Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN.

Julian Hawthorne's FIVE daughters
bear the names of Hildegarde, Gwen
dolin, Gladys, Beatrice and Imogen.
Thomas A Edison, the inventor,
rarely sleeps more than four hours q day.
He says that when he sleeps eight hours
day, as most men do, he feels badly
when he wakes up. He eats the simplest
food.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has purchased
the entire half OF block between Fifty
seventh and FIfty-eighth streets, New
York, for S414 900 He viii turn the
! property into ballroom and connect it
with his residence.
Mrs Sangster, the new editor of Har-
! per's Bazaar, known so long by her re-
ligious poems i'll the weekly papers, is a
fair, matronly lady, well and rather
richly dressed, with suave manner. re-
mindIng one of Helen Hunt Jackson.
The wedding presents received by
| Princess Louise of Wales were displayed
at Marlborough house. The total
value is ESQ 600. The Jewels alone
/ are valued at f120 900. Mrs Maekay
sent a turquoise and diamond pendant
earrings.
BOulanger appears to have been badly
beaten in the French elections. ''Out
of sight out of mind is especially true
of the volatile and tickle Frenchman
The bombastic general ceased to dazzle
effectively the moment he was lost to
their view.
Queen Margherita of Italy has sue
ceeded in re- establishing the manufac-
ture of Burana lace, an industry that
had died out. The queen found an old
woman that knew the stitch, and had her
teach it to number of young women.
The benefcent result is that Burana lace
has again become source of large rev.
enue TO the people of Burana.
a siXteen-yeaT-o boy, named Walter
a. Stanley who belongs to East LeXing-
ton, Mass has constructed a miniature
locomotive, complete III every
detail, which Is run by steam
over g small track about twelve feet
long. The dimensions of the locomotive
are: Length, thIrty-three inches;
height, seven and three fourth inches
drivers, three inches; cylinders, one and
one-eighth inches; weight, sixteen
pounds. 1t is said the boy constructed
the engine without any assistance.
A correspondent who has met Boulan-
ger in London writes: The generals
manner Is, for a Frenchman, sedate,
composed, tranquil; with the Self-posses-
sion of one long used to intercourse with
his fellOw-men and with women. AS to
the latter, the most skeptical nRyeE,
limited a doubt. 1t is q good mGPh ef
without being remarkable for distiQs sion 81
Unknown, he might pass unobseFYe 81, NJ
drawing room, nor is there mucLR III nSsaI
bearing to suggest the notion Of greatSd
ness. A good soldier, good sEagk Offices
administrator, he possesses cePtafh
frankness and popularity Of address, an
easy command of conventional ciYllitie5
and an extremely pliable temper to those
ralher adventurous politicians who use
his name.
Secretary Rusk has received some !
queer requests, but his latest has set him |
thinking. A Wyoming territory farmer |
writes that he is thankful for the pack |
ages of seeds which were forwarded to |
him, and then quantity adds that it is I
pretty hard work to build up a new coun-
try without wives. He says the prevail !
ing sentiment of the territory is in favor |
of women who would like to marry hon |
est settlers, and concludes with the re-
mark that not only are good homes |
awaiting the lonesome spinsters of the |
East, but if they come they can enjoy |
equal political privileges with the men.
Secretary Rusk says he does not propose
to turn the agricultural department into
2 matrimonial agency, but that he would
like to help out this waiting wooer if he
only could.
Lillian Russell lives in misery, accord
ing to the World, because she fears she
may become fat 'sShe can eat
any SORT of sweetmeats, cake or pastry.
Every vegetable is forbidden that grows
under ground; no wine is allowed to pass
her lips; meat is limited to one meal a
day and between the foods that she dare
not eat and does not care to eat her bill
OF fare is confined to bread and butter,
lemons and lettuce. Every Gay she is
compelled TO walk ten miles, and in this
hot weather the exercise is far from
agreeable. She dresses i'll blue flannel, |
wears cork-soled shoes, straw hat with
a moist sponge basted in the crown and
carries 8 lined sun umbrella. AS
the object Of this exercise is to keep her
flesh down, she never fails to weigh her
self before starting out, so that she
knows what reduction is necessary. A
part Of her outfit consists of long strips of
white flannel, which are coiled about her
body spirally and laid double where the
flesh is too abundant. In this snug
WoOllen suit the only Lillian walks until
she is a rich rose color and dripping with
when she is rubbed down
with alcohol, refreshed with cold bullion
and put TO bed.