Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 20, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Paily Morning Edition) including Sunday Bxr, Ono Year prydetveend | Six Months .. ‘ hiree Montha .. . . he Omaha Sunday BEE, mailed 1o any ad- @ dress, One Yenr.. 2 OMARA OFFICE, NOS.GUAND 018 FARNAN STREET. NEW YORK OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUN® DING, WABHINGTON OFFICE, NO. b13 TERNTI STRERT, CORRBSPONDENCE, o 11 communications relating to news and edi- Sorial matter Ahouid be adaressed to the EDITOR THE BEE. s RUSINESS LETTE 11 business lettors and remittances should ba dressed to THm TER PUBLISHING COMPAXY, MAIA. Drafts, checks and postofiice orders 10 ‘made payable to the ordor of the cOmMPANY. e Bee Publisting Company. Proprictors ROSEWATER, Editor. B Fou THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, & ing company, does solemily swear that the sctual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ing May 18, 1885, was as follows. tro, 2 5 i becribed in my preschcs tits Eworn to and sul ed in nlm(v llzram-nca 19th day of May, A. D., 188, N.P. FEIL, i Y Notary Puablic. State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, {ss George B, Tzachuck, being first duly sworn, lepases and suys that Tie is secretary of Tho ied ublishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of May, 1857, was 14,227 copies: for June, 1887, Ve R T IR R R L R e R o] for August, 187, 14,151 coples; for September, 1887, L4240 coptes? tor Qotober, 1867, 14,41 copled: fof Ovember, 18¢7, 1,22 copies; for December, . 16041 coplés; for January, 188, 15,200 cop! i, for Februnry, 1, 16,00 cople for March, 1684, 19,089 coples: for April, 744 coples. : BEO! By 128CHUCK. Sworn to betore mo and’ sibscribed in thy pres: this 24 d f M A.D. ence this 30 Ay o XFRiL, Notary Pubiie. 11 is reported that three burglars broke into Jay Gould’s house on the Hudson, last Tuesday night. Being men, very expert in their business, they escaped without being robbed. Mg. JAMES G. BLAINE, late of Maine, now of Florence, is apparently playing + with the republican party what was for- merly known as the thimble-rig game. Now I accept—now I decline. Now-you see it—now you don’t. —_— It is stated that the reason of Church . Howe’s absence from the republiean state convention was because he was to receive a large sum of money in Lin- coln. The explanation is very plausi- ble, and nothing but more stuff would have kept Church away. I7 is rumored that adistinguished re- w= Ppublican politician, who has been a can- didate for every office within the gift of his party—when his party was,properly clubbed—has decided to change the spelling of his name. Hereafter he will call himself John M. Thirstin’. It is remarkable how the Sunday elosing movement 1s extending through ‘the country. Cities which have been regarded as impregnable against the order ‘where the saloon clement has ‘been all powerful have gracefully ac- ceded to the popular demand. Chi- eago, Cincinnati, Kansas City and St. Louis close all places: of business on Sunday and the saloons are not made an exception to the rule. A DRAMATIC event is to take place in New York city which is of more than local importance. Asa testimonial to Lester Wallack, the famous actor and manager, ‘‘Hamlet” is to be produced at the Metropolitan opera house with a cast never before equalled on any stage. “The list numbers many stars and promi- ment persons whose names are house- hold words all over the country. It is an intercsting and graceful tribute of the profession when the leading actors of America associate themsclves to pay their respects to one of their own number. The stars who appear in the play are the following: Edwin Booth plays Hamlet; Barrett plays the ghost; Frank Mayo, Claudius; Joen Gilbert, Polonius; Eben Plympton, Laertes; Joseph Jeflerson, first grave digger; ‘William J. Florence, second grave dig- ger; Modjeska, Ophelia; Rose Eytinge, Queen Gertrude; Rose Coghlan, the Player Queen. Besides these principal motors, Milnes Levick, Joseph Whee- lock, Frank Mordaunt, Herbert Keleay and others fill up the minor parts. Even the supernumeraries and auxilia- ries are to be taken by prominent mem- bers of the profession. The excellence to which the stage aspires, especially in preserving Shakespeare’s immortal fragedy. will never surpass the coming production under the above auspices. —— IN Matthew Arnold’s last criticism on America, he warned his countrymen with elaborate assurances that the peo- ple of the United States were, as a na- tion, uninteresting. One would sup- pose that such an unfavorable recom- mendation would inspire Englishmen with no desire of visiting us, But the effect is likely to be opposite from what might have been expected on the Eng- lish mind. It is currently reported that the Prince of Wales is coping over to see how uninteresting we are, while hundreds of Englishmen are pre- paring to make a descent upon America before another year. It is to be hoped that they will carry back some impres- slons of America not altogether as bad as Mr. Arnold painted them. Ever since *‘Buffalo Bill” wentto England and eaptured the British heart and pocket, Englishmen have had their eyes opened ® one phase of American life, The cowboy and the “‘wild west” show were certainly sufficiently picturesque and interesting to excite the British fmagination. Thanks to Colonel Cody, the Inglishman has now a vivid picture fn his mind of “western civilization.” Bome of his rose-tinted smpressions may posiibly be exaggerated. But his appe- tite has been whetted., He is coming over to Ameriea, in spite of Mr, Arnold’s warning, to satisfy his curiosity. He may be disappointed in not finding here mll the features so dramatically pro- duced in the wild west show. But il be weturns to England after paying us a long visit, and sets s down us an uuin- Sercstiug, prosy mnation, he will out- Arnold Matthew Aroold in his lack of #poreciation of Awerican civilization, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SBUNDAY, MAY 20, 1888 —~SIXTEEN PAGES. VOIOR OF THR STATE PRESS, The Beatrics Dcrgc figures it out this Time For Reflection. The annual election of members of the board of education which will take place two weeks hence involves inter- osts of vital moment to the patrons of our public schools and taxpayers of Omaha generally. Our board of educa- tion has not only supreme control over the entire public school system, but it is also vested with the management of our school property. By its almost anto- cratie power our hoard of education is in position to disorganize and ruin our school system and rob our taxpayers. The board may at will employ or dis- miss every man or woman on the public school payroll, from superintendent down to the janitor of the tumble-down 12x24 frame school house. The board may at will diseard and abolish well- tried, efficient, common sense training, substitute new-fangled methods of teaching and foist upon us costly un- called for branches of instruc- tion for no other object than to make places for personal favor- ites and please political friends., The board may at pleasure change text books for which thousands of dollars had been expended, and order the purchase of new books on the most frivolous pre- tense. To be sure, the superintendent is occasionally called on to express an opinion, but his advice is more fre- quently overruled than carried out, and his anxiety to please the board practi- cally nullifies his personal preferences. But the power of the board for m chief, recklessness and extrava- gance is by no means limited by the indiscriminate promotion of favorites and the raising of their salar- ies, the investment in cooking school trumpery and highly flavored and high- priced pies. That isa mere bagatelle in the long run, when compared to the board’s real estate operations. The board not only has supreme control over several million dollars’ worth of hool property but it has unlimited scope in the location, purchase and sale of school grouuds, erection of school houses and exchange of school property for prop- which it may deem e de- able, with the incidental privilege of engaging in the school furniturc business, and the selection of steam and hot air furnaces, heating fixtures, ven- tilators, lightning rods, fire escapes, sidewalk material and what not. Summed up in a nutshell, the school board of Omaha handles over half million dollars a year, which is quite respectable business and requires in- telligence, business capacity, and above all things the highest degree of integ- rity on the part of each member of the board. 4 Have we such material in the present school board? No doubt that four or five of this body are capable, honest and trustworthy. The rest are mere driftwood, floated upon the community through the sluices of the political sewer. In the face of the experience of the past year, and in defiance of the aims and objects of the law, which separated the elections of the school board from all political elections, the strikers, fifers and drummers of the town wards are again conferring together for a straight-out political convention to nom- inate a school board. Against this attempt to pack the school board with political hacks Tie BEE has time and again pro- tested. It will combat against a parti- zan school board again,and we trust this time its appeal will not fall upon deaf ears. Our best citizens owe it to themselves and to their children to re- sist every attempt to degrade the public school system to the pot-house politician level. ——— Omaha's Advantages. That the natural resources of this country are still matters of speculation few question and none deny. The finds of the past few months in Dakota and Wyoming add new mint to the enter- prise and energy of the great west. Aside from the precious metals in Da- kota we find wonderful mines of tin, copper and iron, and in Wyoming oil, petroleum and coal, extensive and fine, which, when properly developed and operated,will doubtless produce sufficient, of these commodities to supply the demand of the western portion of our country and possibly of the whole union. This is no idle talk. A few years ago Nebraska was considered a part of the great Amer- ican desert. Her future was wholly in the shadow. To-day, in agriculture and grazing, no one questions in pos- sibilities but that she stands without a peer in the whole sisterhood of states, and yet the time was when those who settled within her borders were con- sidered very foolish, mildly putting the conclusions of the intelligent (?) fossils of the east. Thirty-five years ago Omaha was known as an Indian trading point, thought to be located somewhere be- yond the marts of civilization, the home of the lawless and where lawlessness reigned supreme. But the veil now rises upon a city of magnificent proportions, keeping abreast with the times from every standpoint of consideration, promising development commensurate with every surrounding and markets sccond to none for the re- gion she represents. Not long since in conversation with a gentleman of cul- ture and wealth this abrupt statement was made by him: *‘In fifty years there will be but three principle cities in the United States—New York, Omaha and San Francisco.” Doubtless some fossils of the day will Jaugh and suneer at the idea, but the growth and development of the west during the past quarter of a century gives some promise of its truth. Geographically considered Nebraska is the central state of the union. Omaha lies midway between the great cities of the cast and west. The influence of tin, copper, iron, oil, petroleum and coal within easy reach, must be felt in commercial cirvcles and a manutacturing impetus is certainly just ahead, such as we have never before known or felt, The commodities in the tervitories named are no matter of ques- tion. PFirst reports have not only been confirmed, but positive proof has been furnished that they abound, So, with this question fairly settled, operation and development of the miues and wells are the ouly needs, to furnish the raw materials for the hand of the mane ufacturer and mechanic. With railway facilities reaching out in every direc- tion and water that will live with the life of the “Old Muddy,” where is the intelligence, pray, that will deny the possibilities that certainly lie within reach? Oil men pro- nounce the find in Wyom= ing equal to that of the famous oil regions of Pennsylvania, and the petroleum and coal is said to be of very superior quality. Dukota’s find, 80 abundant and substantial, with Ne- braska's greatness in agriculture and grazing, sottles Omaha's future beyond all question, and the time is not far dis- tant when she will have no par in the central union unless it be Chicago. —_— The Pinkerton Outlaws. The right of Captain Foley and his Pinkerton specials to act in Omahn was derived from the consent of the police commission and in several instances from the sheriff of Douglas county, who is said to have made them Lis deputies. It goes without saying that the pre- tended commissions held by these men from the Omaha police commission are void by reason of their being issued without authority of law, and so are the documents pretending to deputize them as sheriffs. But this can in no way effect the rights of Captain Foley and his Pinker- ton mercenaries to exercise police pow= ers at Plattsmouth. On the contrary, if Foley and his company of imported soldiers have acquired the right to do police duty in Omaha they can under no pretense play deputy sherifl in S county. A deputy to the sheriff of Douglas county must be a_resident and. citieen of Douglas county and a deputy to the sheriff of Cass county must be a resident of that county. Nobody can possibly be a resident of two counties at the same time any more than he can be a citizen of two states at the same time. Now Governor Thayer has taken the po- sition that he could not interfere with the Pinkerton mercenari beeause he has no knowledge -that they came into the state armed, and becau ther, they have been deputized licemen and sheriffs in the diffe towns. But how can these non- merceneries arm themselves in one county with guns, revolvers and clubs, and mavch into another county to inter- fere with its peaceable citizens, or, for that matter, with citizens that are tur- bulent? Are not Captain Foiey and the armed force that marched down to Plattsmouth at the beck of the Burling- ton road justly araenable to the criminal code, and is it not about time for Governor Thayer to take cognizance of this palpable invasion of the rights of our citizens in hiring avmed non-residents, even if the Cass county citizens are subservient to the Burling- ton road and fail to do their duty. Has not the governor the right to order the attorney general to proceed at once and prosecute these lawless patrolmen in the criminal courts. It certainly does seem that something should be done without further ceremon Where is Our Enterprise? While Omaha is dallying, un ain whether to inaugurate a Temple of Ceres festival, ambitious cities east and west are making eXtensive preparations to hold expositions and fairs of one kind or another. Chicago is now endeavor- ing to establish a permanent exposition which shall illustrate the growth, pro- ducts and resources of the west. Den- ver is reviving the milling and mining exposition, wherein the mingral pro- ducts of the western mines shall be dis- played. In the east it is the ambition of Pittsburg to eciipse Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Memphis in the way of an exposition and music hall. A wmetropolis must reach out in the world of art and amusement and make itself a center of attraction as well as a business market. The quicker that Omaha wakes up to a realization of this fact, the better it will be for her com- mercial interests. It is the same prin- ciple which induces the business man to make an attractive display of his choicest merchandise in his store win- dows. He calls the attention of the public by his artistic dvaping. He tickles the aesthetic side of the pur- chaser, and by every deyice to please the eye he encourages him to buy. It ought not to be necessary at this day to elaborate argument to prove to intelli- gent business men the commercial ad- vantages of such public enter- prises as many cities are now contemplating, and which it is proposed Omaha shall undertake. Their value in this particular has been s0 generally and fully demonstrated that it is fairly to be presumed no one who attaches any worth to his opinion will gaiusay it. And the value is not merely temporary, existing only during the circumstance of the attraction. It is prolonged and permanent. — A NEW JERSEY admirer left to Henry George a fat legacy for the purpose of spreading his doctrine, But the courts refused to carry out the provisions of the will, not because the testator’s mind was unbalanced, but because Henry George's teachings was unsound, New Jersey justice is nothing if not original. Tur queen of Spain has sent an invi- tation to President Cleveland to be pres- ent at Barcelona at an unveiling of a statue of Christopher Columbus. From present indications Mr. Cleveland is much more interested in the unveiling of his presidential boomlet in June than in a celebration over such anold Ameri- can as Chris, e——— Tue letter carriers of the country are anxiously hoping that Mr. Cleveland will sign the bill establishing eight hours as the limit of their day’s work. It could not have gone to him at a more auspicicus time for these faithful ser- vants of the people. m—— Hans Pretzel. Chicago Times. The Brooklyn Eagle says the pretzel is practically a thing of the past; that it is now seldom seen on the counter of the beer hall. It would be muck more interesting to hear from Milwaukee than from Brooklya ou the s puraai subjeck 4 r: “Since Thurs- Pacifio; Charley way, and waita for ton ropresents the Greene the B. & M. 1oy Bates the Rock Island, and Pat Egaw fréland, the question has been asiked, “Who=will represent No- braska at the Chicago convention!" After reading that Bates, the Rock attornoy i Wymore Union of this county outside fof Beatrice, should- begin to sce that they ofn gain nothing by voting at every congeritign as some Beatrice politician may dictate; It is time that the outside precincts shoglghave an understand ing among themselgos, that their rights might receive some recognition from the con- vention, The Defender, at Arlington, after viewing the situation, gives expression to this: Is it not a plain statement that he who gets millions by piracy, or robbery, or fraud, or by induciwg the government to tax the peo- ple or give him the power to tax them, for his enrichment, does not enrich the world? By 80 much as he is richer others are poorer. The wealth he has, existed before he took it. Ho has impoverished others, and instead of lifting up society and lightening the burden of humanity, he has accumulated that which he cannot use or enjoy, but simply holds to prevent others from enjoying. The Crete Vidette offers the following on the death of young Jamieson: A newspaper man named J. A, Jamieson was severely clubbed in Omaha the other day by Officer Bloom for resisting arrest. After suffering great pain for several days, the poor fellow died on Sunday last. It ought to be as great acrime for a *‘peeler” to beat a man to death as it would be for a man to beat a ‘“‘pecler’ to death, but Bloom, instead of being pun- ishied for his crime, will probably receive the congratulations of his fellow-toughs for having “done" the newspaper man, A club should not be allowed as a part of a police- man's equipage, but if it must go along to give dignity to the position, it should ve in the hands of a man, not an inhuman wreteh, The Fremont Tribune, under the head of “Indecent Puppies,” gives vent to the fol- lowing: At the state convention held at Omaha Tuesday night there were a number of asses rampant, It was not the first time these dolts were conspienous fools and outraged decency. There are a cer lot of bummers from various sections of the state who usually manage to get into such. conventions, es- pecially when honest people are not alert at the primaries. And they improve every op- portunity to disgrace the party, themselves and their relations for generations back and their progeny to come. On this particular occasion General Van Wiyck, a delegate from Otoe county, read a series of resolutions which he had prepared. When he had_finished, these red-mouthed idiots broke into a churus of jeers and cater- wauls and yelps, as bofitted their natures, I'he Tribune objects to this sort of thing in any couvention or public gathering. Every speaker has h right to a respectful hearing and consideration. Suppose these insolent puppies did not coincide with the views expressed in e rdsolutions, it was still their manifest dut®to be decent. If a majority of the convention decided, after an arbitrament of logic, that they could not en- dorse the resolutions, that opinion could have been rendered ina quiet and effectual way by ballot and no mother have been dis- graced by a son who was plainly not a gen- tleman. This is not intended as any defense of Van Wyck or his resolubions, but us a plea for simple decenc; i PROMINENT PERSONS. Two sons of Charles Dickens and one son of Anthony ‘Proliope are in the stock raising business in Australia, Mrs. Hayes is an carly riser. She gets through much of her daily pile of corre- spondence before breakfast, Dr. Lyman Abbott is to be invited to be- come the permanent pastor of Henry Ward Beecher's old church, Brgoklyn, Mgr. Persico, the papal legate to Ireland, was once acting parish priest at Sillery, in the Province of Quebec, Canada, Mrs, Grant has received $411,000 as her share in the profits of General Grant's memoirs, of which 310,000 sets have boen sold. James Russell Lowell says that the love of poetry is too often affected—that there are plenty of people who hate the sound of rhyme. The noted Yale college athlete, Walter C. Camp, is to be married on June 30 to Miss Alice G. Sumner, sister of Prof. Sumner of Yale, g Chief Justice Waite is said to have left un- finished an important mongraph on the title under which are held the lands of north- western Ohio. Mrs. Florence Wischenwetsky, the gifted daughter of William D, Kelley, is one of the brainiest women ever graduated by the Cor- nell university. Mr. Cope Whitehouse, formerly of Chicago, but now of Alexandria, Egypt, is at the head of the company that proposes o drain the Delta of the Nile. So courteous is Senator Turpie, of Indiana, that he got up the other day and surrendered his seat in the senate chamber to a visiting lady—a proceeding that was more polite than parliamentary. Mrs, Cornelus Vanderbilt, who was re- cently presented to the queen, reccived sev- eral lessons from a professional teacher of deportment in regard to backing from “the presence” and bowing to majesty. A. Bates, the Harvard Freshman, is pitching his 'varsity nine into first place in the intercotlegiate base ball serics. There is no show for Yale until the Harvard young- ster A. Bates his speed, as it were. Ex-Mayor Morgan H. Bulkeley of Hart- ford, celebrated his retircment from office the other day by a very graceful act, He presented to the city portraits of all the may- ors for the past 100 years, which he had col- lected aud framed uniforimly at no small ex- pense. ' A correspondent describes Mrs, Irene Rucker Sheridan, wife of Licutenant Gen- eral Sheridan, as one of the most beautiful and accomplished women In Washington, She was born at old Port Union, in New Mexico, and at the ‘capital is called a ““Daughter of the Army."” President Seelye of Amherst college, is gifted with & remarkabié memory. He is able to greet by name every living graduate of the college whom he has ever met, and freshmen who have not been in college a week are surprised to hear the president address them by their first names, Lafayette Grover, United States senator from March 4, 1877, to March 33, visited the unational capitol Thursdy Or the first time since he vacated his seat in the senate chamber. Mr. Grover had just returned from Europe. He took his seat in the senate on the day of Rutherford B. Hays' inauguration to the presidency. Mr. Fuller, who has been nomiuated for chief justice of the supreme court, was once @ legislative reporter at the Maine capital. Ou one occasion he made & wager that on the following day in his report, he would put a Shakespearean phrase in the mouth of every member who spake. He did it, even to the member who made the motlon to adjourn. On the day following the house was so well pleased with the work of the young reporter that it grew magnanimous and voted him an extra supply of pencils and rubbers, He was called out from his work, complimented and called upon for a speech. To Poets Who Sing Not. By Oliver Wendell Holmes. When evening’s shadowy fingers fold The flowers of every hue, Some shy, haifopened bud will hold Its drop of morning's dew. Swoeter with every sunlit hour The trembling sphere has grown, Till all the fragrance of the fower Becomes at last its own. We that have sung perchance may find Our little meed of praise, And round our pallid temples bind The wreath of fading days. Al, Poet, who hast never spent Thy breath in idle strains, For thee the dew-drop morning lent ‘Still in thy heart remains; Unwasted, in its perfumed cell It waits the evening gale; Then to the azure whenoe it fell Its lingering sweets exhale. o Bkt They Arein the Ring. Lincoln Demoerat, Thus four months in advance of the real struggle—for membors of the logislature— the railroads have given notice that they are in the fight. Leaving out of consideration the merits of their side of the controversy, they oxpose their designs, waste their ammuni- tion, inake needless enemies, hoist their of- fensive creatures into the gaze of a hostile public, and otherwise acquaint their oppon- ents with their designs and the power they can bring to bear to accomplish them. e, Turn on Another Screw. Attanta Constitution. ‘When George Rice, arival of the Standard Oil company in refining coal oil, was able to ship a barrel of oil over the Louisville & Nashville railroad at thirty cents a barrel, while the Standard Oil company was only paying fifteen conts, the railrond officers re- ceived this telegram from an agent of the tandard : Turn on another screw. This advise promptly followed, This screw was turned, and George Rice was com- pelled to pay fifty cents per barrel. Just how much of this icreased rate the Standard Oil company got is not known, but whether it got much or little, the turn of the W amounted to robbery. The increased charge was made, not for the benefit of the public or the railroad, but for the benefit of a pow- erful oveanization, A e Not Shut Down For Effect. Springfield Republican. Arthur T. Lyman, treasurer of the Lowell carpet company, writes a business-like letter toa local paper in regard to the shutting down of the factory, in which he says the “mill is run not on theory, but for practical business, and is not stopped to produce po- litical effect”—a statement which ought to be taken as a well-merited rebuke in certain quarters at this time. Mr. Lyman further declares that free wool would be a great boon to New England manufacturers, and would do little harm anywhere. This is a fact that is coming to be generally recognized among business men everywhere. It only remains for such men as Mr. Lywman to stand by their convictions in the matter, and re- fuse to be bullied by the southwestern ranchmen, to bring about a realization of this great boon. —_——— A Democratic Tribute. New York World, Mr. Gresham has a splendid record as a soldier. He was abold and ready fighter, twice severly wounded. This could not fail to tell against a presidential candidate whose righteous veto of pension bills, through a sense of duty which should win him only houor, has offended a portion of the veterans. Judge Gresham has been tested in civil sta- tion and found able, Heis an upright and fearless judge, not the least of whose distine tions it is that he has earncd the enmity of Juy Gould. He has ugl sought the presi- dency, but has expressed great contempt for any judicial ofticer who would soek it. His views upon the tariff are more moderate and reasonable than those of Mr. Blaine, and therefore more in harmony with a growing feeling among the republicans of the west in favor of a judicious return of the war duties. He is likewise acceptable on account of his character and independence, to a portion of the mugwumps, These are the reasons why, with Mr. Blaine out of the field, Judge Gresham is likely to develop strength in the republican convention. —_— Will. Ella Wheeler Wileor. There is no cLance, no destiny, no fate Can circumvent, or hinder, or control The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone 1s great; All things give way before it soon or late, What obstacle can stay the mighty force Of the sea-secking river in its course, Or cause the asconding orb of day to wait? Each well-born soul must win what it deserves, Let the fool prate of luck. The fortunate Is he whose ecarnest purpose never swerves, ‘Whose slightest action or inaction serves The one great afm, ‘Wh, en Death stands still, And waits an hour sometimes for such a will, —_——— ROYALTY, Lord North's eldest son is the owner of a buteher shop, The ex-Empress Eugenie will again be the guest of Queen Victoria at Osborne this sum- mer, The Shah of Persia has requested the ladies of his harem to learn the piano and promises prizes for proficiency. The queen of England was so charmed with Florence that she contemplates pur- chasing a residence near Fiesole, Queen Victoria has sent to the Glasgow ex- hibition two table napkins manufactured from yarn spun by her own hands, Princes Metternich, of Vienna, assisted by fifty member of the nobility, recently gave a concert for a charitable purpose, Queen Natalie, of Servia, who is residing 1 Florence with her son, has become much talked of for the beauty of her luxuriant black silky hair, Haruka, empress of Japan, will visit America next winter, traveling in state with a dozen maids of honor, numberless officials and every incident of luxury. Crown Prince Witliam of Germany inher- its his mother's gift of drawing. Two of his pictures were sold a fow days ago at auction in Berlin and realized good prices. The- Earl of Dudley, who will attain his maturity May 25, will be an elegant catch for some tuft-hunting American woman, His ncome is estimated at 1,000,000 a year. King Leopold of Belgium, recently pur- chased a copy of General Graut's book, and Le has recommended the study of Awmerican history in the schools and colleges of his kingdom, Isabella, the ex-queen of Spain, has grown 80 stout that she has bad to have a carriage wade with an opening at the back that falls and forms a doorway to allow her to enter. It cost $5,000, The duke of Edinburg, who is noted for his stinginess is in the habit of havie« bis frock coals made With removable buttons 5o that the samo coat can be used either for uniform or crvilian dress, Prinoe Bismacrk has been much coneerned about his private affairs lately, as the inunda- tions near Varnzin swoept away three of his largest saw-mills, in which several hundrods of workmen were regularly employed. The queen of Belgium, who has just left Brusscls on a three weeks' visit to her daugh- ter, Crown Princess Stephanio of Austria, has taken with her to Vienna a little five- year-old girl, The latter is to be brought up with the only child of the Crown Princess, the littlo Archduchess Elhzabeth, for the purpose of rendering the latter accustomed to the French language. Lord Charles Beresford, who says the British navy is in a rotten condition, is a fairly good reproduction of the old dev may-care type of British tar. He is bow- legged. Ho played unlimitod and dangerous pranks as a middy, fought a regular prize fight later on, and won it, in & Whitechapel barn on & Sunday morning, and in many other ways has worked into the hearts of his countrymen, The most picturesque potentate in Europe is the baby king of Spain, who has just cut his first teeth. He isa very large child for his age and has the faco of an old man. He isto bo loft entirely to the care of women until he is seven years of age, when a tutor and master will take charge of him until he is sixteen. At that age he will supersede the queen rogent at the head of the Spanish government. Poor boy! He will have more glory than fun in this world, Emperor Willlam is not alone in his misery as a dying monarch, The emperor of Brazil is dangerously sick, the kings of Holland, Portugal and Wurtemburg have incurable diseases, the infant king of Spain 18 not likely to live to manhood, and the crown princess of Russia, Ttaly, Germany and Ba- den are all seriously afflicted with maladies which may at any time lead to fatal results, The present emperor of China had until a short time ago cight nurses, twenty-five far- mers twenty-five palanquin-béarers, ten um- brella holders, thirty physicians and sur- geons, seven gastromomical directors, twenty-seven inferior cooks, fifty waiters and messengers, fitty dressers, and othor at- tendants to the number of 400. Seventy-five astrologers, sixteen tutors and sixty priests cared for his spiritual and mental welfare. In spite of all this the emperor is said to be a very worthy and good-natured young man, CHAFF. Frank Hunt, a former real estate agent in oux City, but now owner of the town site of South Sioux City, Neb., said Thursday *I was looking over Omaha yesterday—for the first time. I have been here before— dozens of times—but yesterday was tho first time to see all its entorprises and business blocks. While I am fighting for Sioux City and have faith in my town, there is no use to talk. Omaha isthe finest city in the west and her pros- pects are so flattering that Sioux City might as well abundon the blind race of catching up. Here is room for 500,000 people—and ultimately they will be here.” - e t's the same now as it was twenty years ago,” said Governor Thayer. “A little poli- tics will always excite men. The most in- different citizen will be chosen a delegate to a convention, and while he insists he is not interested—is either out of politics or was never in—the moment he joins the crowd, the figuring and scheming and planning commences, and four chances out of five he will miss a meal in his excitement. It has always been 50, and it will remain so always. And the reason is, some one once said, ‘Al is fair in politics,’ and almost cvery man be- lieves it,"” we “It would surprise you,” said a prominent tobacconist, “if you kuew the number of cigarettes consumed by respectable women, both young and old. It is mot for me to talk about it, but there are society women in this town who smoke one and two pack- ages a day, and their parents tolerate it. It may be no more out of place for a beautiful society girl to smoke cigarcttes than for a man, but as it is 4 scientifio fact that most of the cigarettes are more or less poisonous, it is doubtless more injurious. And what is more alarming, the habit is growing and spreading.” " I do not see,” said a prominent Omaha citizen, and a heavy taxpayer, too, “‘why the city does not order the telegraph wires placed under ground, without losing any more time, It must finally come to it. The network of wires already in Omaha is dan- gerous, and with our growth and improve- ment additional telephone, clectric light and telegraph wires must be placed. It would be economy and prudence to put them under ground at ouce.” “Thne time is vipe,” remarked a stranger in Omaha during the convention, *'to build & larger hotel in this city, The same hotels, with the exception of some smaller ones are accommodating Omaha, tnat were here several years ago,” And then it was that a citizen took the stranger by the hand and led him to the corner of Tenth and Farnam and spake unto him saying: ‘“‘Behold, This thav thou seest is the cellar for the hotel of which thou speakest, the roof and walls - thereof having not yet arvived.” And the stranger maryelled muchly, e “There is one nuisance, and it scoms never ending,” suggested a gentleman in & Farnam reet car, as he looked the landscape o'er, “tand that is the loaving of rubbish, boxes, barrels, ladders, brick and piles of unused and wasted materials on sidewalks and in front of buildipgs, months after the buildings have been completed. It is right that when a man or company build he should be accom- modated and given every privilege, But it oceurs to me that if after the work has been compietedithe authoritics would suggest that the rubbish left around the premises be re- moved, it might not be out of place.” o 1t may be truo, knowingly said 8 demo- cratic politician in the Millard rotunda, *‘that McShane proposes to quit the political arcna. Thereare two reasons why the statement ap- pears reasonable. The first is that he has large and inereasing business interests which rightfully demand his undivided attentio and questions arise that are necessary for him to determine. The distance to Washing- ton renders it impossibie to reach him by wirc or mail in a satisfactory manuer, and accordingly his business suffers, Then, again, he has a hara fight before hun—all thiugs being equal. The rejublican majority is large in the First district, and to overcome it would be miraculous. He enjo; « the di tinction of being the first democratic con- gressman ever sent from Nebraska, and it may be that iu the zenith of his ‘glory he will vetire while b can do so gracerully. o' “When our bridgeis completed, binding Council Bluffs and Omaha together, those bottom lands across the river will make the owners rich,” romarked & gentleman to the Chafl man o few days ago. “Thero will be thousands of tenement houses built there— only a half hours' walk from Oing Be- sides thut, a8 buginess property advances and becomes more in demand in Owaha, warehouses, lumber yards, and other kinds of business demandicg large plots of ground, must necessarily scek cheaper quarters, and then you will sce those bottot blufls covered with business oflices oed plaves of Labitation. While the land will not sell at snoh prices as are asked in Omaha, it will all be valuable and a wondery ful aid to Omaha's development, »e “I 80 not ses that thore fs e midh £ mand for conductors on tho street railway as there is for intelligont drivers,” remarked a gentleman inthe Bes office recently. *“‘A strect car driver should be familiar with the city—know the names of all the streots on bis line, beready to give information to those desiring it upon the arrival and departs ure of important railway trains and such other facts as a stranger would naturally scck. Ho should be attentive and polite. The Omaha street rallway compares favor- ably with the systems of any other oity, and excels the lines in many other places, S Skl THE STATE'S STATESMEN, J. C. MoBride wants to go to tho logisla- ture from Lancaster, John C. Watson announces in an interview that he has no desire to go to congress, und would not come before the convention. Attorney General Leosa will make the fight for re-nomination. He says the task of opposing the allied railway influence is pleasant but hard. Tom Majors announces rather reluctantly that he will not go into the congressional fight unless he is wanted by the people. Mr, Mojor's modesty was always charming. “Unless,” says Willlam Daily, “I find some man possessing my views on the leading subjects of the day, I have a half notion to try and go to the senate from Nemaha,' George Einsel, of Holdredge, who will represent the Seeond district at Chicago, is & comparatively young man, and a new man in Nebraska politics—being & banker at Hold- rodge. David Butler, of Pawnee City, will, ho thinks, goto the legislature from Pawneo and Richardson. The thermometer registers acool and cloudy day when Mr. Butler s not ready to make sacrifices for the people. C. H. Van Wyok, it is stated, will repre- sent Otoe in the stato senate. C. H. Gero, by the way, is being groomed for the same position from Lancaster. To those who re- member the friction between these gentlo- men some eight years ago, this statement at once suggests amusement. The ex-queen of Hanover is one of the most completely forgotten of the many ex- iled sovereigns who live in secluded places in Europe. She recently celebrated her seventieth birthday. $She lives at Gmunden with her son, the guarrelsome duke of Cum- berland. The authorities of Gmunden pre- sonted her with congratulations on her birthday, and there was a torchlight procese sion to the royal residence. N BY THE WAY. It is said that tho state house at Lincoln will be an old building before it is completed. The streets of Lincoln are graphically de- seribed by an admiring and aamired paper as deeper in mud than politics in sin, Bill Nye does not see any especial reason for achorning American cattle, but profters his assistance in dehorning a few brass bands in this country. Beatrice, Hastings, Grand Island and Ne- braska City are all claiming to be the third city of the state. _And by the way, they are all good and growing towns, Anannias would have thrown up his hands had he read the account of the Des Moines papers in recounting the game of baso; ball recently played in this city by their nine. The Chicago convention is now the prinoi- pal topic of conversation. The result of the Chicago convention will soon be the principal *m-ic of conversation, and so runs the world wa, Miss Amelia Rives is just now getting a considerable amount of free advertising. She chews gum and smokes cigarettes, yet the idiosyncracies of her genius must be tol- crated even if she chews tobacco. It is said that a young poetess has brokon loose down in the southeast part of the state. Col. Walt Mason is her patron saint, and promises to surprise the world by publishing one of her poetic gems. Capt. Humphroy, Col. Colby and Plain N. K. Griggs have already taken to the woods. The report to the effect that a scab en- ginoer did not know there was a whistle on his locomotive and stopped the train to get out and drive some cattle off the track, has been officially denied by Paul Morton, who says everythiug is running smoothly. ———— WHY MAN IS BAD. He has corns. He has no way of hiding his bald head. The hived girl is always flirting with his wife, Because o might key cannot be made self- adjusting, Because the wind can blow through his whiskers, He must tolerate bores and is sometimes compelled to endure snakes. In his day dream he may imagine he is master of many, but at night if it is done, he must administer the paragoric. il WHY WOMEN ARE HAPPY, ‘Lhey can lace tight without gotting tight. They never flatter and arc strangers to de- ceit, What they lack in make-up. They think they can chew gum and talk at the same time, They do not have to give room in a street car to vulgar man. ‘They can screwn when a mouse is in sight, and no portion of the human race is sur- prised. The oldest maiden is mever suspected of being over twenty-four years of age. Me- thuseleh was & man, They can wear bonnets three feet high and sit in front of a bald headed man at the opera und never hear him indulge in bis inaw- ticulate profanity. o SPRING CHESTNUTS, Wasn't it a horrid winter? Did you lend your umbrellat Aro you able to buy a strawberry? Do you think it will rain to-morrow? 1t is really too cold to wear my spring suit, 1t 1ooks like the crop prospect was favora- ble. Where do you think of spending the sumn- mert Isn't this remarkable weather for this time of year?t “Your face looks very fawiliar to me. You remind me of @ party by the name of Brown." LRILE IT WOULD BE GRATIFYING, I¥ appearance they ean The wagon bridge were now completed, “Phe street swoeper would do better work, The Omaha base ball club would play bet- ter. The Tenth strect crossing ware made loss dangerous. The Outlaws of ‘funsthall Forest bandled by the proper authoritics, The Salvation Army were unlike White Wings, and would some Lime grow weary The sidewslk inspector would look after a few *10086 plauks' in many places of v etiy The weather clerk would pay Bicre atle- tion 1o his own afluirs sid atlenpt W reguwe were