Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

MlSCELLANEOUS.
Nobody has yet explained how the
dude got into the ark, Washington
Critic.
DE bigges, rascal Is oman and de
bigges' fool is man, Plantation Phi
losophy.
Holyoke now produces about IL
tons OF paper daily, mostly line writ
ing aud book paper.
IL Ia better not to know so much
than TO know so many things that
Amt SOL Josh Billings,
COurtship In Mexico Is called doing
the bearh How approprlate for isn't
IL bruin trouble Baltimore Day.
IL isa foul campaign Islander that
Grover Cleveland invented the say
ing' well, is this hot enough for
your
De man who kin trace his ancestors
back to Ham stands no better show
heah dan apusson who can't remem-
her his grapdfadder.- Limekiln Club
IL is estimated that the cholera has
caused IA decrease OF 30 per cent In the
number Of English tourists 10 the con-
NAhNhNf NAAAAN tNN0Al anu nus uAEh Alt
gainer To such an extent that Scotch
securities have advanced . per cent.
Mr.. A, b Howard, OF Washington,
who certainly lisa clerk in the pen
sion oillee and probably Is "A crank else
where, has fitted up novel lodgings In
the top of "A tree. The Washington
Critic hoasts that lac is probably the
only man in the country that
lAIa4s..gF L,sV
have 10 hitch along on the limb to make
room for Mr.. Blaine In November. =
New York World.
Moltke the silent, as he l. called, at
cighty-four is tall, slender, erect, with
a sallow, beardless face stony gray
eyes and yellow hair, wearing cap
and "A long military coat. nattcnded
by even a single servant he walks
through the streets Of Berlin slowly
and nolselessly. Saluted by every sol
der lie meets. he returns the courtesy,
but apparently without noticing TO
whom, and everywhere he retains the
cold, absorbed, mysterious manner
which he did not allow 10 be broken
even at Sedan.
Probably tine most cherries light
station on the California coast is the
Farallon light. Thomas owen, w.
II. Rugg, David II. Splain, Philip
Savage and an army mule are the nc
credited government forces at that
place. The following story IL told
about the mule: liz has been at Fa-
rallon several years. All his work
consists IN hoisting up twice a year
the provision brought over by the
lighthouse inspector in n steamer.
-. a
tie, aud when he hears IT, hides to
shirll work. At the last visit of tho
Inspector the mule hid aud had 10 be
hnnted for two hours in the rocks be-
fore he could be found.
John Corners, of Split Rock delivers
himself Of the following 10 the SYRIA
euse n. ". Herald; "a few days age
| was hunting wcOdcock In the vicu-
ity of Mud lake. ON nearing clumD
Of bushes near the edge of the lake my
pOinter-dog, Lula, came 10 a point on
what / thought was bird. told her
could not stnrt 1t. / walked around
ON the other side Of the bushes aud
there sat boy. He had been fishing
for bullheads The dog on coming
near one of the largest OF the fish
again came 10 point. / asked the
boy to let me Opon the largest OF the
fish. IL weighed about two pounds.
and found in IL hen wOodcork
partly digested. That i what my dog
had been scenting.n
The word "chaTlvarin II used
throughout large portion OF the West
aud describes the attentions which a
! bowling muslc-mad country crowd
pay 10 a newly-married couple. In
( those parts II " pronounced "chiga.
Z rec It's origin IL as follows: In the
/ middle ages & 'chirivariN consisted Of
al assemblage OF ragmufllns, who
armed with tin pots and pans, lire
/ shovels and kettles, gathered in the
I dark outside the house of any Obnox.
/ iOus person. making the night hide.
GUS by striking the pots against the
pans and bowling: "Haro. Harow or,
I In the south Of England and France
"IIarll Hnriw In 1903 the council OF
Trent took the matter up aud sol
EMMY interdicted ''cnariyaTisp uDdel
the pain OF communication; sever
theless the practice continues 10 thi
day, notably In the village OF La rus
cadt.