Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-29


who has been courtng youug lady
for some time TO the perfect deception
of her parents. He had been told not
TO visit the house, that he WAS not
wanted there, that his company was
not desirable aud all that sort of thing.
But Tie of friendship has been est,b-
lish,d between the Young man and
young woman too strong 10 be broken
10y any parental intervention, aud a
means OF communication was agreed
upon between them that was quite
novel. Both lived oU an irrigation
ditch OF constantly running aud brisk
current, the young man abnve and
the young woman below Their com
municaiion was fixed in this way:
Phe young man made small boat
Which he would place IN the ditch and
his messages in IL which would be
carried down by the current to Il point
IN Tie diteii on tue premists OF the
young lady's parents where there was
an obstruction. Here the boat and its
message would be held until the
charming and devoted little miss found
and received Ii. She would answer
him through the ma Is Her father
carries the Key to the post-ofiice box,
and she dare not receive messages
from her love through the post-ofiice
rs the young mans handwriting Is too
well known to the young ndy's
father. We look for runaway match
soon. The tender age of the young is
the principal present restraint.
We have a crayon craze, and 1t was
started 10y young Frenchman.
Edward circuit rs soon as he finishes
q couple more portraits will leave FIR
New York and then go to Paris to
complete his studies.
Talking about beautiful figures, and
of which The young ladies think much
aud have as much To say, we saw u
Miss OF seventeen the other dly who
had been gathing iigs and bananas
slip up on one of the "slickeryn coats
OF the latter fruit and fall into the bas-
ket held by IA young gentleman who
accompanied her. Ii she wasn't II
figure another yourself, and we dare
you to take it up
Thee is q gal In san Antoine
Who goes % bed alone, alone
She has n pap hui not u man,
Ana, marry will she % er sam.
If our readers will keep their eyes
open they Will find solution to the
above problem in these columns sonie
day.
Some time ago a well-known gentle
man of tins city went up To Washing
ton to meet the nabobs of
the land and solicit their patron-
age Tor his claims to high and
lucrative government Office. During
his sojourn in Washington he was per-
mitted the liberty TO attend Il rCcbeyche
gathering at the residence of Senator
Randolph of New Jersey, one of the
most interesting features of the ocna-
sion being splendid dinner, at which
the delicacies of the nation were dis
GUS ed, and where fine wines were as
free as the mud hard by on the Poto-
mae flats. AS the pleasures of the oc-
casion drifted TO an end in the circum-
stantial breeze that quiet Father Time
wakes to life on such occas ions, a con
troversy arose as to the merits OF
Shakespeare's writings. Some con
tended that shake had never pro-
duced anything wonderful whether
in poetry orin sentiment, and foremost
otthese was the San Antonio Office.
seeker, who accepted the Lrunt of the
battle. After IA prolonged war of
words, the San Autonian arose, and
exclaimed in and with al
due earnestness and sobriety:
!" Well gentlemen, would
like very much To have some of you
gentlemen who disagree with me point
out the beauty, either poetical or SEN
timental, in the following sentence:
The vision of deaths dark shadow
pervades ME all around.n
you will find this in King Lear,
and what does 1t mean ~ continued
the San Antonian.
Senator Randolph-"It is the most
beautiful of al Shakespeares utter
ancesn
Representative Randall--"We can
expect neither recognition OF senti-
ment nor poetry from Texas
Senator Bayard ~ am simply as
tonished at the position of my friend
from Texas
Senator Logan--"I am astonishcd at
nothing coming from any state, SO COM
pletely under the ban of the Demo
cratic party IS Texas
And thus they proceeded until the
Texan informed them: Gentlemen,
Shakespeare never said such thing
as "the vision of deaths dark shadow
pervades all around Shakespeare
was produced In its most modern form
and the Texan was accorded the hon
ors OF the occasion. Men often de-
ceive those who do not know, by pre-
suming to make them believe that
they know everything.