Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-23
NEWS AND NOTES.

| Years Vi NEt ~ hOlh III bhD AhNbVAANo ~
. wyndham and New London counties
Conn.
Cavalry regiments In the Prussian army
are being carefully drilled in the art OF
swimming their horses across rivers. The
feat is said to be performed with the
utmost precision and rapidity, whole
regiments crossing and recrossing in an
astonishingly short time.
Ransom Reddy of Wakulla, Fla, has
raised vine Of genuine black pepper,
from which he has already gathered one
crop OF berries. lie got the roots Of the
vine from friend In California, who had
sent TO the island Of Ceylon for it in
order to experiment.
Thayer county, Nebraska, was the scene
OF a marriage in which the blushing bride
Of forty, Mrs. Jane Studley, weighing 374
pounds, took as her companion for life
her hired hand, John Bell, aged twenty
two, and weighing 1876 pounds. The wife
is possessed Of $4,000
Mount Vernon does not pay. This year
the association finds itself exactly
| Sl9G482 In debt. AS patriot and a
soldier, Gen. Washington was an entire
success; spectacularly, his tomb Is fail
ure. When Americans are In pursuit of
ruins or relics they go to the old world.
The steamers on the Pacific are all
manned by Chinese, who make very good,
willing, sturdy, good -natured sailors SO
| long as they are well Differed. These
vessels are built for freight, not passen-
ger service, and, consequently, the speed
and equipment are different from those
of the "Atlantic greyhounds."
To kill one fly in March is estimated to
be as good as killing 100000, 900 in
August, the Increase and multiplication OF
the fly population being figured as fol-
lows: One fly on the goth of March Is
represented by 500 on the gath OF April ;
by 800 times 800, equallDg 100000, on the
2sth Of May by 27,0OO,0oO on the I'd 9of
July, and by s,l00,000,O00 on the Sth of
August.
Washington is threatened with pro-
fessional beauty-craze during the coming
winter. Several OF the Republican sena.
tors wifes are sure they know one or
two young women possessing charms of
face and figure quite equal to those Of
Mrs. Cleveland, and they propose TO in
yite their beauties to visit Washington
during the next session, and eclipse the
White House mistress.
In the town of Patchogue, Long Island,
lives queer family bearing the familiar
name of Smith. They live hermit life,
having dwelt in the outskirts of the town
for twenty-five years, and have never Wis
tied the main shore. They speak a lam
guage wholly unknown to any Of the pro-
fessors, and very little of that They live
mostly By collecting sea-weed, which they
gather In large quantities and ship over to
the city, where 1t is put to various uses.
The family consists of mother and father
and twelve children.
A bailiff living near Buena Vista. On.
who had arrested a negro at midme b.
took notion that he would take a b -,
He tied the negroes arms behind him v II
a rope, then tied the end OF the rope to Il
own arm so that any effort on the part Il
the negro to get away would wake HIM.
and then laid down to sleep In his front
piazza. While the bailiff was wrestling
with the sleepy god the negro walked, UNI
tied his arms, tied the arms Of the baiiff
together, and then departed. The officer
mad to call his wife the next morning to
liberate him.
some two weeks ago young man of
Moransbu5g, Pa, was bitten on the ankle
by copperhead snake. Whisky was an.
piled externally and internally, but In an
hour or two the limb had swollen to such
an extent that serious consequences were
feared. The lads father then placed his
sons foot In basin and poured coal.
oil IN the receptacle until the
wound was covered Not long after a
substance resembling quicksilver was
noticed In the oil and the Young man
found relief. Next day he was sufficiently
recovered to walk about.
A method of sending picture by tele-
graph has been invented by Scotchman.
w. Gemmill, by which photogIanh
taken at one end OF a wire is transmitted
and reproduced at the other. The picture
is primarily projected on seleninm cell
placed in the telegraphic circuit, which
according TO the degree of intensity OF
the light received, acts upon the current
and through 1t number of subsidiarv
currents connected with an incandescent
lamp, Illuminating II with varied degrees
oi intensity consonant with the strength
OF the current. "These success, ye H.
luminatlons," according to the Pho.
tographlc Times, "would give IMAGES of
corresponding brightness to the points in
the picture thrown upon the selsnIum
cen, ana the final picture, Of course.
woulu consist OF series OF these points
In various depths of shade"
Under the law OF the last Connecticut
legislature twenty-three banks have re.
ported TO the state comptroller Il, Il they
have on hand 1912 deposit accou r,ts. 40,
gregating Sl03,966.9i Gan ayerage .,
Sl02 SO each), which have remq, 81 mn.
claimed twenty years OF more. IN the
OBJECT OF placing this money in hands
OF those legally entitled to IL, u aw ra'
CURES the banks to annually rep n ,bsss
deposits, giving the amount, tn, name Of
each deposltor, and his last known Mac
OF residence. Returns from tw.,ty. three
otner but smaller banks are exposed ana
y Is estimated that the aggrep,,te sho oSu
ing OF deposits will not fail short ~
$4,000 TO $4,000. Several bants r W
port sums of 500 TO $500 standIrS 20
inc credit OF Connecticut soldiers Sho
msde deposits when they received ,hs'r
government or state bountles. Bullets ~
disease prevented their return 10 clair
.nelr money, and the adjutant.penersi
proposes to take action TO place Il IN the
hands OF the rightful heirs.
when the Emperor William travels
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