Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21
ABOUT MEN IND WOMEN.

| Charles Mitchell OF Indiana has gone
crazy over trying to find a peach tree
which would bear fruit in the winter.
| Young Donoghue, who has just left fol-
Europe to represent the United States III
a series of skating contests, has record
of straight-away mile i'll PIP 40.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is entirely
-obliYiOus of the tempest i'll the teapot re-
garding her 'tliterary remains. - She is
getting better and expects to enjoy life
for quite while yet, Dec Volente.
General Russell A. Alger has taken
charge of Mrs. Logan s estate, and has
invested it so well it is said, that it pays
her very handsome income. Mrs. Lo-
CAMS fortune amounts to about $40 600 j..
Mrs. Sarah Barnett of Lafayette,
Va, took TO her bed forty years ago and
has not left it since. Her appetite is good
as well as her general health, but she
suffers from an injury of the spine.
Mr.. AXworthy of Cleveland, Ohio,
stole S43S, goo from the city and now offers
to compromise for SI2O 900, thus gener-
ously leaving himself S3lS 900. There is
something almost royal in such gener-
osity.
Judge Brice of Boise City, Idaho, re-
Gently received letter from Chief Jus
tice Fuller. He says: eff Justice Full
ler's decisions are as hard to understand
as his autograph letters are difficult to
read, the supreme bench of the United
States will have hard time of it. -
Frederick Vanderbilt will have the
largest single stone ever used III a New
York sidewalk placed in front of his
house at +59 Fifth avenue. 1t is from
Oxford, Chenango county, and is fifteen
feet wide and twenty feet long. a special
car was built for its transportation
Hon. W. W. Lang will return TO Ham
burg this week. He will first go to Paris
where his daughter, Miss Chase and his
son VIII are at school. From there he
will re-enter upon his duties as consul
general at Hamburg to await the pleas
ure of President-elect Harrison.
Hall McAllister, who died in San Fran
cisco last Saturday, had practiced law
thirty-nine years, and is said to have
personally earned more money than any
lawyer III America having received two
fees of $50 ,99e each in a single year. He
was native of Savannah, Ga and went
to California in 1919.
Judge MeBrayer of Kentucky, pro-
noWced by the state papers ga typical
Kentucky gentleman, is dead. He
was a county Judge, a state senator, an
active Mason, a member of the Presbyte-
rian church, and the inventor of the
brand of whisky which bears his name.
He is sincerely mourned.
Rome, once mistress of the world, has
made wonderful material progress during
the past twenty years. Within that time
eighty-two miles Of new streets have been
made, over 5000 houses have been built
or enlarged, about S27 goo 200 have been
spent in public Improvements and the
population has increased from PA 900 to
379 900.
Senator Sherman says: "There is not
the slightest foundation for the story that
would refuse TO accept a position in
President Harrison s cabinet because l
would be succeeded by Governor Foraker
The possibility of my seat in the senate
being occupied by Governor Foraker
viii not weigh one hair in connection with
my going into the state department. -
A farmer near K1ttannmg, Ra., owns
the most remarkable oil well in the coun-
try, the product being refined by nature,
so that the farmer sells it to consumers
direct, who use it in their lamps 1t an
S"SAs Pul fdO+C MlitiOIi TtHuSu.
AS there is q gas we'll by the side of the |
oil producer, it is supposed that the gas
forces the crude petroleum through sand
and gravel, thus clearing it of refuse |
matter.t
The widow of Marshal Bazaine writes |
TO Partisan newspaper that She did not |
leave her husband on account of a disa- |
greement, but that she was compelled to |
60 TO Mexico on family matters She
says, further, that she regularly sent |
Bazaine remittances sufficient for his |
needs. She claims that he did not die in
poverty but that his mode of life always
kept him hard up. -
Nervousness is said to be character
ist;c of Chief Justice Fuller. He seems
TO find it impossible to sit still upon the |
bench. His hands are constantly in
motion at one thing or another Often
he takes 0 scrap of paper and folds and
refolas it into thousand shapes; or he
turns over the pages of a book without
looking nj them. But as a usual thing
he is pulling at his mustache, like ner-
yous graduate ON commencement day
First his left hand twists and pulls little
at his left hirsute; and then the right,
not to be oHtaoae an caressing, performs