Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-23

lNIlH tH tDttOi liliittitS'to SbtNN'
ed across the cabin Hoo
Then IL happened that n sergean
from Grants boat, lashed TO our
came aboard with two decanters, an,
McCown and Grant and j sat ut
table in the bow of the boat an,
Grant and McCown did talk Of oil
times and of their adventures ri
the plains and In the far West an,
of schoolboy days ut West Point. TIN
decanters. TOO, became loquacious an,
did sparkle and overflow like McCowi
and Grant. We drifted far down TIN
Mississippi and talked, and Will
talking did empty those decantcrs
The last wounded soldier had beer
transferred to Grants boat and tn,
two vessels were Embossed from on,
another. and did slowly drift apart
and finally the boilers growlet
angrlly and ponderous machin
cry roared and the great wheels
of the unwieldly ship, the Ingomar
laslled the turbid waters of the inland
sea, and Grant went north and we
south, and the two school fellows new.
er met again. one has no right, even
IL he could remember accurately, after
80 many years, to recite conversations
like that between Grant and McCown.
But there is no harm in saying that
Grant then only contemplated the re-
opening Of the Mississippi. He was
especially earnest in condcmning those
who sought TO divide the Mississippi
in twain at Cairo and monop-
ollie control of the Southern por-
ton of the river. He said
laughingly, though in dead earnest,
to McCown, me, no, Nc, il won't do.
he - If sou can dam the Missis-
>ippi. am going to New Orleans"
AND HE WENT.
But little did then dream that
the uupretcnding, plain-looking, prac-
teal earnest man, who entered so
heartily into this renewal OF old mem
cries with McCown, and became SO
readily and thoroughly the boon com
panion of his public enemy, would
soon cover the globe with the shadow
OF his fame, and little rs you may
dream of ii now, that self-same soldier
who assisted 80 modcstly his purposes
of conquest in 1861, is the only living
man whom the wisest OF his party be-
licve can he made, in 1851, president
OF the United States.
SOMETHING PRACTICAL.
Napoleon the Great, the greatest
statesman AS he was the greatest SOL |
der the world ever saw.
when French ports were blockaded,
taught his people how to extract sugar |
from beets, and this industry is still |
profitable in France. The processes |
devised for this purpose by Napoleon
have been adopted and approved during |
hp tynlk and nntaliA1
tural bureau to extraction of sugar
from sorghum Eleven water tanks !
in row, each filed with forty pounds
Di sorghum. Super-heated steam
Is forced through this cane
IN these tanks and the
water and sugar from the
cane are separated by evaporation.
The steam or hot water extracts every
portion OF Saccliarlne matter from the
'orghnm, while, by old prort sses.. of
rushing cane, three to five per cent.
u more OF Ire sugar was left in the
waste sorghum. The machinery and
anks can he enlarged az iiJii,,jJ The
'ost of separating the water from the
'ugar ny evaporation Is not near so
Sreat MS the loss of sugar left in the
'ane by mills now in use. Bi-sulplatc
u lime is added to the water expressed
rom the cane 10 prevent fermentation
.uriilS processes OF evaporation. Farm
rs are coming hither from all quarters
, witness these processes, derived
'oHa the genius of l'renchnlcn and an
!ied TO sorghum here rs TO beets in
rance, II
ANoTHEE ABCnIMiDEs. =
MIR. Calver, who has wrought mir 9
les 10y concentration of the suns '
W by means of many u'irrois, will 7
on give public illustrations of his tri- y
nphs. He can store away heat enough /
hen the sun shines TO last Il
trough c!rcumpolar night. He pro
,ses To use this solar heat in driving
comotives across the continent, and
peclally over sunny southern II
aims. Your correspondent las G
en- metals absolutely consumed by I
e intense heat produced by solar
vs. as concentrated by Mr.. Calver, s.
d we may nj last believe the story I
d of Archimides that he burned y
man hips ten miles away in the !,
rbor of Syracuse. |
ALAS ! room MALONE, !,
Now that he is down, he is kicked r.
every beggarly Blaine Republican d
wspapcr. They do hate Malone, "a
Il insist that he shall not be suffered a
shape Republican action in organ n
ny the senate. Edmunds detests
9 little Nirginian advcnturer.
u the press and people of Texas do :,
\ put \ period to their objurrntions =,
lhched at Hon. Jack Evans. Brew =,
II VIII have him appointed before =,
ngress meets. But Coke aud Maxev T.
u nave II word to say in this matter. ~
THE NELoCirEpIsTE. a
| give this word the eileminate farm,
nee refer to Mrs. Belva Lockwood
le has not appeared, as am advised
her treaculous tricyle, in some =, y,
eeks, and IL no longer suspended \,
&c Mahonct's coffin, by Gen. Dudley "
least II Pennsylvania paper SAWS u
e Is not. a published card, refer "
" to this Pennsylvania publication,
Is neither aillrms nor denies, but She
es wool Gen Dudley, and | think |,
viii the GAZETTE. [,
\ RouslNG NEGRO MEETING.
cial To the Gazette.
Washington, November 22.-The ri