Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-17
NEWS AND NOTES.

Lions and leopards are very fond of per-
fumes.
Salmon, pike and goldfish are the only
fish that never sleep.
The telephone has been known in India
for thousands Of years.
This years farm products outralued last
years by over $700,G00, 000
When a young man is writing love let
ter he should keep it constantly before his
mind how it would look in print.
The fact that DIR. Keeley's receipts from
patients aggregate $50 900 a week proves
that his gold cure is well named.
HOLSTERS greatly fear thunder. When
thoroughly frightened they drop their
claws, but new ones begin at once to grow,
The slot machine has invaded another
field of effort. For cents you can now
get tintype of yourself that would be a
conspicuous addition to any rogues' gallery
in the land.
DR.. Albert Shaw. in q recent lecture at
Johns Hopkins university, predicted that
the adoption of Gen. Booths methods would
result in completely stamping out the slums
OF London within twenty years.
Washington's old headquarters at Valley
Forge will soon pass into the hands of d
patriotic association. 4 body of patriotic
Philadelphians, headed by Postmaster
General Wanamalser, and the Daughters Of
the Revolution both desire the property.
philanthrophic farmer of Mount
Carmel, Conn, offered some time ago to
deliver free Of expense during the month
of October fifty bushels of good apples 10
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
to etter-wrItiuG, and the letters he did
write were marred by Sbad grammar and an
involved style that sometimes made his
meaning obscure It is said that in his con-
versation he never made use of an oath, and
he once boosted that not one of his speeches
contained a violent expression.
y 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
ink2''
There is not a loyal American whose soul
has not at some time been stirred by that
LidlculeSS OIuGE, IL any uldU pulls uOWu
the stars and stripes, shoot him on the
spot 1t is different in Chicago anarchistic
meetings, into one Of which the brave po-
licemen 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 eXpediept of selling
matches in Paris for living. She has a long
record of heroic deeds, one of her feats of
bravery being that of saving the life of a
child from the sixth story of a house that
was burning in the Rue st. Honore. At
Champigny she lost an arm while carrying
a wounded soldier to an ambulance.
Rejected lowers will have to be more
careful hereafter. They are not to kill
their obdurate swcethearts without risk
Miss Mary Allen OF the Huron settlement
in Iowa has set her sisters an example
that they will not be slow to follow. An
unacceptable lover undertook to play the pis-
tol game on her, but she had pistol of her
own for the occasion and got the drop on
him, and now he is laid up with broken
arm and the community sides with the girl.