Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-20
NE VS. AND NOTES.

Gen. Miles, the Indian fighter, is taking
a holiday in New York.
Ex-Attorney- General George II. Will
liams is now practicing law at Portland,
Oregon.
In Russia, all officers, sergeant-msiors,
drummers, buglers and even clerks carry
revolvers.
Lady Randolph Churchill goes to the
ladies' gallery of the house Of commons
almost every day.
A well-digger in CISCO, ILL.,, found hol-
low log twenty-eight feet below the sur
face of the ground, and in the log a
vigorous frog.
1t win cost $4,000 and take 5000 books
OF gold leaf to gild the great dome at
Notre Dame university, Indiana. The
work Is going on now.
Clarksville, Md, bee hunters recently
cut down tree and found in hollow
thirty-nve feet from the ground plenty
OF honey and black snake nine feet
| long
Two thousand tons Of grapes have
been grown on the Vina ranch of
Senator Stanford the present seaeon, and
they are now being manufactured into
| wine.
Francis A. Walker, chief OF the census
OF 1880 and boss statstician Of the coun-
try, estimates that the population OF the
United States in 1900 will not fall far
short Of sO,OO0,OOO.
Mrs. William Aston, it Is said, will
never again reign as leader of New York
society. Her afillction has taken such an
unfavorable turn that she Is precluded
from egain appearing in public.
Queen Victoria will take her drives
about Deeside in a carriage, the principal
interior decoration Of which consists OF
the rose, the thistle and the shamrock in
terwoyen in various fantastic forms.
Washington Bartlett, Just nominated
for governor by the Democracy of Cali
tornia, was born In Savannah, Ga, and
Is sixty-two years Of age. Mr.. Bartlett
went to the state In 1S49 and started the
first daily ever published in San Fran
cisco.
The London chamber OF commerce
have under their consideration the estab.
} llshment in the metropolis Of com mercial
museums, or, as they might be termed.
permanent. exhibitions, such as are found
In Holland, Belgium, Germany, France,
Switzerland and other countries.
Ex-senator Mcdonald of Indiana, dur.
, ing his recent visit to Boston, said that
he believed that Mr.. Cleveland would be
renominated. This opinion is worth more
because Mr.. Mcdonald might possibly
consider himself candidate under Other
, circumstances.
Vice President Hoxie Of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad company is still very
sick man. Over-exertlon during the fight
: with the strikers last spring reduced him
, to his present condition. Martin Irons,
his principal opponent, has also been per.
manently knocked out, though not from
excessive labor.
The city OF Hernosand, in Sweden, can
boast OF being the first place in Europe
, where the streets are lighted entirely by
electricity TO the exclusion Of gas ii
has the advantage Of plenty of natural
water power for driving the electric en-
} gines, SO that the new lights can actually
be produced at cheaper rate than the OLD
ones.
Mr., Sinclair, the British consul at Foo.
chow, reports that the manufacture OF
brick tea OF varieties Of tea dust by Rus.
, sian merchants, for export to Siberia, Il
acquiring considerable Importance al
foochow. The cheapness OF the tea dust,
the cheapness OF manufacture, the low
export duties upon IT, together with the
i low Import duties III Russia, help TO make
this trade successful and profitable. The
brick is said to be beautifully made and
very portable.
At halt-demolished Jesuit college al
Vienna dog lately fell through assure
| 10 the pavement. The Efforts to rescue
the poor animal led TO curious archeo.
logical discovery. The dog had II was
found, fallen into large vault containing
ninety collins, The existence Of this IN.
derground burial place had hitherto been
quite unsupported. The inscriptions ON the
collins date back TO the reign OF Marls
Theresa, and the bodies are OF the monks
} OF that period and OF the mobiles who
helped 10 support the monastery.
One Of the most important applications
OF photography is the production OF print.
: ing blocks, which, under various names
ere In great request for book and newspa,