Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-12
NEWS AND NOTES.

The Chesapeake Islands, which are the
center of the oyster wars, are settled by a
hardy race of fishermen, who have as little
intercourse as possible with the main land.
The cruiser Charleston created a sensa-
ton when she appeared in japanese waters.
On the day the vessel was thrown open for
inspection more than q, 600 people boarded
her.
There is a cactus tree in the Yuma desert
whose fiber is suitable for making paper
1t can be had by the million tons for the
hauling but the lack of water has prevented
the establishment of paper mills III its vicin-
ity. =
In Virginia there are Is, OO0O 900 acres of
arabic land lying untitled. The greater part
of it is the property Of large holders, who
get no income from it. and who do not pos
sess the capital needed for its cultivation.
The state authorities have come to their
aid, ana are striving to attract immigrants
who will take it Up and put it to service.
In future the kiited Highland regiments
of the British army will be supplied with
seven yards of tartan per man for kits, in
stead of five yards as heretofore. When
the Draw. bare-legged Scots, the type of
hardly manhood, begin to grow ''nesh'
and to call for MAR claeths in their kits
the day of the universal Bunthorne must be
at hand.
The loug-expected statue of the Marble
Faun, the original of which, by PraXiteles,
is in the Capitoline museum at Rome, has
arrived at Bowdoin college. The cast is a
present to the college from the class of 1881.
A previous cast made under the supervision
of Franklin Simmons, the Maine sculptor,
was broken on the way over last year, but
the one just received is perfect.
A wealthy Georgia farmer has had bad
luck in his matrimonial ventures. About
twenty years ago he was engaged to the
daughter of a neighbor. TIE day before
the date set for the wedding the girl de-
cided she did not wish to marry and the en-
gagement was broken. -Four or five years
ago he married the daughter of his old
fame, and recently she eloped with the
farmers hired man.
The colony of Sierra Leone is 106 years
old, and yet it is said that there is no
machinery there except the sewing
machine. The population is upward of
So 600, and not a saw mill or any other kind
of mill is in operation. There is plenty of
building material, stone and wood, and as
for bricks, if anybody would make them
and set them up in the sun they would
'.burn themselves if left alone.
A new kind of bird has been discov-
cred in Wyoming. In company with a
dozen buzzards it was lowering over the
carcass of a dead horse in pasture. 1t
has the head and, beak of a boot owl, the
body and neck-of rooster and its tail is
similar to that OF peacock. and when shot
made noise not unlike that of guinea
hen. The bird will prove an interesting
study for scientists and has been shipped
to New York city.
The record OF earthquake shocks kept at
the Smithsonian institution in Washington
shows that there have been more of them
this year, thus far, than there were in any
previous year of recent times. There have
been numerous slight shocks in many parts
of this country, and there have been heavier
shocks in South America, Asia, Africa and
the islands of the Pacific. When the earth
quake record of the world for the year 1891
is made up at the end Of December it will
be long and elaborate.
Here and there in New York one sees
tiny one-story shops in Railways or wedged
between great buildings; but small shops
have by no means the vogue here that they
have in Europe. The famous t-osseau
shops of Paris are tiny places devoted to
single sort Of garment In one nothing bat
handkcrchiets are sold; in another nothing