Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-23
NEWS AND NOTES.

The emperor Of Russia has sent M.
Pasteur $4,000 for his hydrophobia hos
pital.
Fifteen hundred dollars an inch for
water has been refused at Sierra Madre,
In Los Angeles county, Cal.
young New Yorker, in order to make
suicide doubly sure, poisoned the bullet
he fred into his body with snake virus.
Hiram Southwark of Fairfax, VT, has a
curiosity in chicken with twelve toes,
and he has squash which measures six
feet in circumference.
In the cent savings bank OF Charles
ton, S. c., the colored people have S124,-
936.35 on deposit. The largest depositor
has 1000 to his credit.
Earthquake stories still come in, prin-
cipally from Georgia. One of the latest
is about wagglsh Widow Gum, who, as
soon as she recognized the earthquake,
seized big tin horn and blew long and
mighty blast. She did it, she said, to
astonish the natives, and was entirely
successful; for more than one was GER
tain that the day of judgment had come
and that Gabriel was blowing his horn.
A white convict recently escaped from
a gang working on the Georgia Midland
railroad. A bloodhound was put on his
trail, and afterward found manacled to a
tree with the convict's shackles. Two
new dogs were started after him, and
when they caught him he made friends
with them and traded them to a negro
woman for his dinner. He has not been
caught yet.
Little Miss Edith Perry of Leominster,
MaQG hQd N haitian hon
doll. 1t is a kitten, which permits itself
to be completely dressed, even to the
bonnet, and rides for hours In doll car
riage. 1t is also superior to doll, in
that he has learned to take nourishment
from bottle quite after the manner of
2 real baby. Edith is enyied by all the
other little girls in Leominster.
In test Of long-distance telephoning
conversation was carried on with perfect
ease between Hartford Conn, and New
York city. During the day tests were also
in progress from New York to Scranton,
Pa, and although the Hartford office has
no direct connection with Scranton, yet at
Hartford there was heard the voice from
Scranton as It reached the New York
office, and so distinctly that the speaker
was recognized by gentleman at the
Hartford instrument.
John Boyle O'Reilly having been re-
quested to send for publication In Miss
Cleveland's Literary Life about two thou
sand words at cent a word with prom
Use OF better remuneration in future,
wakes indignant at this attempt to get
about So worth Of work for 81 cash, and
sends the following reply to the pub
Usher: 81 cannot See why you should
appeal to the charity OF literary people
Tor the benefit OF your magazine. II your
letter is not an appeal for charity 1t is a
humiliation and disgrace to the literary
profession"
A trustful lady at Ocean Grove a fort
night ago went in bathing, and gave her
pocket-book to pleasant-faced lady sit.
ting on the beach to keep for her. The
pleasant-faced lady was an utter stranger
to the trustful bather, and nervous at be-
Ing custodian dropped the pocket-book in
wave that dashed unexpectedly upon
the watchers. The accident made her
sick, and she went home with a spoiled
vacation to remember. The other woman
had to wait for more money from home,
and three days later went in bathing
again, A heavy breaker knocked her
over, and In trying to recover herself her
hand clutched something so spongy that
she screamed with fear. She kept her
grip though, and on shore found in her
hand her own pocket-book, swollen with
the water, but with its contents intact
over $40 in all