Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-24
NEWS AND NOTES.

A woman in San Jose, CAL, the other
day gave her husband $500 to leave the
state.
There are tweuty-one murderers In the
United States jail at Fort Smith, Ark,
awaiting trial.
They do not vaccinate women in Bur
nah, as they are not considered worth the
trouble and expense.
Sarah Bernhard got into a little diff
Guilty with member Of her company at
Rio recently. There was hair pulling for
brief period and embroidered adiect-
ives.
Thomas Stevens, the bicyclist, has
struck the biggest macadamized road in
the world. 1t Is 1900 miles long. He
will bring bit Of it home with him as q
specimen.
In his new novel Robert Grant makes
his romantic young lady hurl a box con-
tanning 500, 900 into the seething surface
OF the sea in order to relieve her lover Of
the suspicion Of being mercenary.
The Commercial Bulletin records the
wrecking OF three great mills, dozen
lumber firms and other establishments
They were all rotten. Out OF $ll ,006, 900
of liabilities there were not $l,000,000 of
assets.
Miss MIC Bruce-she spells her name
with diphtLong because she Is the charm
ing Lam of the Bennett & Moulton opera
company-is a semi-strawberry blonde
when on the stage. In private life she is
q brunette.
A Moline. Ill, man has arranged a
grindston9 in a wagon in such man
ner that when the wheels turn they cause
the grindstone to revolve. He makes his
living by driving about the town grinding
hatchets and knives.
The story comes from White Sulphur
| Springs, Va, that at champagne party
there a young married lady of fashion
pulled off her slipper and, filling 1t with
champagne, gave 1t to young lawyer in
the party, and he quafted it down.
Following are the rates of wages agreed
upon by the Charleston Knights Of Labor
Bricklayers, frst-class, $3.50; second
class, So; carpenters, So; painters, SO,
so .5Q'and So; plasterers, So 80 and So;
tinnS-s, 50 so and 50; laborers, 81 80 and
So.
In my opinion, says a writer in the
Fortnightly Review, the whole Eastern
question, and with 1t the question Of
Cyprus, depends, so far as England Is
concerned, upon the integrity of Turkey
as our ally; we have done little for her
and we may expect too much.
They raise energetic hens in Kansas. A
Kingman county man had one that tried
to hatch out setting of eggs and failed
then tried second lot and brought fortf
ten line chicks; took care of them for 81,
weeks, during the last three of which sh
: laid an egg every other day; then wanted
to set again, and not being permitted
stole another hens chicks and brough
them up with more than stepmotherly de
votion.
at is no longer fashionable" says
local dancing professor, "for men t
dance in their bare feet in Denver bal
r rooms, and am in hopes that before lon
;. they will cease the disagreeable habit c
shooting the fiddler when he breaks
u strin =, In good society the ladies Away
! remove their over-shoes before going o
Q the floor, and the practice of handin
h around chewing gum between the dance
: is being discouraged as fast as possible.
"Bismarck," says writer In a promi
u nent German journal, "was an enigm
10 when child, and he is an enigma sill
l. He never knows one day what he will d
:, the next day, and for years past he ia
simply taken advantage of present cil
!, cumstances in directing the affairs
,e Europe. The great source of his strengt
in is the facility with which he changes hi
=. opinions, abandons his friends, coddle
: his enemies, and profits by the malice {
q one, the hatred of another, the pride of
IN third, while he makes fools of them al
,r His conscience knows no scIuple, and b
m processes an equally passionate fondnes
y for the bible and the latest bad FrenC
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