Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-26
NEWS AND NOTES.

!, horse racing OF late. It is now the mos
$ fashionable sport Of the republic.
The Granite Mountain mine In Moutan,
has paid twenty-five dividends in flfteeI
1 months amounting to 81 300, 900.
There are twenty-seven mountains IL
J Nevada over 10000 feet high, wilson.
Peak, at 1906 feet, towering above al
= the rest.
Fifty thousand tons Of SCOT are taker
IRON London chimneys In a year. IL 1,
estimated TO be worth 5000 600 and 1.
USED as q fertilizer, half ton TO an acre
maker OF badges In New York is &C
cumulsting large stock OF badges with
flames G.. Blaine, 1885," inscribed on
them, and already finds demand fol
them.
The chair moth" which creates havoc
mid fine head Of hair, rapidly destroy
ing 1t and creating badness, is being
talked OF in New York and Brooklyn, and
} the cheap barber shops are being blamed
for the propagation.
Bishop Whlpple's escape from the Rio
railroad disaster recalls the fact that a
change OF plan at the last moment alone
p evented mis- being on the train that went
down at Ashtabula, and likewise on the
sleeper that was hurled over the Mendoza
bluhs few years ego.
The farmers of Yolo county, CAL, are
using the refuse Of the wineries with
good results for a fertilizer. After the
grapes have been crushed, the seeds,
stems and skins are gathered up and car
rled off by the farmers, who dump them
on their lands and plow them under.
The citizens of Centreville, N. Y, say
that there can be no doubt that Jane Col.
houn OF that place is LOG years old. She
was born, married, and had lived all her
days In the district, and her age has been
V flned beyond question. She frequently
walks TO Highland, four miles distant.
Deadwood justice of the peace was
called upon to marry young couple.
and did so with his accustomed sang.
troid. Hardly an hour had elapsed be
fore female friend of the new-made
bride came and explained that the latter
had been married to spite a lover with
whom she had quarreled and had since
made up the tiff, and therefore desired to
be divorced. She could not be accom-
modated.
In Glendlve, M. T., the men have or.
gsnized club. 1t has finely fitted nm
rooms in the second story of brick
block furnished with q billiard table,
cards, checkers, chess, and all similar
games Cigars are kept upon stand, to
when the members help themselves, de.
posting nickel in box for that pur-
pose. Neither gambling nor drinking is
allowed In the rooms. They are omen
every afternoon and evening.
According to the returns published by
the statistical officer Of the German en-
pre- The number OF recruits who were un-
able to read or write who Joined the Ger
man army last year was 1867, or Is per
cent. OF the men Incorporated. la 1884
the total was 1851, or 81 per cent: I'm
1883 1t was 1928, or l 81 per cent. In 1882
1t was 1892, or 32 per cent; in 1880 II
was 24O6, or 80 per cent, and in 1875 IL
was 1911, or 81 per cent. The largest
proportion OF illiterate recruits were from
the districts of Marienwerder, Bromberg
and Posen.
II has been predicted that with five
years the magnesium light Will be as IA
millar sight in many places as the cleo
trio Lights to-day. Only the high cost of
magnesium has hitherto kept it from ex-
tensive use, and its price, which was $40
pound few years ago, is said to have
been reduced to IS pound by new Ger
man process, with the prospect of still
turthe cheapenlng. A wire of moderate
size equals the light of seventy.nve stea
ne candles, making the cost at present
little more than that of gas, while no
lsive works or street mains are re-
for It's use. The magnesium is
burned In lamps provided with
rk movements to feed the ribbon
regularly.
time past rumors have been
Constantinople of the discoy-
ulous treasure In the district
Asia Minor, and the attention
lment having been called to |
he report has been proved TO |
lndation, 1t seems that an |
rename OF Kupelyau noticed |
Nabitants OF Sivas dis.
coins, which, on be-
their origin, they
nd In region In
rds. Inquiries,
70 said to have
e, whose Interior
{ Jewels Of all |
Id coins.
n government,
ties inadequate
'roleum from
D the Black
as for the
'ipe line,n
OF trans.
III = year.
Gears, and
laying II
per ton,
sporta-
long,
ering
ross