ing some" Is in order
The Steamship st. Louis, American line.
started the ball a-rolling when the year
was only a fortnight old, by docking at
New York. unloading 1000 tons OF cargo,
I
ESQ bags Of mail TO go aboard) and clear
ing. all within twen,y-four hours. In
April the Cunarder Lusitania reeled off Goa
miles IN one days run, and when former
Vice President Fairbanks was coming
home, his steunch ship the Mauritania.
made the trip in four days, fifteen hours
and twenty-three minutes. Possibly the
gentleman was in a hurry to explain IN
person some OF those italian adventures
Then, that the navy might have some
thing 10 show alongside Of such doings BY
the merchant marine. the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Paulding. burning oil as well as
| time, made a trial trip Of Rockland. Ne
| attaining 32S knots an hour-a speed un-
equaled by any other naval croft afloat
! on terra Gotta" (as Mrs Malaprop
would surely have put IT., a Michigan Cen
trail train thought 1t did first rate in get
ting over the 112 miles between st. Thora,
| and Windsor, on the Canadian Southern
| division, in ninety-two minutes; but thi,
| looked slow TO Barney OIdfield so he wen
down to Daytona and drove his 200 horse
power Benz car a straightaway mile n
twenty eight and one-fifth seconds, which
figures out 20 something better than III
miles TO the hour. After which the fastest
coaching seems stationary, though the
New York whip, Paul sorg, turned mic,
little trick few days after the FIords
happening by tooling his coach, "AI
Sport down to Atlantic City in exactly
fourteen hours and a quarter. That meant
lS6 miles Of road, with the Staten Islanc
hills thrown in. and one should deduc
the eighty minutes spent in making sixteer
changes Of horses.
Matrimonial Oddities.
Herman Brown, Esq. Of the Minnesota
College of Agriculture, in one well-em
ployed day, offered himself to exactly
twenty-three fair co-eds at that institution
| OF learning, and every last one of them re
fused him. It's a record" all right; bu
two comments suggest Themselves First
why in the world did the young man choos,
the number twenty-three? Secondly. a.
there are 965 days in a normal twelvemonth
It will be possible for him, at the rate h,
has now established, to make SOS pro
posals before the calendar again bring
around his bad day; and. with any kind o
luck, one out OF that number should say
Yes
The captain OF the Oceana, from New
York TO Bermuda. had quite differen
view OF the matrimonial market ofrere'
him, for his cabin list showed fifty-tw
couples OF newiy-weds. That was on tn
tenth Of February so Mr. and Mrs. o. I
M. Unger Of New York could not hav
been Of the party, as they were wedde
on the eighteenth: but they set a recon-
at that ceremony Unger, an acrobat, wa
granted a divorce at p. m. on the day 4
question. At sos, via taxicab, he was tax
ing out license for No at the city hal
and Alderman White had been summoned
Malenie Brigel. the bride-to-be, was aIread
there. White arrived at 500 and at 81
the marriage had been performed. Unge
says the proper motto for any acrobat
Celebrity and Accuracy" He ought I
know.
As to divorces. the usual ugly story ha
been told times over. In April the Bib
county court. sitting at Macon, Ca
granted thirty-six in two hours (not fou
minutes per CASEY, in one instance ar
proving the husbands appeal on N
ground that his wife had been drinking a
his whisky. Sterling. ILL.,. however, bea
that complaint, in November, when jaime
, Conkling asked for release from the maj
ital bond because Mrs. Conkling refuse
! 70 keep up with the styles. Not only ha
she tabooed peach basket hats and hobbl
skirts, but she had even gone two Who'll
: years without buying a new gown Of an
sort.
Just over the state line, in Indiana, the
; take marriage differently; at least IN
=, Parkers do. Mrs. Everett. OF that name q