Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-02


Seem TO reject a rccrolt rom the hr'e'sh
army. .---.~
ENGLAND imported 1866, 600 head oil
III ,,,r,,g the nine months ending octo-
her l.
MoUNT Hoop, Washington terri
tory is said to be giving evidences OF VOL
canlc activity.
THERE is said TO be almost $40 oUo
of unclaimed deposit, in the Massachusetts
savings banks.
RoBrRr d. ROOSEVELT is authority
for the state ent that the Office of Register
I of New YoIl, is wo tn st,h,0l's year.
THE terms of twenty-five United
/ sp,tes s,ppiors will xpire in ln5, OF whom
! fourteen are Democrats and eleven Repnpi'-
/ caus.
| A FAILS county young lacy made
( enough cotton with her own hands to buy q
/ buggy Her lover furnished the horse ana
drove.
FLORIDA pork is acquiring reputa-
| ,ion. II if sweet and healthy, without any
: bI llC SuVltAH '"bs' N''-'' ''
/ ern hog meat.
/ ApARsoN of Ottowa, Ont, resigned
/ The other day because brother clergyman
I united i'm marriage man and his deceased
/ Wiies sister.
THE oil belt of Wyoming is said to
| lie twice as large rs that or pennsylvania,
and Il rairoad is soon To be constructed
through the district
OxE hundred and seventy-two per-
sons over 70 wears o: age have died In
( New Haven, Conn, this year. The popnia-
! ton is about sixty thousand
-s-s- s.
/ pEoRARI,Y the wealthiest railroad
conductor in America Is employed ON the
ras, tennessee. virginia x Georgia railroad
I He is said TO be worth $4,000
THERE are ,704 sailing vessels in
/ he world acc riding to New York stalls
ticinn, gsuging 80,847,3T7 tons. OF these about
one-third carry the English fng
In salt Lake City the -idewalksare
twenty tect wide. This, probably, is 10 per-
nit a mans widows to walk abreast instead
Of in couples when going to his funeral,
Ir costs this country $685. to gel
/ the report of the bureau OF education slB0l2
for printing Gen. Huaen's report, and 1t Will
require g. $500 to pint Dr Lorings report.
I -
THE Connecticut boy who has n
/ third arm growing out of the back Will he
able to scratch hims'lf between the should
er-blades without resortlng to the corr er OF
( II building.
NOUNG huodluns smoke cigarettes
In the gallery OF the san Bernudino opera
house, ana occasionally drop them on the
heads ortre audience \ LADY 5 hat, and the
feathers on il, were ruined the other ev ming
/ in this way.
MRS. BELLE NJ. SAuLEIN Of San
Francisco las been granted a patent for
boX-coVcr attachment. She IS the third ALI
iornla lady that has been honored by pat
ent award from the United states govern
mcnt.
/ ONE OF the largest excursion parties
ever organized for an extensive tourhas just
started rom Boston for alifornia IN Il train
ofPullman cars. II numbers ~ persons,
mos; Of them from New England. Two
months will be spent in Monterey. Some Of
the aSeilers will return in April. some IN
May. and some in June
or the six largest sugar producing
countries OF Europe. Germany This year car
ries oil the palm, With S0O,O0 tons, or 50 per
cent. OF The whole. Next come Austria with
1900 tons, France with $500, Russia with
80. %, Belgium with .iCUo, and Holland with
-, co. Germany has not only the greatest
humber OF yeGrerics, 355 out OF l.2H. hul The
largest also.
SIN Lancashire boys have recently
performed in Liverpool an escapgGe worthy
orthc mos; persistent cheap novel readers
orthis country. They dug pit in "A lumber
= yard. raised a substantial roof above It, and
fitted up their outnt with Whatever articles
of convenience and luxury they were able 10
steal, and when finally thcy We're discovered
they had accumulated q large and varied as
sortment OF booty.
.
The increase OF insanity is not CON
fined 10 this country. In 1905 the number of
lunstcs reported in France was S,,COl to-day
ii Is ncaily oO,00O II should he reuiem bercl.
however, that such statistics presumably
become more accurate and complete every
year, and moreover. that many 2 person IL
now pronounced insane who would have Ueen
considered merely eccentrc ilncen years
: ago There are lOS lunatic asylums IN
France, of which 81 are public and e arc
private.
Mr.. BLAKE, inventor of the tele-
phone transmitter so much used, lives IN a
palatial home in the suburbs Of Boston, ana
amuscs himsefby working as an amateur
blacksmith and machinist. lie serves hts
guests with huge glasses of beer holding
three bottles each. and another Of his pecu-
+ llanties Is The wearing OF shoes of odd de-
signs of which he has an enormous assort-
ment.
THE model of the flying machine
win which MI LinIield, the Eng iSh invent.
or expects TO navigate the air At the rate OF
sixty miles All hour, resembles an elongated
tricycle. with cigar-shnped body for an en-
CINE, fuel and navigator. IL Is twenty feet
long,fineen feet wide, elght and onc.h ar feet
nigh, and weighs 20 pounds. Tho lifting
gear consists of two square frames ,bout
thFee ieot deep containing parallel sails like