Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-06
ABOUT SOME PEOPLE.

Gail Hamilton's crusade in behalf of Mrs.
Maybrick has resulted in the collection of
over $1,000 for her benefit.
Mrs. sLeland Stanford has purchased $50
handsomely bound bibles to go in the
Baron Arthur Rothschild, nephew of
the head of the great financial house. is
serving his twelve months in the French
army as private soldier.
E. Werner, the German novelist, trans
lations of whose stories are SO popular in
this country, is Elizabeth Burtenbinder
She is spinster, and lives in Berlin.
George Gould is arranging for private
hunting grounds where he can have his
game whenever he wants it. He has
restocked his Catskill range with deer and
elk
Miss Mary Hecker of Stamford, Conn,
has just matricnlated with her two SONS at
the Kentucky university, and is the only
mother on record to enter the college with
her boys.
Miss Harriet Hosmer's model for the
statue of Queen Isabella is almost finished.
1t represents this queen IN full royal robes.
stepping down from the throne, with the
jewels in her outStretched hand.
Who would suppose that the chosen
recreation of the greatest of American
Greek scholars, Professor Gildersleeve of
Johns Hopkins university, was the compo-
sition of Mother Goose melodies?
Queen Victoria has private telegraph
wire running from Balmoral Castle to Lon
don, and she is in almost hourly communi-
cation with Lord Salisbury, from whom,
in addition to his dispatches, she hears
daily by mail.
The Ameer of Afghanistan is about to
visit England and will have to be 9uartered
at Morley's hotel, The queen does not like,
East Indian potentates bring their dirty
personal habits into the scrupulously clean
apartments of any Of the palaces.
sister of Nine. de Barrios, was one of the
bellies of Richfield Springs the past sum-
mer. She is a daring rider, good must
clan, and her beauty is of the regulation
Spanish type of attractlveness. She is, in
fact, says the ST. Souls Republic, very
apparition Of loneliness.
Mrs. Logan still dresses in the most
somber black. The only time she has
omitted it was at White House dinner,
when she appeared in a lavender faille,
very becoming costume. She still wears
ner mourning veil anu WIDOW s cap, and at
her throat is Zig, old-fashioHed brooch
containing picture of Gen. Logan.
Don Miguel Murillo, a weaver in the City
of Mexico, is making for presentation to
President Harrison picture of that chief
magistrate and his family, woven in gold
thread on the finest cambria. This may
take the fancy of the ladies, but it is to be
feared that the unregenerate masculine
mind will be more interested in the presi-
dents reception of Andrew Carnegie's cask
of venerable Scotch whisky.
An American, who was present at state
dinner in Germany and will hardly be in
vited to another, has given to the world his
painful impressions of the deformed left
arm of his majesty, subject not to be men
toned in Germany. 1t is fully four inches
shorter than the right one, and has a NAL
formed hand, which is entirely useless;
He carries his arm "a la Napoleon) in the
vest of his coat, but he can only place it
there with the aid Of the right hand. At
the table he has a combined knife and fork,
which side into each other. He uses this
Continuance with much dexterity-frst to
cut his meat and then to eat it-all, of
courSe with one hand