Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-30
PERSONAL.
Russell Sage is worth $4,000, 600.

Russell Sage is worth $50, 100000.
General Fisk had one vote in South
Carolina.
There will be four eI-speSkers on the
floor Of she next house-GeDerRl n. 2
Banks, Randall, Cox and Carlisle.
BENJAMIN HARRISON will be fifty five
years, six m onths sid fourteen days ole
when he ID insugurated president Of the
Uii,od S:siss.
A woman (Mrs. Broadway has the
monopoly Ct eli the bill posting done in
Chicago. She covers 100000 square
feet OF bill boards each week.
Sarah Bernhard still carries her coffin
around with her on theatrical tours. Ii
was observed in her recent journey to
Vienna incased in Its regular travelling
box.
Belvs Lockwood Ia philopena. She
has been married twice, graduated from
TWO cole ges sad has been twice q presi-
dental candidate. To have been born
twice and die twice would complete her
duplicate record.
The patent { flee has 3 list giving the
Lanes OF su woman invelt tors to whom
patents have baen granted. They mum
Der over 1000. The first patent ever
| issued to woman wss to Mary Kiesi for
straw weaving with silk or thread. This
WAS in 1909. The second WAS &c Mary
Brush in 1915. for G corset.
At the marriage Of Dr.WilliSm May and
Miss Amy Draper in New York last WeeS,
the groom went sgainst all precedent by
having 0 number Of married men for
ncho Iy1In or Wit n
simply and seriously explained: "TheY
are my best friends. Can not have them
around me now, because they nsve els
ready done what am crazy to do?" And
1t was very fashionable wedding, too.
A Georgia paper says that Alfred Dam
lei of Douglas county is eighty two yesrs
old, WAS never SICK day IN MS life, was
never in bed ct sun-up, never lest 6
tooth, has been to six log-rollirgs this
year, lifts more than most mep, often in
duIges IL coon and opossum hunting, has
been deacon in the Primitive Baptist
church for fifty eight Years, was never
drunk in his life, and an cath has never
escaped his lips. He Is the father CT
twenty-six childrer-fiteen now living
has seventy grand children.
Stephen G. FL ster, the author Of "Ccme
Where My Love Lies Dreaming" "Mss-
sa's in the Cold. Cold Ground" "Old
Dog Tray" the Incompatible "Old Folks
at Home" and many other melodies
which Still ring in the ears OF millions Of
lovers OF harmony, was 8 sad Bohemian ana
never prospered. When in New York in
1859, he spent tie most OF his time in s
mean little gree cry and liquor store COM
bined. He slept at little hotel in the
Bowery, upon bed consisting OF mat
tress and single blanket. There YVES
no cNpst upon the floor, snd but one
chair In the room. A picture CT greater
DESTITUTE IN could hard y be imagined than
the quarters Of this charming singer. His
songs were written on the top Of bean
box with pencil.
Floods estate is valued By good j ldges
at SIS. 900, 900. At the height OF tue DO
nstzi excitement, when shares in the
leading mines brought 5000 and paid $50
4 month dividend, Flooi's wealth was
rated st $500 1000, bu. then cana the
great shrlnkage III Comstock' va!u5s,
which cut down the fortune OF all the
mining m!llionairss fully one-hA!fr and
Floods loss By the Nevada Bank whest
deal was fully SIS. 100000. The property
will probably be equally divided between
the wife, son and daughter. The lister
WAS always Floods favorite, and a. one
time she possessed in her own right So,
000,00 in real estate and government
bonds. She gave much OF this TO help heT
father out OF his embarrassment year
ago, but she still 1ns about 50, 900, goo.