Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-28
MEN IND WoMEN.

Cardinal Newman plays the violin ex-
quisitely.
The duke of Switzerland has become an
extensive owner Of land in the state of
Florida.
Postmaster General Dickinson will re-
sume the practice of law in Michigan af-
ter the 4th of March and Secretary Villas
will do the same thing in Wisconsin.
Phil H. WEIGH, one of the brightest of
funny writers for the New York daily
and weekly papers, died last Monday
morning of cancer of the tongue, caused
by cigarette smoking.
"Did you ever see Mrs. Potter act?'
asked one playgoer of another.
"No, never did.
F'And you never will, was the enig-
NAUTICAL answer.
Gossip had it that the prince of Wales
has invited Mrs. Potter to appear next
season at London in "Antony and
Cleopatra. - His royal highness will
probably appear in the role of Antony.
Mrs. M r. Stanton, Brooklyn
widow, while walking last summer IN the
Catskills, fell over an embankment near
a bridge, and bIames the township au-
thorities for it. She broke no bones but
has sued for $40 900 for damage to her
beauty.
Mrs Langtry has finally concluded to
abandon Macbeth, which has made
financial failure. Mrs Langtry spent
great deal of care and money on the pro-
duction, and succeeds only in agreeably
disappointing New Workers by her Lady
Macbeth.
Quite a discussion has arose among
theatrical folks as to Lolita s age. 1t
can easily be determined. 1t is said that
she confesses to near approach to forty
Her father went to California as miner
IN IS49, leaving his wife in charge of the
mattress making shop in Astor Place i'll
which Lolita picked hair. Mr.. Crabtree
sent for his family a few years after, and
they journeYed across the Isthmus in
1853. Mrs. CrabtFee is authority for the
statement that when that journey was
made Lolita was ten years Of age. Con-
sequently the little Coincidence is now
forty-six years of age.
The New York World says physicians
at Plainfieid, n. J j., are puzzling over
peculiar accident. Jacob Fenner was
awakened from q sound sleep by the
burning of a house near his own He
was terrified thinking at first that it was
his own house. So great was the shock
to his heart that a severe hemorrhage
followed. Since then his heart has not
acted naturally, and as a result one of
his arms and both legs are swollen and
black as ink from the settling of stag
nant blood. An examination of his heart
revealed the fact that it had been dis
placed several inches from its natural
position by the sudden fright. He can
not live long.
A ST. Louis telegram dated February
% says: If the critics who charge Mary
Anderson with frigidity could have seen
that classical star to-day they would have
become quickly convinced that she was
capable of attaining a white heat. She
was mad, hot, and fearful, and all on
account of the horrid st. Louis critics.
She was announced here for only FIVE
performances, and the ticket scalpers
in all the best seats for every
performance. The idea of putting st.
Louis down for five performances APP
peared to the papers a serious affront TO
the dignity Of the city and smack
ed too much of the main night
stand business. Then the sealpers held
tickets at So a seat, and this made
the public mad. The morning after the
first performance the papers unanimously
sat down on Abbey IS star. And the sit
ting down process was crushing. & lead !