Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-05
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swamp, near Egypt, Ga, measures thirty-one
feet In circumference seven feet from the
ground. AT the ground IL measures thirty
nine feet IN circumference.
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a CHICAGO commercial traveller
says that in small village In Northern
Michigan he found notice pinned on the
door OF u store which read "Gonc TO bury
my wife; viii he back in thirty minutes
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THE Chicago Tribune is of the opin-
lon that the thousands and even millions of
dollars which may he saved TO tho poor peo-
pie of this country by excluding the lotteries
noirha use of the malls VIII diulnlsh pau
perlsm and suffering.
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NEW YORK Is wondering how long
It will be before her population equals that
ofLondon. AZ the beginning of the century
the population OF New York was 5000, OF
London $4,000; now New York boasts ,jO1,'
600 and London s,5oO,00l.
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y Gov. IRELAND offered reward of
so for the arrest and conviction OF each and
begin to stop until he did 20 II was tie re-
ward, not high water, that brought the mis-
crcants to tbolr senses,
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THE Chicago Intcr-Ocean is conf
dent that Mary Anderson's advertising agent
may be depended upon TO keep us posted
about whatever trauspires between Mary and
Albert Edward. The commonwealth of Ken.
lucky is on the qoi cice, ns II We're.
PROPHETIC alarmsts seem determ-
ined TO destroy the world, and since the pre-
dlction OF Mother Shipton failed of fulldll-
nlent, recourse Is had to an old French stanza
which puts the positive dissolution of mum
dane affairs down for April ., 1886.
THE volume of voluminous speeches
and culogies OF the late Senator Ben Hill,
authorized by the legislature of Georgln, has
Mt length been issuod-Iour thousand coples
Tor the use OF the senate, and eight thousand
for the use Of the house. And yet this Is the
same legislature that refused 10 pay the
funeral expenses of Alexander II. stephens.
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From the testimony of II Cincinnati
oculist II appears that the wearing of thin
glass shells over defective eyes In order 10
give II tine look of sound eye is one of the
commonest deceptions of make up, both of
men ana women. Young men counting
should stick apn in their girls eyes inhn
pnwary nomentto prevent imposition.
THE girls have an interesting time
of In India. Very often girls are married
Mt the age of three years, and should the boy
10 whom they are wooded die the nextday the
infant is declared perpetual wldow,and may
not mary again Though shelive TO be sixty
years of age They do not think very much
of women over there, anyway.
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a NORTH CAROLINA paper recon-
incnds the Democratic nominee for congress
for the first district of that state because,
among other things, "hc never can be made
Il proud, stuck-up man, and Will always have
fellow.lecling with the people, and he.
cause he is not better-looking than the rest
of Us, aud docs not offend our lrlovc when
looking at him.
BERLIN in 1916 had population of
l0j,tOo London had one OF NiS, 500, and Paris
one or7lSf6j. SiSty years later Berlin had
! % ,QOl, London 40 0EO, aud Paris nearly
$500 o. Berlin therefore Increased more
than slH-fold, London abv,' :aIr-fold, ana
Paris about throe.fold. The population OF
Berlin during the reign OF King William has
more than doubled.
TUE New Orleans Times Democrat
makes table of assessments showing that
since 1879 there has been an aggregate in
crease IN wealth IN the South OF sIip,70i ,OJl;
that sicO,0OO0,0 hos been invested In railroads
in these states, and that the ailroad mile.
age has been increased from 1920 To 2i,Olp.
Cotton manufacturing in Alabama, Georgia,
aud North and South Carolina has lncrca sed
rom us 10 80 mills.
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COLONEL &. q. GORDON has written
a letter on tho proposed Jordan or Palestine
canal, in which he pronounces the scheme
feasible, and estimates the cost of the sixty
i've miles OF canal proper at sjD0JO,tGJ, with
il7,@O,W0 to he added for ports and conccs-
sions. The line of the canal would he from
I'll Akabth, ON an arm or the Red sea, due
south 10 the Dead sea, then up the Jordan
valley to Lake in!ep, and from there SOUTH
west TO Haiia on the Mediterranean.
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An officer IN q Russian regiment OF
sappeiS, Lieutenant EonGinon, has invented
an instrument FOR the certain and easy inter.
ception ortclcgraph messages in time of war
The wire from which 1t Is desired to steal a
dispatch is cut and promptly Joined to a
small box containing the new machine. u
then Immediately transmits the message to
n roll OF paper which can he read upon the
spot or sent 10 headquarters. Tho box, which
weighs only about seven pounds, also con-
tains an instrument FOR sending false am
swcrs to the enemy.
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TEXAS STATE NEWS.
The Atlanta school has l70pupils.