Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-06

, -itcreuo llfncs.
IT is not an evidence of shrewdnes
TO marry n shrew.
Hoes are dying in Scooba, Miss,
from eating cotton seed.
OFTHE seventy-eight senators thirt,
have been members of the house.
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PERRY BELMONT has set up yor
reous establishment at Washington.
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THAT Houston Post label didn't foo
the Democratic members of congress-
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DENVER is organizing liars club
Go West, Thomas Ochlltree, go West.
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A HANDSOME robe of catskins wa,
made recently by n Hamden, Conn, man.
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THE Catholic knights of America
are rapidly gaining strength in Louisiana.
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THERE are 81, 600 deaf-mutes i'm the
pie.
If men could forget their prejudices
twenty-iour hours IT would be sufficient ia
revolutionize the world.
TARtNTULAs, when stuffed and
dried and fastened to card sell for fifty
cents each in Santa Barbara, Cal.
Ii will be rather funny to think of
Wash Jones staying at home and reading
about what they are doing in congress this
winter.
THE order OF the Bath if introduced
in this country would occasion more orders
for clean shirts, and give the laundry busi-
| ness Il boom.
Mrs. COwDEN of Montgomery
county, Tenn, has in her possession an agri-
cultural curiosity, consisting of thirteen
ears of corn In one shuck.
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The mule and motherin-law are
enjoying n much-needed rest. II Is TO be
hoped that the son-in-law and driver are par.
ticipating in the same blessing.
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ARKANSAS coal is being offered for
home use. 1t is a new experiment. The
high price OF wood is inducing the people to
look on all sides for cheaper fuel
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WE have not heard any murmurs of |
dissatisfaction ut Irelapd's modest intlma-
tion that he is willing to be governor sec
ond time II the people want him.
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Boston people are raising the ques-
tion whether their councilmen and alder
men are not squandcring too much of the
peoples money in eating, drinking and junk
citing.
THE treasurer OF Madison county,
Wyoming, heads his tax notices with Gu,
of a skull and cross-bones, the Significance
of which is that death and taxes are equally
certain.
THE proper ''caper'' nowadays is TO
send handsomely engraved ivory cards to
your friends when you have the birth of q
baby To announce. 1t is expensive, but fash
ionable.
The civilized man and the well-reg-
ulated boy do not throw banana pees on the
but Christian always pauses
long enough TO kick the offending peels into
the gutter.
THREE rats have been caught at the
top of Washington monument. How they
got there is II mystery. but they Were evil
IDENTIFY trying to get away from the speaker.
ship contest.
THE United States takes the second
place among the copperproduclng countries
of tho world. Chilli leads with 42oO9 tons for
1889, and the United States follows with S0,-
500 tons for the same period.
Juggling parties are now the rage
I'm nf ha fat,
of prices: Hugging 10 or 10 years old rs cents;
25 years old, 30 cents; married women whose
husbands arc absent, ST. spinsters, two for
nickel.
The new colored cadet at West Point
mas not be en- hazed, and is treated with
studied respect by the while cadets. In this
IL may not be improper 10 re-
mark that the new colored cadet is six feet
me inch In height, with long arms and fists
Ike duinb-bells, and the general icok of n !
lealthy man who il aching for fight. What
,vcr else may be said about the West Point I
'adets, they know who To haze {
THE natural gas that flows from the {
oil regions OF Western Pennsylvania and
Vest Virginia has long been lsed for fuel and
isht In the manufacturing towns of that sec {
i"h' "nu lho supply Is very mich greater
han the demand. A project is now ON foot
convey the gas by pipes to Philadelp hia ]
nd Baltimore for heating and lighting pur, {
oses. The scheme is In the bands of enter. |
rising men, with plenty OF capital behind |
hem, and the laying of pipes will begin :
hortly. {
A STONE in the graveyard adjoining I
he old Concord school house above Washing a
on lane, Germantown, Pa, bears the follow /
1g inscription: "In memory Adam Shisler
Tho departed this life Dec. -, l777, aged 900
ears" II Is easier to read the inscription
nan TO believe that Mr.. Shsler lived TO the
&c ascribed to him. The explanation is |
iat the stone-cutter made a. mistake in
'arking rhc stone, giving the mans age MS
Instead 90, watch II really was, To cor
sot this, the "g' was filled with cement. and :,
mother figure cut after the 49, Bnt time y
nd frost looseued the cement and now tho
nee obliterated ngufe appears as distinct as U
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