Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-22


Kimberley which paid him net $4,000 a
week for four years, and then he sold
them for $500 GOO.
Cal Wagner, the old minstrel, who re-
| Gently abandoned that line, is construe-
ton superintendent of the People s street
railway, n belt double track line running
around the town and through some OF
the principal streets of Syracuse, n. Y
Among other petty insults to which the
| widowed Empress Frederick has been
subjected by her eldest son il the order
| recently published in the Official Gazette
! depriving her of the use of the imperial
/ crown on her coat farms and decreeing
! that in future she must content herself
with the attributes Of mere queen of
Prussia
The young German emperor wants his
salary increased from $3.50 ,O00to 81 900, :
600 year The general impression is,
| however, that the young man s services
win not prove to have been worth more
! money TO Germany than were those of
his father aud his grandfather, who
! worked for the same salary which he is
now receiving
The livery of the eoaehman of Count
| D'Arco Vallejo, the German minister at
Washington is creating q sensation in
| that city. Gold and lace seem to be the
principal part of it. A double row of
| gilt buttons runs down the front, while
rows Of gilt cord are swung across the
breast and fastened upon the right side,
from which depends a sword.
There are many men in this country
who carry very large amounts Of life in
surance. Among them are John Wanna
maker, Philadelphia, $500 600; Edwin
Ruth, Chicago, $500 900; Channcey NJ
Depew, the United States, $500 600;
Hamilton Disston Philadelphia, $500 900;
George K. Anderson, New York, 1915 =
900; George K. Anderson, Titusville,
Pa, $3.50 600; W. II. Langley, CALI
polls, o., $500 600; Isidor Cohnfeld,
New York, $3.50 900; P Lorillard, $685.
600; Cyrus w. Field, New York, $780,
600.
In ii recent lecture Mr.. William BlaiKie,
author Of ''How to Get Strong con-
trasted Thomas a. Edison and John Erics-
son, both inventors, the one forty-two
years of age, tine other just double that
age. Edison never takes any exercise,
and breathes comparatively little fresh
air; Ericsson has a gymnasium fitted
up in his house, and takes regular exer-
else every day Edison is almost totally
deaf, is paleo face, and stoops. Erics-
son has all his organs in their early per-
lection, is ruddy of face and straight as
an arrow.
The tallest man in Colorado is Drum
Major Ouray of the Magnolia band. He
is six feet four inches III height. He is at
present the efficient marshal of the town
of Ouray, in which capacity he has served
for number of years Throughout the
San Juan country he is familiarly known
as Baby Jim, - but officially he is
giant. A good story is told of him during
his career as marshal. Two men who had
been inbibing too freely had become
noisy and troublesome. Baby JIM
walked up TO them ''You fellows will
have to quit making so much noise, or go
in, he said. ''We won I quit making
noise and we won't go in, - they re-
torted Without another word Baby
Jim lifted them from the ground, and
adjusting one under each arm, literally
carried them to the calaboose. When |
attired in the drum major s uniform ne |
is verify giant.
Mary Anderson punctures with caustic |
pen in the current number of the North |
American Review the pPetensions of the |
society stars who imagine that social |
eminence alone is sufficient to secure for /
them a foothold on the stage. Miss An
derson is justly jealous of the profession |
which she adorns so well, both as wo-
man and an artist, and she says g it
would be destructive blow to the exist
ence Of such 4 thing as dramatic art, if
a social leader equipped with q pleas
ing personality, a decree Of drawing
room grace and ten lessons in elocution,
were to gain as an actress the approval
of thoughtful observers. - She says the
society leader must work as others do
for success. ''There should be no room
on the stage, - continues Miss Anderson,
- for any man or woman who is not will
ing to study and work increasingly not
only for individual triumph, but also for
the growth and honor of the art of act
ing