Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-14
NEWS AND NOTES.

British Guiana is making large ship
ments of gold to England, and the pros
poets are that the shipments will rival
in value the great exports OF sugar, mo
lasses and rum
Russia has one doctor to 1926 people.
In France and Great Britain there is one
physician to every 400 inhabitants;
Switzerland, one to 1900; Austria, Ger
many and Norway, one to 800. The
United States citizens require doctor
for every 900 people.
Railway churches are to be attached to
the trains in South Russia. Owing to
the long distances travelled, and the con.
slant work, the officials claim that they
have no chance of attending divine ser
vice, so carriages fitted up as churches
will run on Sundays and fete days.
professional caterer claims that he
knows how TO make twenty-five kinds of
entrees from shell fish, nineteen from
poultry and game, eighteen from fish,
fifteen from beef, and sixteen from vege-
tables. Other viands supply his inspira-
tion for many more apetlZing dishes.
During the last few years some at
tie mpts have been made to cultivate cot
ton in Mexico, especially near Monterey
The experiments appear to have been
fairly successful, and stock company
has now been organized in Monterey for
the purpose of going into the cultivation
OF cotton on a large scale. The incorpo
rators expect to make fortune in few
years.
The light from an electric lamp.tower
in Davenport, Iowa, falls full upon a
flower garden about 100 feet away, and
during the last summer the owner has OBJ
served that lilies which have usually
bloomed only In the day have opened in
the night, and that morning glories have
Enclosed their blossoms as soon as the
electric light fell on them.
Imitation amber is being largely used
in Germany for the mouthpieces of pipes,
owing to the DEAFNESS and scarcity of the
real article. From time immemorial am
Der has been chiefly found on the Konigs-
berg coast Of Prussia, partly by drag
| cling and partly by mining, The Palm
nicken mines yield about 5000 cwt an
nually, and large pieces of amber produce
f6 per kilogram q lbs.) when taken from
the mine. Most of this goes to Vienna,
where the largest msnufactury of amber
mouthpieces exists.
The mania for collecting postage
stamps seems Ia be gaining more ground
than ever in France, writes the Paris cor
respondent of the London Daily ,Tele.
graph, Among the most famous collec-
tors in France is man who has over q
million postage stamps preserved in
thirteen richly bound volumes, and an
other who keep two clerks employed In
classifying his enormous collection
Added to this, there are in Paris about
one hundred and fifty who'll sale firms
employed in the trade, and one of the
best known of these has lately offered
from EGO to f40 for certain stamps. Tus-
can postage stamps dated before 1860
will be paid for at the rate of &c each,
while stamps FROM Mauritius for the year
lS41 fetch ESQ, the French stamps Of 1S49
are quoted az FL each.
The vastness Of the British Indian en-
pire is ourlously illustrated by the enor.
nous records ef mortality, which are
taken quite as matter Of course by the
sanitary commissioners report. Thus
as the Times of Iudia points out, in the
report for Bengal during the last year, it
Is incidentally stated as matter of NO
particular moment that In Orlssa alone nc
fewer than $4,000 persons must have per
ished through the effects OF a cyclone
|, aud storm wave without any record OF
; their death being kept. The chowkidars
who should have reported the event to
, the government, were swept away with
the villages; no one was left to tell the
tale. Again, cholera ragged in 80, 900 vii
lagos, causing l73,767 deaths, while / :
! 042, O42 persons died from fever. Alto
gether, 100000 of deaths were regis
} tered in Bengal, exclusive OF the 80, GOA
, caused by the cyclone. On the other
, hand, there 100000 births to counter.
balance the loss of population.
Two ancient Egyptian perfumes have
been reconstructed through the researches
, OF young French professor at LYONS.
/ who has devoted himself to STUDYING
Egyptlan sculpture and the plants of the
, Nile valley BY hunting through the
: papyrus texts and the Inscriptions ON the
: walls OF the temple lavatories he has
found the recipes for the manufacture of
'tasi" and "kyDhi.n The former was !
. temple perfume, used to anoint the
statue OF the Egyptian Venus. ''Kyphi'i
was more Important, and besides being
USED at home for the rites Of Isis and
scraps, was imported into Greece and
home AFTER the conquest OF Egypt. ID
.hen became the tavoTlte perfume among
ene luxurious Greeks and Romans, who
We're anointed with "kyphin after The
, bath, and were sprinkied with ths
: essence during the grand banque,s, while
sometimes it was used to perfume the
wine. Vne
The abundance OF the salt formations in
Nevada is illustrated by the fact thar In
Lincoln county there is deposit OF nure
: rock salt which is exposed for a length ~
Two miles, a width OF half a mile, and a
OF unknown depthi in places canons are
cut through it to depth Of sixty feet,