Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-18
NEWS AND NOTES.

The influenza is raging terribly in Gal
acia.
Tennyson thinks that the car is an amia-
| bic man.
The majority of the Russian-Hebrew i'm
migrants are tailors.
The admission to the Worlds fair viii,
without doubt, be half dollar.
Webster defines lag" as "a small load
of grain" 1t is generally rye.
Canada has an area of nearly one million
| unexplored and unoccupied square miles.
The Royal MidgetS company has gone to
pieces in ChicagO-little pieces, Of course.
1t is now good form for wedding ushers
to forget the name of the bride OF groom, If
strangers ask for it.
4 woman always respects the Judgment
OF the man who tells her that she Is pref
tier than olher women.
\ South American general in New York
IS charged with prOverUlaI m-anncss. he
stole money from corpse.
\ hotel keeper in India has printed on
the bill of fare: in this hotel the wines
leave the traveller nothing to hope for"
When a man begins to try to find out why
woman Is blue, the chances are pretty
good that he will end by being blue himself.
The man who is the most skcptical of
other people is usually the man VINO IS
most surprised because other people do not
put their trust in him.
The new novel from the pen of H. Rider
Haggard, for which he obtained the mate
rial while he was in Mexico, is 10 be called
tMonteZuma's Daughter"
The Rams Horn, u paper devoted to
Sunday-school lessons, declares that ''it IS
not a good time to read the Bible when
your wife is cutting stove wood"
If men were put under solemn oath be-
fore they were allowed 20 tell fish stories
or make love, this world would De Il great
Qeal less Interesting than IL Is now.
4 metaphysical and logical contest be
tween members Of the debating societies OF
Harvard and Yale is proposed as a winter
sport. The gate money will be divided
equally
why, there's nothing here but flowers"
said little girl 10 her mother at the chry-
santhemum exhibition II haven't heard
any OF those Christian anthems you were
talking about!'
Somehow a woman who has lost her
power over a man who loved her once never
blames herself for his detection. She al
ways puts the blame either on mans incon-
stancy in general or on some ether woman.
a Minneapolis paper the organ of Igna-
titus Donnely. describes the Jurors who
awarded him 81 III his libel case against the
Pioneer Press, as ''yermin who dwell in the
obscure alleyways of humdn depravity."
But perhaps this is 4 cryptogram containing
hidden compliment.
Il is very seldom you hear of woman
handling u vessel, but during the recent
gale the schooner Edward Waite, which is
commanded by Capt. r. y. Pickett, was
navigated for over two hours by the cap
tain's wife, who stood at the wheel when
the crew was completely exhausted.
1t is a well-known fact that large
amount of opium is smoked in the Chinese
laundries about town, and it is not confined
to the Cinnamon, as many white people in
dulge in an occasional ''hit y at the pipe
But if the latter knew that much of the
stuff smoked in the Chinese laUndries and
plum joints was secondhand, perhaps
their visits would be fewer than is now the
case. The drug is very high-priced, and as
only one-half its strength is exhausted at
one cooking, it has become profitable in
dustry to save the refuse of the pipes, pre-
pare it over again and sell it anew Much
OF the opium sold as second quality is really
secondhand.