Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-29

hotel on Toronto Island. lie has Il wife n d
two children.
The cat-and-nine-tails n sailant of
Colombler claims that she weighs but seven
ty live pounds, whereas the creature who
called her Jumbo carries 800. This is rldi-
cuous. Bernhard now weighs something
like l25. She wakes fat as she grows old,
PHILADELPHIA's new postofilce,
viii h is soon to be occupied, cost about
.SO(,00O. Its dimensions arc-l7j feet nine
Inches on Chestnut street, l75 feet one inch
on Market street, and iSi feet on Ninth
street; height OF the dome above the curb,
l7O feet.
NEW YORK is considerably agitated
over the decentralization OF its police force
Three policemen have been sent TO state
prison, four are in jail awaiting trial 70
various otianses, and one Is to be hanged
next month for murder. What can New
York expect?
AN amendment is proposed TO the
constitution by "Robert Rodney. 4. :. y. "
limiting the aggregate of property in any in
dividuals ownership TO $1,000 600, and de
clarinR any accumulation beyond this sum
to "n public nuisance AVID a public peril,
subisct to contlscatlon in the United states
treasury
a GOOD many newspapers consider
Chairman Sabin OF the national Republican
committee n remarkably cStravagant man
because he recently bought twenty-eight
pairs of boots. The Herald is informed that
he will give twen'y.seven of them to the can
didatc who VIII start neNt year from Chicago.
Running Tor president is very trying to sole
leather
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MRS. LOGAN and Mrs. Blaine smile
at the story that they bad formed a cabal
Mrs Logan said laughingly, that 1t remind
ed her OF the evidence gathered by the
Widow Bedott. The widow was certain that
young man was engaged TO blooming
girl in her neighborhood because she had
seen his dog sitting on the young lady's
doorstep,
a CLOCK was set going at Brussels
which continu Il TO go for nine months, and
had not run down when last heard of. An
up draught is obtained in q shaft by exposing
1t to the sun. This draught turns a fan,
which winds up tine weight Of the clock un-
I'll il reaches the top. 1t then works brake
which stops the fan until the weight has
gone down little, when the fan is free to re-
commence.
BEING complimeuted by one of his
intervcwers The other day on his powers of
eloquence, the spanish king said ~ know
III. -
a gilt derive from nature. When came To
Spain youth Of seventeen had to make
a speech on horseback on the first day of my
arrival at barcelona. That was my best
speech, and ever since then l have always
been able to speak,
BELLS were rung in Greencastle.
Ind, when they completed the county sub.
scrlptlon of 5000 conditional upon which
the millionaire Ex-senator, VIC. DsPauw,
gives sam,c0J to DE Pauw university. This
eft Is to be followed by greater, as forty-nve
per cent. of the De Paw estate, exclusive of
the .ass-works. is to go to the university
aftei the testator's death, and this forty-fve
per cent. IS estimated at sl,l0D0tO.
THREE years ago Edwin G.. Burritt
OF Ithaca had q pct hawk but 1t became so
herce that the owner fastened a piece of cop.
per, with his name and address engraved
upon 1t, To one leg OF the bird and let II go.
Tho Morning News OF Wilmington, De-, DC.
10th, contained the following: IA hawk was
recently killed at Masonville by W. + Mason
with metal tag attached 10 its leg, having
on one side Edwin c. Burritt, Ithact, N.Y.
aud ON tho opposite side, sept. G, 1870, watch
maker and Jewcler, Ne. 10 East STATE street,"
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CAVE CITY, In Calaveras county.
Cal, once had 1000 Inhabitants, but after the
failure of the gravel mines the people moved
away, and now the "cty" consists of a hotel.
saloon, and a hay-staek. In "a graveyard on
the hill above the town are sixteen graves,
and in fifteen Of them are the remains OF
men who died with their boots on between
1850 and 1886. The cave from which the 'city''
lakes It's name penetrates the mountain side
abou, 5s) iee,. anu contains over q hundred
human skeletons-probably of Indians.
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SOME years ago German professor
appropriated an American invention for the
employment of wood pulp In The manufac-
lure OF wood paper, and obtained patent
for II. lie then issued licenses for the use OF
the patent, ana his revenue from this ,ource
FOR some time past is calculated TO have been