Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-24

1t Ia said that n goose or duck has
never been run over by vehicle
Balata. the product of tree in SIT
matra, threatens TO become a rival TO
India rubber and gutta percha.
"Tussus MicrOblcides." warranted to
keep out the most persevering bacillus,
are being sold by some Of the chief
Partisan shops
Aluminium drums are proving most
successful In the Partisan military
bands Not only are they lighter than
the ordinary kind. but they give out
a much fuller and richer sound.
The Confederate Womens Monument
association has been organized at
Richmond ana charter is to be OBJ
tanned. Voluntary subscriptions toward
the monument now amount to 5000,
a boa constructor. which lives in the
Adelaide geological gardens, caught It's
fangs the other day In a rug Being
unable TO dlsengage itself II proceeded
to swallow the rug. which was Z feet
by In size.
A school district In Grant County.
Kansas contains only one family. The
father, mother and eldest son have
elected themselves trustees and APP
pointed the eldest daughter. at S35 a
month TO teach the younger children.
Norway is to adopt uniform time
FOR the whole ot that country from jan
uGry 1 next The mean time will he
that at the meridian 10 degrees east
OF Greenwich, At present nearly every
| locality In Norway has It's own time,
In recent LEGAL proceedings in London
regarding The noise ana vibration
caused by y ueighboring factory. a
I monograph was used TO record these
1 noises and reproduce them in court
/ OF the auggention OF Prof. s. T., Thornp-
son.
10 frighten burglars Edward Jenkins
1, OF Louisville kept a savage canine and
] displayed this sign Look out for the
l dog" Some thieves poisoned the dog,
stole fourteen chickens and made the
| sign read; Look out for the chickens"
Tile highest cathedral tower In the
world-that OF Ulm Ailuster-can at
last be seen Ia its full beauty AL
Though finished and reopened some
years ago. the tower has been hidden
by scatulding until now. the last por-
ton having Just been removed.
A four-legged chicken came into the
/ family OF Dave Myler of johnson City.
Mo. As two OF the legs We're for for
ward locomotion and the two other al
ways insisted on walking backward.
that unfortunate chicken found 1t DIM
. cult to advance In the world and gave
up the effort In despair
4 new form of delirium tremens has
attacked a New York topper. While
under the Influence OF a lively jag
he was shocked by an electric wire.
Now when he has taken too much
whisky he fancies he sees sputtering
electric wires and writing snakes,
which shower him with sparks.
English hremen We're greatly I'D
mired at the international congress
held at Antwerp. The Belgians and
the foreign delegates warmly praised
the smart condition Of men, horses and
engines, while thc iirvm were most
Enthusiastically checred for the steadi-
ness of their march past at the parade.
Experiments are being conducted at
the armory In Springfield, Mass, In
the use OF aluminium for the bayonet
acahhards for the new rifle. While the
metal works well in bending and Is
about so per cent lighter than the steel
scabbard, no satisfactory method has
been devised for soldering the edges to-
gether.
strange dream so disturbed Mrs.
samuel Bumng of East Greenfield,
Ohio, that she awoke with a start.
Sue imagined that she had been
drowning cats IN q well ahd their plte-
Gus walls aroused her. Then she dis,
covered that she had dashed her own
infant out or tho bed with such force
that lts skull WIS crushed.
The tenemcpt-houso Instinct seems
strong even in tic guburbs OF New
York and land owner who built q
Few graceful little cottages TO rent at
$50 month. after having them lie
empty on his Hands, saw-ono OF them
suolft bg tenant on the tenement-
house plan. Neighhorins hish-shoui-
dered structuren. easily divided into
suites OF small apartments, rented
promptly r. li ;es,e wns not for
The graceful cottage, but for the cheap-
est place Of shelter.
'Truliorians are the ietrsi novelty
- ~ Nef.l OF eraniss. r,,ey are no