Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-21

o talker, fond Of adventure, and looks NOR
y like a successful drummer than an autho
y and explorer For some years past tn
: Russian and United States government
I have been having surveys made wit
K the idea OF determining the geo
1 graphical location OF the magnetic pole
+ Thus far the experiments and surveys 0
3 both governments have pointed to Cap
4 Felix, where Sir John Franklin died, an,
; which Is the identical point to whlcl
: Ichwatka penetrated on his sledges on bill
! Arctic expedition some years ago. III
! Is now enamored of the Idea OF going x
that point with astronomical and othei
1 instruments and making investigation
/ from that location to determine the loca
ton OF the magnetic pole. lie has hac
encouragement from the Smithsonian in
stitution, which will supply Instruments
. and is very much tempted to undertake
the expedition. Lieut.. Ichwatka proposes
! what is really scientific expedition 10
determine where the curves OF the mag
netic circle Join. He thinks he has pcne.
tratcd to the point which the Russian and
United states surveys determine is the
location Of the true north pole.
THE FIGHTING MC'CooRs.
Fighting Bob McCook, as he came to
be known during the war, came Of very
numerous family. l was reminded of
him by seeing in London paper yestet-
day the account of some pew honors that
have Just been bestowed upon Rev. DR..
| Henry G. McCook of Philadelphia. Hon.
| George w McCook is prominent law
yer and politician in 'Steubenyille, Ohio ;
Gen. Alexander G. McCook commanded
Gen. Rosecran's right wing ut Chicka-
/ manga, and Is now stationed at Fort
! Douglass, Utah; Gen. Robert L. Nc
Cook was killed by guerillas at Witches
| ter, Tenn; Col. Dan McCook was killed
at the charge of Kennesaw mountain;
! Lieut.. Charles McCook shared the same
fate at the first battle of Bull Run, and
the father Mai Robert McCook, was
killed in Morgan's Ohio raid Gen An
son McCook, secretary of the United
States senate, did good service in the
war. He is brother to Dr. Henry G..
McCook, who is pastor OF the
Tabernacle Presbyterian church in this
city. He Is as great in his line as his
cousins were at fighting. His forte is
somewhat different, however. lie Is the
greatest authority on ants, their habits
and peculiarities, in the world. He Is
well up In bug lore of all kinds, but is the
recognized international authority on
ants, and 1t is for his services in this odd
line of research that the London Scientific
society has Just accorded him especial
honors. His church In this city is IN the
aristocratic quarter, has more money
than 1t knows what to do with, and about
half its worship is said to be of it's tai
ented pastor rather than any higher
teacher and leader. The McCooks are Il |
great family
THEY ARE NO JOKES
There are three things that are great
deal talked about by newspaper para
graphers, but which are popularity sup !
posed to be well-worn but very vital |
jokes. always used to think, as I've no !
doubt many stu do, that the talk about
Jersey sand and mosquitoes, about spring |
poetry and the editors and about Boston |
pie and beans, was all huge Joke and |
that 1t was all very greatly overdrawn by
the newspapers. Well, exactly the Cd.
posite is true. The expression about
New Jersey being a foreign country
arose from Il curious old grant that was
made TO the first railroad that conn, ctcd
Philadelphia with New York Possessed
of certain monopoly rights, it compelled
travellers to undergo transfers and other
tedious inconvenience long after they
had been done away with by other
states. From this arose the epithet that
Jersey was foreign country, because il
was as difficult to pass through II as it
was to pass into or out OF the United
States. New Jersey mosquitoes in
are all they are cracked
mp to be, while the question
81 sand is simply dlsintegratlng.
II Is very convenient to wake up some
nnrnlna a 60 |
day, TO find that same Identical estate alb
about the country annoy
ng the neighbors. Naturally, il is con.
genieIt to both owner and neighbors.
But probably it is as good state as one
ought to expect to have been washed
down from the Adirondack and Catskiu
mountains by the Hudson river. That is
now Jersey came TO exist. After a couple
ot centuries more, when it gets settled
down into one place and quits blowing
about between the Delaware river and
The Atlantic ocean 1t will be more CON
Vcnient state to live in.
Then there is the question of spring
poetry. 1t Is true, this particular kind of
disease is not raging so much as IL was,
but about every other woman and MANY
Of the men of the country seem to have
the literary fever. To man who occl-
pies the desk of one Of the great week
lies of the country, the world appears to
be divided into two classes, those who
think they have a genius for writing
and those who don't-and the former
seems to be by far the larger half One
with it has no idea of the
amount of curious letters and contribu.
tons the leading editors OF the country
are almost daily in receipt OF. Hundred
OF people write and say nothing about it
to their friends, They think to astonish
the latter, when they shall have bios
somed ont as great writer with
famous name.
Boston baked beans and pie are no
Jokes. They are real Bostoncrs eat pie
three times a day and have beans and
brown bread for supper every Saturday
night the year round. There is never
any variation nor exceptions. They ali
do IL. They have always done 1t since
long before the day Of Cotton Mather.
aud doubt not they always will. The
only wonder among Boston people Is, not
why they are such regular and persistent
bean-eaters, but why all the rest of man.
Kind don't fall 10 and live on pie and
beans