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

A New York professor annually tattoos
5000 persons.
Pixies Peak has been climbed by 1850
persons this season.
A California COW swallowed a stick
twenty inches long and nearly an inch
thick, and in due course OF time 1t worked
its way out of her side without doing her
much damage.
The news from the whaling feet In the
Arctic ocean is discouraging, the catch at
latest reports being very small. This
has had the effect to advance the price OF
whalebone 20 cents pound, to 49,
Among the voters at the recent Alabama
election was Thomas Garrett OF Holman's
precinct, who cast his first vote for John
Adams in the fall OF 1896. He was then
twenty-nine years old, and on his next
birthday will be 1l9 years old.
Most of the Washingtons now living in
| this country are descended from George
Washington's brother Samuel George
found himself fully occupied in being
father Of his country and left 1t to Sam
uel, who was married five times, to father
the family.
A Georgia farmer has a goat that joins
gleeiully with hound in hunting rabbits.
When on the trail he initiates the dogs
and runs with his nose to the ground, but
when the quarry is In view up 60 head
and tail, and he dashes after the unfortu-
nate bunny regardless Of his compan-
ions.
Mrs. Mary Ewing of Omaha has had six
husbands, but has never yet found one
with whom she could live peaceably. She
now wants her present husband to give
bonds to stay away from her, while he
thinks the safety Of the male population
requires that Mrs. Ewing should be
placed under bonds II not under lock and
key.
!. A gentleman who has had previous ex
perlences with earthquakes writes to the
Post of Washington that he was neal
! Spottsylvania Courthouse, Va, on Mon
, day night, and closely observed what oc
Cured. At the first tremor he looked
out of the window. The evening wal
quiet and calm, and the numberless in
J sects that chirp nightly were in full blast
Suddenly all these voices Of the nigh
ceased, and there was an intense silence
broken only by the rumble of the earth
quake, and this silence continued unit
after the third shock, and then the In
/ sectS resumed their noisy concert. Ill
a asks savants to account for this
1t is feared that the process used t,
preserve the Egyptian obelisk in New
b York has resulted In more harm thai
good. Last winter the shaft was treatet
with coaqof paraffine toprotect it agains
the dislntegrating effects of the climate
IL had been found that the surface of tn
y stone was rapidly scaling off; in som
" places the scales were more than an inc
D thick. Before the parafllne was apple
the loose scales on the surface were n
moved with chisel. The pieces this
% were thus removed filed six barrel.
g Most of these scales were about the sIz
is OF dime, but many pieces were as iarg
"a as mans hand. The paraflne was al
= piled In liquid state, and the surface {
J, the stone was heated to absorb the OF
In IT was claimed by Mr., Caffel, who cor
IS Quoted the work, That the paratline woul
4, penetrate fully half an inch and effectuall
" exclude the moisture that caused tn
oi dlsintregation of the stone. The heatin
IS Of the obelisk, it is now claimed, great
,e Injured 1t, and il is expected that niue
10 more OF the surface will scale off.