Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19
the generals widow she is entitled to an
annual life penSiOn of SfOl.

the generals widow she is entitled to an
annual life pension Of 800
DR.. Albert Shaw. in recent lecture at
Johns Hopkins university. predicted that
the adoption of Gen. Booths methods would
result in ompletely stamping out the Sums
OF London within twenty years.
\ few DAYS ago a Wisconsin man wagered
another that the latter would not marry
Young woman who had short time prevl-
ously attempted suicide. As a result the
wedding was solemnizev the next day.
The report that a stock company in Good
land, Kan, has subscribed $4,000 in pay
ment for ''rain-making secret indicates
that the farmers Of that place will shortly
be as anxious to know the secrets OF stock
watering as the novices Of Wall street.
Washington's old headquarters at Valley
Forge will soon pass into the hands OF
patriotic association. a body of patriotic
Philadelphians, headed by Postmaster
General Wanamalzer, and the Daughters Of
the Revolution both desire the property.
Somebody has conceived an ingenious
idea in the matter of silver wedding ami
yersaries 1t is to prepare list of desira-
BILE presents and TO furnish copy to invited
guests on application with the names OF
those articles crossed off that are already
provided for.
Edison promises to run 4 railway train
| between Milwaukee and Chicago duringthe
| Worlds far at speed of 100 miles an hour
| by his new electric motor. By his luven-
| ton two pounds of coal will do the work OF
| six with present appliances. He says the
! plant will not cost as much as the cable
! system.
! A philanthrophic farmer of Mount
/ Carmel, Conn, offered some time ago 10
! 81 month
| Of October fifty bushels of good apples to
! deserving poor families providing the
members of those families do not use IN
! toxicating liquor or tobacco or keep dog.
Nine got their apples.
The late Mr.. Parnell had great aversion
| 10 letter-wuting. and the letters ne dld
write were marred by fbad grammar and an
| involved style that sometimes made ms
| meaning obscure 1t is said that in his con-
versation he never made use of IN OATH and
he once boosted that not one Of his speeches
contained violent expression.
A germ of philosophy in a certain little
boy took root rather unexpectedly to his
| parents the other morning. Sarah. the
new cook, the first colored person the little
| chap had ever seen, made her advent to the
kitchen. The child sat for some time 81
lently regarding her, and then quietly
whispered: Mamma, does Sarah drink
ink?'
There is not a loyal American whose soul
has not at some time been stirred by that
matchless order, If any man pulls down
the stars and stripes, shoot him on the
spot" 1t is different in Chicago anarChistlc
meetings, into enc of which the brave po-
lCcmen marched the other night, and at the
points of their revOiverS compelled the an
archists to raise the national flag over their
emblems of blood.
Louise de Beaulieu, famous French
'vivandiere," who, in company with her
! regiment was under fire in eight battles,
has been reduced to the eXpedient of selling
matches in Paris for living. She has long
record of heroic deeds. one of her feats OF
bravery being that of saving the life OF Il
child from the sixth story of house that
was burning in the Rue St. HorOre. Al
Champigny she lost an arm while carrying
d wounded soldier to an ambulance.
Rejected loweIs will have to be more
careful hereafter They are not to xii
their obdurate sweethearts without risk
Miss Mary Allen of the Huron settlement
i'm Iowa has set her sisters an example
that they will not be slow to follow. Al
, unacceptable lover undertook to play the pts
tol game on her, but she had pistol of hel
own for the occasion and got the drop or
: him, and now he is laid up with broker
arm and the community sides with the girl
The biggest book in the world is though
to be blank book just manufactured IL
Chicago for DIR. Peter Fahrney of that city
| 1t is a folio, and contains one ream OF rop'
manila paper The cover weighs fftl
pounds. 1t is bound in full canvas an(
| casped by safety chains, secured by two
nickle-plated padlocks. The weight OF Tia
| whole is 80 pounds. What the doctor IN
tends doing is not reported, but presumaol,
| it is meant to contain his non-collectable &C
counts.
+ A native Indian from Calcutta is lectur
ing in New York; on tie spread of tn
g l-crifum habit in India. and the nriseries tina
4 follow it. He asserts that the opium tram
of India is almost exclusively in the hand
l Of the government; that, as it is very lucra
+ tive. everything possible is done to encoui
age its use among the native population an
TO spread itthrough Burmah and emma
e He described the effect upon the people 2
I Notwithstanding that it was destroy4n
them Physically and morally.
That all the rivers run into tae sea is a
II old SAVING. but on the .f.fricalfcoast rfa
# the shif x ~Adsn,, IS found an deception, t
. .Therule in river that runs OusEf the Sc
0 into the lakeof Assal. The Surfaces ofiak
4 7 Assal itself is nearly 200 feet below tn
4 mean tide and it IS fed by this paradoxlc;
river, which IS about twenty-two miles
a length 1t is highly probable that tn
n whole basin, which the lagoon partly fills
was once an arm of the sea- which becam
l. separated therefrom by the duning of loos
e sand. The infiowing river has Unite
volume, being fullest, Of course, at hig
tide. and has filed the basin to such an e.
Is tent that evaporation and supply exactl
balance each other.
d A curious circumstance is reported frol
Cincinnati. William Harris of Bosto
Y. went into the Burnett house and wrote h
l. name in the register. He had scarcely dor
, so when he was startled to see few line
IL above an exact fac smile OF his signatur
,r William Harris, New York. He locke
h closely at it, wondering whether 1t could
IL possible that he Rad already reglstere
E. lie was sure that he was sober, but 1t &c
70 tainly looked like his own signature. Pre-
" emily gentleman stepped up to the count
. and inquired if there was any mail for W
!, liam Harris. William Harris, of Bosto
looked up and beheld his double, mi
D. dressed like him, and so similar IN featur
n that stranger could not tell them apal
e One turned out to be a travelling man al
u the other comedian. They are entire
g unrelated.