Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-20
NEWS AND NOTES.

49, w.
The nMrs. Cleveland Chrysanthemum"
IL this years. Seeding, white aud very
fine.
Railroad sleepers Of cast glass by the
Selmen's method are possibility Of the
near future.
A new absurdlty is to put Grape bow
on the collar Of pet dog whose owner
Is In mourning.
A season OF German opera costs every
owner OF box In the New York Metro
politan fully $4,000.
Women in Japan no longer blacken
their teeth, and they now smile In all
their native comllness.
Flve-cent fares on the New York ele-
waited railroads have Increased the num-
Der of passengers 20, 600 a day.
The number Of deadly sins has been re.
duced to Ave by Baptist pr acher OF
Liverpool, England, and this is his new
catalogue. Theatre.going, caTd-play Ing,
novel-reading, dancing, drinking.
The water OF the so-called medical lake
near Spokane Is so charged VITA certain
salts that 1t ia like I've, and Is used In
making soap. When the wind blows the
waves soon make sospsuds Of the water,
the froth, or lather, plling In masses along
the shore.
During severe thunderstorm at Wells
Vile, Mo, last August, a Vivid flash OF
lightning photographed on the smooth
white ceiling Of the Methodist church the
face of an old man with long flowing hair
and beard. IL IL described as u weird
and shadowy portrait, and the super
stltlous say that II is the photograph OF
the storm king
new cure for consumption has been
originated by German doctor He
makes his patients pass the night in the
open air Of the Thurnglan forest, well
wrapped up, and sleeping In light ham
mOcks so as TO avoid the damp from the
ground. A Waterman keeps off any IN
truders who might disturb the nights
rest, and the experiment has proved won
deriully successful.
There have been some very large pur-
chases OF diamonds by Americans in Lon.
don during the past season, owing TO
| their great cheapness. The market there
IL flooded with stones from the South
African fields, where the yield Is said to
have reached fully a ton per month.
Stones of this South African varty sell as
low as $50 a carat, and in rough at 81 or
| So carat,
The American Exposition building In
| London IL to be 2l0 feet wide and 1000
feet long, There are TO be several smaller
structures, including an art gallery capa-
BILE of holding 5000 pictures. The main
building will cover five acres, and is TO be
constructed Of steel rails ana corrugated
iron. The use OF steel rails In structures
OF this kind Is new idea, but has re-
ceived the approval OF eminent engineers.
1t enables the builders to put up or take
down Il building 80 constructed In very
short time,
About eight months ago negro living
at Humboldt, Tenn, had personal en-
counter with sable brother aud was
badly wounded In the face by thrust
from an umbrella. The wound was sew
ed up and In Il few weeks was entirely
healed. The negro raised a good crop
this year, working all The time Several
days ago he began TO suffer considerable
pain from the old wound, and experienced
great difficulty In opening his mouth, FL
nally he sent for physician, who decided
that the blow from the umbrella had
probably fractured the bone OF his face,
which created the trouble. He made an
iucision just below the cheek bone aud
extracted piece of the umbrella handle
about five inches In length. The handle
had penetrated the face and broken of
The broken piece was about three fourths
OF an Inch In diameter.
The force exerted by growing plants
Is very great. Fungi are composed Of
soft tissues, yet growing mushroom has
been known TO lift large stone. The
rootlet OF pines and cedars growing on
the sides Of rocky declivties penetrate
narrow erevices in the rocks, and finally
by their growth loosen hugh masses and
send them tumbliug down the cliff
= Years ago President Clarke of the
Massachusetts Agricultural llege put o
I pumpkin into harness and demonstrated
y that " was capable of lifting thousands
OF pounds. Ia u cemetery in Hanover
seed terminated In crevice beside a
tombstone which contained twenty cubic
D feet The Seeding, now a small tree, has
. lifted the stone over five inches. Not the
least wonderful OF phenomena OF this
class Is the force eXerted by radicle OF
the terminating plant. Darwin hat
= demonstrated that II eXerts force which
D in proportion to its q ze, is astonishing
This force the pantlet utilizes 10 senainl
It's roots into the soil, and the strangest
= part OF the strange phenomenon is that
n the little soft radlcle is capable OF pene
trntlng soil very much harder tnan Itself
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