The Forrest City times., 1888-05-19
FACT AND FANCY.

Von MolIke wears yellow wig.
 Moody has returned to Chicago.
 Gen. Crook is the senior Brigadler Gen. eral
 Col Jerome Bonapartc will summer at New. port
 The Tichborne clamaut has started back to England.
 Joe Jefferson Is reported to have a fortune of s750,0OO.
 Herr Most and Mrs Lucy Parsons are at loggerheads.
 Belaseo and De Mile are to get up new play for Sothern.
 Stuart Robson has been on the stage for thrty-hve years.
 Susan Coolidge has written a "Short His tory of Philadelphia"
 Sam. Small intends to start Prohibition paper in Washington.
 Kate Claxton has bought s15,Oo0 fiat in Forty second street. New York.
 Stevenson, author of 'Dr. Jekyl," has not entered theater in ten years
 Dr. Leila G. Bedell, of Chicago, is said to have practice worth s7,oO0 year.
 William Henry Smith will deliver the chief address at the Marrieta anniversary.
 Lord and Ladi Lansdowne will leave Can ada for England in the last week of May.
 Wilson Barrett talks of coming to this country to get materials for another story
 Augustin Daly paid sl,aOO for a floral decorations used at the little supper to Henry Irving.
 Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth has had 150 girl babies named after the heroInes of her stories.
 Theodore Roosevelt has been travelling in Tennessee looking up material for new literary work.
 Rider Haggsrd says that he has lost s250,- 900 on account of there being no interna- tional copyright
 Herbert Spencer works three hours a day dictatlng all his writings. His fayorlte re- creation is billiards.
 Mime. scbumann. London writer says, has within the past few years become slen- der and silver haired.
 King Kalaksva is going to settle down to hard work and become a coffee planter. He finds there is more ir 1t than fin being a king.
 It is said that Gen. Gurko will be Com mander in. Chief of the army destined to in- wade Bulgaria.
 stenographer Corell took 5000 words of the New York State Senate debate the other day in six hours.
 Mrs. Cleveland always calls her husband k.AF Mr f1avaiapH adHrpSsp hls wife as''Frank."
 Minneapolis has been figuring up and finds that seven feet of snow fell In that city dur ing the past winter.
 s At Smiley, Ohio, Frank Post fell on eircu- lar saw and was literally sliced to pieces. He leaves young wife.
 The South African diamond fields last year yielded gems amounting to 3.646, s99 earats. valued at over S2), ,00O,oO0
 Gen. Cooks promotion to succeed Gen Terry leaves Miles the ranking Brigadier General in the regular army.
 Miss Molie Loekhart, of Socorro. N. NJ, has parrot that sits on It's perch and sings "Mollle Darling' all day long.
 The movement to send to France statue of George Washington as a present from the ladies of America is well under way in New York.
 MeIssonier, the painter, lives in gorgeous house in Paris, but be is said to be discon- tented because, wealthy as he is. he Is not wealthier.
 A Vermont minister, who preached funeral sermons over l2l persons, says he received in payment but two barrels of apples and a sll- yer dollar.
 man has been arrested in National City, Cal, for publicly wearing on his back card stating that a companion had refused to pay him debt of sl50
 Abner Dorsett a negro living in Hickory Mountain Township, N. C., has probably the largest head in the State. It is thirty-two inches in circumference.
 The Pope's income from Peters pence, which, since 1870, has been the only source of revenue left to the Papacy, amounts to 6 OO0, 0O0 francs year.
 Wilson Barrett, the English actor. has be- gun the erection of handsome theater on oxford street, London The building will be the best equipped theater ln London.
 Two large firms of Japanese nurserrmen are introducing into California the Unshin or dwarf orange nee and find many customers for the tree because 1t can be grown in very small snace.