Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-19
NEWS AND NOTES.

A rabbit with two tails was caught in q
tap at Red Bank, n. j., last week.
The future letter will begin: 81 take
my monograph IN hand to let you
know - etc.
a single shad produces 100 200 eggs,
and only about 5000 are Matched
naturally. BY the artificial method So,
900 eggs are successfully Matched.
The first bank in the United States was
the bank of North America, chartered
by congress at the instance of Robert
Morris, in 1880, and by the state of Penn
sylvania in 1881, with a capital of S400,
900. 1t is still in existence in Phila-
delphia.
a remarkable will was fled at Wilkes
barre, Pa. The testator expressed the
wish that no hearse, Grape or any sign of
mourning be used at his funeral. In a
plain wooden coffin he was to be laid on
his side and carried by his own horse and
wagon to the cemetery. He desired that
there be no religious services at the house,
in any church, or at the grave, and that
no minister be in attendance.
The novelty of a large hotel built on
piles away from the shore, and with the
tide waters of the Gulf of Mexico rising
and falling under it, is Undertaking. in
Tampa Bay The hotel is being built by
q syndicate. headed by Mr. Plant, the
railroad king of Florida. Later on,
when the house is opened, the guests will
be able to fish for tarpon and pompano
from their bedroom windows. ~
An English paper says that the magni-
tude of the rabbit pest in Australia and
New Zealand may be estimated from the
fact that up to the present time 20 ,000,
900 rabbit skins have been exported from
New Zealand alone. The destruction
necessary to secure the skin has not
perceptibly 1essened the number of rab-
bits. They swarm over Australia and
New Zealand, rendering agriculture
great burden.
A Kansas paper says that prairie dogs
make excellent eating, though there is a
prejudice against their meat as food Two
of them were lately killed for q family
that was short of meat, and they were
fried for supper The family being ig-
norant of what they were, thinking they
were cotton-tail rabbits, ate heartily of
them, and pronounced them the finest
meat they had ever eaten. Enough fat
came from the two little animals to make
almost a teaeupful of oil.
Says the Cambridge Daily: "In every
presidential election the contributions to
great missionary enterprises fall off.
This is a very curious thing, and there
are several explanations. The support
ers of these charities are many of them
politicians, and they subscribe so heavily
to campaign funds that they cannot
make their usual contributions for re-
ligious work This accounts for a part
Of the reduction in presidential election
ind or IF no n
from this cause is due to the political ex-
element among the people, and the diff
ficulty of fixing the minds of the people
on more than one thing at time.
Fifty years ago no gentleman could
have smoked in the presence of ladies,
says London Queen. The unmarried girl
or young wife of certain social status
met walking with young man putting
cigar would have gone home with few
shredg less of character than she had set
out with. But who has word to say
now? Now we have the cigars and cigar
cites brought in with the coffee immedi-
ately after dinner and no one is offended.
Often, indeed, one of the ladies will her
self join the men; and if few prime old
souls think the exhibition shocking, the
younger accept it as a matter of taste,
and either decline or determine to try,
according to their individual liking, with
nc moral afterthought whatever.
A rather peculiar petition was pre-
scented TO the Kansas house the other day
by Mr.. Sherman of Rocks county. 1t
was from 132 citizens of that county.
They want the legislature to make an ap-
preparation for the purpose of expert
menting in the matter of securing artif-
cIal rainfall by means of cannonading
The petition was as follows; we, your
petitioners, many OF us veterans of the |
late war, knowing from experience that !
heavy raInfalls followed each battle or
heavy cannonading, and believing that |
this fact indicates that man may produce |
rainfall by artificial perturbation of the |
atmosphere when otherwise it would not |
be experienced, and believing it would |
be wise for the state of Kansas to make q |
reasonable experiment in the matter of /
to produce artificial rainfall, |
would most respectfully ask you TO make |
an appropriation out of the treasury for I
the purpose of such experiments either |
by cannonading or otherwise as may be /
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