Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-19
ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN.

Mrs. Frank Leslie wears No. l shoe.
1t is said Mrs. Burnett took week to
decide upon the name of Fauntleroy
for her beautiful child story.
Little Oscar Moore, the colored child
with a memory like photograph, is
! giving New York pointers in mnemonics.
De Lesseps's health has received a tre-
mendous shock, and Paris correspon-
| dent says he passes all his time in weep
| ing.
The gold and silver belonging to the
! duke of Cumberland weighs some twelve
tons, and the jewels are valued at
81 900 900.
''G. b - the sporting artist of London
Punch, is Mrs. Georgiana Bowers Ed
wards, daughter of the late DR.. Bowers,
dean of Manchester.
The viola played upon by Mr.. Nahan
Frankie at recent Symphony society
concert in New York was Gaspara di
Salo made in 1912 and recently sold for
$500.
Gen. Albert Pike, who is the most adj
vanced Mason in the world, is seventy
nine years old and was born on the same
| day as Gladstone. They are two grand
old men.
F'Let me eat the mince pies of nation
and care not who sings its songs or
makes its laws, says Ben Butler, and
it is the most sensible thing he has said in
ten long years.
John w. Alexander, the young por-
trait painter, does all his work with his
left hand. He is thought TO bear
striking resemblance to Vandyck, with
his pointed beard and up-curling NOUS
tache.
Madame Barros, widow of the dead
president of Guatemala; Mrs. Hicks
Lord, Mrs. Marshall Roberts and Mrs.
Post are four of the wealthiest of the
New York widows who are supposed to
have marital intentions.
Kentucky, famous for its bellies, has
its buds this season, too. IN Louisville
Miss Mamie Griffiths is the prettiest
dancer; Miss Nellie Wilder, a blonde
who plays the banjo, the greatest heir
ess, and Miss Marie Evans the brightest
conversationalist.
Nine. De Barrios, the widow of the
Gautemalan general, was carried off from
a convent by her husband at the age of
sixteen, and though she has seven chill
dren is still young and handsome. She
divides her time between New York and
Europe, and her wealth runs up into the
millions.
Louis Onativa, the new leader of the
New York dudes, is blue blooded Bra
lillian. He is twenty-five years old, and
is described as fair and languid, with a
far-away look in his eyes. He poses like
an artist, bangs his hair, and has $50 900
income year He likes fox-hunting,
keeps ten horses, and it takes three Wallets
to look after his clothes.
Ward McAllister is to manage the
Washington centennial ball and banquet,
to whick 1000 guests will be hidden. Tins
is $500 more than are on Mr.. McAllister' 5
exclusive list Eugene Perique, chef of
the Hoffman house, whose salary is said
to be $4,000 a year, is to provide the sup
per. The price of tickets to the bali is
with souvenir.
Miss Emma G.. Shields, public school
teacher of Rockland, Me-, made an cleo
ton bet with friend, the loser to sell
peanuts in Postoffice square all day on
designated Saturday. Miss Shields lost,
and she paid her bet few Saturdays
ago. She had great run of customers,
and made quite a sum of money, which
she gave to the fund of the Rockland
Charitable association.
Miss Mary Maccribbln, who died at
Washington the other day, nearly 100
years old, used to say that she had seen
every president from George Washington
to Grover Cleveland. She was living in
Baltimore in 1912 and saw the lombard
ment of Fort McHenrY. She knew well
John Howard Payne, the author of
'Home, Sweet Home - and witnessed !
his first appearance on the stage at Balti- |
more She went to Washington first in |
1921, and it took twelve hours by stage.
One of the most terrible, as well as
most thrilling, tales that history has TO
tell is recalled. by the announcement in
the Scottish papers of Miss Edith Bry- |
don IS marriage in Inverness cathedral. !
This lady's father was the famous DR.. !
Brydon of the Afghan massacre of Janu- |
airy, 1S42-the one survivor, who,
wounded and faint and weary, after
most perilous ride, reached Jellalabad to |
tell Gen Sale the piteous story of what |
had taken place in the Khyber Pass.
They were 16 ,00Q-or, counting women |
and children, &c ,000-who set out from |
Cabul on that i'll starred journey, and he |
was the only man who had escaped. Be- |
tween the dark crags of Jugdullak the |
murderous Afghans had their MI of |
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