Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-21
sTARBEAMs.

In Poland it is penal offense TO
speak Polish in any public resort.
Pineapple Juice is u valuable medi-
cine for Indigestion and throat trou-
bles.
Some of the great trees in Humboldt
county. Cal, are said by scientists TO
be nearly 5000 years old.
Royalties have, as n body, defective
eyesight. Princess Maud of Wales Is
the only royal lady who wears single
eyeElass.
Coal tar yields sixteen shades of blue.
the same number of yellow tints, twelve
Of orange nine Of violet and numerous
other colors and shades.
A Palatka man has invented a lily
fan. which is attached to the back of
a chair and runs by electricity. The
increase of badness will make WI e,
market for 1t.
a "Society of Women Journalists"
has Just been formed with an office
rear the Strand, London. a register OF
women journalists seeking employment
will be kept there.
A raw egg swallowed Immediately
will generally carry fish bone down
that can not be removed from the
throat by the utmost eXertiOn, and has
got out of the reach of the saving I'm
ger.
A German historian says that the
menu card celebrated Its f0Oth anniver-
sary in 1883. II was first used. he de-
clares. by Duke Henry Of Brunswick
at the session of the German reichstag
at Regensburg in liS9.
In Franklin county, Me-, there Is q
divorced wife who for two years has
been housekeerer for her ex-hushand
Things go on smoothly in spite OF the
fact that the housekeeper is visited
twice n week by an attentive beau.
A typical Southern African household
described by Olive Schreiner had an
English father a half Dutch mother
with a French name, a Scotch govern
ess, a Zulu cook, a HUttentot house
maid ard a Kadir stable boy, while the
little girl who waited on the table
was Basutu.
Lemon juice squeezed in California
| treated with a preserVatlve process, and
sent east by the barrel, in now sold In
earthern jugs containing from half 9
| gallon to ten gallons. 1t Is used fol
| all sorts of domestic purposes, fol
| lemonade and for making mixed drinks
at the bar and in clubs.
An Augusta, Me-, clergyman walked
| into the store OF a merchant wet &c
the skin by thunderstorm. The mer'
| chant had some exquisite old brandy
| of which he was proud. He offered the
dominic some as Joke, not dreaming
! that ms guest would accept. lnt
minister not only took big drinl
but put the bottle in his pocket.
A six chambcred revolver has Jus
been found in railway cutting neal
! the battlefield Of Culloden. The re
volver, which IL apparently OF French
| make. Is Of the pin fire pattern. will
one barrel. The stock is Of ivory anC
the barrel and chamber are ornamenteC
! with some fine scroll work. II is be
lieved to have been the property o
some OF the French officers who &c
companied Prince Charlie on his II
! fated expedition.
The question, is a man the owner o
his own teeth? has come before q Ger
| man court at Gera. man who ha(
been suffering for some time from
the toothache made up his mind Il
have the teeth taken out. The stumI
proved difficult one to draw, ant
when It was out It was of such cur
ious shape that the dentist declared
he would keep II MS curiosity. Hi
| patient, however. thought he would iik
TO keep II himself, and claimed 1t. bu
the dentist, on the ground that tooth
when drawn with the free consen
OF a patient Is ownerless property a
soon as It leaves the jaw. refused I,
give It up. The patient at once en-
tered an action against the dentist.