Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 5, 1891, Page 8

THE OMAHA DAILY BRE: M(C GLIMPSES OF EVERYDAY LIFE. Intercsting Phaees of Human Nature as Ex- hibited in Great Cities, GALLANT BROKERS OF NEW YORK, They Throw Kiss s at Lady Specta- tors in the Galtery—The Elevator Affccted Her ftomach—A Horse Trader's Conscience, Now York World: An old time broker of the stock exchange waxed indignant over his breakfast at Delmonico’s the other morning about theal which has been slowered upon some of the members of the board by the papers account of their bo alady in the gallery “and waved their hands, I did not and I was on the floor at the Even if they did, I fail to sce there was of such an insulting ture about it all. The trading and times are not particularly bright If the boys can get a little fun out of life it should bo allowed to s a holiday lark and not talked of as a trag whole spirit of the board h during the past fifteen years. order of brokers I intense, smileless and thoughtless man ners of professic gamblers, ¢ o ubout their business in a cold-blooc and tranquil way that suggest denler at a faro table, The good-nutured, wholesouled t,and the best thi nors of the stock exchange icourage them, A little nonsens now und then can do no possible harm.” York Times: The elevators in some of New Yorl Ul buildings ave rui a8 saleulate the nerves of prople wi s not aceustomed to them. One of the carsin the Fquita ble building the other day was sent down, as the conductor expresscd it, boe (1 1l she was worth.,” 1 « several ladies among the pascenge and one of them, utle-faced, silvery- haired “grandma,” was particularly dis turbed. Sheh ven a half-smothered cry as the car dropped story after story, and when she stepped with the others out upon thestone floor of the rotunda her face 18 covered with te nd s0bs shook her slender form, The young man who the old lady endeavored tocs reassuring words, but for some min; they were quite unavailing, At the tears ceased, and she was able t¢ swer, though in a voice that was faint and trembli the anxious ques- tioni 5 her com panic (o shin, T ain’t sick,” the sympa- voup that had gathered d her suy, “and 1 was ren what makes you ¢ the man, “1 know it's foolish,” she answered, *‘but when that thing went down so awful fast it gave n feeling right here,” and she placed a thin hand just below her heart, “exactly like I had the a your father die Oh, John, John, brought it all baek agai Detroit Free Press: The ownerof a boarding stable in the northern part of the city advertised o horse for sale. Enrly one morning a man appeared and asked to sec the cquine. “Sce here,” said the owner red off at him, “Ilike to have a . standing about things. Now then, is it for you or some one else?” “Some one else,” “Do you know all about a horse or nothing at all?” “I know every crook and turn about a horse, sir.” *'Oh, vou do? All right. We now understand cach other, and I'll show you the beast.” In tun minutes a sale had been effected and the horse was being led aw: “Why did you care whet he was reen or posted?” inquired a mun who ad stood by, “Made a great deal of difference to plied the late owner. ®The horse is spavined, pigeon-toed and weak in the . Had he been an amatear I should have felt bound to tell him.” “But he knew all about the horse,” ixactly, and therefore knew noth- iestsale I ever made toany- orge Serib- with which he in- tended to buy a nice Christmas present for his wife and some toys and, candies for the b ife 100k the money from his writing the day before Christ- mas and started out to make his pur- chuses. So cugrossed was he with thoughts of what he intended to buy that he did not observe two “light-fin- gered” gentlemen, one of whom jostled against him in the crowded street, whilo the other one neatly extracted his purse from his pocket with the $20 which he had pinched himself so much to save. He went intoone of the large stores in Twenty-third street, selected the goods he wanted and felt for the money piy for them. The pocket- ¢, of coure, was ~ gone. folt hurricaly in every pocket, but there was no tracoof the wallet, Like a flash he remembered the man who had jostled against him and re- called how queerly o acted. His pocket had been pick Visions flashed before him of the disappointed faces of his wifo and two little girls when they got up in the morning to learn that Sunta Claus had forgotten them entirely, Ho felt for his watch. Luckily the pickpockets had not secured that, “Put those things on the shelf fora little while,” he said, **and I will return for them.” That wife and the little ones got their Christmas presents that year and pawnbroker in Sixth avenle had this entry on his books: “Georgoe Scribbler, gold watch, $20.” New York Star: I have noticed re- cently that u great many more pipes are being smoked on the strects by well dressed men than used to be, 'While in an up-town tobacconist's store [ asked what in his opinion had led to the mani- fest increuse in the number of pipe enok ors. *Lhere are two reasons,” he said. *‘In the first place the McKinley bill has so appreciubly increased the cost of good (‘I},’I\l'b that o good many men, especially young ones, have taken to pipes as i matter of economy. In the second place, pipe-smoki I b, you know, and the English craze has struck this town pretty heavily, New Yorkers who €0 to London find the public places crowdod with men who smoke pipes and when they comohomo they at once ape the easy-going Londoner,” New York Stav: I was talking with a salesman whom 1 knew in one of the big Broadway clothing houses the other day, when a keen-eyed, smartly dressed young man, with the general air of a Now Yorker, entered. He was followed by fifteen newly landed S]‘m‘m rds, to whom he commenced showing various [ y than any other salesman in the . said my friend. “He only sells on commission—gets 10 per cent and drums up his own trade. He speaks Spanish and French fluently, and has afl acq " with every purser of a Spanish-American or French ship that runs into New York These he meets us they land, gets nequuinted with the wints of as many of the passengers as he can reach, and steers them around to business houses with which he made connection, The Spaniards whom he has in tow are not dressed suitably for the climata here, and nearly every one of them will want o new suit and an overcoat. Maybe they want shoes and underclothing and other arti 3 They speak little or 1o English and are very d to secure his services, es- peelally as he was recommended by the purser, with whom they had formed something of an acquaintance, He will | also find them a hotel or rooms as they wish, introduce them into some go vant and put them into the of enjoying themselyes in com w Year visit. This looks \thy lot of young men that he | has in tow now, and I have no doubt he will make fully $50 to $75 in nission from them today and to- » Tribune: “Bless meif I think go has many pretty women,” said iriping, a merchant from Belgium, who h nt some time in London, long one of your ptincipal thoroughfa; f he continued, tand althoy many women out shoppi s many who could cluim beauty, The cle white, deli- cate complexion was lacking. ©saw lots of red noses, and some with pimples on them. Then aguin the majority of the women powder so claborately that it sdisgusting. They do not appear to understand” how to apply cosmetics Then, uin, the ladies wear diamonds when out shopping Why, that is sim- ply atrocious. I observed a handsor dressed woman step out of her in front of one of your large retail d goods shops the' ¢ ( Two big diamond earring: probubly worth or #3,000, were in her ears, and as her Iski ale was not tight the throat 1 noticed o large diamond brooch. Another lavge dinmond—prob- ably a threc 1t stone—surrounded with pearls, was there, Such u disy of bad taste you never would sce ano the women of London or Madrid, Not even the women who have no respect for them s would attempt to at- ntion by such a lavish display L cannot understand how good breeding can malkoe such a display of herself, In London and Madvid the women do their shop- ping in the most modest attireand never of wearing jewelry. 1 not only 1 this inde lay of finery in , but in New York. In Boston the majority of women I observed wore no jewels while on their shopping ex- cursions, T i ther the women of Chicago impress me vishly dressed, and several women especially, who had u, faces, wore scarlet hats, 5if Lo at attention to theifugli- ness,” New York World: Tnashow window on Twenty-second strect a Singhalese belle sits for several hours eve ing sample box some kind of te: for which the maiden from Ceylon isa sort of auxiliavy advertisement. She is you and v ood looking, judg from ) fan stand: point and may not be more than twenty-two or twenty-three vears of ag Short of stature and we d, she deserves the extensive at- tention she receives, though she might receive more if she did not supplement her native costume of dark calico with a red and white striped shirt that covers i her plump arins and t, which under the exposed to public ress comes over tho left shoulder only, being draped to the right side in the manner of a sash. Her haiv is jet black, and her complexion that” lemon-tinted shade which a shoe assumes after the polish is aded from it for several weeks, On h ro numerous brass and silver huge umb shaped pendants of gold and turquoise, and in the left side of her nose a gold collar button. She smiles graciously upon the women who stand to look at 1 is withel as complacent in her conspicuous position as a Hester street belle in a dime museum beauty contest, New York Times: A friendly little dog that lives in a comfortable home in Ninety-fifth street, westof Ninth ave- nue, has a master with a resourceful mind, The fact that the aforesaid aper work, perhaps accounts for the resourceful mind. Late the other forenoon this gentleman opened the front door of his residedee vrey d for his customary saunter to the elevated station, snow drift from two to three feet decp completely covered his door- stop. His wifo at his elbow suggested that he go down stairs and get tho snow shovel, but he treated the sug- gestion as a playful j Afte contemplating the snowbank a fow se onds, he whistled for hisdoz. An mated bundle of hair came tumbling into the hallway, “Oolah!” spoke the master, “*do you want to go for a walk " With a quick bark of delight the little dog plunged out of the door ana rolled down the steps to the sidewalk after a good deal of ki about. the animal r ing his master s id up . Again sent out and called back wi same snow-scattering result, and, o med to enjoy it, the act was re for even a third time. Thus open path down the steps made for the man with the resourceful mind. Oolah's “walk” was postponed until a pleasanter day. Chicago Tribune: Your real, genuine, first class detective seldom ope his mouth to tell you his theory or opinion, for the reason that the genuinearti cld detective, especially in a private gen cy is seldom known a5 such except to the head of the concern. The writer wi where he obtained the opinion of a_gen- uine detective about *‘mysterious disap- }n':lrxuh'-'fi." he, y be mysterious or a while,” he sy but they come out Woman, y, h—one of the three, surc as you live, the vavest thing in the world that A missing man never returns, Unless he is murdered and the body well secretod the missing man will either return to the place from which he disappeared or squeal from hLis hiding place. Expe- rience and observation with this class warrant me in this assertion,” Chicago Tribune: Doctors do not like to talk to newspaper men, for good re: sons. Doctors are custodians of the best stories in existence, and when a new paper man can worm one of these stories rom such a source it i t0o good to keep. But of courso tke physiciun must be kept in the dark. Even then the physi- clan does not like to talk, because ho is afraid his name might come out, One of these speclalists was talking in his reception room the other day, and he made this statement: *“There is nothing new in the proposi- tion that we are all mad, That’s a stos 8s old as tho bills and is true, We call the insanity that is at large latent in: sanity, If'it docsn't come in contact with a shock or some disease it may re- main latent until death stops the ma- chine I know men in business who to go to pieces, mentally, if xpected happens, 1 once knew man who wa a cashier of a ank, and I had it from those who knew his work that no more compe- tent and accurate man ever held a plac But I had been his physician and his father’s before him and I knew that the mun was mad. His insanity was only asleep. So well did I know him that T warned him to keep himself free from such excitement as would result from a in diseuse, AsI had fe ase finally made its app suntry, and the man blew the case was 2,000 miles away w York Wo isa picture of perfect contentr rnished in the attitude of the “L” rond locomotive en- » lolls back in his seat with ards the front win- dow of the cab, anr + without twisting a musc but sim- ply by the me hind, controls the spe his iron hors His » and comfort are the rewards of the years he spent in ning his exper and attaining his skill. The fir 1 s always busy with flaring torch nd - handful of Wi otton or long-billed oil can, burnishing or lubricating the machinery, and itis only oceasionally that he cin find time to swing out of the locomotive cab and help the engineer to flirt with the coquettes in the second or third story windows. But the fireman will be an engineer himself some day. and then somebody else will be oiling and rub- bing the machinery. The picture, visi- ble & hundred time day on the Third and Sixth avenue roads, exemplifics an evoluunary process that exists in every walk of modern life, New York Tribune: ¢ v, boss, give me a few pennies to buy something to eat, will you?” said a ragged urchin to a man hurrying through Mail street at 6 o'clock Christmas eve, Now the one appealed to had just been buying Christmas presents for a score of sisters, cousins and aunts, to say noth- ing about the numerous rattle ete., which he had of his own imme i quently he was feeling w't do it, sonny,” he said vather vy, as he hur on. The boy assumed tone half sorrow- ful, with a touch of independence in it, and said to the retreating figure hope you have a merry n stopped, turned round, dug his hand into his pocket and handed the rehina quarter, Then he hurried on in, Ten minutes later the same urchin entered a hallway where half a dozen street arabs were assembled. “Hi, Jimmy!” he yellec he entered, sce what de bloke “give me. (Showing the quarter,) Let’s play ‘craps.’ —_— The senior proprictor of this paper has been subjeet to frequent colds for years which were sure to lay _him up ;- He finds that Chamb It opens th T nd restores the stem to a healt 1f frecly used, as soon as the cold has been ¢ ted, and before it has become settled in the system, it greatly lessens the attack and often” cures in a single day what_would otherwise b been a severe cold.—Northwestern Hotel Re- porter, Des Moines, Ta S fulphur Mining in Mexico, Mouval Los Tanos of Chihuahua, Me i s been visiting friends in this city § s the Kunsas C Time Los Tonas isa M an mining en- gineer, He told of his descent into the crater of Popocatepetl, the voleano which is now practicully extinct. “I went down into the crater of the mountain farther probably than any other man to examine the s mines,” said the young Spaniard, “Ver few persons of the United States h even le the ascent of this mountain, It is worse than climbing the Matter- horn. It costs about in the first place, takes several and is very ex- hausting, I wa down into the crater the same as the Mexican miners who di > at this elevation of 18,000 fe ans of o windlass and a rope. The mouth of the erater is more than half a mile across. TL mine is owned by G 1 Och who lives in the City of Mexico. 1Isaw there and examined carefully thousands of tons of the purestsulphur ever mined When Cortez and his soldiers visite that country they needed sulphur for qunpowder arid ascended the mountain or the first time in its history, the natives said. Itell you it must have taken a vast amount of nerve to go up an unknown mountain like Popocutipetl and then descend into the mouth of that volcano. I think, everything considered, it beats anything I ever heard of in his- on. The natives who gather the sulphur now only secure small pac ages of it, which they fasten to their backs, They then slide down the snow on the mountain after the manner of the woodeutter of France. For this venture some work they get about 20 cents per duy.” e Bad drainage causes much sickness, and bad blood and improper action of the liver and kidueys is bad dramage to the human system, which Burdock Blood Bitters rem- edy. Pooks in Chains. rope, long before the vs of books were fastened to shelves in libraries and churches to their being stolen and also to prevent one student’s gaining an unfair advantage over another by s ing the loan of a book from a too am ble librari ays the Globe-Democr The libraries of the English uniy ties were chained until the latte part of the eighteenth century, when, on account of the incon- venience of using them, the chains removed, Itis recorded that at ' college nman was paid £17s, in 1777, for nine days labor in taking the fotters off the college books, According to The Antiquarian, there are, however, few chained libraries still remaining ngland, The largest of these is at the cathedral church of Hereford, and is the one genuine survival of an old mo- nastic library. 1t consists of about two thousand volumes, of which 1,500 are chained. There five book-cases, and the remains of two oth “The eatalogue, which is also chained, s the hooks, many of which nuseript, in eight divisions, Each chain is from three to four feet long, cording to its position, so that volume can be placed on the re In the center of these chais Is, which are useful in preventing tanglement, possesses the lat as the oldest collection of chained books in the kingdom, the library of 285 vol- umes, which was bequeathed to All Suints’ church as late as 171 - A Ro Monte Carlo Propossd. A project has been submitted to the Italian government for establishing a no on the Monte Carlo line at Fres- cati, which is within a drive of Rome, says London Truth, The tables would be open only to members of a *‘club,” to which; of course, everybody with money t0 lose would obtain easy admlission, A CHAMPMGNE BOOMER, He Invades theiSacred Precinots of o Club anttiss Taken in Hand. One of thosegyonng men who serve as agents and touts for certain brands of champagne amd who use their social connections torhelp them out has made himself 50 obmoxious at one of the hest clubs up townssays the New York - ing Sun, that he has been called before the house commmittee, who threatencd him with expulsion. The waiters were called up at the same time as partici- pants in the crime, and were told that they could remain only on probation. 1t seems that forseme time past a number of the youngerme ,who have hardly enoughmoney with which to pay ther elub | dues, have been giving o series of expen- brains on as he heard of it,although | in the main dining room of the elub, und have oceupied the center table co ruou! and with n great nghter, and . most objection advertisement of the fact that they had more champagne than was good for them It was their custom to offer a bottle to the other members who came in to dine, as though they wanted to show a | friendly feeling und to have others share in their joy. But it was noticed that the champagne which they so gene ously had passed about wis always of one “particular brand—the brand for which the club member was the agent. Not only was it offered freely in this way, but the members have been greatly annoyed by having it foreed upon them by the waiters, whethe they or- dered that brand or not, and with a persistency that showed intention and not a mista The wmembers finally began to complain and the houso com- mittee grew suspicious and investi- gated the matter, only to find that ever) waiter 1 the employ of the elub had been tampered with and was receiving pay toserveand push and recommend the wine agent’s brand of champagne. They were accordingly brought up be- fore the committeo and told that they would be discharged if they attempted to tout for the wine again, and the mem- ber himself had to beg for his member- ship, which he came near losing. Now the impecunions youths go thirsty d content themselves with reading the a vertisements for champagn in the papers, and the wine agent drinks beer and says he likes it. HER PATHER'S BOOT. It G Him His First Lilt in the World “It was one Thanksgiving day about fifteen ye \go that 1 got my start in the world said a well-dressed, comfort- able looking man at the Griswold house to a Detroit o Press man, “How was thar?”’ ask one of the party. “I" lived with my parents in a small town in Ohio. When about eighteen years old [ became smitten with the pretty daughter of one of our neighbors. My case was adesperate one, and I am willing to admit that I made a fool of myself. I haunted her home like a ghost; T wus there every day. barely Zoing’ home long enough ' for my meals, wduating from the high school - secured for me business oppor- tunities in Cleveland, but I could not from the village in which lived mer, and in less than a mc was back, worshiping at her shrin “Matte n along in this way for a year and I gave promise of never amounting to enough to earn the salt [ ate. I remember that Thanksgiving day of which I speak I spent the after- noon at my inamorata’s home, and lin- gered in the evening until ,an’ unusual hour. *The clock had just struck 12 when the girl’s father walkad into the parior with determination stamped on every lineament of his countenance. or- rance had ceased to be a virtue with him, and he had resolved to resort to heroic treatment, ¥ g a work ho seized y the coat collar, and before T knew it I was on the front step. Here he paused long enough to give me the rdest kick that evera mortal man ed. I have ridden bucking br and taken headers from bi since that day, but I hsve never experienced another sensation like it. “Ileft the place that mght vowing vengeance. At first I thought 1 would burn the house, but the next day my feelings had modified and I started for ) nd, wh I workedin a whole- sule house. succeeded from the first, and ten yenrs later I went back and married the girl, receiving her father's blessing, I will always maintain that my father-in-law gave me my first lift.” — George Campbell, Hopkinsville, Ky., says : Burdock Blood Bitlers 'is the best prepara- tion forthe blood and stomach ever manu- factured, Don't Fool Yourself! Notwithstanding all rumors to the contrary, the Chicago, Milwa: “ee & St, Paul Ry's new ste cd palace sleeping cars, with “electric lights in every berth,” still leayes the Union de- pot, “Omaha at 6:10 p. m, daily, arriv- ing at Chicago at 9:30 a. m., in ample ti ke all eastern connections, 1501 Farnam st, ¥ k. 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