Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-20
NEWS AND NOTES.

"Corn beer'' has become popular
drink in Pennsylvania. It is said to
corn a man much more quickly and
thoroughly than the old-fashioned kind
Montana will be the first state to try
| the Australian ballot law this year
that will be on the lst of October, when
! she votes on her new constitution and
| state officers.
The New York world s fair committee
has been notified by company of solid
| business men that when the fair comes off
| i'll 1892 q narrow gauge electric railway
will be ready to convey visitors to and
| from the grounds at a speed of five miles
a minute.
Richmond has q unique way of desig
mating its wards. Instead of numbering
them as other cities do they are called
after great names in our history For
instance. they have a Marshall ward "a
Jefferson ward, d Madison ward, Nom
roe ward, etc.
The plague of heas which is annoying
the residents of Cambridge, Mass. is
accounted for scientifically by a Boston
paper, which says that the number Of
companies of educated tieas now per-
forming in the dime museums in the
country have increased to such an ex-
tent that they have been obliged to
visit Harvard college at Cambridge for
the purpose of putting the finishing
touches to their education.
A large public bath will soon be
erected in Philadelphia from money left
by Benjamin Franklin and John Scott.
Franklin left Ill his will, dated April %,
$780, $4,000 to be used by Philadelphia
in such a way that after the lapse of a
century the principal and interest should
amount to a sum large enough to make
valuable public Improvements. In 1916
John Scott added $4,000 to this sum.
The principal now amounts altogether to
about Sl1O 900. Ten thousand dollars of
this will be laid aside for another cent
ury, after the new bath is constructed.
Concerning the recent reports about
the crippled financial condition of the
Johns Hopkins university, the Baltimore
News says: Not only is the institution
perfectly safe and assured in its useful
ness, but it has recently been made
residuary legatee by the late John w.
Mccoy and Baltimore has living phil
anthropist who may yet supplement
Johns Hopkins endowment with mill
ion or two. Behind him are other Balti-
more nabobs with souls in them. Our
city has a grand roll of public spirited
citizens who will not see the Johns Hop
kins university suffer even if there was
danger of such thing.
Mr.. Valentine, the Vermont commits
sioner of agriculture has started on
carriage trip through Bennington county
to inspect the unoceUpied farms upon
which it is proposed to locate a colony of
Swedes. He is accompanied by Mr..
NOrdgren, a prominent Swede Of Ne
braska, who has brought to this country
several colonies of Swedes and located
them in the West. He is a good Judge
of the wants of his countrymen, and if
ne decides that the Vermont farms will
afford a fair competence, he will bring a
colony of fifty families from Sweden to
Bennington county, they paying their
own passage and having from three to
five years in which to pay for their land.
The new Chinese minister is a re-
former. From all accounts he is bent
upon giving Washington society one of
its greatest surprises of the coming sea-
son. Tsui Kwo Yam, his imperial Chi
nese majesty S envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to the United
States, Spain and Peru, does not believe
in lovemaking between American girls
CATION and gave out word, even before
his departure from China, that under
his reign here no such nonsense will be
permitted. This edict comes as a hard
blow to a score or two of gay society girls
who have been baslzing IN the favor
of the attaches. These young China
men are veritable Washers, and are
known as such from kitchen to drawing
room in every house in town. They fiirt
with the nurse maids who air babies in
Dupont circle, in front of the legation
house; they make the ''calIing rounds
in the social season for the purpose of !
flirting with the silly young women who
like the novelty of receiving attention
from the Orient ais; they are passion
ately fond OF the box parties at the |
opera, of champagne dinners, of |
carriage rides. Several of the at
taches are rich men, and they make |
the money fly without reserve. One of /
their favorite methods of laying siege to |
the hearts of American girls consists of |
making costly presents. It is said one Of |
the attaches has within year given away |
more than two dozen handsome ladies |
watches. These young Cinnamon are |
really offensive persons At receptions |
they stare rudely and on the street or in |
the parks are silly and vulgar They /
are. too, excessively vain. Two or three /
times a month they visit photographers
and have their pictures taken If they |
can get an American girl to sit with them |
they are the better pleased. Washing
ton people will not regret to hear that /
Minister Tsui Kwo Van, has decided to
put stop to the nonsense