Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-25
NEWS AND NOTES.


Australia, next June.
Seven-eighths of the peppermint of the
world Is raised In Wayne county, NY.
Wheat is the only crop which can be
produced In Southern California without
irrigation.
Toronto is not good city for doctors.
According to the lncome-tax list just pub
llshed, only one man in the city receives
$4,000 yearly, anc that includes "lnterests
n investments" Onl four Others make
as much as $4,000 per annum.
In using the ragged-edge writing paper,
which is now 'the thing" large en-
velupes must be used to be in the fashion,
sealed with sealing wax. On the paper
must be the writer's Initials in raise
gold or silver in fac smile of the writer's
handwriting.
basling machine that is said to be
able to do the work of fifteen girls Is be-
ing tried IN large clothing house in Bos.
ton, and the employees OF the house, both
girls and men, are considerably excited
thereby. The opposition to this labor.
saving machine is likely TO develop into
strike, AT present the matter is In the
hands OF the district executive BOARD
The scarcity Of small coin throughout
the country has led Superintendent Fox
OF the Philadelphia mint to ask Assistant
Secretary Falrchild for permission to re.
issue the old fve-cent nickel and one.
cent bronze pieces now stored In the
treasury vaults If the coins are re.
coined, as Mr., Fox thinks they will be.
they will first be cleansed by dipping in
an acid bath
| An experienced traveller says that in a
sleeping car the upper berth Is cooler in
summer, because there Is more air stir
ring In the top OF the car, and warmer in
winter than the lower berth, because the
warm air rises, and there are not many
draughts. He might have added an
other recommendation. II the berth
breaks down you fall on top OF the lower.
berth fellow every time.
The town OF Whately, Franklin county.
Mass has little school.house and a
tavern. In the tavern is bar. Some
lbody discovered not ong ago that the
bar was less than 600 feet from the
school-house, and, II the townspeople
were to regard the law, one or the other
must go. So they held town meeting
last week, and, by a large vote, decided
to keep the bar aud turn the school into
/ private one.
! new style of dinner card imported to
New York last week is continuation of
the take-oh on the present craze for Egyp-
tlan antiquities. The size is SKA inches
and the color is q mixture OF orange and
black, giving the card water soaked ap.
pearance, The edges are ragged AID
torn. ON each are Egyptian hsu es. An
other new styie OF diuner card Is hand
painted In metallic colors, mounted on
| which
shades. Everything must be ragged
edge.
Spanish archaeological society recent.
~ held It's annual meeting at Asambla dur
ing the period OF the fair. On this coca.
SION prize Was to be awarded @ the
member who had made the most rare and
valuable discovery in the year. One OF
the company rose TO his feet
aud said; "Gvntemen, this ron
blade which have the honor OF
presenting TO you is a part OF the sword OF
Damocles,n General amszement. Pres.
emily another voice was heard to say:
"Bnt !, gentlemen, have found the horse
hair by which 1t was suspended.p
May OF the Persian middle.class
women al highly educated according 70
Oriental ideas. They read and often
write poetry; they sing and play as a rule
we'll, aud are mistresseS of ali the arts Of
plain and fancy needlework; cooking is i
second nature o ihemi pastry making
and eontectlonery are among their pleas.
ures The Accomplishments Of the poor
ones are naturally ~ y more useful kind
. They are good cooks aud bread-bakers ;
J they make the clothes of the entire
! household; they often are able 10 add
largely TO the daily income by theh knowl.
edge OF some trade or business, and none
OF them are IDLE,
Mr. Il. T. Elder, the puhlisherof Liter
atv Lite, the magaElne with which Miss
Rose r., CLEVELAND has associated herself,
has returned 10 Ghlcngo from Holland
Patent, N. Y whittier he was summoned
hy Miss Cleveland II Is understood thar
be satisfied Miss Cleveland regarding his
tate hnaucial difficulties, and She will con
! tmne TO edit Literary Life. Mr. Elder
s'a ed IA ooeversstlou to,daythat he was
urged by Miss Clevelsnd to set an asso-
le'a,S editor sov her, that ne lad opgosai