Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-12

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1t Is related that a family in Milwaukee
is composed of father, mother and nine
children. The latter were all called by
some pet names or by the simple uumer-
ais, One, Two, Three, etc, until the
twelfth birthday was reached. Then in
the presence of invited friends each child
chose its own name and was baptized. If
this would do away with the horrible
names that are sometimes inflicted upon
children by their parents it would be
well for the custom to become general.
Even the school children in Boston
sometimes make slips. One was giving
an account of the first Inauguration,
and said: ''The path of office
was administered to President Washing
ton on the balcony of Federal hall
by Robert Livinston, chanticleer of the
state of New York. - The other, asked
about the battle of Lexington, said that
"Minute men were men who wanted
every thing at minute 8 notice.
Miss Helen, daughteE of the eighty
millionaire Jay Gould, had strong in
olnatiOn two years ago to teach. She
felt it to be her mission in life, and was
being trained by a proficient college
graduate, when DeT mothers death
caused her to take charge of the house
hold. She is not a housekeeper merely
in name, but spends the energy which
her wealth will no. allow her to use for
the public in overseeing every detail of
her home and keeping an accurate ac-
count of every penny of expense
At sale in Birmingham, England,
dealer paid $3.50 for pack of cards. The
pack is stated to be the only one of its
specially engraved, and the pack COM
prises an exhaustive pictorial history of
the principal events in the reign or Queen
Anne down to 1706. They include the
victories of Marlborough, the sea fights
of Admiral Benbow, and all the various
changes connected with the parliament
ary proceedings of the day and the con-
cIusion of the treaties between England
and France aud Spain. The queen of
hearts is a very well drawn picture of
Queen Anne herself, and the king of
hearts represents King George of Den
mark, her husband. The queen of dia-
monds is Annie Sophia, queen of Den
mark; the queen of clubs is the Princess
Royal of Prussia, and the queen of
spades is the Princess Anne of Russia.
The knaves were represented by leading
politicians of the day.
1t is proposed TO establish pneumatic
system for the delivery of letters at the
general pOstoffice in Philadelphia. ''The
plans for the new system, says the
Philadelphia Record, "have not
yet been thoroughly digested, but
the general idea is to lay system
of pneumatic tubes in all the main streets
of the city and connect them with the
letter boxes located on those streets.
The connection would be by means of a
pipe running underground and up the in
side of a lamp post, where it would be
fitted to box of peculiar construction.
This would place all parts of the city in
direct communication with the general
postofice, so that letter dropped in a
letter box at Second and Diamond
stress, for instance, would be whirled TO
the pOstoffios in a few seconds, cancelled,
and if it happened to be train time would
be dispatched TO Broad street station and
on board a train for Chicago almost be-
fore the ink had time to dry.