Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-06
ARoUr MEN ANp WOVEN.

Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is keep
| ing very quiet He seems to think that
with discretion he may be able to keep
out of the eonsomme
Says the Philadelphia Record: g In
addition te his many other pleasing ae-
compGshments, Mr.. Harrison IS an ar
dent and vigorous kiSser. -
The reason Sarah BeFnhardt would not
play for the sultan Of Turkey was that he
would not give her permission TO perform
Theodore III Constantinople.
John Koch, who has been sent TO Jail
by q Scranton magistrate for selling
liquor on Sundays, was formerly mil
lianaire and the importer of Theodore
Thomas to this country. He Is now III
very poor circumstances.
The Marquis of Lorne, son-in-law of
Queen Victoria, is the latest recruit TO
the bicyelists, and his wife, Princess
Louise, is also the possessor OF a safety
machine and contemplates accompanying
her husband on some of his early morn
ing spins.
The Duke of Sutherland, it is rumored +,
will shortly be married TO his travelling
companion Mrs Blair. The ceremony
will be performed very quietly and the
new duchess is not likely to receive any
eountenance from the duke s relatives or
from English society.
Ward MeAllister, colonel of New
York Is society brigade yclept SThe Four
Hundred is tall erect and fifty years
old. He has black moustaehe and
goatee and a lawyer without practice.
He lives entirely in society. He has
several cousins of his name III Philadel-
phia.
Mary Anderson is at last to have a
dangerous rival in the person of a fair
Australian, whose name is Eessie Ienyns.
This new star is just leaving her native
country for England, where she viii at
tempt the roles of the divine Mary. The
colonists at her home assert that Miss
Jenyps is lovelier and eleverer than the
American actress, and she is expected to
take the mother country by storm.
John Barlow, once American minister
to France, died in the early part OF this
century at Wilma, Poland, where he WAS
buried, and Senator Plat is now taking
an interest in measure before the SEN
ate which provides that his remains be
eXhumed and brought back to his native
land. In his young manhood Mr.. Bar
low fought i'll the revolution of 1916 and
Plains.
The most prominent brigand in China,
Ho Ia Lae-hu, has been captured and
killed. He was a giant, being seven feet
two inches III height, and broad in pro-
portion. He has been concerned in
great many robberies and large number
of murders. Ii Hung Chang, vieeroy of
China, made up his mind that this burly
rutfian must be checked in his career.
HO Ia Lao-hu made bold fight against
the troops sent to arrest him, but was
fatally wounded during the slIirmish,
Sir Frederick Grenfeu, who is in COM
mand of the British forces in the Soudan,
is only fOrty-seven years of age. He
first came into prominence during the OPP
erations in the Trenskei in I677-7S. He
served in the Kaffir war of 1873 and in
the Zulu campaign of 1879 He also rem
dered effective service in the Boer war of
1881. He joined the Egyptian army i'll
1888 and served with it on the frontier in
lSS5-96. He was present at the battle of
Giniss. He has been in active service for
the last ten years.
The emperor of Russia has decorated
several French authors and has thereby
offended the Germans, some of whose
principal writers would also have been
decorated, no doubt, but for the fact
that neither the emperor nor the empress
ever reads German. Her majesty's IA
vorite authors are Dumas pere, Balzac,
Paul de Kock and Edmond About; while
the empress likes Prosper Merimee, Vic
tor Hugo and 0ctavia Feuillet, and she
also reads many English works, prefer
ring those of Dickens, Scott, Marryatt,
Thaekeray and Willkie Collins.
The two best male matrimonial catches
in New York are George Vanderbilt and
T. ]. Oakley Rhinelander. George Van
derbilt is the son of William H and is
rising six and twenty. He is not partic-
nlarly keen about society, Oakley Rhine
lander is three years older. He owns a
good sized strip of New York city. Eu-
gene Hargous, Perry Belmont, James
Kernochan, Winthrop Rutherford, Will
lam Livingston Hammersley, William r
TraVers and Herman Oelrichs, all of
whom are millionaires and well under
are also on the list. William
R, TraYers is worth So 900 900. He may
be best described as the son of his father,
the late William R Travers.
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