Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-07
EVENING TwINKLEs.

/ curious feIrybo is building 81 Glas-
g3w. Iastesi CT requiring movable land
| irg ilosts TO meet the rise and fsll OF tie
toe The deck o, the boat Itself Will be
movable. carried on hydrsulic eleys-
.oIs. By W uch it csn De raised or lowered.
Tie boSt will De double erder, 100 feet
| iorg, SO feet beam a2d u fee. 6 inches
drsugnt.
Martin Luther keeps ssloon in New
York. This member CT the f.u lily is not
in the reformation business.
David Jennings Of LYONS, n. Y, has
spent his intellect, twenty years of his
life and $50, eco IN developing perpetual
motion machine and is no nearer success
now than when he started.
Professor Mitchell, blind musician Of
Eureks, Kan has organized 8 concert
company, every member Of which is blind.
Arovsl contest took place recently in
Montreal s. 8 church fsir. A certain
number Of boys were to quilt half quilt
In the time 1t took the same number of
girls TO saw half q cord Of wood. The
girls won.
A New Orleans lady sent half 3 dozen
designs to one II the big cotton print
mills s. Fall River for approval, and
some weeks later they we're sent back to
her refused. S1or,lY sfterwsrd she saw
tee Identical fesigvs IN some calico Just
received in New Orleans from the mill
ana wrote On indignant letter to the mill
oWEers demanding an explanation. 10
return she received handsome check
for her work.
"Wood sorrel" is said to have cured .
Maine nan OF cancer on the nose.
A Boston SERVANT girl hiss been detected
in using sugar to kindle ne kitchen fire.
The Ro.hscnild msnslon in the Blue
Lsti:te, Paris, has been transformed into
museum rs q memorial Of Baron jam S
Rothscaild, who diet in 1868 1. was
built in the time Of Louis Nv, snd wss
for some time the reIidence OF Qleen
H0rterse, mother Of the Emperor Louis
Nsncleon The R)thschiids bought it IL
1922 Since the Baroness JsmeS died, II
1886 1t has stood unterslsed.
Tue CDlisk to be- erected on the SUNNI.
OF the OTtier in c0mmen0rstiou of the
tortieth year of the Emperor FrsEcis
Joseph's reign will stand on the highest
point in the Emporor's d0miEione-oVer
II 600 feet above the sea level.
Tne latest hen story comes from With
lacoochee, Fla and is 20 the ef set thst
hen there Matched end raised to the size
OF p.rtridges sixteen chicks from fifteen
eggs.
herd OF swine got drunk eating grape
pomace on Q ranch in Marin county, Cal
and after lighting among themselves for
sometime, big bore STACKED Sc Itsiisn,
tearing him in fearful msnner.
Twenty one apples picked by New
Holland, Pa, farmer completely filed
haf DusheI measure. The smallest
weighed exactly Que pound, and the
largest one pound FIVE ounces. The en-
tire lot tipped the scales a. twenty four
pounds.
Sneboygan county, Michigan, girl
made leap year call on be- lover,
tender on a drsw5ritga, G local paper
states, snd, after biddlpg him flsl good
nigat, she LET'S In. B2tore che GOT Of
tae bridge il Began 20 close and she WAS
caught aad squeezed. Rer only recorded
exclamation was: "N3t another one,
Bob"
A fine illustration Of the ACCURACY OF
Eoglish statements about American
affairs is found Ia the fact ihst = London
historical msuual says thss President
Lincoln wSs shot in 8 thester ID B0eton.
Eight million dollars is spent annually
for paint and powder foF their faces by
American women.