Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-05
NEWS AND NOTES.

A new umbrella device Is patent win
dow In one OF the sections through
which the traveller can see who Is ahead
OF him and how TO avoid punching him
In the back with the sharp point,
In an Indian mound near Oakland, Ind,
was unearthed recently stone wall ten
feet square. Within were i've or six
skeletons, three copper vessels allied with
Atty pounds OF rich silver ore, a copper
AK weighing eighteen pounds attached to
a stone handle, aud number OF stone
hatchets.
at the Mechernich Lead works In Ger
many the tallest chimney In the world
has recently been completed 1t is 40
feet high, six feet more than the famous
chimney OF the st. Rollox Chemical
works, Glasgow, Scotland, which, until
the German one was built, was without Il
rival. The tue OF the Mecheruich chin
ney Is eleven and one-halt feet In diameter
at the bottom and n feet at the top.
A Philadelphia clergyman says he has
received from $500 to pair OF Juicy
spring chickens for marrying couple.
Another received as much as $500 for per-
forming marriage ceremony, and tells OF
one time marrying young couple and
giving them several hundred dollars to 20
TO housekeeping The bride was his
daughter. There IL one Philadelphia min
lister, however, was once paid $4,000 for
tying the Knot.
| A point OF law, Two young men took
| two girls into Coney island restaurant
and ordered two beefsteaks. With them
was served bread and butter for two
Bread and butter for two more was or.
dered, but refused unless paid extra for
! The party refused to eat under those CON
ditions and left the meal untouched and
unpaid for. Being brought into court
the justice decided as they had not cut
the steaks they We're not obliged To pay,
and the prisoners were discharged.
An Atlanta, Ga, newspaper thus sums
up the result of n month of prohibition ia
that city; LESS money In the city and
state treasury, less business houses occu
pied; less people In the city; less moral
ity; more drunkenness; more crimes anc
criminals more poor people out OF employ
ment than ever before; more taxes PM
upon the people; more extra licenses i'm
posed upon the merchants, and NOR,
dissatisfaction among all the people tnsI
ever has existed betore.n
A Camden, N, j., man has invented ant
Is having built an ocean tricycle.. II viii
be made entirely OF iron aud steel, exoep
4 small platform where the operators viii
stand. The wheels will be eight feet Il
diameter, and will be worked by lever
from the platform, which will be twenty
seven feet from the ground. The idea i
to run this machine out 10 stranded YES
aels when they he In water not owe
twenty feet deep. The inventor say
three miles an hour eau be made with N,
tricycle..
The Salt Lake Tribune says thar tn
following Is the oath taken by the ode
stroyng Auger OF the Mormon church
I'm the name Of Jesus Christ, the son o
God, dc covenant and agree 20 supper
the first presidency OF the church o
Jesus Christ Of Latter Dsy Saints ia al
things, right or wrong; will faithful
guard them and report TO them the act
Of all men, as far as in my power lies
viii assist In executing ali the decree
OF the first presidency, patriarch or presi
dent OF the twelve; and VIII cause al
who speak evil Of the presidency or IA,
neads OF the church TO die The death o
dlssenters on apostates,r etc.
The account OF the photograph OF Misl
Lillian Paul, taken by lighlnlng the othe,
dsy ct Plalnneld, leads v. w, Brady o