Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-24
ABoUT MEN AND B-oMEM.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox says that the first
year of her married life she cried herself
to sleep every night for fear that her
handsome husband would tire of her.
Notwithstanding the frequent cloud
bursts, that noble husband ever proved
constant.
DR.. Leonard WOolsey Bacon, at one
point of his reforming work, hindered by
the timorous conservatives, exclaimed:
There is no creature alive so dangerous
to society, when there is grave work TO
be done, as your average good man.
This world would be q very good world to
live and fight in if it were not for the
good men in it. -
Mary Gordon Duffee, the authoress
lives with her aged mother III ruined
frame cottage which sits perched on the
very summit of picturesque mountain
near Blount Springs, Ala. Miss Duffee
is now abont fifty years old and is very
eccentric. OF late years, it is said, she
has depended almost entirely on the
charity Of her kind-hearted neighbors.
Probably no more gorgeous entertain
ment by a private person has been
given in England than the soiree in
honor of the shah given by Sir Albert
Sasoon. He took the Empire theater,
hung it with flowers and invited 1900
guests, who turned out in their most
expensive style and made an unprece-
dented company. Sir Albert is Bonn
bay Jew.
Wells Goodwin of Newbury Center,
VT, ninety-six years old, is veteran of
1912, and loves to tell how he aud his
companions made the British run at
Lundy' Lane. He enlisted when sew
enteen years old, and has drawn a pen
sion of SIP n month for many years. He
is a Democrat OF the old school, and has
voted for every Democratic candidate for
president from Monroe down.
Mdme. Adelina Patti enjoys a repu-
ton as a clever and careful house
keeper. When at home at C-aig-y-nos
she supervises every detail of household
management-frOm the linen to the
larder. She is herself an excellent
cook, and is also an expert needlewo-
man. She has a great penohant for
going long walks unattended. Possibly,
apart from royalties, she has more dec
orations-stars, ribbons and orders
than any other living woman, but she
has no English orders.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, who has of late
been so much in the public eye, has one
of the finest private estates in America 4
He owns the whole of Cumberland Island
off the coast of Georgia, with the splendid
Old estate of Dungeness, which Georgia
gave to Gen. Greene. Mr.. Carnegie has
magnificent beach, eighteen mica
long, all his own; fine modern villain
place of the old homestead, lawns that
are always green, and orange trees,
olives, palms and host of other South
or MI oh NHuith crin ficI 1.-Two
oaks in splendid confusion.
The women have very recently been
coming III for large share of the spoils
of office. Among the recent examples
are the appointment of the wife Of
Thomas j. Morgan, the commissioner of
Indian affairs, to be his private score
tary, and that of the wife of DR.. Dor
chester superintendent ofIudian schools,
TO be the special agent in the Indian ser
vice at a salary Of So a day and expenses.
In the case of the latter appointment the
secretary of the interior is said to have
hesitated, as no woman has ever held an
Office of this kind, and he had some
doubts whether the duties could be etn-
GENTLY performed, but doubtless she will
do as well as any of her male predeces- |
sOrs. A good many of the wives aud
daughters of members of the senate and |
of the house now serve them as private
secretaries, aud the admission of women
to the Offices is extending in many new
directions.
James Leonard, president of the New |
Orleans typographical union, and q typo |
in the Times Democrat office. receutsy !
performed, as described by that paper, |
the following feat: ''On Friday, July 5, |
Mr.. Leonard began his week g work. He |
was offered no special opportunities TO |
make great record (or, in Topographic |
cal parlance, q ''big string by |
setting up easy matter (''fat |
takes, - as tina printer puts it ~ but |
worked on the regular file, - which con-
tains the general run of matter that ap-
pears in the Times Democrat 8 columns |
The type used in the office is BREWER, |
agate, and nonpareiI, the latter largely |
predominating The agate measures
thirty ems to the line, the nonpareil
twenty five. Mr.. Leonard worked seven
and a half hours n day for seven consecu-
tive days, and on Thursday night last,
when he cast up his "string, it was
disclosed that he had set up just 102 500
ems, an average of IA .6S5 ems q day, or
errors; his "proof'' was good In doing !
this feat Mr.. Leonard set POS 500 letters,
and returned the same 10 their boxes.
The distance travelled by his arm was
about one hundred and twenty-five
miles. This record is the best made in
New Orleans since the war. Mr.. Leon
ard was born in Keokuk in 1858.