Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-10
NE VS. AND NOTES.

One forty-acre field in Dawson county,
Neb., yielded 2200 bushels OF wheat.
In convict camp in Georgia there are
eighty-six negro convicts, Of whom thirty
five are preachers.
1t Is estimated that the proposed bridge
across the Hudson river at Poughkeepsie
will cost $l0,000,O00.
A copy of a sermon preached by Johu
Knox 32l years ago was sold the other
day in London for S2075
One Lutheran missionary and 100, 900
gallons OF New England rum were recent
ly sent to the Congo in the same ship.
Among the guests at the White Sui
phur Springs this summer is the Hon.
Alexander H. H. Stewart OF Virginia, an
octogenarlan, who was member of Fill.
more's cabinet.
An English physician says that men
shouldn't crop their hair short. Hair, he
says, is q conductor of electricity to the
brain, and II the brain fails to get cleo
tricity 1t will soon soften.
Prof. Proctor says that earthquakes are
assurances that the earth ID not near
death; that hundreds of thousands of
years will still pass before the end is seen
in the steady disintegration and removal
OF the land without renovation or re-
newal by the action OF subterranean
forces. Prof. Proctor has doubtless
added much to the general estimation In
which he is held by this timely announce
ment.
Mary Anderson has leased place al
Tunoridge Wells, and Will go there to
1--we very soon. She Is now living in Lon.
don. She will go TO Rome this winter. II
was her intention to take two years.
rest, but she has grown SO strong this
summer that she will probably shorten
her vacation. DR.. Griffin recently said
that Miss Anderson could now count on
clearing $4,000 year whenever she
plays. Her fortune, he said further, was
invested Ia America.
Another mouse that sings like a canary
Is reported. This little fellow was cap.
tured by DR.. Caldwell of Santa Rosa
Cal, who found 1t in wire trap singing
blithely. He kept IL for several weeks
and then released II, but the next morn.
ing II was In the trap again. Again he LEI
1t 60, and again it came back; and now
mousie goes 10 the trap each night and Is
released each morning. When II sings Ii
sits on Its hind legs and moves its head
and throat like canary. Its songs Is
rather sweeter than the ordinary canary's
A we'll drilled recently at Williamson
furnace, near Birmingham, Ala, tapped
an underground stream, which lows
across the opening made into Ii at the
bottom OF the well. The curiosity OF
some little boys caused them to drop d
oaited hook At the end OF a stout line into
IT, on Thursday. The one holding the
line soon left a strong pull, and an an.
swerlng pull brought a fish about nine
inches In length and weighing three anc
one-hali pounds. The fish was almos,
black In color, Its head was very small
and 1t had no eyes.
In some portions OF Tyrol q peculiar
and beautiful custom still prevails. Wher
a girl is about to be married, before she
leaves her home 10 go to the church, hei
mother hands her a handkerchief, which
Is called a tear-kerchiei. II is made OF
newly spun linen, and has never beer
used. IL is with this kerchief that she
dries her teare when she leaves hel
tsther's house, and while she stands a
ihe altar. After the marriage is over
and the bride Nhas gone with her husband
TO their new hbme, she folds up the ker
chief and PLACES II unwashed IN her liner
lcloset, where 1t remains untouched. Tn,