Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-01
ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN.

Govt threatens Queen Victoria, and
she has been advised by her doctor, Sir
William Jenner, to give up champagne
and claret and drink whisky and apOl-
linaris
Mrs. Henry b Light, living in
Louisville, gave birth to three little girl
babies on the 23d inst. One weighs
four pounds and the other two SIX pounds
each.
William H. Vanderbilt fifteen years
ago took fancy to Saratoga hotel
clerk and the young man is now Brook
Ign millionaire. The secret of Mr.. BTy-
ans success was that he wore no dia-
monds and he was decent to guests.
Mrs. Frank Leslie has been credited with
having the smallest feet of any woman IN
America. She wears No. l shoe. But
Mrs. Leslie has had to surrender the
honor to Miss Minna Irving, the
pOetess, who wears size smaller than
No. /.
Here is Senator William NJ. Evarts'
definition Of a contingent fee: ut Is a
very simple thing | can explain to you
what a contingent fee means in few
words. In short, if l lose your suit [ get
nothing; if l win your suit you get moth
ing. -
The father of Mrs. Ward, the author
of ''RoDert Eismere, - is Thomas Ar
mold, son of the great master at Rugby,
and brother Of Matthew Arnold. Thorn
as Arnold is part author of the Catholic
Dictionary, q work designed to eNpOund
the doctrine and rites of the Roman
Catholic church.
Capt. Nicholas Murphy of Boston is
one of the most noted life savers in the
country. During a period of thirty-tive
years he has saved upward of one hum
dred persons from drowning, his first
rescue being made when he was fourteen
years Old. For a number of years he
followed the sea but is al present night
Waterman at one of the wharves.
Henry Sturdivaut is a negro farmer
who works on the farm of K. w. Berry
hill, three miles ont from Rome, Ga, on
the Alabama road Sturdiyant has
always been accustomed TO having his
shoes made to order. One Of his feet Is
larger than the other. It takes a No.
20 shoe to inclose his right foot and
No IA to house the other. The largest
shoe in the world is worn by young lady
in Kentucky, who sports No. 2f.
Miss Jennie Slack, aged sixteen years,
residing in the blue grass region Of Iowa,
near Villisca, has this season planted and
cultivated thirty-fy acres of corn, be-
sides milking six COWS night and morning
and helping in other work about the farm
and household The corn is in splendid
condition for big crop, and the young
lady who raised it is said TO be fine look
ing, intelligent, and none the worse
for the hard work she has done
for her invalid father, who was una'eie to
pay hired hand or do it himseIfa
Mrs Emma P. Ewing, III her SAL Eat
Chautauqua on 'Househol9fEeon 8my VI
announced that over five3anifA ond 0 lEars
is spent uselessly in thiSa eeaatryf eFerys
year for bluing, and thSt :lsO0dsQe9 4am &.
lilies throw away from 4SSk1Ity-f five dollars5
to one hundred dollars "a piece in soap
grease in the same period. Moreover,
she claimed that $40, 600 900 would not
cover the amount paid annually in New
York alone to men for baking bread,
which any bright housewife might bake
better herself al home, and that $780,
000 900 would DE saved if all the matrOns
in the United States would combine TO
drive men out OF this particular industry.
for which neither nature nor training fit
ted them.