Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-03

from the Atlantic to the Pacific, show
how good woman is everywhere appre-
Grated and admired.
Murray's Magazine announces that
Prince Albert Victor, oldest son OF the
prince of Wales, has been affianced to
Princess Victoria of Prussia, sister re
the emperor of Germany. With the an
nouncement the information is given
that the queen viii give the prince
marriage settlement, and that parlia-
ment viii not be asked to make pro-
vision for him.
Princess Louise of Wales, grand
daughter of Queen Victoria, has been
betrothed to the earl of Fife. The earl
Is an intimate friend of the prince of
Wales and is neighbor of the queen at
Balmoral. He is in his fortieth year.
Princess Louise is twenty-five years old.
The prince of Wales daughters are Wis
iting the queen at Windsor. Her
majesty has fully consented to the be-
trothal of the Princess Louise to the earl
of Fife. 1t is said to be strictly love
match.
The duchess of Marlborough, who was
once Mrs. Harmersly of New York, has
applied for another 500 900 out of the
accumulated income of her former hus-
band IS estate. Since the contest over
Mr.. Hamersly IS will began the duchess
has drawn from the income OF the estate
about seven hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars. 1t has been held that
she is entitled TO these acoumulatiens.
The value of the personal estate is about
three million dollars.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague has managed
to get rid of the patrimony left her upon
the death of her distinguished father,
Chief Justice Chase, and now finds her
self once more in the ascendant. The
chief justice had a country place at
Edgewood, near Washington, that was
not disposed of. Lately an electric street
railway was extended in that direction,
and the suburban farm has reached the
neighborhood and Mrs. Kate Chase
Sprague finds herself the owner of one of
the most valuable properties in the Dis
trict of Columbia. Her son, Willie
Sprague, who went with his father in the
Sprague domestic troubles, and after
ward married sister Of the woman his
father married, has separated from his
wife and returned to his mother. He is
a young fellow, not much over twenty
one, and there is hope for him.
Miss Maria Mitchell, the distinguished
recently, was one of the most noted of
the scholarly women of the century.
From early girlhood she was passionately
fond of mathematics, and her interest in
the exact sciences never waned with the
advance Of old age. AS an instructress
as well as in social intercourse, she was
original, interesting and stimulating and
was specially free from cant or conven-
tiOnality. In any sphere of life she
would doubtless have made her mark.
She was devoted to the telescope, and
through it she won recognition of her
abilities until she was known by scientists
throughout the world as one of the first
astronomers of the age. Three institu-
tons of learning conferred upon her the
degree of doctor of laws, Columbia coz
lege being one. Miss Mitchell was born
at Nantucket, Mass. August /, 1918. -
Carlotta Patti, the famous singer who
died in Paris a few days since, was
sister of Adelina Patti She was born in
Florence, Italy, in 1910, but her first ap-
pearance in public was made IN this coun-
try, whittier she came in her youth with
her parents. She early showed evidence
of singing voice scarcely inferior to
that of her famous sister, and her face
was perhaps rather more beautiful; but
an lncuraDle IamenesS OF the mp was an
insuperable bar to her success on the
operate stage. she made her debut in
concert in New York IN 1862, and occa-
sionally appeared as piano soloist with
much credit. After tour of all the
European capitals she returned to this
country IN 1869. Ten years later she
married NJ. Ernest de Munck, noted
violoncellist, in Paris. An unpleasant
feature of her last tour of America was
her suit for libel against Joseph Pulitzer
of the st. Louis Post Dispatch, who had
charged in his newspaper that she had
appeared in public in an intoxicated con-
dition. Pulitzer paid her $4,000 to dig1
continue the suit. During her later |
years she has given singing lessons at |
enormous rates. As a concert singer she |
was without a superior, her vofteSzI
clear soprano, extending to sharp in,l
alt. She once attempted to sing a char
acter in the opera of 1.-The Magieg
Flute, - in which very little acting was
required, but her physical defect made |
her failure.