Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-22
ABOUT SOME PEOPLE.

Miss Pauline Hall, the well-known ac-
tresS, is said to have been privately married
to Mr.. George B. Mcclellan, her manager.
The Duke Of Portland has a necktie for
every hour in the day, and he never wears
his gloves twice His hosier's bill Is about
$1,000 year.
N. Pasteur has now, by the grace of the
emperor of Austria, become Baron Won
Pasteur, and been decorated with the Order
OF the Iron Grown.
Mrs George J. Gould, who was Miss
Edith Kingdom, is careful and economical
shousekeeper. She is good cook. and fire.
Quentlv makes her children's clothes.
The Russian grand duchesses are all
handsome women. The cars daughter,
Xenia, is a copy of her Danish mother, and
presents very pretty picture with her
mild blue eyes, auburn hair and clear cut
delicate features.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox concurs with Kate
Field, and is sure that al bachelors over
forty ought to be taxed in proportion TO the
number of single women over thirty-nine
In any state, the net proceeds to be used for
the support of maiden ladies.
There are three surviving sons of the
author of Observation-Disclosures Dickens,
editor of All the Year Round; Alfred Ten
nyson Dickens, merchant of Melbourne.
and Edwin Bulwer Lytton Dickens, men,
Der of the New South Wales parliament.
Lord Granville, speaking of Wilkes. said
that on the occasion of an election his
humor was uurivaled. 'Once he asked an
elector 10 vote for him. No. replied the
man. warmly, I'D rather vote for the
DEVIL Yes responded Wilkes, but in
case your friend doesn't stand"
The invention of running threads through
bank note paper to make it counterfeit
proof is claimed by Mrs. Helen NJ. Reming-
ton, who is about to press a claim against
the government. She wants a lot Of the
paper the government has used for notes in
exchange for its use OF the idea.
After Sarah Bernhardt's departure from
Sydney there was great rush to her hotel
for .'relics." Among the mementoes dis
covered, it is stated, were various stray
reptiles, numerous tracts sent by Jealous
clergymen and appeals for portion of the
profits in aid Of charitable objects. One
tract was entitled. "How the Actress was
Saved" and another was the ''Story Of
Jezebel.''
Henry George is so enthusiastic believer
in bicycling that he urges it upon persons
who visit him with much more persistency
than he shows ID the propagation of his
own social theories. Many of his friends
among men have been induced by his ex-
ample to practice the art; he has persuaded
his whole family to learn to ride, and he
has begun PROSECUTING among the women
and children of his acquaintance.
Paul Du Chaillu, the noted traveller and
African explorer, is little brown man
with flashing black eyes, smooth, bronzed
face and head as bald as ba5y's. He is
a confirmed old bachelor, but has manners
that charm women. 1t Is rather remarEa-
bic that the majority Of the men who have
found fame in the Dark continent are men
of small physique. Livingstone, Emin
Pasha and Spoke were little fellows physi-
cally. and Stanley is hardly cast in q heroic
mould.
The youthful queen Of Holland, who is
only ten years old, has little farm near the
royal castle at Het Loo, where she is sole
mistress. There is a prettily furnished
drawing room there for the lady Of the
house and her numerous children. the dolls.
and kitchen where the little queen learns
how to make tarts. The child has her own
poultry to feed and her own garden, where
everything has been planted and cultivated
by her small royal hands. She trims her
roses herself, and the flowers in her moth
er's apartments are always gathered and
arranged by her.