Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-20
NEWS AND NOTES.

Sixty-three varieties of toilet prepare
lions have been sent to Mrs, Langtry for
trial and recommendation.
The remains Of house that experts
venture to say is fifteen centuries old
have been unearthed in Rome. They are
in comparatively good state OF preser-
walton.
Leonard w. jerome of New York al
lows his daughter, wife OF Lord Randolph
Churchill, chancellor Of the British ex-
chequer, $4,000 per annum. Lord
ChurchilPs salary is $4,000 per year.
Mr.. Joseph Patterson of Philadelphia
has been president Of the Western bank
for forty-four years. His speech at a
meeting OF bank officers in New York in
1861 resulted directly in the banks OF
New York, Boston and Philadelphia loan
ing the government Sl5o,00o,OOO during
the war
A grand political platform is that OF
Charles X. Jones, editor OF the Charlotte
IN. CO Observer, who proposes to run
for congress solely on the declaration OF
his ability to terrace the state capitol
grounds with two'mule team, at an ex
pense OF $1,000, there having been appro-
priated $3.50 900 for the work.
| n CuTlOus UnhITiGBt CtIbluOuy UOOh
place recently in Nuremberg, Germany,
the bride being the welI-known armless
artistic, Fraulein Hausmann. She we'd
ded her impresario, Herr Hauschild, and
signed her marriage contract with her
feet. Rings were exchanged, and the
wedding ring Of the bride was placed on
the fourth toe OF he right foot.
Bismarck thinks of nothing but war.
aNa In, aNn
to change trains, he addressed porte :
by whose side stood little boy; as
that your SOM" ayes, your Excelency.n
"Have yon any more7" "Four, your Elk
cellency." "That is well. They will
make good soldiers. God bless them!''
1t is stated that very wealthy London
amateur yachtsman has had an English
naval architect of reputation in this coun-
try all summer secretly examining the
types and models OF the best Yankee
craft, with g view of building yacht to
contest for the Americas cup next sea.
son. The new sloop is intended 70 COM
bine the best points OF the American and
. English models, but II will be more like
: the former In the main lines of n hull
with much less draught than the cutter.
In an extreme case the United States
! courts have affirmed the const utionR
, validity OF the law against import ag for
, eign labor. Last spring MIR. join CTaig
imported ship'carpenters from Quebec
during the ship-yard strike In Detroit
Suit WAS brought TO recover the ponGlty
Of 81 900 for violating the law, and tht
defendant pleaded that the act was up
constitutional on the ground that Il inter
) fered with the freedom OF contract Blu
I the court held that the law is within tn,
provision Of the constitution OF tn,
United States permitting congress to reg
ulate commerce.
This year a great many ladies are goin!
iato politics as propagandists OF thi
: Henry George movement, For the pas
. week dozen Of them have been goln,
!, from house to house 20 canvass for vote
distributing George tracts Throughout
( tenement houses and handing them :,
G ,ahorcrs at work near ihe streets. On
B.. lady, who Is rich and is an enthusiastic
4 advocate OF Henry George's election, goe
into the little shops az the lac streets
(, buys box Of matches OF paper Oh pine
s and tells the little shop.keeper ana tn
V customers who happen 70 be there, VIII
a they should votefor Henry George. Som
= OF these fair and enthusiastic eanvasser
Z for the workingmen's party are rich, som
t are school-teachers, and some are wor
4 girls. They have distributed thousand
/, of copies Of the workingme0's pl8tforI
and of Henry Georges letter OF accepi
d ance. Several ladies have volunteered /
Q speak at the George nass-meeting.