Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-02

plates. It is dated at West Point, and
| shows that Washington, though he ap-
preciated the good things of this life and
liked to eat his dinner off of fine linen
aud liked to drink his wine out of cut
glass, could get along with ham and
greens, and mad the happy faculty of
making the best of things. This letter
reads:
.sCAMP AT WEST PoINT.-Since our
arrival at this happy spot, we have had
a ham, and sometimes a shoulder of ba-
con, to grace the head of the table, q
piece of roast beef adorns the foot, and
small dish of greens or beans, 6lmost i'm
perceptible, decorates the center, when
the cook has mind to cut figure and
this, ! presume. he will attempt TO do
Tomorrow. OF late he had the sur
prising luck to discover that apples will
make pies, and IT'S question that,
amidst his efforts, we don t get one of
apples instead of having both of beef.
We have two beefsteak pies or dishes of
crabs in addition on each side of the CEN
ter dish, dividing the space and reducing
the distance between dish and dish to
about six feet, which without them
would be twelve feet apart. If the la
dies can put up with such an entertain
ment and will submit to partake of it on
plates, once tin but now iron-becone so
by the labor of scouring-I shall be happy
to see them.
(Signed) GEORGE WASHINGTON. -
COSTLY DRESSES A MILLION DOLLAR
CLOAK.
There are q vast number of fine
dresses from all parts of the world in the
national museum, and the most extra
al off I-ir
dollar feather cape This cape is about
as large as the ordinary water proof
cloak. 1t comes from the Sandwich Is
lands land it is made up of red and yellow
feathers so fastened together that they
overlap each other and form a smooth
surface These feathers shine like the
finest of floss silk. and the red feathers
are far prettier than the yellow ones. 1t
is the yellow feathers, however, that are
expensive. They are about an inch long
and are worth In the country in which
they are found, fifty cents apiece. They
were in times past taken for taxes by the
Hawaiian kings. They are taken from q
little bird known as the Tho, which is
very rare and very shy and very difficult
to capture. Each bird has two of these
yellow feathers under his wings and the
birds are caught IN traps and the feath-
ers pulled out aud they are then freed
There is letter in the museum from the
prince Of the Sandwich islands, who
states that it took more than 100 wears to
make this coat, and the thorities of
the museum say that according to
the Sandwich islands estimate 1t
is worth more than the finest
diamonds in the English re-
gala. This cloak belonged to chief of
the Sandwich islands who rebelled when
slavery was abolished there in 1919. He
owned this cloak and when he was killed
in battle it came into the hands of the
king, who gave it to Commodor. AuIick
in 1871. l; still belongs TO this mans
grandchildren, but il is deposited in the
museum for exhibition. In another case
there are two other capes of these sans
feathers, and in another part of the
museum there are some fine specimens of
cashmere shaHls. One of these Is about
ten feet long and five feet wide, and it
was given by the Imaum of Muscat to
the wife of Lieutenant Shields in 1910.
1t lie wonderfully BEAUTIFUL. 1t is made
entirely with the needle and must have
taken years IN its manufacture. The
aesthetic dress of 1882 sent here by some
dress reformers at that time is a fine
costume of terra Gotta satin lined with
white cashmere. It Is the same dress
that is worn by the ladies Of to-day,
SOME JEWELS OF THE SULTAN.
The order of the Shefekat which the
sultan gave to Mrs. 8. 8. Cox Is also
kept in the national museum. It is