Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-05
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A London paper speaks of an American
lady who Is driving in n carriage and six
horses through the provincial towns, at
tracing people by means OF her brass band
TO accept her advice and medicine as from
the world-renowned American lady doc
tor. The same papers tells of an English
quack now travelling in America with
very lovely young woman, whom he ex-
hibits as result OF his medicine, which,
he declares, causes the perfection Of her
complexion. He sells tonic, to which
he attributes the abundance of her hair,
and drugs for the increase or reduction of
flesh to her standard.
BY the completion last month OF the
railroad from Cape Town to the South
African diamond mines at Kimberley,
steam cars have supplanted the tiresome
stages and the great OK wagons Of the
Dutch and British traders, for about 700
miles along the direct route toward the
Zambesi. The advent OF the locomotive
into the very region where Moffatt and
Livingstone lived among benlghted saw
ages is not only an evidence of the sub
stantial progress of South Africa, but also
| illustrates the impulse that Is now NOV
| ing civilized nations TO penetrate new
! fields OF commerce with railroads.
The new lord mayor Of London is mas
ter of the Leathersellers' company, whose
corporate expenditure for the year has
been returned at about $780, 900, including
close on $4,000 for entertainments, and
| $1,000 for wines. These figures Illustrate
the large and liberal style in which the
civic organizations on the other side mol
lily the asperities of business with the de-
lights OF social indulgence. The beadles
of some of the companies are very re-
markable people. One of them has nom
inal salary of $500, but with pickings
and perquisites which bring 1t up TO
$500. BUNDLE was never clad in such
glory.
/ South America is more than double the
size of the United States. The empire OF
Brazil seems on the map quite as large as
/ Australia. II is twenty-four times the
size OF England. The Argentine Repub-
lie is nearly as large as Europe, taking
Russia out. Bolivia and VcL"z uela are
each twice the size OF England, New
Grenada and Peru each as large as Eng
land and Scotland, Ecuador something
less, Paraguay equal to/Great Britain
A Uruguay and Chill about the same, and
the little known regions Of Patagonia and
Terre del Fuego at least double the di-
mansions of Great Britain. British,
French, and Dueth Guiana are nearly as
large as Great Britain.
over in England in great house thirty
or forty servants is no unusual number,
and when there Is house party as many
as 100 are often assembled, for each guest
brings his own servant, and the various
Wallets and maids, the extra coachmen and
grooms, make up a company that riyals
the array in the drawing-room for prcten'
sion and pride; for all these-cspeciall
the upper servants must be paced accord
ing 70 the rank OF their masters. The
servant OF duke, Of course, precedes the
servant Of an earl, and the valet Of al
ambassador naturally goes before the gen
tleman OF mere envoy. They are usually
called by the names Of their masters so a.
, to settle at once this point OF precedence
! A correspondent at Athens gives an &c
J count OF many curious burial customs
, peculiar TO Greece, which came under nil
j notice. piece OF linen, as wide as thi
body aud twice as long, was doubled ant
hole large enough for the head cut on
: of It. In this the body was wrapped anC
then dressed 10 new clothes, and NOR
D especially new shoes. Beneath the heas
was placed pillow full Of lemon-leayes
In the mouth was put bunch OF vlolets
G and around the temples q chaplet OF iow
} ers, These are used only for the unmar
RED, and must be white, Both head AM