Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-04-24
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York.
1t is estimated that the base ball
clubs OF this country will cost the peo-
pie SIG, 900, 900 this year.
The attendance on the public schools
of England Is shown by q recent report
to have risen within few years from
100000 to 100000. AS result,
Juvenile crime has considerably dimin.
ished.
In India 1t is standing JOKE, in
connection with agricultural expert
ments, that native will not use an
English pillow because he cannot reach
the bullock's tail to twist it, which is
his only method OF urging his beast to
further exertion.
The prospects for good prices for
slate squares are said to be excellent.
There is very little slate imported, the
importations last year numbering 437
packages, valued at $1sS6, The ex-
ports numbered ., 776, 239 pieces, valued
at $50, 1852. Australia is our chief GUS
toner for slate.
In tree felled in Westminster
county, n. Y, the other day, were
found several flying squirrels that had
made their nest in the center of the
supply Of honey laid up by swarm of
wild bees. They had devoured the
honey, thereby causing the bees to
starve to death.
The tea houses in Teheran, Persia.
are all open to the public, and even the
schools are exposed like the shops,
often with shops on each side. The
boys sit on their heels in rows and re-
peat the lesson after the master, APP
parently undisturbed by the hubbub
going on around them.
There are 800 acres of land under
cultivation at the reservation at Pyra-
mid Lake, CAL, from which the In
dams raised last year 20, 900 pounds Of
grain, besides potatoes, cabbage, onions
and other vegetables. There are over
900 Indians on the reservation. All
have wagons and farming utensils.
The historic house in Downing
street, so long the residence OF British
premiers, is about to be abandoned,
because it is too small. Recently
Dover house, between old Whitehall
and the Horse Guards, was purchased
by the English government, and will
in future be the official residence of
the first lord Of the treasury.
In the German budget for 1886, Just
submitted, Prince Bismarck is al
lowed salary of $l3, 500; Count HAITI
feldt, foreign secretary Of state, Sl2,-
800; the minister OF state, $4,000 and
apartments; chief Of the department
of justice, $4,000, and Count Won
Moltke, field marshal of the German
army, $500, with apartments, fuel
and rations for six horses.
Wood wool as q cheap and useful
dressing for wounds is being prepared
extensively as commercial staple for
surgical dressings. 1t is finely ground
wood, extensively used in the manu-
facture of paper. 1t is clean. looking,
delicate fibred, soft, yellowish white
substance, having AN odor of fresh
wood, and absorbs an immense guam
tity of liquid.
The English, French and German
mails bound for the East are now sent
via Brindisi, but line OF railway is
building, in accordance with the terms
Of the Berlin treaty, from Salonica, on
the Mediterranean, to Uskiub, and
when it is completed all mails will be
sent that way, effecting twelve hours
saving in train. The change is ex-
pected to do much for Belgrade, the
Servian capital city.
An expedition is now being fitted
out to proceed to Hudson bay to con-
tinue observations commenced by the
steamer Neptune last year, and to bring
home in the fall the several parties
who are now wintering along the
coasts of Hudson straits and bay. The
object is to discover, ifpos sible, whether
or not Hudson bay can be safely nav
igated during the summer months as
an outlet for the products of the North
west territory.
Fifty years ago France imported
only 1000 tons of oranges per annum,
one-third of which were imported by
way of Marseilles. The total impor-
tation Of oranges into France in 1884
amounted TO about so 600 tons, 40, 600
tons of which came from Spain. The
imports from Algeria have risen from
seven tons In 1886 to 5000 tons in 1854
fact which Frenchmen regard as an
other marvellous effect of progress OF
their beautiful African colony.
The maximum speed OF passenger
trains in England is a tribe over sew.
enty-kilometers 10 kilometer is almost
exactly five-eights OF mile) per hour,
and this maximum is only attained by
the train running between London
and Edinburgh. In France the max
imum Is a triiie over sixty-three Kilo.
meters an hour ION the rapid train be-
tween Paris and Bordeaux). In Ger
many 10 Is sixty-three kilometers an
hour, and in the United States sixty
seven kilometers an hour.
The fate Of nations and men often
turn on the merest trifles. 1t would
be curious II the destiny OF England
and Egypt was to be materially al
fected by the presence of two warts
on the cheek OF Khartoum ships
carpenter. In his address to the Sou
danese, Ell Madhi wrote; HAS not
God himself given me the signs OF my
mission-the two warts on the left
cheek which are spoken OF in His
book ," This cogent reasoning would
seem 10 have had its effect, for the Of
ticers OF the Kordofan army declare
that the Mahdi ''has on his right
cheek q wart and other signs which