Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-01
NEWS AND NOTES.

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NEWS AND NOTES.
A Naugatuck man saw something greer
In a cake of ice and split the cake open
The green thing was a small frog, which
after an hour or two in the sunlight, hop.
ped about vigorously.
Savannah, Ca, has a policeman who
can sleep souudly while walking The
other night he slumbered through heavy
shower, and was much surprised when he
awoke and found himself drenched.
A Carson, New, newspaper says that In
the Carson river, above Empire, the fish
ing is good, but below the town the fish
will not bite, "having lost their teeth
from salvation by the mill chemicals"
A southern Indiana paper tells Of a
preacher who owns horse so spirited
that no blacksmith can shoe him unless
the owner stands at his head and sings
lively camp-meeting hymns while the
process is going on.
Maxwell, the st. Louis murder, has
received a respite until the 18th of No
vember. II the murder for which he was
sentenced to death had been committed
in England, his native country, he would
have oeen hanged within ten days after
the close of his trial. Eogllsh courts
have very little regard for technicalities
when evidence Of guilt is unassailable.
The story of the rattlesnake that swal-
lowed eggs In Georgia pantry, and was
thus caught In jug-handle, is followed
by a like tale from Chattanooga A citi-
zen heard a noise In his hen house, and
investigated. He found that a black
snake had swallowed a China nest-egg
outside of the house, thrust Its neck
through a knot hole and swallowed real
egg, and was thus unable to go backward
or forward, as the eggs were larger than
the hole.
About one hundred persons day visit
the condemned anarchists in jail in Chi
cage. Half the visitors are ladies. They
are not sympathlzers with the cause OF
anarchy, but regard the prisoners as
part of the city's sights. The physicians
at the county hospital are endeavoring to
get between $4,000 and $4,000 extra paw
for their services In attending the police
men wounded during the riots. They
say their salaries are only for attendance
upon paupers.
A cable dispatch to the N. Y. Evening
sealed between The Century Co. and t.
Fisher Unwin, by which The Century Mag
azine in the future Will be published by
the latter. Mr.. Irwin is the most enter
prising aud experienced of the younger
publishers here. During several seasons
number of the best books by English
and American authors have issued from
his house. The Century could not be
in a.,
Warne q Co. VIII continue to publish st.
Nicholas.
Mothers-in-law have a better time in
Persia than in some other countries.
There they are regarded as the natural
guardians Of the inexperienced bride and |
the proper careiskers Of the young mother
and her infant offspring. From the moth |
er-in-law are learned the arts of house |
keeping. Under her eye all purchases are |
made from the huckster or female ped i
der, for visit to the bazaar by Young
wife before she has blessed her husband |
with children would be considered a scan |
dal among the upper, middle or trades
man class.
The Rev. G. A. johnson OF Canada has
discovered that Plttsburg Is to be de-
stroyed by meteoric shower toward the
end OF September. As to his character
and ability, he speaks modestly, as fol- |
lows: 81 am the only man who found the |
secret place OF thunder, and established |
the TACT that 1t was thunder and not light |
nlng That killed. | am the only man who |
discovered the hiding place OF the wind |
when not In motion-its origin and start. |
ing place--as well as the materials which
compose wind and electricity. | claim TO |
have no superior or equal as natural
scientist In this country. | am a natural |
born scientist, and 1t is no more difficult
Tor me to handle those subjects than 1t is
Tor you to walk up street. | also denied
that the earth was round. The theory of
the eerth's rapid revolutions is erroneous,
II an eagle were TO fly away from its nest,
ana that theory were correct, he would |
never be able to oyertake its nest again -
DR., lie Plongeon and wife, who have
spent years studying the ruins OF Central |
america, believe the Maya civilization |
dates back 1900 or $4,000 years, and
that 1t Is the parent Of the Oldest civillza- |
lions OF Asia and Africa, and In the SYM
Dolls which the doctor finds he sees clear
evidence that the sacred mysteries of the |
Hindoos, Persians, and after |
ward the Greeks, originated in the tenn
pies OF Maya, and that the rites of Free. |
masonry, to which various origins have
been assigned, likewise began here. He
nnds the ancient Heratic alphabet OF the
Mayas Identical with the egyptian, and
that the vernacuar OF the aborigines Of |
fucatan and other countries further south |
mas many afllnities with the very ancient
Akkadian, once spoken by the Inhabitants
OF the countries along the Euprate, ;, near
It's mouth, while certain words long used
m the mysteries brought from Egypt and
Cnaidea to Greece and Rome have no as.
ceftained meaning In any language ex.
eept the Maya, where Dr.. lie Plongeop