Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-21
you can't keep good politician down by
making charges against him.

you can U keep gOOu polittSiau uo"u W
making charges against him.
After powder explosion in California
nothing was found of a Chinaman but his
queue. And the question now agltatlng the
people of that state is, did the ChlnaInan
lose his queue, or the queue lose China
MANI The answer is awaited with inter-
est.
Lewis Bogy has been discharged from
the pension department for writing book
which is said to SANDER Washington official
life. This should make Mr.. Bogy's book
sell even if it does make him the bogy man
of the official children at the national
capital.
If under tariff of % cents per bushel the
Michigan farmer is able to sell his potatoes
at 20 cents, how high would the tariff have
to be so that the consumer would get them
for nothing-we understand our Repuou-
can friends to say that the tariff makes
them cheaperl
Mr. Riley, the poet, will be gratified to
learn from q New York paper that ne
'Hooks like sharp-witted business man"
Mr. Riley and Mr. Riley's friends have al
ways labored under the impression that he
knows as much about business as an Aus
tralian kangaroo does about the Had.
The New York Sun has been fooled by
ton editor requesting information on the
point regarding the existence of law IN
England forbidding a man to marry MS
widows sister. The Sun answered with
some detail, and the other New York papers
refuse to accept the statement that the an
swer was intended to be facetious.
The following are examples of nine-sylla-
BILE words in the English language: An
hropometamorphis, anti-supernaturallsm
anti-constitutionalist, neutrality-suspicious.,
iatromathematician, incomprehensiblllty,
NATURALIZATION, sencategorematical, un-
constitutionality, unintelligibility, valetudl-
narianism and vicissitudinallty.
Almost daily news item is an account of
| a man who goes away to make fortune
| for his family, stays fifteen or twenty years
without communicating with them, and
| then is Mortified when he comes BACK to
| find that his wife has married during his
absence. He evidently thinks she should
| have earned the living, reared the family,
and then should have supper ready and be
| waiting at the front gate when he returns.
| A young Englishman doing America
| stopped off at Detroit for day or two and
| casually stated that he guessed ne would go
| on to place called Iowa, as he had met q
| man from there once The tourist had for
| gotten the mans name, but thought he
| could be found with little difficulty. Now
the London Daily News informs its readers
that the Republicans nave carried the en-
| tire state of Philadelphia. No wonder that
you cannot be u Thoroughbred dude with
| out being English.
Beard-raising seems to be strikingly. the
| rage this season, judging from the fire.
| quency with which bewhiskered cheeks
and chfns are seen on the streets just now.
BARRIERS say the practice of allowing the
facial hair bulbs to shoot forth their wiry
growth to a length that will insure the Skin
| against the wind and cold is becoming Sc
common that the shaving business is dimin
ishing at audiscouraging rate. The custom
is moro pronounced than ever this year, anc
in the club it amounts to 4 craze.