Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-30
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4BoUr uEN AND WoMEM.

Hannibal Hamlin is going TO Chicago
to eat dinner with the LaSalle club, Feb
ruary 12-Abraham Lincoln's birthday.
The Rev. Heber Newton of New York
has progressed in his views OF liberalism
in religion TO the point of speaking of the
incarnation as an old Pagan idea.
The princess OF Wales, the other day,
was having some hats made for her
daughters and took her own material to
be made up. She seldom gives much
more than So for bonnet.
Julian Hawthorne has offered a re-
ward of 500, 600 spot cash to that person,
male or female, who first communicates
to America the exclusive information
how TO make a novel popular.
Commodore Price, late of Troy, and
father of the duchess of Marlborough,
cut off his titled daughter in his viii,
leaving her nothing of his large estate.
And she will evidently soon need it
badly.
Evangelist Moody is holding daily SER
mons in mammoth pavilion in san
Francisco land although the place accom-
modates 5000 people, it can It begin TO
hold the crowds that come to the revival
meetings
Mayor Grant of New York Unmarried
has a household of four coIored servants.
But he is seldom alone. The Tammany
chieftains surround the board. There IS
q good cellar and fine cigars and all sorts
of delicaeies and substantials.
Mark Twain is said, by one who knows
him well, to be the most miserable of
men. He is possessed of a wild, mad
fear that ll-luck is bound to overtake
him and deprive him of his fortune. 1t
is said that he shed tears of despair when
an old $I4 COW died a short time ago.
Daniel Dougherty the silver tongued
orator, - confesses he can never over
come a dread OF rising to address an au-
dience, however small. Even before a
jury he wants the floor to open and swal-
low him. My lips are dry, my hands
tremble and 1 feel myself turn pale.
he says: ''The sound of my own voice
is unfamiliar. After l lose myself in
my subject this feeling gradually wears
away
Mrs. Amelie Rives Chanler writes thus
of her forthcoming novel to a friend in
Philadelphia: cit has been dashed down
in my usual helter-skelter style, and I
want TO ask you as q very great favor if
you viii not correct any inaccuracies.
For instance, L always spell abruptly
abruptly why, heaven only knows, as
l assuredIy do not pronounce it that way.
Also, wish you would most kindly call
my attention TO anything thar you may
think imprudent. -
Mrs. Whitney, wife of the secretary of
the navy, has decided that it Is in per-
fectly good form for lady at dinner to
handle the wing or the drumstick of a
chicken with her fingers. The case came
up on appeal from New York to Mrs
Whitney as arbitrator. Yet there be
cold-blOoded cynics who pronounce the
administration q failure! This grave
question of state being satisfactorily set
tied. the war with Hayti and Samoa may
now proceed.
The president and Mr.. Cleveland have
summarily vetoed the project for a popu-
lar subscription to buy portrait of Mrs
Cleveland for the White House, which
was recently started in Washington. The
president has written to the committee
having the matter in charge: 81 have
to say that both of us are so opposed to
the project that you could not show us
greater consideration in this matter than
by an entire abandonment of the
scheme. - 1t has been abandoned.
w. J. Arkell, proprietor of Judge,
told Harrison that he had come from
New York to ask but one favor. He
merely wanted to know the names of the
cabinet officers about week before they
were announced, so that Judge would
have time to prepare good pictures.
well, Mr. Arkell, - answered Harri-
son, 81 will do it if you promise to let
me lock you and your workmen up in
safety-deposit vault for that week, while
l keep the keys