Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-16

sons of wealthy and titled Englishmen
asking about the avenues of employment
in the United States.
The king of Samoa draws salary of
$50 month. This is pretty fair COM
pensation considering that he does not
have to wear clothes and can ''board
around - under the various trees.
Assistant Doorkeeper Bassett has been
in the employ of the senate fifty-eight
years. He recently celebrated his golden
wedding and was then made the recip-
lent of a handsome present frem the
senators.
Charles B. Holmes of Chicago is be-
lieved to control more street car lines and
miles than anybody else. He is presi-
dent of syndicate that owns all the
lines in Indianapolis, and of Chicago
company that owns 1000 cars.
L. j. Rose of Los Angeles, Cal, has
just received a consignment of twenty
five sky-larks from Europe, which he
ordered five years ago. His agent had
the greatest difficulty in securing the
birds, which are said to be the only speci-
mems in America.
Miss Susannah Warfeld, aged over
ninety years, who resides near SykesYille,
Carol county Md, composed the march
which was performed at the inaugural
ball of William Henry Harrison, grand
father of the president-elect, and it is
thought that the march will again be
played at the Inauguration of Benjamin
Harrison on March f.
Agnes Huntington the Amgrican singer
from Buffalo, n. Y, who has just made
great hit in London as Capt. Paul
Jones in comic opera, is a tall, fair
woman, with splendid sunny hair, deep
blue eyes, and just twenty-five years of
age. She has gained considerable repu-
tatiOn as a concert singer, but Paul
Jones is her first essay in light opera.
She will probably join the Carl Rosa COM
pany.
Referring to the appeal recently made
to the public for contributions to aid in
the establishment of home for eX-Con-
federate soldiers at Austin, Tex. Gen.
Sherman has written letter expressing
his sympathy with the movement. Gen.
Sherman adds that he thinks the laws of
the United States should be changed so as
to admit ex-Confederates to all soldiers
homes, and that the word g Union - so
far as it applies to soldiers homes, should
be obliterated from the statutes.
Mrs Lucas, nee McLaran the ST. Louis
lady who has been mentioned as the pos
sible bride of Gen. Boulanger, is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Nc
Laran, and the divorced wife of Mr..
Joseph ID. Lucas of st. Louis. The other
daughters are Mrs. Theodore De Forest
and Miss May Alice McLaran. Mrs. Nc
Laran was a Miss Jennings of Mississippi,
and is very well connected. Mr.. Me-
Laran was, before the war, an Overseer
on Mr.. Jennings Mississippi plantation.
g So it seems probable, says the st.
Louis Republic, "'that the daughter of a
former Mississippi overseer will become
the first lady of La Belle France. -
Gladstone AYERS that at the opening of
his parliamentary career he felt that
Daniel o Council was the greatest pOpu-
lar leader the world has ever seen. OF
all Irishmen, he now thinks there are but
two rivals of the great agitator and
statesman-these two are Burke and the
duke of wellington. Swift and Grattan
he refers to as next among formidable
He even goes back as far
as Greek and Roman history, pronounce
ing neither Cleon nor Gracious, nor later
RienZi and Savonaro1a equals in power
with O'Connel. Nor win he allow a
parallel with Kossuth and MaZzini; but is
inclined to acknowledge that with Count
Cavour a comparison may be drawn.
This is extraordinary praise, but history
points the opinion of mankind in that
direction