Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-15
NEWS ARD NOTES.

puoNsneu In P2rls. VI thl5 numOSf tEe5-
claimed twentY-four.
Petrifsd wood has been found in lsrge
quantities in the Hoossc Mountalns, near
Pinto, Eureka county, Nevada. The
specimens sre oak and pitch plne.
Mrs. Morton, wife OF the vice-presicent-
elect, says she has done nothing but keep
house and rsise family since she has
been married, and her life iulflls her idea
O; complete happiness.
A colleg5 OF carpentry for women has
Cambridge, England. II Is intended not
so much to teach the trsde as to develop
manual dexterity amorg women.
A California physician declares that
whisky is not an antidote for rattlesnske
bites, and puts forth strong arguments to
sustain his theory IN recent issue of the
Scientific American. 1t IL evident that
the doctor is no fisherman.
Sir Glare Ford, ct present minister from
the Court Of s.. Jsmes to India, Is men
toned SO the probable successor OF Lord
S1ckvilIe. Sir Clare Ford, who hss been
knighted since his residence In this city,
was the first secretary OF legation under
Sir Frederick Bruce.
Captain Holstsip, Danish officer, has
invented a portable bullet proof shield
for two soldiers, which may be easily car
ried and the men then coolly blazs away
from behind either with rifles or machine
guns, without being picked eff with any
thing less than cannon ball.
The Australian government is building
a fierce of wire netting 5000 miles long,
to divide New South Wales snd Greens.
land, In order to keep the jack rabbits
cut OF the latter country. AustrRlis ex-
ponds about SIPS, 600 per year to keep
the pests down in WhA! are known as
Crown lands.
II Is believed that the city OF Paris az
fords the most succ ssful and remarkable
system Of clocks worked automatically by
compressed sir, several thousand being
carried on according to this principle
from 8 single central station, the COM
pressed air being conveyed under the
streets by means Of small pipes.
The wocd roorback originated in 1874,
when fctitious story was published for
purposes OF political intrigue, and which
purported to be an extract from Baron
Roorback. The bsron's name has thus
become 8 synonym for campaign lie,
although he himself WAS innocent of any
such guile. He WAS Einned against rather
than sinner.
General Alger says that the X 3publicans
nil vi "a Ha "a
ough revision, CO nmencing at the first
article on the list and going straight
through to the end. General Butler says
that Mexico will be annexed to this coun-
try. Others say thSt four new states will
De admitted and the South cut down in
It's representation IN Congress. Evil
entity the Republicans have lsid down
Isrge programme.
Among the Washington debutsntes OF
the coming winter will be Miss Nellie
Boyard, Mas GaIland, Miss Grxce Black,
daughter of General Black; MisJ Harlan,
daughter OF Justice Harlan; Mss Q1sy,
daughter CT Senator Q1Sy; the Misses
Preston, daughters OF tue HIy.iEn Minis
ter; Miss WILSON, daughter CT Colonel
John M Wilson; Miss Thompson, daugh-
Ter OF the Californis representative, snd
the Misses F1ller, daughters OF the Chief
justice.
Chairman Qlay has already closed up
his headquarters In Nav York. but sp-
parently there are some scCounts that are
not yet settled. Anna Dickinson has
brought suit against him for
$3.50 for services rendered dur
1rg the campaign. Sac claims she
was engaged in September to deliver
thirty lectures in the West, and was to re-
ceive $l25 for each lecture and her ex.
penEes. she has received the 1880, but
claims it was also sgreed that IN tire event
OF Hsrrison's election she Was to receive
$4,000. In his iuhilaGioa st winning his
thousands by bets, Mr. Qusy should not
forget to pay the employees Of the COM
mittGe whist lie promised.
The art OF photography Ia completely
reyolutioriz3d. The labor sud srt OF the
picture tRker wera gIadua u reduced be =
fore the dry plate system was invented.
But when this doiug swSy OF the wet
baths With the gelzutiuo bromide seEsi-
i've plztes took place, anyone could take
pictures. Reys became tmstsurg, and
the expenses q Al outfit wgs reduced TO
$40 But the latest !nven ion reduces
labor and COS. still further, while giving
instantaneous Impressions in rapid sue
cession. TIE dry sensitive plstes are in
continuous roI, admitting OF 100 sue
cessivs negatives. Tie instrument MSS
slso been reduced In sizs to six sad one
half inches by lees than four Il ches, and ,
Of course, can be carried IN large
pocket, while it weighs less than two
pounds.
Mollie F&ncher, tho wonderful fasting
girl of Brooklyn, is very Ill, and 1t is
thought she cannot possibly rally. For
more thsa twenty years she has been
literally dying For twenty-five years
bs IA I'D scierce has stood BY her bed and
waiched. Eighteen months ago the wise
men OF the profession ssid that the end
had come, ous instead Of the feeble puse
falling beneath their fingers she rallied
and bresthed or. Since that tina she
has been Ia better he2lth and epiEits than
at any time since her strange Illness be,
gan. About sSponta ago, however, sha
oegsR TO fail gain. Her heart, which
has been very weak for years, mas become
moE3 involved, and net only does the END
seem inevitable, but I'll about her reAlizs
that it will probably cons very soon and
very suddenly. She sees Eo one ssvs her