Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-09
ABOUT MEN IND woMEx.

George Bancroft, the historian, IS now
the oldest living graduate of Harvard.
William Walter Phelps, who is now
minister to Germany, is fifty years old
Talleyrand, diplomatist, prince and
bishop, had curious theory that men
whose surnames began with 3 were, as a
rule, defective in their mental, moral
or physical makeup.
The empress of China has been pre-
sented by her husband with an immense
tiara Of gold, having very lofty cap of
Siberian sable, embroidered with rows of
pearls and the feathers of the golden
pheasant. Twenty skilled workmen
were two months in making it.
Baron Nordenskjold has now passed
through the press the great work upon
which he has been engaged-a fac-simile
atlas to the oldest history of cartography 3.
It is a folio volume containing reproduce
tons of flfty-one maps printed before
1000. with descriptive letter. press and
other Illustrations.
Senator Morrill, of Vermont is seventy
nine years old, and has represented his
state at Washington for thirty five years
He is a well preserved old gentleman :,
and bears striking likeness to Charles
reer as a country storekeeper, at which
business he amassed comfortable for
tune.
John C. Fremont, the pathfinder, ;"
is now nearly eighty years old and his
closely trimmed beard is snowy white,
but his figure is erect and his manner
active. He makes his home at Los
Angeles, CAL, where he has a fine
ranch, and where his wife, Jessie Benton
Fremont, is engaged in writing a life of
Kit Carson, the famous scout and prairie
ranger, who led him over the Rockies.
Gen. Joseph f. Johnston is one of the
best preserved of Washington s octogen-
arians. He has a fine, straight figure
and holds himself erect, sitting or stand
ing, riding or walking. He dresses in
the latest fashion and with scrupulous
neatness. He is great walker and
tramps all over the capital, riding very
seldom, except in RAINY weather. Gen.
Johnston graduated from West Point,
No. IL in the class of 1929. in which Gen .
Robert Il. Lee stood No. 2.
Two women who died recently were
each gifted with genius, and by patient
labor and study developed their powers
and made themselves famous In the
realm OF song Carlotta Patti
touched the hearts and the ar
tistic instincts of thousands of people of
every nationality. On the other hand !,
it was to the investigation of the sidereal
universe that Maria Mitchell devoted her
life. The one charmed By her harmo-
mics; the other, grave and earnest,
added to the sum of human
knowledge. There was a vide gulf be-
tween them; and yet the world is better
both for the singer and the astronomer
Sarah Orne Jewett viii be forty next
September; Mrs. Humphrey Ward is
thirty eight, Lucy Lareom is sixty-three,
Harriet Prescott Spofford is fifty-four
Edith NJ. Thomas is thirty-five, Marion
Hariand Mrs. Terbune) is fifty-nine,
Amelie Rives-C hanler viii be twenty-six
next August, Mrs. Frances Hodgson
Burnett is thirty nine, Celia Thaxter is
fifty-three, Mrs. Croly (Jennie June} Is
ffty-seven, Miss Braddon is Gfty-two,
Blanche willis Howard IS forty-two,
Rose Terry Cooke is stxty two. Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps Ward wiz De forty-five in
August Miss Louise Imogen Quincy is