Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-11
ABoUr MEN AND WoMEN.

A. j. DeVoe, the New Jersey weather
prophet, is now man entirely without
reputation. He staked it, and lost, on
forecast for the latter half of July.
Ed Reed, son of the notorious Belle
Starr who was killed some time since in
the Indian Territory, has arrived at the
Ohio penitentiary to serve a seven years
sentence for horse stealing.
Miss May Abers, California girl of
fourteen, won the prize offered to the
public school pupil who should pass the
best examination. The prize offered was
a tree trip to the Paris exposition. and
was given by the San Francisco Exam
liner.
The countess of Cork in reviewing the
life of Rachel, the well beloved of Jacob,
in recent magazine article, finds but
Zone spec in her almost spotless charac-
ter. - She "could steal from and lie
unto her father.' Twas for Jacob 5
sake, though.
Lord Coleridge, who met Matthew Ar
mold when he first entered school as
boy of seven or eight years, asserts that
Arnold could then say by heart whole
pages of Burke IS speech on the nabob OF
Arcot's debts, and say them with real
intelligence and appreciation.
Ex-Governor Hoadly has written an
article on the ''Methods of Ballot Re-
form. Mr.. Hoadly was governor of
Ohio during the period of the worst frauds
upon the ballot box ever perpetrated in
the state. He is at least posted upon the
necessity of ballot reform in that state.
Emperor William will sleep on his
yacht, HohenZollern, and keep out of
London during his visit to England, AMI
thus save enough in tips to pay for his
excursion. The shah retrenched by Civ
ing photographs of himself, but the Ger
man emperor's plan is the more genteel.
Judge Cummin, a member of the COM
mission to distribute the funds to the
Johnstown sufferers, Is lying danger
Ously i'll at Cresson Springs, suffering
from Bright s disease. His family physi-
clan, Dr.. Lyon of Williamsport, is in
attendance with others. His recovery is
reported impossible by the physicians who
have held a consultation on the case.
His death may, in fact, occur at any
moment.
Secretary Rusk has rival as the Jehu
of the cabinet in the person of the at
torney-general. When the president de-
cided last Sunday as the day was fine,
that he wanted to go to Oakland to
church, Attorney Miller offered
to drive him, together with Secretary
Window and Senator Davis, over the six
miles of mountain roads. His offer was
accepted and he drove the White House
bays and surry.
The venerable ex-Vice- President Han
nibal Hamlin is enjoying life in his quiet
way at his cosy home in Pangor. He has
d big garden in which he delights to
work, and his orchard and f1ower-pots
are the pride and Joy of Fifth street. AL
though Mr. Hamlin is eighty-one years
of age, he is still able to walk ten or fif-
teen miles day without much fatigue,
and he makes frequent trips to his old
home at Paris Hill, Oxford county.
One of the most discriminating readers
of the senate is Cush X DAVIS of Min
nesOta He is good Latin scholar, and
doesn It permit his knowledge to rest; he
is well acquainted with the French and
German languages and literatures; is an
expert on Shakespeare, and has a more
comprehensive knowledge of the itera-
ture of the Napoleonic wars than any
other congressman, perhaps than any
other American. He buys all rare books
of Napoleonana that he hears of. His
book, ''The Law in Shakespeare has
been widely read.