Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-10
MEN and WOMEN.

Ex-Governor Pinchback is credited
with receiving an income Of S25, 200
year out of the Louisiana Lottery, IN
which he has a business interest.
Mrs. U. S. Grant, who accompanied
her son, Minister Fred Grant, to Vienna,
is homesick, and she will soon return to
this country and spend the coming win
ter in Washington.
The venerable widow of ex-President
James K. Polk, deceased, celebrated her
eighty-sixth birthday on the 4th inst. at
her home near Nashville, Tenn. Her
mind is still! bright, and her recollections
of past events remarkable.
Miss Kate Field, so far from regrettIng
her want of personal beauty, has a SUI
blime contempt for a woman whose only
recommendation is pretty face. Ger
tainIy, the most brilliant women have
not been the most beautiful-Madame De
Stael, Lady Morgan, George Eliot, for
instance.
III. Edwards, recently appointed
consul general at Berlin, was at one time
engaged to marry Nellie Grant. There
was an estrangement and she married
Sartoris. Now Edwards is to marry the
Baroness Won Heckeren Won Malecateu,
of Apeldom, Holland, q wealthy and
beautiful woman.
A large number of famous men were
once book agents. Among them were
George Washington, Longfellow Brete
Harte, Jay Gould, EXPIRES
ident Hayes, Daniel Web
ster, Gen. Grant, Ralph Waldo Emer-
son and Prince Bismarck. The latter
sold a book called "Blumenbach s
Aufgeschichte die WesseIgung in der
SpiegieIesen. - Nobody slammed the
door in his face.
If Mrs. Harriet Coe of Grand Rapids,
Mich. lives until January Il, 1890. she
viii be IO3 years old. She was born in
Hartford, Conn. in 1877. Her father,
Alexander Mcneil, was a soldier in the
war of 1912, and her grandfather, Gen.
Mcneil, was q soldier in the war of the
revolution. in her one hundredth year
she had p paralytic stroke, and it was
thought she could not recover, but she
did, and now Is in a fair state Of health.
Miss Helen, daughter of the eighty
millionaire Jay Gould, had strong in
cIinatfon two years ago to teach She
felt it to be her mission in life, and was
being trained by q proficient college
graduate, when ner mother S death
caused her to take charge of the house
hold. She Is not houSekeepef merely
in name, but spends the energy which
her wealth will no. allow her to use for
the public in overseeing every detail of
her home and keeping an accurate ac-
count of every penny of expense.
On the 4th inst. at Madison, Wis. Miss
Kate L. Pier, who practices law in MAJ
| waukee, argued a case before the SUI
prerne court, being the first lady to ap
pear in such a capacity before that
august body. She made a strong ami
logical presentation, and was accorded
the most respe ctful attention. The lady 5
! opponent was John J Sutton of Column
| bus. who was very deferential in his
references to opposing counsel. Miss
| Pier was attired in black silk, and a rich
! diamond sparlIed on her finger. She is
a beautiful girl, little over twenty years
| of age, brunette, with bewitching eyes
| and very heavy lashes, but her striking
feature is her splendid black hair, which
| falls nearly to the floor in a massive
! braid. Her mother ana she graduated
together from the law department Of the
| Wisconsin university a year ago, and
| both now practice in Milwaukee.