Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-25
NEWS AND NOTES.

1t is better TO be the person whose SYM
pathies overflow occasionally on unworthy
objects than the one with no sympathy at
all
There is lots of music in what Hawthorne
calls s'Our Old Home. There are 23O, 600
singers in the choirs of the church OF Eng
land.
It is estimated that 1900 quail have
been killed in Mexico and marketed in the
United States since the season opened, Oc-
.ober l.
Bears formerly ran wild in Great Brit
ain. They were not exterminated in Scot
land till just before the time of William
the Conqueror.
The highest form Of obituary eulogy in
Kansas now is to say: ''No man ever heard
him complaint Growers are despised and
rejected of men.
To show the growth made in the indus
try of furnishing kindling wood, single
factory in Pennsylvania turns out 5,0OO,ooO
bundles month.
The reputation you have been lifetime
in earning you can throw away in moment
unless it happens to be bad reputation
Il Atchison Globe.
One locomotive called the Charles Dick
has run 1,00O,CO0 miles in nine years with
out breakdown.
In Poland some of the customs are pecu-
liar One of EN- is to drop in upon friends
and crawl into the bed that has the greatest
capacity at bed time.
Unless there be some sympathy with
suffering there will be nothing done for its
relief, and the ties of human brotherhood
will be quickly sundered.
Nothing seems to burn into the memory
and heart of child as an undserved pun
ishment, however trining the matter may
seem to the adult infiicter.
The old man eloquent still lives. Richard
W. Thompson, who was Hayes secretary
of the navy is the last survivor of the
Twentyseventh congress.
In Independence, Kan, the town clock is
six minutes slow, and instead of setting the
clock right. the authorities advertise the
fact of its slowness in the papers.
Brazil was discovered in 1896, and was
settled first by the Spaniards in 1915. Hol
land made a settlement in 1924, but her
land was seized In 1864 by Portugal.
In Spain there are only 1891 children in
the Sunday-schools. And Spain is not
model of propriety in morality. To-day it
is not the best product of civilization.
The original Magma Charta is preserved
in 4 case in shapeless form like 4 handful
of torn scraps of paper. What hands could
put it together? 1t is six centuries old.
When you read the prospectus of an en-
cyclopedia you think that nothing has been
omitted, but when you begin to examine it
you think everything relevant has been eX
cluded.
Crawling into a red-hot furnace and
roasting to death is the last mode OF sui
eide adopted recently by Fostoria Ohio
man. The novel procedure was crowned
with success.
A Pasteur institute was opened June at
Saigon, Cochin China, underline auspices of
the French government. The work of the
institute will be extended over the whole
field of microbiology.
While making bolt in the steel works at
Homestead recently workman turned of
a shaving 265 feet IN length. A shaving
III feet in length is exhibited Us 4 great
curiosity in the Woolwich arsenal, England.
A sign of politeness in Thibet on meeting
n person is to hold up the clasped hands
one-half of his property goes to charity and
gets nothing.
In some of the rugs from the Orient the
knots of the threads are SO fine that they
can not be seen by the eye No machinery
has been introduced there yet for making
rugs or carpets, each tuft and knot being
tied by def fingers.