Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-08-30
MEN OF NOTE.

Minister Ynelps " Nalu W hccp hlhc
servants.
wilkie Collins is said TO be addicted TO
the morphine habit
John Roach, the ship builder, is seven
ty-seyen years OF age.
The Masons OF Cleveland have erected
a temple at a cost OF 100000.
JEFF Davis pays taxes on llS3 acres OF
land in the parish OF Ayoyelles, La.
Joseph Kppler, the Puck caricatnrist,
with his wife and daughter, are at Bre-
men.
Macauley used to read Schiller for an
hour or more before rising in the morn
ing.
Thomas Mast, the caricaturist Of lIar-
per's Weekly, is rusticating in Rome,
Italy.
Gen. John Gibbon, who succeeded Gen.
Anger, had two brothers In the Confcder-
ate army.
The pope Il enjoying excellent health,
several newspapers to the contrary not
wthstanding.
John Bigel0w has issued a two-yolnme
collection of the speeches and writings OF
Samuel j. Tildcn.
Lord Coleridge Is greatly surprised at
the general knowledge of law among
American women.
Editor Dana Of the, New York sun,
grows the finest and largest strawberries
in the United States.
The son of the man who hanged John
Brown Is the Republican candidate for
governor of Virginia.
The prince of Wales goes to more balls
and dances more than any married man of
his time of life in London.
Alexander II. Stephens left behind him
a journal containing a record OF his
prison experience in Fort Warren.
one of Rossini's most beautiful operas
il said to have been written while the
composer was confined to his bed.
The Buffalo Advertiser estimates Col.
Ingcrsol's fortune at S200,000 and says
he made half of this out of his inhdel
lectures.
The Rothschlds will receive 81 ,250, 900
with interest from Egypt, September /.
The money was loaned that government
during the month Of July.
The monument to the illustrious phi
lanthropist, Peter Cooper, has never been
completed. How soon we lllustrlous phi
lanthropists are forgotten.
Frederick Gebhardt is in London, and
the newspapers there say that he Is still
In the train of Mrs. Langtry, riyalcd
only by Charles Coghlon, the actor, now
in the Lily's company.
The newspaper of Mazatlan, Mexico,
asserts that of all Yankees who have
visited that place not one has been n
gentleman, and it earnestly begs the
United States to send u specimen, if
such Il thing exists.
Louis Jennings, formerly editor of the
1 New York Times, who married Madaline
/ llenrigues, the actress, has ten children
as the result of that alliance. Jennings
always was more of an author than he
got credit for being.
| Senator Beck of kentucky thinks that
[ the intellectual standard OF the United
States senate Is not very high. Sherman
! he considers Il strong man, but not rs
capable of leading party as Allison Of
Iowa, because of his unrcstrained self
ishncss
Gen. Joseph l.. johnson is now sew
cnty-eight years old His hair and beard
are white as snow, save for occasional
dark threads that withstand the en-
croachmcnt of time. lie dresses in black
and wears Il bcll-crowned hat Of light
color. He is about medium height,
stands erect and walks vigorously.
Like Gen. Grant, the first Napoleon
died of cancer. In his case the cancer
was in the stomach, instead OF the throat
II caused him much seycrcr pain thar
Grant suffered. He improved grew
worse, and had all the hope, depression
and despair that marked the hero of Ap
pomatoX during his illness. Unlike tn,
American soldier, he did not retain hi.
mental faculties to the last.
Arrangements are being made to II
invest that portion OF the S25O,00O trus
fund raised for Gen. Grant, which wal
invested In the first mortgage bonds of th,
Wabash railroad. This re-investmcnt funt
was to have been made several days ago
because the trustees of the Morgan cstat,
desired TO be free from the responsible,
attached to them. When the funds wcr,
invested in the Wabash bonds, Govcrno
Morgan gave personal guarantee for tn,
payment of the principal and interest.