Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-30
a STRING OF INCIDENTS.

Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina
each have two species of lizard provided
with three eyes.
A rattlesnalse with two heads has been
captured in California. II has fangs in
both its mouths.
Bountles We're paid for sixty-one bears,
thirty wolves. forty-nine lynXes, 60l6 foxes,
$50 eagles and 1889 hawks in Norway last
year. The supply is not exhausted.
There is dog at Cheyenne that will, it
IS claimed, pick an American dollar from q
| plle including any number or sort of coins
Of similar appearance, size and weight.
A Washington letter says: Senator
John NJ. Palmer is one of the most inveter-
ate pedestrians in Washington, and his
wife seems to share his love of outdoor
walks about the capital
There are records of elephants that have
lived for 200 years, and au age of $50 years
IS not regarded as SO very old for an ele-
phant. II takes about Il quarter of century
to get the elephant to full maturity.
A new kind of bird has been discovered
in Wyoming. 1t has the head and beak of u
boot owl, the body and neck of a rooster
and its tail is similar to that Of peacock,
and when shot made noise not unlike that
of a guinea hen.
At present Russian writers seem to be
the persons of genius and originality in lit
erature. An authors Museum is to be
established in St. Petersburg to contain
mementoes and relics of famous Russian
literary men and women.
Poor Old st. Louis! There is an item out
of this kind: In St. Louis recently large
building in one of the best business streets
of the city was torn down simply because it
was thought 10 be ''hoodooed, +" which shows
that superstition still has strong hold on
some people.
Here is probably the first claim to be
above the Bard of Avon" A French
critic, Niirabeau, says Maurice Maeterlinck,
new writer in Belgium, has put into his
'PrincesS Maleine'' things more beautiful
than the most beautiful things in Shake
speare.
The announcement is made that w. D.
Howells will shortly cease to occupy the
editors study of Harper's Magazine.
His place will be taken by Mr.. Charles
Dudley Warner, whose knowlege of men
and books and whose critical powers are Of
the first order.
Men will almost risk their lives for free
pass. An Illinois man threw himself in
front of a fast train on the Big Four rail
road, near Middlesworth, with the nope
that the railroad officials would compro-
mise damages by giving him an annual pass
over the line.
When the supply is greater than the de
mand the man who holds the supply has t
suffer. Last year there was I. potato fam
inc. This year, in one California district
near Sacramento, 10000 bushels of potatoes
were not dug up because it would not pay
to market them.
The Book Review of London says some
has discovered a book in Dublin with the
words of 1.-THE Messiah' as sold at the first
performance in that city in f74l. It shows
that He shall feed his fiocl1'' was taken
right through by one voice, the contralto,
who was Mrs. Cibber.
Nature may be regular but it has some
very curious features. For instance an
Alabama man possesses curiosity in the
shape of two trout grown together like the
Simaese twins. The body of each is perfect,
but they are united by a membrane at
tached to their bellies. They are alive and
frisky.
If the earth could be parceled out the
real estate for each person would not be
large, still the people can huddle together
and, densely populated as it is in some
places, the earth has room for great many
more people. 1t is estimated that there are
twenty-five and half acres for every liv-
ing person.