Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21
ABOUT HEN And WOMEN.

Queen Victoria owns 81 600 acres of
| land.
Senator Hearst has bought the Derby
winner, Ormonde, for $50 900.
Sunset Cox admits that he stole an
overcoat at Westchester, Pa. where he
| lectured the other night He was in a
hurry and has sent the coat back.
Mrs. Elect Smith, who was formerly
postinistTess at Sterling, Ill. and is now
a clerk i'll the sixth auditors office, is a
candidate for pension agent at Chicago
in place of Mrs. Mulligan.
Miss E. L. Van Lew, who helped Union
prisoners 10 escape from Libby prison
and who held the position of postmaster
at Richmond, Va. for eight years under
General Grant, is after the office again 6.
Count Won Moltke has deposited his will
in the probate court ut Berlin. ii is thus
indorsed in bold hand: 1.-The inclOsed
is my last will. 1t is my desire that no
seals be put upon my belongings. Moltke,
Field Marshal.
Hadji SulymGn Saba of COnstantinople =,
who died the other day, was ninety EIGHT
years of age when he took his last wife,
and he lived to be 1872. He had sixty
sons and nine daughters and seven wives
and survived them all.
W. s. Gilbert likes to design the
dresses Of the women III his plays. He
says ~ abhor bustles, improvements,
tight lacing and all such denominations,
and think that woman 5 dress should fall
in natural folds to the figure.
Thirty-five years ago George NJ. Wood
ruff of Ltchfeld, Conn. cut his initials
on the limb of an apple tree. They dis
appeared i'll time, but when the tree was
cut down and split into firewoo6 not long
ago, the initials were found four inches
from the surface perfectly distinct.
George Harold of St Helens, Oregon,
has had a touch of both kinds of fortune
He won $500 in Il lottery, and immedi-
ately and properly started for Salem to
see his sweetheart. He was SO anxious
to hurry to her that he could not wait for
the train to pull up to the station, but
jumped from it while it was running at
full speed, and broke his arm and banged
himself up generally.
George w. Gable, the Southern story
writer, was seen the other day in a Chi
cage ilOtel. lie appeared i'll ut ease, says
the Chicago Times, and walked up and
down the rOtunda, taking short, spas
modic strides, rubbing his hands ner-
vously together, his black beard was cut
short and his frock coat was buttoned as
tightly rs the Vestment of an Episcopal
clergyman. A soft felt hat was perched
iauntily on his left ear.
General Schofield's successor in COM
mand of the division of the Atlantic, Ma
or-General o. Q. Howard, has arrived
in New York from San Francisco and
taken up his quarters on Governor Is
land. His wife and one son and one
daughter are with him. He has five
other children, all married. General
Howard has seen a generation of active
service, and is now the second officer in
rank in the army. His hair and close
cropped beard are white. He is known
as the ''Christian Soldier, - and his
proudest decoration is the empty sleeve
pinned to his breast.
Dr.. E. E. Wood of Pittsburg claims
that personal beauty is manufactured i'll
the kitchen; i'll other words, that people
are handsome or unattractive according
TO what they eat and how it is prepared.
He gave lecture III New York the other
day, and the ladies in the audience burst
out laughing as soon as he announced his
subject. 81 see some of the beautiful
ladies present are smiling at the imper-
feet specimen of personal
beauty before them, he said
apologetically. DR.. Wood is
long, skeletonic man, with a triangular
face, at the lower angle of which is at
tached slim, pointed gOatee. DR..
Wood is not beautiful.
The descendants of old Amos Benham,
New Haven, are having q lively row
among them for the possession of the
store teeth of their revered ancestor
Amos, in his old age, went to New York
and purchased a full set of false teeth,
with gold plates, valued at over $50. He
exhibited them to his friends with much
pride, and for years the teeth were the
wonder and admiration of the town. At
last the old man died and the teeth were
buried with him. Not long since Gilbert
BeDham, nephew of the deceased, an
nounced that he was going to get those
teeth and last week opened the ground
and secured them. The other members
of the family are furious, and a lawsuit
for the possession of the teeth is the re-
suit.