Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-08-29
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Birds and bees frequently fight
pitched battles over honey stored In
trees. Sometimes one side and some
times the other comes out victorious,
A scientific journal says that the
body OF every human being Weighing
100 pounds contains one pound of salt,
What humming bird the average
dude must be.
1t Ia computed by a Scotch paper
that there are now enough paupers
in Great Britain to form, four abreast,
procession considerably over 100
miles In length.
In speaking OF the death Of an aged
Baptist deacon, the Springfield Repub-
lican remarked the other day, AL
though quiet and unostentatious man
he was very much respected"
The three branches OF the Japanese
army are the Joblgun, or the acuve
the Kohigun. or territorial. and the
Koltumigun, or the national, The jon
nigetchergun all belong to the Chinese
army.
The appointment OF Senorita Maria
Gonzales Hermosilla as postmlstress at
Tcocaltlche, IN the state OF Jalisco,
Mexico, by President Diaz, is said 10
be the first instance on record where
woman has held office in that coun-
try.
In Persia the fashionable women or
nament their faces by painting upon
them figures OF buss and small ami
mails, Should thls fashion ever become
popular In this country husbands
would have to change to soft drinl6s or
be In trouble all the time.
Although the EsquimAux are depend
ent upon the sea for what they eat
and wear, none OF them know how
to swim. This seems strange at first,
but the mystery lessons when II 10
known that the temperature OF the
water In the region where they live
is meyer above the freezing point.
In Africa the god Mumbo Jumbo ia
very ungQllant. lie comes once year
TO fog the women who have been try
ing to run the village II Mumbo should
ever drop over into Kansas and try
TO carry out his peculiar Ideas an Az
rican deity would soon be Logging It
across the prairie and swimming the
Raw TO place OF safety.
A barbecue was recently held at En-
terprise, Mise, by large crowd OF ne
groes at which It was decided to send
two of their number to Africa to OK
anime Into the condition Of that coun-
try. II, on their return, the report Is
favorable, the negroes OF that section
| declare they viii leave en- masge and
settle In the land Of their forefathers.
| An Ingenious Pittsburger has devised
| a clothes wtinger that Is operated by
] electricity, IL works automatically,
and when the last piece Is squeezed out
| n bell iiuGA and the wash tub is turned
/ over ana emptied, This savors OF the
| typewriter and II We are not careful 1t
| may become quite as respectable to go
out washing as It 10 TO write letters.
There is u little trick In the cigar
business to which some dealers will
confoss good naturally II you ask them
about H. The dealers display q card In
the box announcing that the cigar Ia
sold Tor twenty-five cents; Sls5 90 hun
drad. The extremely innocent person
would suppose that a dealer could moi
expect to sell many Of those cigars al
Wholesale when n buyer OF 100 would
save one-hulf a cent ON each cigar
Well. the dealer doesn't expect TO sell
them by wholesale, and he doesn't sci
them, but he knows that II Just tickle:
a SMOKER. TO death to think that he 1;
getting u aingle cigar for practically
what It would cost him II he bought
Bhipload OF them,