Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
NEES AND NOTES.

Belfast. Ne has a woman machinist
apprentice.
The elephant is being killed off so fast
that twelve more years viii see the last
one wiped out.
The New York Star is sure that the
Sulliyan-Kilrain fight is fraud-that
it is idle to suppose two such brutes could
pummel each other for over two hours
and not do any damage.
Judge Morton of Lexington, KY, re-
Gently ruled that man who did not
form an opinion of a case from what he
he had read in the newspapers was not
qualified to sit IN jury box.
New York has an assessed valuation of
real estate this year of 81 1881, 579 ,291.
This is an increase of S28, 1853 ,421 over last
year, and exhibits the increase in value
of real property in all the large cities.
The Paris Journal DIES Debats has just
celebrated its one hundredth anniver-
sary. Attached to its staff have been
Chauterbriand, ThieTs, Renan, Taine
and Jules Simon. Berlioz was its mus
zeal critic.
Numerous assures have suddenly APP
peared in the earth near MantanZas,
Cuba, and have created great alarm
among the inhabitants of that vicinity.
Some of the assures are 600 feet long,
twenty-four feet wide and twenty feet
deep.
The old battle-ship Constitution will
take the place at the Brooklyn navy
yard of the receiving-ship Dale, which
will be sent to Baltimore. The old
historic frigate is now at the Portsmouth
navy yard, where she has been used as
training rendezvous.
The Cherokee Indians are the 'sboss''
ball players of this continent Fifty or
sixty years ago when they lived in North
ern Georgia they used to meet once a
year on large plateau among the noun
tains and have grand ball game festival,
The Indians came from a hundred miles
around. A hamlet near by retains the
name of ''ball ground to this day.
There stands in the garden at Osborne,
England, fine myrtle which grew from
a small twig plueked from the wedding
bouquet of the German emperor 5 moth
er. An ordinary man would regard such
an object with reverence. But his impe-
rial majesty, not being an ordinary man,
will probably pass it by, when he visits
the palace, with a genuine Prussian dis
dain.
The great garden of glaciers, Green
land, may become the resort of scientists
interested in the study of glacier motion
and glacier structure in the near future,
rs DR.. Nansen affirms that his expedition
has proved that the whole of the interior
of Greenland is covered by an immense
shield-shaped cap of ice and snow, which
in some places must have thickness of
at least five thousand or six thousand
feet.
A new mania has sprung into existence
among amateur photographers, known
as the portrait stamp. 1t is made like
the postage stamp, and Of about the same
size, and is gummed ready for sticking
upon an envelope. How far the secret
service Will allow this fancy to go I'M
checked is a question, as its rules are
very rigid about anything that even ap-
proaches the appearance of bit of gov
ernment currency or postal device. If
the portrait stamp becomes common, the
influence it will exert in retarding the
mails may well be taken into considera-
ton. Every clerk in the postoffice with
any pretensions to gallantry will delay
postmarking woman 3 letter till he has
the TEXTURES Oh INC S6uC0f anu
formed his deliberate judgment of her
''points.
The German nation may be thankful
to the German army for other reasons
than simply the defense Of the fatherland
according to Gen. Lord WolseleY. He
writes very recently: Il take the Ger
man army as the highest existing type of
the military system and organization
which the changes effected in armies By
the French revolution have led up to land
much as / admire that army as a soldier
1 admire it still more as q. citizen. Great
as it is for war, it is infinitely greater as
a national school for the moral, mental
and physical training of the people. De-
signed exclusively for war, it has become
the most important of peace Institutions
In 1t all Germans are trained to strength
and taught the first principles Of personal
cleanliness and of health There they
learn to be honest and manly, and are
taught the excellence of those virtues
which serve to make men good subjects
and law abiding citizens tt the school
OF the nation in which deep love of
fatherIand is fostered and cherished. and
where all classes learn that there is honor
in obedience and nobility in self-sacri-
fee - Lord Wolseiey wants universal
service for England.