Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-25

at the rate OF 200 week. He keeps two
| private secretaries and q shorthand
writer busy answering his fair CORE
spondents.
May Ten Brock, one of the stars in
the Two Old Cronies - company, wants
| wide publicity given to her statement
| that she is not the wife of an actor, and
! that her husband is a piano dealer in
| Boston, [. s. A.
Mr.. Isaac Pitman, the photographer,
| is a strong anti tobacconIst, and he COM
ments as follows ON letter from the late
! Hon. Ion Keith Falconer about his BIZ
| cycling exploits 1t viii be observed
that his spelling is unconventional: 80 The
! freedom oy style, the hrGtfierliness and
famiIiariti which the letter display re-
Zulted from four years of intimate frend-
ship aud korrespondens. An okasienal in
| duljeus in a sigar wos the Onli weakness l
| found in Ion; and kontrari to the HUSTON
or smokers, he liked 10 read my reasonz
against the praktis, knowing that il woz
| meteli delite of the flesh that woreth
agenst the spirit. -
Miss Fanny Davenport is a victim of
The autograph fiend When in Boston
she made test of the sincerity of one of
these hunters. A lady wrote her feel
ing note, stating that she would consider
Miss Davenport IS autograph invaluable.
''Well, we III see if she does, +" said the
actress, and, taking out a carte de visite,
she wrote across the face of it: s'PaSs
two, Fanny Davenport. - ''Now, there
is my autograph, - she said, 'and 1 will
see whether this party considers it of suf-
ficient value to hold or get into the thea
ter. - 1t is hardly necessary to state that
the pass was found in the tlcket-b0X next
evening, and Miss Davenport now places
the value of her autographs at about So
each, which is what the two seats would
have been worth
Mr.. Rylands, the great Manchester
manufacturer, almost up to his death, at
nearly ninety years, insisted upon con-
Quoting personally the concerns of his
business, which he founded nearly seventy
years ago. Every morning he would be
driven to his office, and with the kindly
cOnnivance of his managers and head
clerks made believe to direct affairs as he
used to do in former years. One day
recently, when the end was growing very
near, he was driven as usual to his office.
When he was helped out of his carriage
and looked up at the building he turned
to re-enter the carriage, exclaiming pet
tishly: ono, no, want to go TO my own
place. He did not know the palatlal
building in which his later fortunes were
cared for, and his failing mind, suddenly
turning back for sixty years, saw the
modest building in which he had started.
George W. Childs does about the right
thing most of the time. Witness the
following from the Philadelphia Record:
Every cloud has a silver lining, and so it
has proved in the case of Mr.. Robert
MeWade, the city editor of the Public
Ledger, whose home at Wayne was de-
stroyed by fire on Saturday last After
years of toll MIR McWade had secured
fine home and Il library of rare merit.
The labor of a lifetime was swept away
in less than an hour, and McWade was
left on Sunday in about the same condi-
ton that he started some years ago. On
Monday last a CLEAN of sunshine pierced
the dark clouds when Mr.. George W.
Childs, the proprietor of the Public
Ledger, and Mr.. McWade's employer,
kindly informed the unfortunate editor
that he would restore his home and make
the waste place at Wayne blossom again
as the rose, and defray all the expenses.