Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
ABOUT SOME PEOPLE.

Edison thinks he owns the earth and only
asks for seventh OF the space in the cleo
trical building at the Worlds fair.
Horatio Bridge, the classmate and long
time friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne, has
written out for Harper his personal remi-
niscences of the novelist.
The nizain of Hyderabad is said to spend
80, 000, Coo year. When it is mentioned
that he has 500 ladies in his harem, his ex-
travagance is easily accounted for
A London letter says Hall Game, the
English novelist, looks just like q portrait
of Shakespeare. Mr.. Game should take
some means to prove that he is not the re-
incarnated poet.
The partnership of Moody and Sankey
evangelist ard singer have gone hand in
hand and had no trouble on the way. They
will work for the winter in Scotland.
Col. E. n. Stearns of Vermont and Gen.
Harry Heth of Virginia, a major general
under Lee, appointed by the secretary of
war to designate the positions of regular
army commands in the battle of Antietam,
have resumed their work on the battlefield.
1t must not be supposed, because
Prince George is the son Of the Prince Of
Wales, and has been promoted to be COM
mander in the royal navy, that he will be
given the command of 4 ship. He will still
have to serve as subordinate to q post cap
tain.
Mr. Spurgeon, the English preacher, has
gone for rest and recuperation to Mentone,
which, as health resort, is said to be so
high in character that resident who will
keep from fooling with quack medicines has
no need to die unless he wants to dodge his
creditors.
Europe occasionally absorbs an Ameri-
can scholar but keeps very mum about 1t.
Professor Franz Bruenuon, the astronomer,
who died a short time ago in Heidelberg,
was well known in America, as he was the
occupant OF the chair of astronomy in Ann
Arbor for many years.
Washington Irving's nieces still occupy
the rambling little cottage of their uncle.
The old ladies' would be bored by visitors
and curiosity iunatics if they did not refuse
themselves to scores OF people who drive
down to Sunnyside every summer. 1t is
seldom that one can get even a peep into
the library where the lives of Goldsmith,
Washington and Mahomet We're written.
Louisa Clark Chandler, mother of the
author, Louise Chandler MoultOn, died last
Monday night, at the age of seventy-eight.
She was woman of gentle, generous ma
her husband, Mrs. Chandler was a Cal
whist, but, unlike Mrs. MOulton. the par
ents held it to be wrong to read romances. to
dance or to play at any game of chance,
such as draughts or backgammon.
Robert Louis Stevensons letters from
the South sea to friends indicate that he is
somewhat weary of the life there, He is
now completely restored to health, but
those who can read between the lines trace
q longing for England and the society Of his
intellectual fellows. His published letters
seem to have pleased neither himself nor
his admirers, and have lacked the vividness
and spontaneity that characterized his
other work.
Many people will be surprised to learn
that Frederic Gleason, the first publisher
of an illustrated newspaper in America,
still lives as an inmate of the Old Mems
Home in Boston. Gleason's Pictorial Draw
ing-ROom Companion is well remembered
by many of our people. 1t was chiefly lit
erary in its character, and not of the high
est class 10 literature, but it was an unex-
ceptional family paper in its moral tone.
Its cuts were very primitive as engravings,
as they would naturally have been at that
time, but Frank Leslie was one of his en-