Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-01


certainly younger and p1umper. She is
constantly to be seen about the theafer,
though her manner is very unobtrusive
and retiring.
The ex-Empress Victoria generally
travels with chessboard and men. AT
Windsor her imperial majesty has played
more than once, anu she is encourage to
do so by the queen, as it distraets her
mind.
The Rev. DR.. William III Taylor Of
New York, has in his study chair which
he uses instead of riding horseback. 1t
is moved by working two handles, and
gives the rider, or the sitter, about the
same motion as that of galleping horse,
only little more violent. DR.. Taylor
finds the exercise of tins chair very beae-
fetal after long pull at his desk.
Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Manser stole glaRces
at each other as boy and girl in the
chapel of the Hebrew Orphan ASYLUM in
New York wrote each other letters, We're
discovered and punished, became sepa-
ted for years, met again, married and
are now on their way to California TO be-
come superintendent and matron of an
asylum in San Francisco. The wedding
was performed in the chapel where they
had first seen each other.
Fanny Macaulay whose death occurred
recently i'll London, was by no means the
least remarkable member of her family.
She was woman of very considerable
talent, and her crisp talk on every topic
of the day and her interesting reminiscent
ces of her celebrated relatives and friends
made her prominent figure in all circles.
She understood the nearly-forgotten art
of conversation, and her friends felt it TO
be very great privilege to be allowed to
listen to her entertaining and racy talk.
She was voracious reader and had much
of her famous brother IS (Lord Macaulay)
love of old novels and tales.
The principality of Liechtenstein which
Prince John II offered as a refuge to the
pope in case the latter should abandon
Rome, is a neutrality-suspicious. mountain
Gus territory lying between the Rhine and
the canton of Grisons. 1t covers about
ninety square miles and has population
of little under 10 900. Liechtenstein
boasts an army of fifty men, which was
modified in the war of 1866, and it is
standing joke among Austrian officers
that the principally is still at war with
Prussia, as that kingdom forgot 10 con-
clude a separate peace with Liechtenstein
when it signed the peace Of Prague with
Austria.
A Mr.. McKinstry of Joplin, Mo-. is
astonishing the natives of his state by
his peculiar gifts. 1t is said that when
he walks over the ground few hours he
becomes thoroughly exhausted and SO
limp and helpless that he has to be as
sisted home. But he mas to keep walk
ing, for when he stands firmly on one
spot of ground for a few seconds he be-
comes as if rooted and has to have one
foot assisted loose, when the other can be
moved, and then, by treading up and
down for minute, the electric current
becomes broken, in the course Of which,
however, the peculiar sparkling incident,
for instance to brushing black cat $
hair backward, is developed. He ascer-
tains the location of water beneath the
earth by using peach tree switch, and
finds where minerals are by similar
means. He has set q number of pros
pectors hunting for lead and zine, but
they haven t dug far enough yet to as
certain whether he is a true prophet.