Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-19
ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN.

The Rev. Ellis Howell of Marshall,
III. has Just married his one-thou-
sandeth couple.
Samuel Ayres, an Adventist, living IN
Worcester, Mass, predicts the end OF
the world on the night Of October Z,
1899.
jay Gould has been improved very
much this summer by his vacation. He
looks fatter and his skin has lost
good deal of its pallor.
They have Htomato king in Cal
ifornia. His shipments average 2OOO
boxes day, and he bears the name A.
L. Graham. His tomato ranch is at
Haywards, Alameda county.
Elizabeth Liske, Russian, eleven
years old, already SIX feet six inches in
height, three feet one and three-fourth
inches around the waist and three feet
eleven inches around The chest, is the
latest thing out in giants. The doctors
say she viii continue to grow in every
way for some years yet.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was very
Door when she wrote ''Uncle Tom s
Cabin - The last chapter was written
in the office of her publisher in Boston.
1t was cold winter morning, and she
arrived at the store half frozen. She
stood over the stove half an hour before
she was sufficiently thawed to hold her
pen. Three months from that time she
received check for $40 600, as the first
payment on the sale of "Uncle Tom s
Cabin.
Miss Mary Alexander of Philadelphia
has, it is said the best record ever made
by man or woman in the examinations
before the civil service commission for
certifcation to the executive departm ents
in Washington for appointment. Her
percentage Is 81 out of a possible 100,
which is two points higher than anyone
else's mark Nevertheless Miss Alex
ander hash It received an appointment,
though her name has stood at the head of
the eligible list since last spring.
The car of Russia means to be safe
when he travels The new imperial train
lust completed for his accommodation
may be SAID to be boomproof. The sa-
looms are covered with iron outside, and
then some eight inches Of cork, instead
of the steel plates with which the car
riages of the old train were protected.
All the saloons communicate by a COW
cred passage, and are the same IN out
ward appearance, so that no outsider
NAV De dDi6 10 u1StONSi IL hlAASAl CSAA
riage the cZar is travelling.
Russell Sage is something more than a
mere business machine. He served three
successive terms in congress, during
which he originated the idea of purchas-
ing Mount Vernon and keeping it as a
national domain He advocated the ap-
pointment of a committee of ladies
which eventually grew into the Mount
Vernon association, by whom the home
Of Washington was finally purchased and
| fitted up as it is to-day. Mr.. Sage is
tall, thin and straight as Mohawk.
Karl Falkenstein, the inventor of the
smokeless powder, was a chemist at
| Vienna only three years ago. He offered
| his invention to the Vienna war office
which, with true Austrian faulty ,
! seorufully declined negotiations, so he
went off to Berlin, where, the authori-
! ties being practical men, he was soon
| received by Count Waldersee and after
ward by the emperor, and, his powder
| having been thoroughly tested, the in
ventIon was purchased for a sum which
| has made Herr Falkenstein a compare
| lively rich man.
The Boston Transcript says: Ex-At-
| torney- General Garland has been shoot
| ing deer in Arkansas for over month.
| A rather peculiar explanation is given for
| this apparent disregard of the game laws.
! The state owed him $4,000 for legal SER
/ vices, and although the bill-was not dis
| puted, the legislature failed TO pass an
appropriation to meet the elaim- Final
] " as compromise measure the game Law