Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-28
ABOUT HEN AND WOlTEM.

Mr.. Gladstone's library at Hawarden
has more than twenty thousand volumes.
Mr.. Gladstone loans his books to any one
in the neighborhood who wants to read
them. 1t is the regular free library
of the district.
John W. Bookwalter, Ohio, who has
an aesthetic face and melancholy air, is
nevertheless a keen business man. He
spends most of his time in New York,
and is promoting the Introduction of
cast-steel process into iron manufacture,
by which he declares steel will supersede
iron.
William Black says. respecting his
habits Of composition, that after break
fast he writes steadily for two hours and
one hour after dinner, which is all the
time he gives to literary work. During
the rest of the day he walks or reads or
writes letters. He writes rapidly and
makes few erasures.
At the battle of Malvern Hill, Senator
Vance of North Carolina was charging
up hill with the shot rafting about
him and the air breathing fire, when he
met an old hare With ears back running
for dear life. $50 it, Molly Cotton
tail, - exclaimed he, elf hadn't a
reputation to sustain I'd be with you. -
James Dennison, the most expert
negro who ever handled a billiard
cue, died at Charleston, S. c., on the
22d inst. aged fftY-three. He was
known in the South as "Pug.' - In the
days of pocket tables and in the early
days of carrOm tables he could discount
almost any man in the South. He would
never go North to play. nor would he
play at all except with white men.
Even in Newport, where wealth is at
discount, the diamond and pearl neck
lace worn on state occasions by Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has excited the
greatest Swonder and admiration. The
striking feature of this necklace is that
the diamonds are pierced through the
center and are strung alternately with
the pearls 1t is said that it required
many weeks Of patient labor to pierce
each stone.
Mark Twain's story Of the man who
made a collection of brickbats has been
matched by Dr.. Hammond Of Washing
ton. He has a patient with heaps Of
money and lots of unemployed time, who
devotes himself to the collection of corks.
His museum Of shoppers is classified ac-
cording to the liquor the bottles con-
tanned and the countries from which they
came. Give him cork and he will at
once determine its origin.
There is a story told of Webster which
shows how mountains and men may alike
become impressive. Webster and other
statesmen from Washington were spend
ing few days in the White mountains.
Webster had set out from the inn afoot
before his companions that he might
mediate alone in the presence of all this
grandeur. Thinking they had lost the
great statesman, they inquired OF
farmer if he had seen Mr.. Webster pass
that way. He REPLIED: 81 know not if
his name is Webster, but there went by
here but little while ago man as
mighty as any of these hills. -
Ex-Governor Cameron of Virginia, the
last Republican governor of the state, is
a vigorous kicker against the Harrison
Malone combine. In an interview he
declares that the politicians known as the
Mahoneites in Virginia are ''onIy ao-
quainted with three elements of manage
ment-force, fraud and finance. The
strikers furnish the force, the great
chieftain furnishes the machinery for
fraud, and the deluded Northern Repub-
licans furnish the finances. The ex-
governor predicts the defeat of MahOne-
ism at the November election.