Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-18
aRour nrE1 AND RolrEn.

| eYentful life.
Governor Ames Of Massachusetts calls
in his message for n good truant school in
every county, and the enactment of q law
securing municipal suffrage for women.
The wealth of the Vanderbilt family
now amounts to S274 600 900, and the
estimated income from this per apnum is
set at SIS ,S64 400. If there were not
things that money cannot buy they might
be very happy.
President Cleveland does not bother
himself about the details Of q state din
ner. He leaves az the arrangements to
his wife, who is very careful in her in
spection of everything pertaining to the
banquet.
Empress Frederick a month ago re-
quested her son, the emperor, not to
mock her with any presents. "a year
ago ut San Reno, she wrote, q
thought no family could celebrate sad
der Christmas than we. But was mis-
taken
James Bailey of Iowa married his Sec
ond wife two days after the death of the
first Mrs. Bailey, was the recipient of q
coat of tar and feathers, and succeeded in
rubbing off the last of the tar just fifty
three days after the close of his second
honeymoon.
Governor Gray of Indiana is reported
to have one eye on Senator Voorhees,
seat in the United States senate two years
from now and the other on the second
place on the democratic presidential
ticket in 1892 with Governor Hill in the
first place.
Mrs. Cannon, wife of the Illinois
congressman, is a handsome matron,
who for many years has held conspicu-
ous position in the social life of the capt.
tai. She is very skillful with the needle,
and many of the dresses she wears are
embroidered by herself.
It is an interesting fact that of the
fourteen presidents elected since and in
Guiding 1924, only five received ma
jority Of the popular vote ON the face of
the returns, namely, Andrew Jackson,
Martin Van Buren,, William Henry Har-
rison, franklin Pierce and Z s. Grant.
Mr.. Gladstone says that his reasons for
writing about 'tRobert Elsmere' was to
show that the arguments brought for
ward against Christianity in if are fall
lacious. Mrs. Gladstone is quoted as
saying that her husband considers it one
o. his most scored duties to do his utmost
to check the food of in1delity that is
sweeping over England.
Pay your money and take your choice
One Washington correspondent announces
that Mr.. Blaine is now almost certain to
be the secretary of state, and scarcely
anybody IN Washington now doubts it.
Another says that one of Mr. Blaine's
most intimate friends admits that he has
received no offer of place in the cabinet,
and he, the friend, does not believe that
adds that, ''fOr some reason not under
stood, the confidence of Mr.. Blaine's
friends has suddenly and decidedly di-
minished. -
Emma Abbott announces authorita-
lively that she will not abandon the
stage. She buried her husband last week
in Gloucester, Mass. and she will re-
main there until the 21st, when she will
rejoin her company in Memphis She
has a route laid out and great many
people are depending upon her. 1t is
therefore much more womanly for her to
continue her work, sitting her own pain
than TO sit down in idleness and grieve
over him who has gone. This is in
line with her whole life. She has
always devoted herself to her art,
and the fact that she is now rich
makes no difference in her sentiments.
One does not easily drop the employment
of a lifetime, or grow into other ways
and courses of life. In youth her dream
was of the stage. In the first flush of
maturity, and after struggle remark
able for its intensity and the perseverance
that overcame poverty obscurity, vocal
defects and the Indifference Of the public
she realized her ambition. She cannot |
now throw all of these triumphs to the |
could not do it if she wished II Peoria |
Journal
Says the New York Sun: Amelie |
Rives is being starred in a fashion that |
ought to cause the keenest pangs of jeal- |
ousy to enter the souls cf Mrs. Potter and |
Mrs. Langtry. The publisher of the pa
per which has recently been exploiting /
Miss Rives' literary wares has had "a /
number of water-color portraits made of |
the Southern celebrity, and these are to /
be placed at various points Of interest
about town and along Broadway The
portraits are admirably executed and /
framed in good taste. They pre-
sent the face of Temarka-
bly, beautiful woman The COM
plexion is soft and rose-tinted, the lips
the brightest red imaginable, the hair
golden in tint, and the eyes light blue
A little black patch on the tip Of the
chin adds coquetry to the novelist's face
The personal friends of Miss Rives, by
the way, are Staunch in believing her to
be the most beautiful woman in America
This is the sober second thought more or
less. The gush about her appearance
which Immediately followed the appear
ance of 1.-The Quick or the Dead?'' hav-
ing settled down into a sober estimate
which places her at the very head of the
beautiful woman of the United States, in
their opinion.
Mrs. Potter Was Nervous.