Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-11
ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN.

Queen Victoria is the richest woman in
the British Kingdom. She has accumu-
lated fortune of $40 900 600.
According to a recent authoritative
announcement, the widow of Gen. Grant
has thus far received about nine hum
dred thousand dollars from the publica-
| ton of his Memoirs -
Dr.. Draper used to say of Miss Maria
| Mitchell, the famous astronomer re-
| Gently deceased, that she was the only
woman he ever knew who could look
! through telescope without winkIng the
other eye.
Gen. John C. Fremont, the great
pathfinder and the first Republican can
| didate for president of the United States,
is now seventy eight years old, but he
| gets around in a remarkable active man
ner and looks good for ten or fifteen
years yet.
The empress of China has been pre-
| sented by her husband with an immense
tiara of gold, having a 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,
Florence Nightingale is sixty wears of
age and an invalid, but she has written
letter of sympathy for the Johnstown
sufferers with her own hand She sell
dom leaves her house nowadays, but she
keeps up a lively interest in all that is
going on, and she attends to an enormous
correspondence from all parts of the
world.
Senator Morrill, of Vermont is seventy
nine years old, and has represented his
state at Washington for thirty five years.
He is well preserved old gentleman,
and bears a striking likeness to Charles
Sumner. Senator Morrill, began his ca
reer as country storekeeper, at which
business he amassed a comfortable fer
tune.
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
princesses the youngest is the prettiest.
They all dress alike and are very quiet in
public, but are yivacious enough when
by themselves.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lair of Kentucky have
seven sons. Mr.. Lair is six feet two
inches tall, and Mrs. Lair is six feet
three inches. The largest son is six feet
eight inches; the smallest is six feet five
inches. Of the others, two are six feet
six and one-half inches, two are six feet
six and three-fourths inches, and one six
feet seven inches.
When Thomas CarIysIe 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
four-to the starving subjects of Great
Britain in Ireland. - The girl was, of
course, the late Laura Bridgman.
The report that Gen. Bragg, COM
mander of the old Iron Brigade, is de- |
barred from membership in a Grand |
Army post has created great deal of |
comment. Gen. Bragg is a staunch |
Democrat, while the men back of the /
fight on him are mostly Republican |
office holders. The pretext for barring |
him out is that his dues lapsed while he /
was in Mexico.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is one of the
best preserved of Washington oetogen-
arians. He has fine, straight figure
and holds himself erect, sitting or stand
ing, riding or walking. He dresses in
he latest fashion and with serupulous