Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-06

trusted agents of the ladies in furnishing
liquor on any frivolous plea. Can it be
that their calling is soon to be gone?
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An odd sight in Broadway. until the
police decided that the odd person was q
lunatIc and took him off to an asylum >,
was an elderly man who carried basket
on his arm. His face wore panied ex-
preston, as though he dreaded some
thing that he knew was going to happen
TO him. Once in while his nose would
sniff his eyes squint and his mouth twist
with the premOnitions of q repressed
sneeze. He would struggle nightly
against it, and often successfully, but at
other times the sneeze would not be sup
pressed and the convulsive explosion
would happen. Then would occur the
singular part Of the proceeding. The
man " ould hold the basket low with one
hand while with the other he threw into
it imaginary things which according TO
his empty notions, he picked up here
and there from the sidewalk Having
thus filed the basket with nothing at all,
after scrambling breathlessly for the
suppOsitious matter, and seeming to
search for the last remnants, he would
lug the basket along as though il were
heavy.
"What makes you do that?'' police
man asked of him.
81 am picking myself up, was the
reply
The monomaniac went on to explain
that, at each sneeze during his case of
the "grip,'' he flew all to pieces, and
had to gather himself together fragment
h1, dol ;y,&o cd
me, and, in talking with him on the sub
ject, got at the source of his whim. It
is an old Jewish legend that the custom
of saying ''God bless you'' when a per-
son sneezes dates from Jacob. The
rabbis say that before this time men
sneeZed once, and that was the end of
them. The shock slew them. But the
patriarch, by his interoessiOn, obtained
a relaxation of this law, subject TO the
condition that a sneeZe should be cOnse-
Grated by sacred aspiration. The in
sane gentleman in Broadway with the
basket had, SO he thought, somehow lost
the saving power of the God bless you,
and therefore was exploded every time
he sneezed.
John L. Sullivan, the peerless fighter
AEOLl DOSLOu sat Will u III q pOA
at variety theater. The great I'M
whipped was looking almost handsome,
in spite of the snperabundanoe of flesh
that was punched about his neck, and he
was certainly one of the best natured as
well as neatest-looking men in the house.
His black clothes were fashionable and
new, while his black kid gloves lent to
him an air of refined respectability that
was startling. AS he sat watching the
performance, and smiling only mildly at
the hilarious humor that 1t provided, I
was enabled to witness an evidence OF
manliness in him that could never have
before believed he possessed. He was,
naturally, the cynosure OF all eyes, and
among those that stared at him was
decidedly pretty girl Of the fashionable
type, who formed one of party in the
stalls. To close observer it was evident
that this young woman was one of those
giddy and saucy creatures that
dote on all manner of celebrities,
from famous actors to con-
demned murderers, and the way in
which she underworld to attract the at
tention of Sullivan to herself was pain
full. The eminent slugger did not notice
her efforts in this direction, continuing
his half weary regard of the stage pro-
ceedings, but his friend detected the girl
and recognized her fllrtatious intentions.
Leaning over to Sullivan he whispered
something into his ear. The girl saw
the action and was on the needles of an
ticipation. The big fighter turned his
eyes towards her and looked at her with
out allowing the expression of fatigue to
leave his face. The, girl met his gaze
with half coy, half defiant expression;
in fact with just that encouraging f1utter
of the eyes and pout of the lips that is so
delightful TO the skilled masher. Sulli-
van saw how very pretty she was, and
then, with quiet word to his friend
leaned back in his chair and drew the
curtain of the box before him so that he
was no longer visible to his would-be
For a moment the rebuked
girl was thoroughly mad all by herself,
and then she began making some re-
marks to her companions about the
brutality of the Boston boys big red
face. So, always, it is with the woman
scorned.
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Not all men who ought to be GENTLE
manlier than a prize fighter are so in
their treatment OF women. a chap who
has just returned from abroad was sitting
in group at table in a Broadway cafe
and was chatting of the jolly experience
he had while away
''The best of ali. - he said, ''was on
the ship coming over. The belle of the
boat happened to be magnificent mar
RED woman of some thirty years of age,
alone with her maid, having
been left few weeks before by her hus-
band to make visit to friends i'll Lon
don. Half the men on the boat tried to
firt with her, and you can imagine that
was rather proud when she showed me |
the preference over them. 1 won't be-
gin to describe the conquest, but it was
3 great affair, can assure you. But |
she does not intend that our acquaint- |
ance shall continue, now that we are on |
shore She forbade me to ever call on |
her, and know by her manner that she |
Is in earnest. All I have to remind me |
IF our moonlight walks on deck is this
gold scarf pin that you see me wearing. |
The lady wore a string OF beads round |
her throat formed of these oddly carved |
gold balls. She had bought il in Rome,