Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-13

ing The seas surface during storms. The
latest evidence Is that some oils will ac-
complish this greatly desired object.
Philadelphia housekeepers, tired OF
vain efforts 10 get good servants, are now
experimenting with colored help fresh
] from the South. II the new corners prove
worthy of their hire, ample inducements
will be offered TO others OF their race TO
come TO Philadelphia.
Statistics, more OF less accurate, show
that John Bull is by no means the beef
eater that he Is cracked up to be-.
Englishmen eat but an average of forty
Ave pounds year, while the Australians
average 100 pounds, and citizens OF the
United States $50 pounds.
A small boy found leak in natural
gas pipe at Wheeling, w. Va, and APP
piled a lighted match to Il. The volume
OF flame broke the pipe, and all the mills
| and factories In the neighborhood, en-
ploying in the aggregate several thousand
men, mad to shut down until repairs
could be made.
Marshes 10 Northern Indiana usually
covered with from one TO four feet OF wa
ter have become dry, owing TO the contin-
ued drought, and sportsmen complain that
hundreds of-poisonous snakes have taken
possession, which not only have eaten
nearly all the young water fowl as fast as
they are Matched, but make it absolutely
unsafe for anyone to walk over the
marshes.
Scandalous stories are told of the con-
duct OF Monsignor Capel in California. IT
is said that he took up his abode on a
ranch on the Sacramento river owned by
an Italian count named Yaleusin, who
had married wealthy Californian lady.
Yaleusin has appealed to the courts,
claiming that the prelate has broken up
his home. Capel and Mrs. Valeusn are
now said to be living on the estate alone.
At the recent meeting OF the West
Jersey Presbytery resolution was unan-
imously passed, giving 1t as the opinion
of the Presbytery that church members
who required applications for licenses to
sell liquor were proper subjects for
church discipline, and church sessions
were enjoined to deal with such persons
by censure or suspension from church
ordinance.
Speaking OF the statement recently
made that there are thirty-four coffin fac .
tories in the United States, turning out
80 collins daily, the American Furniture
Gazette says that this must be a mistake,
or that great many collins are imported.
Chicago uses forty collins day, and the
other larges cities use as many in proper.
ton, to say nothing Of the smaller ones
II each factory turns out l50 the state
ment may be nearer truth.
III Cronista de Morelos, paper pub.
lished in Mexico, AYERS that it is custom.
ary among the Indians of the Jonacatepec
district of that country to exchange
wives Occasionally these trades are
permanent, but more often they are for
stipulated length Of time, at the explra-
ton OF which each woman returns to her
former husband, and the event is cele-
brated in each family by feast, at which
the pulque flows freely. Where the wives
cannot be traded even, dog, cat or pig
is added on one side to make the barter
fair. In the district OF Tenango, at
Tescaliacac, the still more novel custom
exists Of selling or trading off mothers
in-law. A very fair article of mother-in-
law can be bought for lamb or sucking
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