Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-16
NEWS AND NOTES.

Two women of Venezuela use fireaies for
decorating their hair at night. They are
fastened with silk thread.
CDown in South America the earth does
not seem to revolve fast enough for them,
so they get up revolution of their own
every other day.
There is scheming farmer in Centralia,
Mo. He has crossed his bees with lightning
bugs so that they can see to work by night.
cleveland World.
BY French law Boulanger's will is void,
and every effort is being made to induce
Nine Boulanger to assert her rights. AS
the generals widow she is entitled to an
annual life pension of 500.
4 few days ago Wisconsin man wagered
another that the latter would not marry a
young woman who had q short time previ-
| ously attempted suicide. AS result the
wedding was solemnizev the next day.
The report that a stock company in Good
land, Kan, has subscribed 50,000 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.
Somebody has conceived an ingenious
idea in the matter of silver wedding ami
versaries. It 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 railway train
between Milwaukee and Chicago during the
Worlds fair at speed of 100 miles an hour
by his new electric motor. By his inven-
ton two pounds of coal will do the work of
six with present appliances. He says the
mot nnS mob hla
system.
The biggest book in the world is thought
to be a blank book just manufactured in
Chicago for DR.. Peter Fahrney Of that city
II is folio, and contains one ream OF rope
manila paper. The cover weighs fifty
pounds. II is bound in full canvas and
clasped by safety chains, secured by two
nickle- plated padlocks. The weight of the
whole is $50 pounds. What the doctor in
tends doing is not reported. but presumably
it is meant to contain his non-collectable ac-
counts.
A native Indian from Calcutta is lectur
ing in New York ON the spread of the
opium habit in India, and the miseries that
follow it. He asserts that the opium traffic
of India is almost exclusively in the hands
of the government; that, as it is very lucra-
tive, everything possible is done to encoGr-
age its use among the native population and
to spread it through Burmah and China.
He described the effect upon the people as
horrible. saying that it was destroying
them physically and morally.
That all the rivers run into the sea is an
old saying, but on the African coast, near
the gulf of Alden, is found an exception to
the rule in a river that runs out of the sea
into the lake of Assal. The surface of lake
Assal itself is nearly 700 feet below the
mean tide and it is fed by this paradoXlcal
river, which is about twenty-five miles in
length. 1t is highly probable that the
whole basin, which the lagoon partly fills,
was once an arm of the sea, which became
separated therefrom by the duning of loose
sand. The infiOwinS river has a limited
volume. being fullest, OF course, at high
tide, and has filled the basin to such an ex-
tent that evaporation and supply exactly
balance each other.
A curious circumstance is reported from
Cincinnati. William Harris Of Boston
went into the Burnett house and wrote his
name in the register He had scarcely done
so when he was startled to see few lines
above an exact fac simile OF his signature,
William Harris, New York. He looked
closely at it, wondering whether it could be
possible that he bad already registered.
He was sure that he was sober, but it GER
tainly looked like his own signature Pres
emily gentleman stepped up to the counter
and inquired if there was any mail for Will
liam Harris. William Harris, of Boston,
looked up and beheld his double, man
dressed like him, and so similar IN features
that stranger could not tell them apart.
One turned out to be a travelling man and
the other comedian. They are entirely
unrelated.