Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-21
MEN AND WOMEN.

Gen. Francis e. Spinner, ex-United
States treasurer is rapidly growing worse
and his death is but a question of a few
weeks.
The empress of Germany will make
her first visit in company with her hus-
band to Rome in the fall. She will spend
some time also in Greece.
Mrs. Ellen J. Foster, Miss Kate San
born, Miss Frances Willard, Mrs. John
A. Logan and others are interested in
forming a society for the training of girls
for domestic service.
F. William Seuf, one of the cIeverest
violin makers in the world, died recently
at his home in Baltimore, Md. He was
a man of gigantic stature, and many
years ago was a cUriassier in the Prus-
sian army.
Mrs. Herbert Ward elizabeth Stuart
Phelps is much beloved by the towns
men and women of Gloucester proper on
account of her efforts in the cause of
temperance. She has established a
FISHERMEN S reading room.
The forthcoming life Of Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, written by her son, will
contain unpublished letters from Brown
ing, Miss Martineau, Lady Byron, Arch
bishop Whateley, Charles Kingsley, John
Bright, James Russell Lowell and Rus
kin.
Bayard Taylor was ambitious to be
known as a poet, but his misfortune was
to be known as a traveler-One who sue
ceeded in seeing Europe with little
money. He complained that 4" the chief
merits accorded him were, not passion
and Imagination, but strong legs and
economical habits
Excepting Walter Savage Landor, who
lived to be ninety years Old, few English
poets saw the age of four score, which
Tennyson saw recently, though William
Wordsworth, to whose laureate wreath
Tennyson succeeded nearly forty years
ago, lived sixteen days beyond his
eightieth birthday.
Thomas Bailey AIdrich's dainty little
poem, "Baby Bell, - was refused by
the Knickerbocker Magazine and. other
periodicals, and was finally published in
the New York Journal of Commerce, a
strange place for the publication of such
a poem. The poet was paid SIS for it.
He has since received as much as $1,000
for short poem, not so long and not so
good as ''Baby Bell. "
KING Dinah SaIifou, an African po-
tentate who Is visiting the Paris eXposi-
ton, will have good cause to remember
it, as besides receiving the Legion of
Honor, which, as it has been observed,
few escape, he has been given by Presi-
dent Carnot q brass bedstead. an accord
ion, trumpet, a flute and a hurdy-
gurdy. The shah gave HIM q handsome
Persian saber. The Parisians will long
remember King Dinah, as his ceremonial
dress included military trousers and
bishops vestments and inter, which he
somewhere had picked up at q bargain.
1.-THE many friends of Miss Mary An
derson will be delighted - says a Boston
Gazette correspondent, tto hear that
the reports OF her illness have been ex-
aggerated. She Is by no means strong
yet, and 1t IS doubtful whether she will
be seen again on the stage for over
year. She looks very well, however,
and is full of animation; but it will take
months to recover from the strain of
playing "A Winters Tale seven times
week while travelling through the United
States Miss Anderson is at present liv-
ing with her brother and his wife in
Hampstead where the air is pure, and
not tainted by the smoke of the town. -