Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-18
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Dallas, Tex, Feb. i7.-For three
weeks now the mercury has never been
but little, II any, above the freezing
point; most OF the tlme nearer zero
People have about ceased 10 expect
any warm weather, for the present
tt least, and are preparing ~ grin ana
bear IT,
since Harson Young attributed the
extraordinary cold winter TO the fact
that the moon has lost its ballasts and
Is sailing around In space according
to the wnlma OF every idle mind, many
obhers have been heard from who on
urcly agree with him. Mr.. VIII Han
has been doing some brick work FOR
woman IN East Dallas who says the
moon is crazy as a loon. II just rises
and sets everywhere. Some times II
comes up in the north and sets In the
east, and on the very next night it
VIII rise in the south and set in the
nOrth.
The pastor Of one OF the big churches
or the city Is said to have taken the
moon for his text the other night. lie
said fair Luna Is entirely out OF her
orbit, to which fact he says all this
cold weather and hard times are due.
And the worst Of Il is that there Is
no telling what other callmlties are
To follow ~ mat satellite persists In
her vagaries.
Judge W. NJ Edwards, commenting
on Parson Youngs Startling discovery
remarked that he did not believe in
the popular superstliOns about the
moon, except the one about planting
potatoes. That one was all right.
a South Dallas man suggests that
Parson Young must have mistaken the
big round face OF the clock ON Billy
Hills pOstoflicc for the moon. and hence
concluded the moon WAS rising or
setting In the north.
Henry Lewis Gays he has not taken
MANY observations on the moon this
winter, but he has great confidence
In Parson Houngs veucity, ana Jnere
may be some occasion FOR alarm for
lovers, potatoes ana the tides II tine
moon should get TOO Wild
II. II. VIM OF the Western Union
Telegraph Company AYERS that as he
was going home from prayer meeting at
O'Clock last night the moon was as
big as a billiard table, and appeared
10 b. only "a little above the house
tops. lie says he believes that instead
Of teh cold weather being the rcsule OF
the strange conduct Of the moon. that
the reverse IS the case, and the cold
weather Is the causc OF the queer car
ryinss on OF the moon. He believes the
frcs have gone out In the volcanoes
up there. aud that the moon IS cold.
and is trying 10 nestle close to mother
earth.
Hon Barney Gibbs has just returned
from hia coal mine up at Bridgeport,
and sage he has more or less OF the
old negro superstltioH8 about the moon,
and he cannot help but think there is
something out OF whack with that
otherwise regular firth wheel OF this
earth, and that unless the people can
get together and run mid winter
eclipse Of some sort on 1t, there is TO
saying what may happen. We are
either going 60 have a whaling big
potato crop next year OF It total fail
ure.
Capt. Arnold. chief OF police. says
that he was taken to Fort Worth ~
an attached witness the other night
TO witness the fight between the ion
and bear which aid not take place.
and at o'clock IN the morning he
and jim Maddox noticed the moon rise
right up on the northern horizon. Il
thing he had never noticed before In
his life, but lin Maddox told him
that 1t was nothing unusual with Fort
Worth people 10 see the moon come
up and gO down anywhere. In fact. he
said that orb Just oirculates through
the heavens like "a free silver dollar
does ON earth.