Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-07
ABoUr MEN AND WOVEN.

KilraIn was vegetable peddler before
being pugilist.
''Grandma Sarah" is what they call
Bernhardt now in Paris.
Queen Victoria is the richest woman in
the British kingdom. She has accumu-
lated fortune of $50 900, 600.
The descendants of Rebecca Nourse,
who was hanged as witch in 1892, had
reunion in Danvers, Mass, last Mon
day.
The eldest daughter of the prince of
Wales. who is to marry the earl of Fife,
is said to have but little claim to good
looks. Her face is long and angular, but
the expression is pleasing. OF the three
prinoesses the youngest is the prettiest.
They all dress alike and are very quiet in
public, but are vivacious enough when
by themselves.
Miss Helen Gladstone, the president of
Newman college, Cambridge, makes a
statement calculated to create tumult
among the married men who take the OPP
posite view. Miss Gladstone says: ''The
full cultivation of women IS intellectual
powers has no tendency to prevent them
from properly discharging domestic du-
ties -
When Thomas Carlysle once imperti-
nently ased: ''What great or noble thing
has America ever done?'' somebody re-
piled: ''She has produced a girl, deaf
dumb and blind from infancy, who from
her own earnings has sent barrel of
flour to the starving subjects of Great
Britain in Ireland. - The girl was, of
course, the late Laura Bridgman.
Joseph Conkling, aged eighty-three,
and Miss Maria Edwards. aged seventy
three, were married at Port Jervis, n.
Y, the other day Fifty years ago they
wanted to wed, but the parents of the
tgirl'' interfered because Mr.. Conkling
was not well off in worldly goods. Mr..
Conkllng is now ''wel fixed, and
there is no doubt of his ability to provide
a home for his bride.
Roda Broughton, the well-known En-
glish novelist, is forty eight and highly
intelligent looking woman, although her
features are hard and rather masculine.
She is a good talker and has rich fund
of humor of a very racy and piquant
kind. Most of her literary work is done
early in the morning. 1t is her custom
to allow at least two years to lapse be-
tween the publication of her stories.
The empress of Germany has an army
of seamstresses, but 1t is her delight to
preside over ana assist in the manufac-
ture of her children S garments. She is
a person of great taste, and generally
picks her own and her children IS hats to
pieces and makes them over, after re-
ceiving them from renowned French
modiste. She is also an adapt in fine
embroidery in both white and eolorS,
and is as industrious as many a woman
of limited means.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Maria Mitch
ell was the peer of all the male astrono-
mers of her time. She knew all that
they knew. She was as expert as they
in tracing the mighty movements of the
stars and solving the problems of the
universe. Her eye was as keen as theirs
in detecting new visitors in the visible
heavens, and her intellect as acute in
making the elaborate calculations by
which the fact of such appearance is fire.
quently known before it is discovered by
the telescope. AS she said of her discov-
cry of the comet of 1917: If any credit
was due her for that, it was not for the
fact of the discovery. but for the mathe-.
NAUTICAL success of working out its ortd
Maria Mitchell was one OF the wes5d's
famous women. Science will regret her }
death, for there is no woman to take her.
place.