Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-13
NEWS AND NOTES.

dozen defaulters have stolen So 600.
600 from Philadelphlans daring the past
five years
Barnum has offered $50, 900 for the skin
Of n sea serpent. He will get it. Tho
skin Of unicorn, or OF the dragon with
seven heads and ten horns, ought to be
procuable for that amount Of money.
The live mochette bug, n Brazilian bee.
tie, has been introduced in Boston as an
article Of personal adornment. The bugs
shown In a jewelers. window there are
harnessed In gold bands, and sell for SIS n
bug, harness and chain included.
Mrs John W. Mackay is said to be the
American woman recently refused an in
yitation to attend the queens ball. not
withstanding her application was in
dorsed by the prince Of Wales. Possibly
that was the reason Of her rejection.
Some one with mathematical mind
has figured 1t out that all the gold on
earth to-day, in whatever shape-that is.
mined gold, or, to put 1t palmer, the gold
In use IN ell nations aud the product az
all ages-if welded In one mass, would
be contained In cube of less than 80
feet
saloon-keeper in an Arizona town has
on exhibition the heads of seventeen
Apaches preserved in alcohol. lhe ex.
hibit affords practical exempliticatIon
OF the great truth that it is easier to settle
the Apache difficulty by putting the In.
dians into alcohol than by putting alcohol
into the Indians.
Mrs. Kate Chase whose ilvely SAVINGS
are again quoted in Washington, re-
| piled to some one who spoke ahout
woman suffrage: "Take nv word for n
the great body of women will always do
Whatever they want to do; whenever
tney want to vote they will vote, and no
power on earth will stop them.n
An immense quantity of iewelry is now
made from thin layers of gold alloy upon
an ingot of brass, formed while it is hot
On the ingot cooling 1t is forced between
steer rollers into long thin ribbon, each
part OF which is OF course still covered
WIN the gold alloy, incidentally thin, but
Which wears for years, and can be mould
ed into any shape.
Snakes that eat poisonous snakes nv
choice always catch them by the nose. so
they cannot open their mouths. Then
tney swallow them, nose and head first |
ana the reptile never has chance to |
olte' King snakes, the black snakes |
vain whlte marks, do that way. There |
Is another snake, OF dull lead color, in
Inc west indies, that does the same Way |
j. v Dexter Of Denver has a pair of
ancient pistols which he claims are the
ones used by Burr when he tonight the
duel with Hamilton. They are flint locks.
tne barrels are Of laminated steel, heavily
CHASED the handles are of mahogany. M
laiu win gold and silver. The case IN
Which they rest also contains a flask. I'm
mold. ''9' . Ouiie'
Two young men of Warwick, Orange
county, N. T., went fishing at Waway-
anda lake few days since. In building
near the shore they heard some one play.
ing on an Old violin. They liked the time
OF tne instrument, and finally one of them
bought 1t for $40 The owner then tool-
1t to New York for repairs, and was told
there that II was genuine Cremona. He
was shown that it bore the mark of Sirad-
various, the celebrated Italian maker
ana was assured that the Instrument
would sell easily at from $1,000 to $4,000
Under the law amended nv the last
connecticut legislature, twentv.three
banks nave reported to the state conn.
troller that they have on hand 1919 de-
post accounts, aggregatiug SIO3 .g0G on
(an average of Sl02.66 each), which have
remained unclaimed twenty years or more
rms amount will be supplemented before
tne legislature meets by returns from
,sWenty-three other but smaller banks, and
~ Is estimated that the aggregate show
lns vi unclaimed deposits will not fall
short of 100000.
according to the revised report of the
ulIector OF the mint, Dr. James p. kim
% oaii, LOT the fiscal year which closed June
SV, tne production of silver in the United |
otates was for the year 1885 S5l GOO. 600 l
as against S4e,sOO,000 for the year 1884
gu increase OF ~ 100000. OF the total
p1EuuS'ioh the United States mints
Uon IN dollars" 1867, 767, or SO
uary /, 1856, S2lS, 259, 76l in silver dni-
lars, OF which the treasury has. nncov-
ereu by certificates, ST., 58s, 82b and the
people mold either in coin or cer,iAcotas '
banks. >" 'ne hational !
Inc late renowned trotter. uauh,o n
.ohlan, is buried at Chester, N Y mis- u
Ienarkaole animal Is the founder ~
amily Oh trotters that has added mann G
unions OF dollars to the taxable nron, :
Ivy VI lne Union. In addition he has
sven tne people OF the L I'd States q d
V s, t1at mas no equal ON the globe q
A u the death of the widow of HambIe. T,
!, In tSe owner the property passed out i
u tne control of the Rysdvk FANNY ana T
Tow ola Hambletonian's grave IL de- DO :
'erteu' a suggestion is made that Iovers
y y good horses should have r ala, 4
riOn at around the grave and an eoues. q,
cribed. ~ pIoPerly In ~
Chicago elevators contained las, So. n
Jay soS evening SCOOPS bushels of Wheat 1b Y
7 oSts ous9els of corn, sl2, Az bushels Y
us GSss 100 bushels Of rye, aud IS 7iS
usheIs Of % al barley total, 1904 $50 "
o. 1851 bushels year ago TsS.nst |
az LAST ss.E week the stock increased CAS- r
90 o., bushels, Including an Increase e'n 81 re
T ashels bushels oi dn Of wheat and 9o7 cf9 \
eeretary of the Chicago hoard o va t9e II
ni,aa 'Se visible supply of grain IN the tbe I
,nlteu states and Canada as ~ 20 o els L
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