Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-01
NEWS AND NOTES.

English millineTs are said to have dis
covered way Of making bonnets OF It's
sue paper; they cost about as much as II
they were covered with bank notes.
Women's milk is sold on the streets in
some Chinese cities for the sustenance OF
Infants and old people, 1t being believed
peculiarly nourlshing to aged persons.
Mrs. Frank Leslie complains that she
lives the life Of q man without mans en-
| ioyment. She might ct least learn to
smoke, and paint her huge building red.
Miss Nellie WEIGH has full charge OF the
telegraph office at Point Arena, Cal. She
is but eleven years old and is probably
the youngest telegraph operator in the
business.
A Presbyterian church, built from petri-
fed wood found In Aliens creek, is one
of the curiosities Of Mumford, Monroe
county, N. Y. Leaf and moss fossils are
to be plainly seen in the stone.
A big bird with head and face like an
ape, with bullying eyes surrounded by q
fringe of gray hair, ana with ears like a
mans, save that they are covered with
fine gray hair, was captured In Fort
Wayne the other day, and crowds visit 1t
daily.
The Seventh Day Adventists In Maine
are getting ready for the termination of
all things terrestrial. They quote from
the bible that "there shall be earthquakes
in divers places in the last days" and
from this deduce that the earthquake in
Charleston Is an omen and fulhllment of
the propnecy.
\ 1t grows more and more evident that
10 the English poStoflice department they
have very lively times of 1t. According
to the official records published the other
day, live geese, snakes and other creep
ing reptiles were sent through IL, and
now here is an account of whole family
of birds being Matched out and reared in
one of their roadside letter boxes.
Mr.. j. Il. NJ. Sanford of the Boston
Courier has completed an American
opera, which he has named civilian
Penn The scene is laid in the wear
1852, and the story deals with the early
life of William Penn, whom Mr.. Sanford
depicts as a very different parsonage from
the one familiar to school children. He
claims that there is good authority for
the statement that Penn as young man
fought duel, won prize for his excel
lent dancing, and did number of other
things not generally ascrlbed to him
Palmistry, which for years past has
been fashionable amusement in English
society, has at last reached, according to
the Standard, the dimensions of genuine
craze, requiring energetic protest against
1t. Palmistry has in fact replaced spirit
ualism as a crotchet of the sillier section
OF society, with both professional and
amateur charlatans as practitioners.
Country houses at this season are full of
them. The Tory journal accompanies its
rldicule with treatise on chiromancy,
better adapted to stimulate curiosity than
to suppress its practice.
| The marriage certificate of Grover
Cleveland and Francis Folsom states their
respective ages to be 40 and 81, and mas
much as the number is esteemed par
ticularly lucky, believers In luck are
hguring out an immense amount of 1t for
the presidential pair, because the BRIDES
age is just three times Z, the groom's Z
times z, and the difference between,
times Z. They might go on and show
that the two ages make 10 times z, the
average age Of the two times Z, and the
one multiplied by the other, 147 times 7,
but 1t would hardly affect the amount Of
luck, after all
Sir John Lubbock, who has spent many
years in studying the habits of ants and
insects, has at present in his possession
one of the strangest domestic pets ever
exhibited. 1t is tame wasp, which
recognizes his voice, comes at his call, |
eats sugar from his hand, and allows him
to stroke 1t with his finger, even on that
portion of its anatomy where its sting is
situated. The wasp seems to be quite |
happy In its captivity, and although it |
greatly enjoys an "outing," at Sir Johns |
command 1T promptly returns to it's
bottle, which 1t seems to regard as a
home.