Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-12
ABoUr MEN AND WoMEM.


William Grant, who has been appointed
district attorney for the Eastern district
of Louisiana, is native of Illinois and a
| graduate of Knox college.
Maj. E. A. Routhe, formerly Spring.
field correspondent of the Inter Ocean,
is spoken of as the coming man for lieu
tenant-governor of Washington.
Chairman Cooley OF the Interstate
commerce commission pays his own rail-
road fare, and thinks that everybody
else ought to follow his example.
The Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale
says that when he was a college student
he and his chum took the first daguerreo-
| type picture ever made in Boston.
The Topeka Democrat offers to forfeit
| $1,000 to the orphan IS home if the letter
credited to Senator ingalls, and denied by
the senator, was not written by the
senator.
The marquis of Lorne can have the
goVernOTship of either Ceylon or Bombay
if he will accept; but Princess Louise
does not like to leave England because of
her health.
Sir Lyon and Lady Playfair and Sir
Thomas and Lady Brassy are passengers
in the new steamer Teutonic, which
sailed from Liverpool for New York on
her first trip yesterday.
Richard Edward Hamerton, whose
death has been announced at Paris, was
the eldest son of Mr.. Philip Gilbert Ham
erton, and occupied a chair of English
|. literature in the university of France.
Ivan Stepanoff of Tobolsk, Siberia, is
making an extensive tour of this coun-
try. He was at one time governor of one
of the Siberian provinces. After resign
ing this position he made large fortune
in business.
The sultan of Turkey maintains 474
carriages, which incur an expense of
2 800 900 francs year. Most of these
carriages are of French make. A few
made in Turkey show cleverness in con-
structIon. The sultan personally has
need for only about four Of the vehicles
referred to.
Mrs. George Pendleton Bowler,
wealthy lady of Cincinnati, who spends
most of her time in European fashionable
resorts, is reported as captured by ban
dts in Italy and held for ransom. She
has q son and daughter who usually
travel with her, but the brief notice of
capture does not state whether the boy
and girl are also prisoners.
Ben O'Hara of Marinette, Wis, owns
dog which has made himself famous as
a banking institution. He feeds on all
sorts of coins, without regard to denom-
nation, and is always III readiness to re-
ceive deposits. The jingle of coins Will
cause him to run toward their P8ssessOr
as eagerly as most dogs start in the di-
rection of piece of meat.
Eli Pickett, a colored man, has made
application for a Confederate pension
from the state of Georgia. He rendered
valuable service, and was disabled in the
military branch Of the Confederacy.
The Atlanta Constitution says Pickett
will find that he has plenty OF Confed-
crate friends, and expresses the hope
that his case may meet favorable consid-
Grafton.
jeremiah Wilcox of Lebanon, Conn.
is ninety years old, his wife seventy
three, and both are we'll. Mrs. Wilcox
is spryer than her husband. One day
last week she slipped the bail Of a six
quart tin pail over her arm, climbed the
family cherry tree to the top of it, and
picked the measure full OF cherries. She
didn t need a ladder Mrs Wilcox de-
Scended, went into the house, and made
a cherry pie in quick time.
Edward Dukes, well-known farmer
of Muhlenburg county, Ky, recently
killed the largest rattIesnake seen in
Southern Kentucky for q long time. He
was crossing a field and heard slight
kissing sound IN a bush. He saw a rat
tlesnake cOiled up, and picking up a
stout stick killed the serpent with single
blow. The snake was six feet long and
had seven raLtles and three buttons, and
was eleven inches II circumference.