Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-12

grateful 70 the night-Yatchman Wh'
e released them and who promised not u
tell.
The president has vetoed, all told, slA
public building bills, and did not discrim
e mate, politically or sectionally, In his ac
!. tion, as has been claimed. The villages
to which he denied the ornaments that
" we're so coveted we're Dayton and Zanes-
: vile, Ohio Sioux City, Iowa; AshylIle,
n N. c.; Duluth. Mimi; and Springfield,
, Mo. Two Of the six, 1t will be observed,
are In the "solid South" and ali but one
gave majority for Mr. Cleveland at the
! last presidential election. There isn't
! much partisanship TO be discovered in
these vetoes.
PSrson Downs nastiness continues to
be the leading feature of the Boston
press. Time was when Boston culchaw
and refinement would have revolted al the
dth that drips from the pulpit disgraced
by this reverend BLACKBOARD and is served
up with so much gusto by the daily Jour
nails Of that city. But the modern Athens
has sadly degenerated, and her decline in
the moral and mental scale is strikingly
Illustrated by the prurient and sensation
/ al tone OF her newspapers, which, with
one or two exceptions, are scarcely more
| ASoRSNNdpiC hAA1h NuOnG VI AlUElunhlit
The Portland 0regonian relates story
of portly and jolly government official
who went out OF his office one day last
week without his cane. "Oh!" sald he,
81 must go back. That is bad luck.n So
to avert the threatened evil he marched
back ihto the office, sat down, took half
dollar from his pocket, laid 1t upon his
desk, turned it over, and then replaced it |
In his pocket. He tnen took his cane and |
marched out with cheerful heart. OF |
course, he did not believe in this hocus-
pocus business, but then he ha heard the
omen all his life, and IL could do no harm
to 90 through the rigmarole, so he went
through it,
woman is said to be responsible for
the ridiculous rumpus over the Cutting
affair, and another for the Arreusis
trouble. 1t Is alleged that the original
quarrel between Cutting and Medina was
over frail creature of whom both were
enamored, and that the unfortunate Ar {
'eusis had crossed the path of his mur. {
lerer, Mondragon, in an affaire glamour. :
md was kidnapped and slain as an act OF
'eyenge. II, as has been claimed, women
IRE never so happy as when thev have
ucceeded in stirring up a muss, the con- y
iliion Of the sex along the Rio Grande
must be one OF profound felicity.
The Wilmington (Del.) News saws 5
luge waterspout formed several days ago il
D Burtons bay, on the eastern side of
lccomac. IL extended in a spiral column
II the way mp to the oyerhanging clouds, -
no, standing out against clear blue n
KY, formed beautiful sight to persons, a
lany OF whom Witnessed 1t at a distance
NJ Hftc tu IA
ore DONG any damage, but several fish. :,
rmen had TO row with all their mioht IN -,
ct out OF the track Of the whlrling col. h
mn as 1t swept up the bay. 1t is sun. -
osed That the waterspout was at least ),
lirty yards In diameter. Persons living .,
long the chores Of Burton's bay were -
realty excited and frighted by the novel II
ccurrence. ~
salt water, In the opinion of an old CT
Icuah, 10 what prevented the flames 90 q
ne board walk Of Atlantic City, on Mon tC
ny evening, from spreading much be. il
ond the structure where the fire h,nke ~
ut, and the results seemed TO proy ne
ruth OF his declaration. Although he
urnlng building was surrounded bv O.
ghtly built frame structures, and he
re, at one time being very big and fierce. =,
'as virtually walled within wood. the ~
ames were finally controlled by the use VI
MY OF hand buckets with which water p'
ON the ocean was passed up to men ~
tauoned on The adjoining buildings. u
ne SAT- water appeared TO exert a pecu- u
ar lhnuence in smothering the flames
nd III protecting exposed wood work VI
ear them. N
an English paper tells an aneudote Of ~,
American lady, who was Invited hy the y,
rlnce ana princess OF Wales to garden .,
arty, excusing herself from attending ON ~
10 ground OF q previous engagement, =,
40 " sneers at the American lady for "
ol showing that royal invitations in =
ngland country are commands. 6This.n -
lys Vanity Fair, tis all rubbish. The III
Dig royal invitations that are commands
re those Of the sovereign herself. Neither
le invitations of the prince of Wales -,
or those OF the duke of Teck, or Prince -
enry OF Battenberg are Commands i'm
~ sense OF the word. The eoyeraign 81
one can command her subjects on their
legiance, and she can only command W
'f own subjects. Her power Of com be
ana does not extend to an American or NJ
~ other foreigner" n
AT various times for fifty years smoke W
rs been seen issuing from the swer ~ III
lorida, and every conceivable theory he
foJected to account for it. The swami m
impossible, but men have pen. trated hi
Try near to where the smoke ough 10 be
mere, however, they could see no sjgn of az
: IL Is even claimed that some have co
one directly through 1t without knowing he
) ana Judge White, an aged citizen, Is re
,sltVe ne was once within 1--we or sly ex
lles Oh It, when it was perfectly plain ia
? the weight OF scientific opiuion is tha in
Is Vapor collected by peculiae condi. br
pms IN the great swamp, invisible, OF
'utse, 10 one In it, but opaque IN those no
W miles away. We ali love MYSTERY M
'wever, and so the common nee runs Of
az an opening in the swamp charges on on
olne smoke from some Underground ~,
urce. "u seI