Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-25
ABOUT MEN and WOKEM.

Freddy Gerhard IS forty and Mrs.
Langtry is forty-five. And yet these
people are in love with each other.
"Bob'' Burdette. whose playful fancy
has long pleased newspaper readers, is to
edit the humorous department of Lip
pincott' Magazine.
Hon. Carter H. Harrison of Chicago
has written q book on his recent sixteen
months trip around the world. It will
be entitled, GA Race With the Sun. -
Arthur Elmer Hatch of Lewiston, a
blind man, graduated this year at Bates
college at the age of twenty-seven years.
He is now the only blind college graduate
in the United States.
William H. Vanderbilt fifteen years
ago took a fancy to 4 Saratoga hotel
clerk and the young man is now Brook
Ign millionaire The secret of MI. Bry-
an 8 success was that he wore no dia-
mOnds and he was decent to guests.
Mrs. Frank Leslie has been cred I'd with
having the smallest feet of any woman iii
America She wears No. shoe. But
Mrs. Leslie has had to surrender the
honor to Miss Minna Irving, the
poetess, who wears a size smaller than
No. l.
The father of Mrs. Ward, the author
of "Robert Elsmere, - is Thomas Ar
mold, son of the great master at Rugby,
and brother OF Matthew Arnold. Thorn
as Arnold is part author of the Catholic
Dictionary, a work designed to eXpound
the doctrine and rites OF the Roman
Catholic church.
Capt. Nicholas Murphy Of Boston is
one of the most noted life savers III the
country. During q period of thirty-five
years he has saved upward of one hun
dred persons from drowning, his first
rescue being made when he was fourteen
years old. For q number of years he
followed the sea but is at present night
watchman at one of the wharves.
Miss Jennie Slack, aged sixteen years,
residing in the blue grass region of iowa,
near Villisca, has this season planted and
cultivated thiTty-fiye acres Of corn, be-
sides milking six cows night and morning
and helping in other work about the farm
and household. The corn is in splendid
condition for a big crop, and the young
LADY who raised it is said TO be fine look
ing, intelligent, and none the worse
for the hard work she has done
for her invalid father, who was unable to
pay hired hand or do it himself.
Mrs. E. B. Grannis has made a sue
cess in life in spite of the fact that she is
q woman She began life as school
teacher and is now the editor Of the
Church Union. She asks no favOrS be-
cause she is woman, but does her work
on the same business principles as any
man. She Is just the kind Of q woman
that Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis has
held up as a pattern to those young
women who are forced TO support them
selves and make their own way in life.
In order to prevent Gen. Boulanger
from piIing up an immense number of
votes in his favor and so appearing as q
formidable opponent of the present gov
eminent, the law permitting the same
candidate for the assembly to run in as
many districts as he chooses, has been re-
pealed In spite of this Gen Boulanger
announces that he will be candidate in
eighty districts Of course the votes for
him will not be officially received, but
they will serve to show his strength or
weakness in these districts. He will
naturally select the districts where he is
most popular and the government the
least so.