Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-12

| sentation has not yet been made. however,
| and about 5000 is still to be raised in ord or
TO complete payment.
| King Humbert of Italy has been awarded
| a gold medal by state commission for
| civil vaior,' the occasion being the collapse
| OF house in Rome last January, when he
| rushed in and rescued five persons.
Professor Halsey C. Ives, who will man
| age the art department of the Worlds fair,
| is forty-four years of age and has for the
last seventeen years been connected with
| the Washington university school of fine
| arts.
When Col. John Hay was congratulated
by friend who supposed him to be the
author Of The Bread Winners" he wrote
in reply: your 'Waverly' l cannot be.
Please contradict the charge each time it
presents itself"
DR.. John Hall of New York is reported
as saying that he finds it = means OF grace
20 stand before one OF the great store win
dows in Broadway and thank the Lord for
the large number of things in that window
he can do without.
Worth, the Paris dressmaker. is indig-
nant that so many dresses sold here under
his name are mere fabrications by less tai
ented authors. The international copy
right act must be amended somehow TO stop
these plagiarims.
Miss Sophia Gregoria Hayden, the win
ner of the $1,000 prize for the best design for
woman's building for the Worlds fair, is
resident of Jamaica Plain, an outlying
district Of Boston. She looks very much
like Mrs. Cleveland.
Sir Julian Pauncefote reads every day
accounts Of baseball games. He has not
had an opportunity yet to learn the game
by observation, but he takes a warm inter-
est in the sport and is anxious to become an
expert as baseball crank.
Gen. Stewart Van viet is the Oldest
general on the retired list in the army.
He is seventy-four years old, and has
been in the service ffty-two years. He
served in the Florida and Mexican wars
and during the late rebellion,
Mrs Lollie Belle Wylie and Mrs. Ephie
Z. Williams are the founders, owners,
managers, editors and reporters of Society,
local newspaper of Atlanta, Ga. They
issued the first number about Christmas
last and have scored a great success.
Adelaide Ristori, the great actress of
former generation, IS nearer seventy than
sixty years OF age, but, says Roman cor
respondent, is still beautiful woman, with
voice strong and clear, her fine figure
straight and graceful, and face neither
WllnkIed nor yellow.
Nh. Petrle, the Egyptian explorer, is de-
scribed as OF good heighth and rather
slender build. His hair and coloring gen.
orally are dark-so dark that he is mistaken
for Il foreigner, which impression is aided
By his siuEularly Eastern cast of features.
But he is English and Of Scotch descent
The mode OF life he prefers is life in a tent
with the sand for carpet.
The widow Of Gen. Logan Indignantly de-
MES i rumor that she is about to marry
again. She says: Thanks to congress
and the generals friends, am web pro-
vided Tor, and I now enjoy the friendship
OF many good men who were his friends.
Why should / want to sacrifice all these
present blessings and the associations of
thirty years of happy welded life for the
uncertainty of other ties.''
Twelve seniors from the Johanneum col
lege, in Hamburg, made a pilgrimage to
F'riedrichsruhe, few weeks ago, in the
hope of seeing Bismarck The EXCHANGED
Tor heard OF their presence on the castle
grounds, sent for the young men and in
vited them to drink Rhein wine with him.
For almost on hour the prince talked to
the young men of his own student days, and
gave them fgood advice as to what they
should do after entering the university.