Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-25
-1BOUT MEN IND WOMEN.

Miss Frances f. Willard says that, II
the interests of the living, cremations il
the most unobjectionable way to dispose
| of the dead
The sultan of Turkey, who is most
tickle man regarding his fads, has be-
come interested in typewriting and is
| practicing the art seduOusly.
General Alger has had TO explain that
| during his visit TO Mr.. Blaine he and the
| Maine statesman did not appoint Mr..
| Harrison 5 cabinet for him.
Senator Dawes writes to the Springfield
Republican to deny that he has ever said
he sustained the tariff plank in the plat
form of the Republican party adopted ut
Chicago.
The man who contributed a new and
| much-abused word to our dictionaries,
Captain Hugh Boycott, now lives in the
quiet village of FliXton, Suffolk, En-
gland, rs agent of Sir Hugh Adair.
Mrs Jennie Kellogg of Emporia, be-
sides being a devoted wife and mother
and Il model hOuSekeeper, is n practical
lawyer and has been admitted to prac-
tice before the supreme court of Kansas.
Captain Paul Boyton, the famous
swimmer, makes the announcement that
his agent has just captured III the tropics
Il sea serpent siXty-three feet long. The
monster has the head of catfish and is
covered with barnacles. 1t will be'
shipped to New York.
Miss Chamberlain, the American
beauty, is still the center of an admiring
circle i'll England She was one evening
last week one of the principal attractions
in the royal box at the Patti concerts ut
the Albert Hall i'll London.
Colonel Alfred c. Rives, father of
Amelia RiyeS-C hanler, has returned 10
Paris He has been for some years gen.
eral manager of the Panama Railway
Company, and consulting engineer Of tiaa'
Panama canal, receiving Il salary of S25,-
900 per year.
Dr. Tanner, the famous faster, is soon
to marry Il fair Parisienne. Bernhardt
is at present otherwise engaged, which
is unfortunate. As long as he decided to
go to Paris for Il wife it is to be regretted
he could not arrange with the slender
Sarah. 1t would have been an eminently
proper match-two matches i'll fact.
The Rev c. H. Spurgeon, the great
London Baptist clergyman who lately.
Withdrew from the Baptist Union because
that body was not orthodox enough, says
that he has no doubt ways will be found
in which fellowship can be enjoyed witAE
those churches with which he can honestly
and heartily unite. Meanwhile he is gladS
to be free from all entangling alliances
Prince Won Pless, who is at present
achieving a great deal of nOtoriety by
engaging himself to various American
girls, according to the cable, is very little
known in this country, though rather
prominent figure i'll London. He is prom
inent by reason of the fact that he is a
confirmed AnglO-maniac. He is tall,
thin, awkward and washed out i'll ap-
pearance, and he has two whims, British
clothes and American girls. He is more
of a princeling than prince.
Nine Janisch, the actress, is said to
be confined i'll an insane asylum near Vi
emma, the. result of morbid detection
brought about by financial reverses.
Formerly she handled money freely,
bathed in champagne regularly, lived i'll
a luxury that equaled anything Vienna
has ever seen in its private life, and be-
came famed for her reckless disregard of
the ''sinews of war, and for her joy
Gus disposition.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says: "Many
years ago, in walking among the graves
at Auburn, CAME upon Il plilu, upIlSHu
white marble slab, which bore an cpl
taph of Only four words, but 10 my mind
meant more than any Of,the labored de-
scripfions on the surrounding monuments:
'She was so pleasant. This was all and
it was enough. That one note re-
vealed the music of a life of which L
knew and asked nothing more. -
Diana Middleton, a negresS who died
recently near Clifton, Tenn. , is believed
to have been the oldest person in the
world According to the best accounts
she had reached the remarkable age of
126 years. She was kidnapped i'll Africa
and brought to this country before the
revolutionary war. She was at that
time slave in Virginia. Later she was
sold into North Carolina, and from there
she went to Tennessee. She was freed
because of her extreme age before the
late war, and had been looked upon for
many years as the oldest person in the
world Her face and hands were heavily
tattooed, and these tattoo marks lasted
till her death. She was said to have
been cannbal i'll her native country.