Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-25
PARAGRAPHS.

lhS NOItu OclIldu blOyu nus teluStu
any compensation for saving the pGssen-
gers on the Inflated steamer Oregon.
The belle Of Bath, M. T., wears a shoe
fourteen inches long and has been rendered
the captaincy of base ball nine.
a desperate Spectator put up New
foundland dog in Wall street, the other
day, as collateral for flyer in the stock
market.
Kid bedspreads, made out of the backs
OF discarded kid gloves and the gauntlets
OF long ones, have cast crazy patchwork
INTO the shade.
A society of bachelors has been organ
lied in New York. Five bundled dollars
IS paid each member on his marriage day
The last fellow will have slim chance.
An American lady has had novel "rose
dress" made in Paris. The skirt Is com
posed of 500 roses of different hues, and
rosebuds from the bodice, while veil of
tulle, spotten with crystal drops, is thrown
over the dress to initiate morning dew.
A Munich newspaper has started the
novel scheme of a Joke competition 1t
offers various money prizes for original
Jokes, promising to publish those who
take prize, and reserving the right 10
E0pAAoh ah1 ludL may OG StuL III.
The idea IS exciting considerable interest.
There is great field for the diScoverer
In Thlbet. In the southeast part is a
large region marked on some maps as
"The Country Of Rsbber and Wild
Tribes" No explorer, white or Indian,
has ever penetrated their country. The
last TO try it was the now famous Indian
traveller, Ak, who had to turn back
three years ago from the threshold of the
dreaded Mishmi country.
When the Prohibitionists start in on
temperance work In New i gland they
make the fur fly. After the ass temper
ance meeting at Worcester, Mass, last
Sunday, 5000 half-sheet posters were dis.
tributed giving the names of every
licensed liquor dealer in the city, his
place of business, the names Of his bonds
men and the name of his landlord This
was the first time these names have ever
appeared in print,
The little son of farmer named Ellis,
OF Lane, Kan, was recently injured in a
singular manner. He, with several other
members of the family, was returning
home from the country, when the horses
started up at lively gate, the boy was
thrown out between the wheel and box,
and there wedged in so tightly as to stop
the wheel from revolving 1t required
the efforts of two or three men to extri.
cate him from his dangerous position.
The most remarkable storm story of the
season just opened comes from Cherokee,
Kan, where man threw himself on a
feather bed that lay on the floor during
a thunder storm. He neglected to draw
up his legs, and his feet were touching
the floor, when the lightning struck the
house and played about his feet, burning
them and knocking him senSeless. That
part of his body that was on the bed was
not hurt, and child lying by his side was
uninjured.
Cameo cutting was introduced into the
United States in 1850. 1t las made no
progress since then. The only two man
ufacturers of canoes in the United States
are in New York city, aud they find
very little work to do. The greater
part Of this trade Is in initiating ANTIQUE
gems orin matching canoes brought from
Europe. There is probably no business
requiring so great artistic Skill and such
delicate manipulation In which the pay OF
the workman is so poor,
The hooks used by The Haldah Indians
for catching black cod ars made of the
knots Of limbs of the hemlock cut out
from old decayed logs. These knots are
split into spllnts of proper Size, then
roughly shaped with knife and then
steamed and bent into sh, pc, which shape
they retain when cold, Is usual to tie
from seventy-ave to on hundred hooks
to line, at distance o about two feet
apart, aud the fishes aIu so plentiful that
not infrequently every hook will have a
fish,