Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-18
NEWS AND NOTES.

1t is estimated that the prune crop in
Santa Clara county, California, this sea-
son is worth Sl,20O,000
The streets and squares of Berlin con-
tain upward of 49, 900 trees, and the
number is constantly increasing.
Complete returns of the French census
show the population to be, in round
numbers, 3S,000 000--an increase of $780,
900 in Ave years.
A deposit of blood agate containing
stones large enough to be sawed into
slabs for mantels, has been found in
Utah, near the Grand river.
1t will be only few years when prairie
chickens and quail will be seen no more
in Iowa. Ten years ago boys used to
shoot quail on the outskirts of Burlington,
Iowa.
Masonic lodges composed exclusively
OF women are SAID by q late Paris publ
cation TO be carried on in France numer-
ously, and with the completest of cere-
monial.
Instead of "much obliged" "thauks,"
or "thanks awlully much" the Anglo
dudes in New York now say 'tbeholden, :"
or Every much beholden to you" US the
latest and catching
A hundred years ago Moet & Chandon
thought 5000 bottles of champagne in one
year an enormous production. Their
successors-oneo only of many firms-now
bottle about 100000 dozen.
An opening tor school teacher is re-
ported by the Elmira On. - Gazette in q
town (Colesyile) where the trustee
wants to give the successful applicant 4
salary of So Il week, and charge her 81
! board.
The tax on iron ore adds about So a
ton to the cost Of steel rails The GOV
ernment doesn't need this money; the
treasury Golfers are running over. The
workingmen who make the rails do need
the money. Why not take the tax off of
the raw material and lay the foundation
for au advance in wages?
Orientals do not prepare coffee for
drinking purposes as we do. Arabs
make II from the unroRsted beans. The
sultan of Turkey formerly, if not now,
had beverage made out of the dried
pulp aud pericarp for his own use, while
some OF his subjects prepare decoction
from the dried leaves of the coffee tree
For TINS purpose the leaves are prepared
by a process similar to that for tea
leaves, and great many suppose that
the leaves SO treated contain larger
proportion of caffeine than the beans.
The smallest baby In Connecticut is a
York state youngster, born two months
ago at Long Lake in the Adirondacks
She Is the child of David X aud Emily p.
MIX, who are visiting in New Haven, and
weighs two and one-half pounds. She is
well formed, sound Of lung and appetite,
is thirteen inches long, her wrist Ii seven.
eighths of an inch in circumference, her
hand is one inch across the back, her
ankles one and oue-fourth inches In cir
cumference, and her fsot is one a. one
fourth inches long. Her eyes are blue.
and ner hair is thick and dark.
A carpet merchant in Vienna has ouri-
GUS collection OF ancient wooden and linen
cloths, including more than three hundred
specimens Many Of them have been
taken from tombs, and are stretched on
iolios OF cardboard to preserve them
some OF the fragments are only a foot
square, but the larger ones make up an
entire Roman toaa, which is said TO be
the only one IN the world. There are n
great many embroidered dresses and A
utal OF shifting and c:ewel work. Double
ouaih sutton seems to have been as familiar
10 the Egyptian seamstresses, sewing with
none needles, as 1t is to modern women
there are some very quaint and unusual
ueslgos In the old collection OF cloths. hut
tnere are also some very common things
~ IS curious TO find that the common blue
cteck pattern of our busters and wort
mouse aprons was In general use among
the Egyptians more than thousand wears
ago. 80 .