Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-26
ABOUT SOME PEOPLE.

The nizam of Hyderabad, in India, is said
to spend $40, 00O.0O0 year. He is hand
some man not yet thirty years old and is
| very fond of tiger hunting.
Nine Rubinstein, who died recently at
Odessa at the age of eighty-fve, was the
| first music teacher of her son, Anton Ru-
binstein, the famous Russian composer.
| Secretary Rusk retains his early-to- bed
and early-to-rise habits in Washington
| life. He is rarely seen later than o'clock
in the evening and is up at this season be-
| fore the sun.
| Maj. l. B. Donaldson, who was United
States marshal in Kansas during the wild
days of the pro-slavery conflict, is still liv-
| ing in San Marcos, Tex, at the age of
ninety-five.
Rev. Arthur Bell Nichols, the husband of
Charlotte Bronte, has generally been sup
posed to be dead, but he is still living in an
| obscure parish in Ireland, where he occa-
sionally breaches
| Justice Field is the scholar of the SUI
preme bench. Besides his Greek and Latin
he is thoroughly versed in modern Greek
and Turkish and can converse fuently in
French and Italian
Edouard Lockrey, the author of the book
on Won Moltke which has attracted so much
attention in Paris, was one of the 1000
red-shirted irregulars who followed Carl
baldi to Sicily and Naples.
The death of Professor Friedrich Ear
rucke, the German philologist is keenly re-
GREETED in the Fatherland. His investiga-
lions regarding and scholarly dissertations
upon the "Nibelungenlied' first made him
famous. For many years he was professor
of the German language in the university
of Leipzig.
George Rosen, the celebrated orientalist,
who died few days ago in Detmold, Ger
many, was for many years in the consular
and diplomatic service of his country.
Since 1875 he had lived in retirement, de-
voting himself to his studies. He wrote
number of grammars of oriental tongues,
as well as a history Of Turkey.
The highest evolution of literary ability
in this country is supposed by some not to
be co-incident with the development of dra-
matte powers. Among the playwrights
who are failures" as such are numbered
Howells, James, Brander Matthews and
Edgar Fawcett Among the successful are
Belasco, Hoyt, Harrigan and Pinero.
Patrick Egan is q small man physically.
He is wholly self-educated. having begun
life as messenger boy in flour mill in an
Irish country town. He rose to be manag-
ing director of his company in Dublin, and
afterward became an extensive dealer in
corn before he joined the councils of the
land league He dresses quietly and neatly
He does not smoke or drink.
The laureate of England does not have
his best interpreter among the English
Perhaps the best DO ok ever written on him
is the work just published in the second
edition by the Scribners Of New York
The author, Henry Van Dyke of that city,
is the finest student of Tennyson who has
written of the great poet. His 1.-THE Poetry
of Tennyson' is dedicated as follows: ITO
a young woman of an old fashion who loves
art not for its own sake, but because it en-
mobiles life; who reads poetry not to kill
time, but to fill it with beautiful thoughts,
and who still believes in God and duty and
immortal love-"
A London letter says: According to Cos
sip, Lord Dudley few weeks before his
marriage discovered a quantity of reputed
paste diamonds in a neglected corner Ad-
miring the graceful designs he took them to
jeweler to see what might be made of
them The expert Immediately pronounced
them real stones of the finest size and
water They had been considered and
treated as paste from time immemorial so
it was an agreeable surprise. This fairy
like story is founded on fact