Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28

weight The smallest will probobly die.
This mother is the wife of poor me-
chanic.
Major D. Cook of Atlanta sold 2O2 acres
of Georgia land to neighbor last week
for go opossums, the opossums to be de-
livered in installments of fifty annually
for the next five years.
Now there is talk of dividing Tennessee
into East and West Tennessee, the motive
being that East Tennessee is strongly Re-
publican, and the party of grand old
subterfuges would gain two senators.
The man who contributed new and
much-abused word to our dictionaries,
Captain Hugh Boycott, now lives in the
quiet village of Flixton, Suffolk, En-
gland, as agent of Sir Hugh Adair.
Miss E. L. Van Lew, who helped Union
prisoners TO escape from Libby prison,
and who held the position of postmaster
at Richmond, Va. for eight years under
General Grant, is after the Office again
Calvin Fairbanks of Angelica, n. Y,
still carries ON his back marks of some of
the $500 stripes he received while in the
Frankfort (Ky y jail. He served twenty
years for running fugitive slaves over the
Ohio river.
Noah Webster knew what he was at
when he went into the dictionary bust
ness. His daughter, Mrs. Jones, who
died recently, aged ninety years, was
very rich, as are all his heirs, out of the
profits of his Unabridged.
Arkansas has received the honorable
mention of showing the greatest number
o.
the Illinois Horticultural Society. That
state won the same award ut New Or
leans, Boston and Riverside, Cal.
Sam Jones recently said in a talk at
Glen s Falls that the reason he did not
settle down to congregation of 1000 or
more and salary of $4,000 in some city
was that he could travel and preach to
hundreds of thousands and earn S25 900 Il
year.
Captain Paul BoytOn, the famous
swimmer, makes the announcement that
his agent has just captured i'll the tropics
a sea serpent siXty-three feet long. The
monster has the head of a catfish and is
covered with barnacles. 1t will be
shipped to New York.
Thirty-five years ago George NJ. Wood
ruff of Litchfield, Conn. cut his initials
OH the limb of an apple tree. They dis
appeared in time, but when the tree was
cut down and split into tirewOod not long
ago, the initials were found four inches
from the surface perfectly distinct.
william Perkins of Owensborough,
Ky, is blind and ingenious. The result
of his affliction and genius is writing
machine for the blind, which the boy has
just perfected. 1t is said that a San
Francisco firm has paid him $4,000 for the
right to manufacture and sell the ma
chine in the United States.
1t is not generally known who wrote
the popular ballad, "Listen to the Mock
ing Bird. - 1t was first published in
1855 under the signature of Alice Haw-
thOrne, though the song was really writ
men by Septimus Winner of Philadelphia,
who preferred to use mis- mother s maiden
name as his nom de plume. He is said
to have made 500 600 out of it.
Some of the good women of Hartford,
Conn. have organized a dressmaking
and arithmetic school for young women
who want to learn trade, and also how
to take care of their accounts and the
like. Commercial arithmetic will be
taught, and skillful instructor will give
thirteen lessons of two hours each in
dressmaking.
Miss Lucille Eistun, of Cincinnati,
could whistle before she could talk, and
when she grew into girlhood her parents
tried to break the habit. but without sue
cess. She continued to whistle, and
when she began her studies in music she
found it help. OF late years she has
practiced whistling instead of singing,
although she recently received gold
medal for the highest proficiency in the
theory and practice of music.
1t is asserted by those who have seen
Mrs. Amelie Rives- Chanler that she is
not by any means so beautiful as her
pictures represent her. Her nose has a
decided hump, and when proofs of her
photographs are sent to her, she COM
pletely tones down her prominent olfac-
tory organ with fine lead pencil and
touches up the features generally. She
is something of an artist herself and I'M
derstands just how to do it.
DR.. E. E. Wood of Plttsburg claims
that personal beauty is manufactured in
the kitchen; in other words, that people
are handsome or unattractive according
to what they eat and how it is prepared.
He gave lecture in New York the other
day, and the ladies in the audience burst
out laughing as soon as he announced his
subject. 81 see some of the beautiful
ladies present are smiling at the imper-
feet specimen of personal
beauty before them he said
apologetically. DR.. Wood is
long, skeletonic man, with triangular
face, at the lower angle of which is at
tached slim, pointed goatee. DR..
Wood is not beautiful
Ayoung lady of P rovidence, R. L,
has shocked her friends by marrying q
Chinaman who was member of her
Sunday-schoOl class. For this act she
was expelled from the City Missionary
Society. The New York World suggests
that this is all wrong-that the surest
way to convert susceptible young
Hheathen' is to ''let Jealous Ameri-
can girl marry him. Domestic life
affords opportunities for bringing a
Chinaman under the influences of civil
cation that no Sunday school can supply.