Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-27

TIL, Ten AS, THU SDA 7
Ar Yreka, Cal, n crazy man had {
, be lassoed ON the top of house.
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A WATERBURY, CONN, man has a.
incubator with acapacity of 1900.
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A GA1NEsvILLE, FLA, baker names
Dembert has Just fai'on heir TO sl,OOoOoo.
$3.50
THREE San Francisco firms emple
twelve vessels In the olSotsk sea, and thl
year tnoy have caught LOO 00o Goldfish.
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A GERMAN has computed that from
lsO2 until 1913 Napoleon | consumed $500
Coz men, or at the rate of half n million
year.
THREE large stones having denpl,
indented footprints of birds have been talei
from the puarries in Portland, Conn, 800 fee
below the surface.
! G.. i. VAN NALlENBURG of VOL
colt has n curiosity In the shape of n whit,
1 rabbit. IL has only one ear, and that is II
| the center of its head.
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THE booll-keeper of the Washington
| bank, Boston, has been In the employ o
that Institution fifty years, and has never
asked for nor taken days vacation.
MEXICAN banana planters get three
crops n year. Tbs plants cultivated far more
easily than any grain or tuber in tho North.
ern ATTITUDES and the fruit is far more nutrl.
tious.
THE Occur d'Alene gold mines
recently d iscovered in Idaho Territory are
reported to be very rich, and 1t Is believed
there will he 5000 miners in the region by
next spring.
THERE are about G6,000 locomotive
engines in the world. and 100 900 passenger
and $4,000 freight ears. There are 100000
miles oftrack, and the capital invested is
$4,000, 10000.
A GOOD old citizen of Dale county,
South Carolina, was fined $50, including costs,
Mt the late session of the United states court
in Montgomery, for cutting wood oil of gov.
crnment land. He had no money with which
to pay the fine, but rather than mortgage his
land, he concluded TO serve out the fine in
Jail.
Work has been begun this week on
the great canal that is TO irrigatc the san
Luis Valley, in southern Colorado. The canal
Is TO be seven miles long. and ut the bottom
sixty feet wide and there are to be many
lateral canals from it-all to irrigate 100000
acres of land now almost worthless. Several
are to be organized to occupy this
land.
STEPHEN NJ. MEREDITH, IL Young
lawyer of Reading, Pa, who disappeared tor
a time under some discouraging clrcum-
stances, has returned home, and voluntarily
subscribed to an oath before an alderman
that he will never again play at any game of
cards or billiards either for pleasure or gain,
NJ participate directly or indirectly in any
orm of gambling.
TEN years ago Mr.. Morrison of Win
ma, Mich. disappeared, and several years
liter his wife married William c. Hodge of
Spring Valley. ana lived with him four
'ears. A few weeks since the first husband
made his appearance, and Mrs. Hodge packed
ier household effects and returned to her
irst love, and they are now living together
II Dakota.
ONE of the defunct industries of De- |
roit is the manufacture of dog oil, which, IL
S only fair to say, never reached colossal |
reporters. IL was made by man named !
Slakely, under arrangement with the guard !
ans of tho dog pound, and was purchased |
nelly by veterinary surgeons, who used 1t
n the compromising of n liniment. But So |
gallon was all that they would pay for it,
nd at that price the business did not pros
Ell.
MRS. ALLEN, a Providence medium,
! the present wonder and delight of the spir-
alists. Out of her cabinet issue as many as
wenty different materlalzed spirits in an
vening. They walk among the Inortals,
ak like ordinary VISITORS and at times dis.
lose themselves as spirits only partially en-.
odied. But no skcptics ara admitted to
nese sesnces, and the accounts are, Their
,re, not the work OF professional reporters.
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RAILROADS have been the bane of
ii'ages along the Ohio. A writer in the |
lcveland Herald says: 1.-THE river is no |
,nger the great avenue of trade, and as the
Leamboat disappears before the railroad |
hese once thriving towns fall into decay.
hey retain their status as towns and viii
'ges; they arc marked on the maps: The old
'ttlers remain from force OF habit, but no
ewcomcrs settle; they are good towns to
iove away from"
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SEVERAL gentlemen who arose to
roiier their seats In n Boston strect-car the
ther day TO a lady who had lust entered,
titled back into their seats upon noticing
nat she had pug dog in her arms. The
oston Post says: "All tho passengers
niled, the young woman looked mp and
own the length of the car, her face plainly
rowing her resentment, but the gentlemen
ere obdurate. They evidently felt that the
ne must be drawn somewhere, and drew /,
the pug dog, reasoning that n woman who |