Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-22
NEWS AND NOTES.

Mayor Grace OF New York is worth
$4,000, 900, and Is prince in the rubber
trade.
1t was not until the early part of the
present century that whipping-posts and
stocks were abolished Ia Massachusetts.
Mrs. Cleveland, 1t is authoritatively an
nounced, wears No. 30 slipper, Oxford
tie pattern, French kid, width AA, made
by hand.
George Augustus Sala is authority for
saying that as early as 1872 proposal for
a subterranean electric telegraph was
made in England.
II Daniel Pine OF Paw Paw, H., lives
until December he will be one hundred
years old. Meantime he amuses himself
by hoeing and saving wood.
Chicago is to have a public hall capable
of seating from 5000 to 5000 people. The
building, which will be nine stories high,
will also contain hotel with 800 rooms.
There is baby in England waiting for
Mr.. Barnum to secure 1t is great
baby, eleven months old, weighing fifty
eight pounds, standing three feet high,
and measuring thirty inches round the
chest.
Nine. de Lesseps, wife of the great
ditch-digger, has bath. room which cost
$4,000. The exposed faucets and pipes
are all gold-plated, and the decorations
OF the apartment are the work OF the best
artist in France.
The division Of labor and improved ma
chinery are doing away with the thorough
learning of trades. When the present
generation OF shoemakers and black
smiths are dead 1t will be hard work to
find man who can make a complete
boot or make horseshoe and nails, and
then shoe the horse properly.
Lady Randolph Churchill goes to the
ladies' gallery of the house OF commons
almost every day since her husband has
become chancellor OF the excheuuer. She
sits In the corner Of the gallery on the
ministerial side, where Mrs. Gladstone
was so often seen in former times. Her
photograph and that Of her husband are
now seen in London more frequently than
those of anybody else.
Maria Henrietta, queen of the Belgians,
received letter from the unfortunate ex-
Empress Carlotta few days ago, asking
her TO come and see her as soon as posi-.
Die. The queen had her ponies hitched Ia
the caleche which she always drives her.
5 II, and set out at q gallop. Oyertaken
by storm, her majesty took refuge in a
bSrrack. Being mess.hour, the officers
set about improvising the best dinner
they could for their august visitor, but
} the queen refused, saying: "a newly
arrived recruit should be content with
the ordinary iare,' And she sat down ~
the common table and ate plate Of cab.
oage soup and 'picked" pig's foot
Four crematory furnaces are in course
OF erection at the iar-famed Partisan
, cemetery, Pere La Chaise, and win ne
ready for operation in short time. These
furnaces, which have the outward an
pearance OF ornamental ovens, are buil,
on the model OF those in use al Rome n ID
) Milan. The cost OF cremation win be Ar.
! teen francs only--to rich and poor alike
IL Is said that already sculptors and meta
workers are busy in designing and pro.
auclng cinerary urns for the preseryation
Q oil the ashes from these furnaces. These
/ vessels will, at the option of the relatives
OF the dead, be removed to family wants.
or VIII be deposited In a building which K
70 De erected by the city of Paris for thei,
: reception. - ~ 'ueii
!. A feature Of the coming year Of Ths
a Century will be series Of panars ~
The Food Question:" written by prot
w. q Atwater OF Wesleyan uniyersity
VINO Tor years past has been engaged II