Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-02

81. he would. send an infaillhle recipe
Tor TAT persons to become thin. His
formula was: Don't eat anything for
n year"
Outside OF Mexico. Central America
and Peru the only permanent struc-
lures In this country were mounds.
The sutnmer-house OF Professor Bell.
me telephone inventor, is on an estate
or 1900 acres In Cape Breton.
Among the. Indians. as among most
savage and bnrbarous peoples all the
ornament is monopoiized by men.
The hatcher tribes are said to have
been the only North American Indians
who have temple OF worship.
Mounds In the shape OF men. OF
bears. ailigators and serpents have
been found In various parts OF the
United States.
No Englishman can legally wear
foreign order or bear foreign title In
England without the sanction OF the
crown.
The Rev. Allen Thompson of Borden
town, N j.. now % years OF age, is the
Oldest active preacher In the state, IL
not in the country.
II is said that the severe winter has
seriously injured the lake fisheries, The
catch In Lake Michigan Is but a fourth
OF what It was last year.
1t WINS a lad In Bath. Me, who ran
away from kindergarten. His father ex-
postulated at supper, and the bad boys
comment was. II don't like TO talk
business when I'm eating"
Mrs. Ii Hung Chang has 1000 SER
wants, 1000 coats, 1900 pairs of trouser-
cites and 500 fur robes. Her feet are
50 small that she cannot walk, and
she dresses her hair in nifty different
ways.
A statute OF Abraham Lincoln by
John Rogers, which has been set up
| In the Manchester. N. H.. public IL
brary, represents the president as
| studying war map. The statute is
one-third larger than life size.
with u population OF about half that
OF this country. France Is getting along
toward the billion dollar mark In an
nual expenses. The interest ON the ma
tional debt ls s3I0OOo 900, and the cost
OF the army and navy $3.50. 100000. Tho
revenues this year are estimated at
s66b 1000 900, and u deficit OF about $l0.-
100000 is probable.
The best cleaning compound for
nickel ware IL nifty parts OF alcohol
and one OF sulphurlc acid. The article
to be cleaned is held in solution ave to
fifteen seconds, after which II is
washed with water. rinsed with alcohol
| unu Nlptu uIy with n clean rag. lhc
dirtlest OF nickel goods IL said TO come
out with bright, new look.
Some interesting discoveries have re-
Gently been made about animal life on
the Hawaiian Islands, 1t appears that
all the land and fresh water shells are
peculiar TO the locality. Nor ia this all.
| Fifty-seven out OF the seventy-eight
species OF birds and 700 out of 1000
species OF insects do not exist In any
other portion OF the globe.
Australia does not poasess many but
terflies, but II has many varieties OF
moths. Wonderful creatures are some
OF these. which, at best 30 exactly re-
semble a wlthcred leaf that you would
never suppose them to be anything else
unless you CHANGED TO see them move,
which they arc very oaeful not TO do
while you are looking on.
DIR. stuhlman. who Is travelling in
Africa, has come upon a tree whose
fruit gives out n tallow-like fat. The
tree Is one OF the largest In the forests
| OF usambara, and the fruit II big and
heavy, measuring foot in length by
half foot In diameter. 1t is n new
species OF the guttlferi. The natives
call II mkanl, but the botanlsts name II
Stearodendron Stuhlmanni.
The Germans have some educational
ideas which might be borrowed with
profit, and among these are wall maps