Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-16
Comes a dude
Limp as dough;
One blast rude
Was enough.


Comes dude
Limp as dough;
One blast rude
Was enough.
AS hugging bee for the benefit of the
church along the Upper Hudson few
evenings since, man while bllndfolded
Rugged his wife for several minutes with
out knowing who he was hugging. When
he did find out he wanted his 10 cents
back
A woman in New England goes to a
town and takes the name of some in
fiuential citizen, and claims relationship,
and the first move the man makes is to give
her from $500 to $1,000 to get out of town
and go hence. She says she makes $4,000
per year.
It is a good suggestion of the World
that the operator of typewriter
should be called u "typographer' to
avoid confOunding the machine with the
person who manipulates the machine.
Besides avoiding that frequent confusion
it would contribute to precision in the use
of language, and anything that tends to
produce that effect is an important i'm
prOvement.
More than 81 ZOO people in five days
were admitted to view Mrs. Joseph
Chamberlain wedding presents. The
puritan maiden seems to have yielded to
British curiosity, or perhaps she has
learned to understand ways Of propitiat-
ing the British voter. That her portraits
are on view in the Birmingham shop win
dows is another evidence of her accept
ance of political customs.
There are eighteen Methodist bishops,
whose names and ages are as follows:
Bowman. II years old; Foster, GO; Mer-
rill, ga; Andrews, 81; Warren, 81; Foss,
"a; Hurst, 81; Ninde, 81; Walden, 81;
Mallalieu, 60: Fowler, 81; Vincent, 81;
Fitzgerald, so; Joyce, 50; Newman, 62;
Goodsell, 4S; Taylor, IS; Thoburn, 90.
Their average age is SO years.
A funny New Orleans alderman says
he will introduce an ordinance to make
tobacco chewing in a street car INSIDE
meanor. Such an ordinance would not
be necessary if car drivers could and
would enforce their regulations, says the
Picavune. 1t is already against the rules
for quadrupeds and offensive articles to
be in a street car. The splitting tobacco
chewer should ride in cattle car, where
ladies dresses do not come.
The finest botanical gardens in the
world are said to be those of Peredinja,
near Handy, in Ceylon. They comprise
$50 acres. Among the curiosities are
bamboos hundred feet high and nine
inches in diameter, which in the month
of July grow between one and two feet a
day. India rubber trees with immense
roots, three and four feet above ground;
when cut with knife milky substance
comes forth. Ginger, cloves and jack
fruit are passed in succession; most
beautiful orchids, such as would COM
mand fabulous prices in Europe, are seen
in profusion, with flowers of every shade
and color.
The Albany Journal relates that q
wealthy American while travelling in the
East was favored with the privilege of
inspecting one of the finest palaces in
Constantinople-said to be that of the
sultan-aud there fell in love wIth-not
an inmate of the harem, but a most
beautiful rug. The rug is said to be the
finest and most valuable in the Orient,
and the rich American wishes to become
its possessor. To that end he has COM
missloned an Albanian to get it. Of
course it will require diplomacy, detect
i've skill and allokinds of fHesse, but
these viii be backed by tender of $685.
600 as purchase price.
Programme or program? The spelling
program is not unknown in standard lit
erature, according to Notes and Queries.
Carlysle, who, TO be sure, was sometimes
a law to himself in such matters, does
not hesitate to use it. In his chapter on
: Model Prisons in Latter-day Pam
phlets'' there is an easily found exam
pie. After calling upon the authorities
to whitewash their scoundre1 population
and to cleanse their gutteTs-''i if not in
the name of God, We british slatterns,
then in the name of cholera and the |
Royal college of surgeons he sums up
with the PLACID remark: Well, here |
sure is an EvangeI of freedom and real
of new era.