Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-13
ABOUT MEN IND WOMEN.

Robert Louis Stevenson will reach New
| York about February and at once re-
sumo his literary work.
Jefferson Davis former slave is now an
| alderman while Davis himself is not eligi-
bic to the lowest Office in the land.
Sara Bernhardt is astonishing the
| Egyptians by her eXtravagances. Her
bill at the custom house tor articles pur-
chased already amounts to over SIS 900.
George Vanderbilt has just bought
5000 acres of valuable land near Ashe-
VILE, N. c., and it is conjectured he
| proposes to establish woman S college.
Count de Pignelon, a French noble
man, is keeper of a dreary lighthouse
in Labrador on salary Of $500. Here is
a chance, says the Boston Post, for some
one to marry into one of the most ancient
families of France.
Thomas A. Edison IS capacity for work
does not seem to decrease as ne goes on
in years. he frequently remains at his
desk until 2 or 3 o 'clock in the morning,
then catches few hours of sleep in his
Office and is at his tasks again by s..
United States Minister Strauss has in
duced the sultan of Turkey to allow the
explorers sent out by the University of
Pennsylvania to excavate in ruins of
ancient Babylon for two years. This
favor has been vainly sought by repre-
sentatives of European powers.
Brooklyn has acquired the so-eaIled
FtTalmage of Philadelphia, the Rev
Willard Haskell Robinson. He takes
charge of the First Baptist church on
Brooklyn Heights. He has been twelve
years in the ministry. His new church
is the oldest of its denomination in Brook
Iyn.
II. Rider Haggard has become a vege-
tartan. He found by experiment that he
could work longer and to better effect on
meatless diet than when he INDUCED
freely in beef and mutton. He has be-
come a convert to the theory that the
imagination becomes more active when
the body abstains from animal nourish-
ment.
MIS- Polly Jones, who went to Missouri
with Daniel Boone in 1907, has Just
joined the Ba.tist church at New Frank
lin, says the st. Louis Republic. After
having lived so long, Mrs. Jones might
well expect to keep on living; and it is
possible that she has attached herself to
the church merely to set good example
rather than through any fears as to the
next world.
The death of Miss Lucinda Washburn,
a wealthy and aged lady of Sacramento,
Cal. >, recalls the fact that Miss Washburn
was among the persons selected by Troy
Dye and his gang to murder. Troy Dye
was public administrator of Sacramento
and he thought he could kill certain rich
men and women who had no relatives,
administer upon their estates and pocket
the proceeds. The gang started business
By numbering an old farmer named Tul-
lis, for which crime Troy and others were
hanged. On the trial it was shown that
the gang had q large number of rich
spInsters and bachelors on its black list.
Jay Gould has his whims, just like a
poor man. In going up stairs he always
puts his left foot on the step first, even
if he has 20 get out of step TO do it. If
by accident or through thoughtlessness
he happens to start with the right foot
he is certain to remark it before reaching
the top of the steps, and if he does viii
return and walk over again. Another
reported popularity Of Mr.. Gould is his
antipathy to fair haired men, There is
not single blonde clerk in his immedi-
ate employ, and it is said he ilislikes to
do business with men who have fair hair.
Mrs Cleveland, says the New York
World, is engaged in translating French
novel into English. This work she has
undertaken merely as means OF amuse-
ment and with no thought of having her
translaIions published. She reads French