Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-15
ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN.

The prince of Wales has set the fash
ion by wearing three studs IN his shirt.
Edison smokes a great deal; the more
work he does, the more cigars he con-
sumes.
Victoria Woodruff threatens to return
to this land of the free and run for presi-
dent in 1898.
Lady Vaudeville threatens to go on the
stage unless her father-in law, the duke
OF Manchester, pays her husband 8
debts.
Thomas Harrison, ''the boy preach
er, - is forty-t three years old. He is
about Eve feet SIX inches in height and
very slender
The New York Sun says it is not likely
that Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers will be reelected
TO office by the national convention OF
the brotherhood at Denver next month.
Among the Inscriptions in her album
most priced by Nine. Patti-Nicollni IS
this, by the elder Dumas: ''Being
man and Christian 1 love to listen to
your singing; but if [ were bird 1 should
die of envy -
Mrs Harrison is in receipt of nearly
thirty requests a day for pieces of her
dresses and clippings from the president s
neckties. The requests come from peo-
pie who desire to use the pieces in crazy
quilts or preserve them as mementoes.
Elizabeth Liske, a Russian, eleven
years old, already SIX feet six inches in
height, three feet one and three-fourth
inches around the waist and three feet
eleven inches around the chest, is the
latest thing out in giants. The doctors
say she will continue to grow in every
way for some years yet.
Prince Henry of Prussia, the kaiser s
brother, is the idol of the German and
naval service. He is the ''Unser Helm
rich'' of the navy, just as his father
used to be ''Unser Fritz of the army,
and many stories are told to illustrate his
good nature, his devotion to his profess
sion and his physical proves.
Prince Bismarck is suffering from
! Inflammation of the veins. This is the
| outcome Of his refusal to obey his ply
! sicians. They forbid him to drink wine
! or beer or to smoke cigars. With Mon
| taigne's contempt for the advice of doc
! tors, he continues his usual habits and
the result has proved disastrous.
| Testimony has been printed to show
! that Corp. Tanner IS war record is not one
| of which TO be proud. Be that as it may,
! says the New Haven Register, it is on his
| record as pension commissioner that he Is
! being judged now by the people. 1t may
| or it may not be that he received his
wounds while struggling away from his
regiment, but it is of little consequence
compared with the use he is making of
the peoples money in pensloning men
who were dishonorably discharged and
men who do not need any assistance from
the government.
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell has an
editorial on woman's wages in this
week IS Woman's Journal, and men
tons as a curious fact an instance
| that occurred in a competition of
sculptors in Boston. The matter on foot
was the erection of a statue to distin-
guished citizen who had recently died.
All souIptors were invited to sept models
of the deceased citizen, and with it their
name in a sealed envelope. Miss Annie
! Whitney's model was decided to be the
best, but when her envelope was opened :,
the judges reversed their decision, as it
was too much honor to bestOw upon a
woman - Boston Transcript.