Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-07
NEWS AND NOTES.

There are 365 colleges in the United
States.
Buffalo is TO have the largest clock in
the world The dial will be twenty-five
feet In diameter and the center Of the dial
will be 36l feet above the street.
A Boston colored man Is stated TO have
second set of ribs below the regular
set, extending to the pelvls. He also APP
parently has two hearts, and can regulate
their pulsations at pleasure.
A Brooklyn stapleman, working for Sl2
week, finds that he Is heir to $500, 900
worth Of real estate in New York City. He
has retained two lawyers and hopes to get
enough of the 100000 to enable him to
go on vacation,
The statement Is in print that the cele-
brated ex-Gov. Pinchback of Louisiana
may be seen any day at the races in Lon
don carrying on the business of pro-
tessional bookmaker. In his slave days
Plnchback was himself put up as stakes
in game OF draw-poker on Mississippi
steamboat and changed masters then and
there.
Asa Snyder of Cattskill, N. Y, owned
a hog which grew amazingly fat. Its
rapid increase of adipose tissue attracted
the attention Of the neighbors, among
them DR.. Bogardus, who told Asa that
the hog had dropsy, and then tapped 1t
SiXty-three gallons OF water followed ths
tapping, and the hog diminished In size
, quite as fast as 1t had increased.
, number Of bonds Of Alexander coun
, ~, ILL.,, which were announced as havin.
been stolen en- route from New York L
ST. Louis, are said to have been taken or
iginally from the treasure-room of tn,
sunken steamship Oregon. They wer
next sold IN distant city, and while OF
their way to st. Louis were stolen b.
other thieves, who had been told of tn
7 alleged theft from the Oregon.
| In Cuba the goods are brought to tn
lady shopper; she does not go out of he
house to make her purchases. To som
u extent, through the operation of the pal
D cells post, the lady shoppers in our ow
e country are served pretty much in tn
= Cuban style. They get samples of wins
! they want, make their selections, and tn
= packages are forwarded by mail Thl
d trade is growing to great dimensions.
;. The Rev. George o. Barnes, the noun
Z ain evangelist OF Kentucky, says that h
has made his trip around the world wit
his wife, son and two daughters entirel
u on faith. He had no plan when he g,
e out but to preach, had no Invitation
a. from abroad, no promises OF support, n
! acquaintance even In the countries b
= visited. Yet he made the Journey an
u wanted for nothing. 1t is said that thei
1t Is nothing of the beggar or deadbeat abo,
Id any Of the Barnes family,
x The Ssnitarian relates case IN who
/, rat had died under the floor OF a larI
y drawing-room and was giving great q
. tense 70 the owner OF the house, who hi
k had the carpets and furniture remov,
90 preparatory 10 taking up the floor. A
!, Ingenious friend drops In, suggests tn
the doors and windows be shut, steps o
le to stable aud traps couple of blu
nd bottle flies, and returning sets them fir
w In the apartment. The flies, after
M little undetermined buzzing, settle Dc
y tinaciously on certain crack In the doc
~ and ON the removal OF one plank at Il
tn point the cause Of the ofiense was read
In removed.
10 A dude was arrested at Ocean GROW
- N, j., ON Monday, who, in his bathii
~ costume, was dressed as follows. A viii
An flannel shirt, cut low, with deep stan