Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-18
ODDITIES IN rAor AND rIcrrov


Badraoh Boodlesnnrt 1,n Echo
Md. Was stuur M ''' d hornet
last week and rubbed race with
what he supposed t. llnimeut.
Through some error the druggist sold
him luminous paint instead OF arnlca
One OF his boyhood friends Thought
Booulesnarks face was on fire and
turned the hose on him The force OF
me stream put the unfortunate mans
I I eye out and cut his upper lip open.
lie is badly hurt, but win recover
Horseflesh is more popular in Vienna
than II Is in Paris. Eighteen thousand
Two hundred and seven horses were
Killed and used. for food there I'm lSO3
Paris ate 1874 horses during the same
period.
There are no hearses IN Blue Raplds.
kan, and people are Obliged 10 20 ali
me way to Kansas City to die. or send
inoonvcnient and expensive.
Twenty-pound steel shells, two inches
thick, have been burst open by freez.
ing water inside of them.
In st, Clair county, Missouri n farm
err has field OF black corn. Wien m,
cars ripen they turn a dark brown
ana then Jet black. This does not an
pear to interfere with its flavor. II Is
MS good and sweet us any other corn
In the neighborhood. It tastes iust
slightly of vanilla.
The Comtesse de Duffy, OF Paris. re-
Gently ate three large watermelons In
eighteen minutes ana won a large all
yer spoon from her husband, the count
she carved the melon herself ana bit
down close to the rlnd. IN accordance
with the terms OF the wager.
nJamin Bings of Hopoo. Cal, has
a goose without feet When placed in
the water, which Is done every dev al
noon, II turns on It's back and swims
gracefully by aid OF its wings. Binps
has been offered 81 for the goose inf
refuses TO part with it. The eggs sell
for 40 cents a dozen
According to the Chicago Mail. ex-
Governor Buren, Il. Sherman of Iowa
is now clerk in country store in the
northern part Of the state.
or late years Madame = Alhoni tho
great eontralto, who died in Paris tho
other day, had become so fat that she
could not walk without the asslsfance
of two strong men.
Dr' Oliver Wendell Holmes has re-
covered from a recent illness. and in
me weather takes daily walk along
the shore near his summer house nj
Beverly Farms, Mass. In rainy weather
ne goes over the same road in a closed
carriage.
"N NANil stlNlCt Qlnner In Lon
don the other evening Sir William Uar-
court made the announcement that he
could sever become peer In speak
ing OF Lord Welby. he said that he was
severed from him forever, SO FAR as
public life is concerned. II cannot
me" W
Lord Chief Justice Colerldge had In
MS possession an exceedingly inter
esting collection OF letters Of Cole
,luse, wordsworth and Southey, which
nag been addressed to his father. Sir
John T. Coleridge. The letters cover
nearly the whole OF the poets career
and begins with the appeal to buv
ms discharge from the army.
The success OF Miss johnson at Cam.
bridge Eng. has been closely followed
ny That OF Miss Margaret Bensnn
whose name appears among the doctors
OK science on the list Just issued nv
me University Of London. Miss BEN
SON who has gained her dootorate nv
research work IN botany OF a very in
Iteresung nature. was a student ~
University college. where abe was grad.
uated B.sc. In 1891, coming out first
N hist-ciass honors In botany; and
mst year she was appointed lecturer
on that subject at Holloway college.