Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-16
NEWS AND NOTES.

In a museum an Aplzona town en-,
preserved the heads of seventeen
Apaches.
On August "a, 1886, Robert Crafty Of
Prospect, Marion county, o., will be 10s
years old
Nine one-legged men played game OF
base bail against nine one-armed men In
Southern Illinois.
The annual production OF sewing ma.
chimes allows one for every 800 civilized
people on the globe.
1t is claimed that within radius of
100 miles around Asheville, N. c., every
known mineral can be found.
Mr.. Tilden's mantle is botherinQ the
brethren at the East more or lees. 1t
would fit most Of them about as circus
tent would barber pole.
A resident at Ottawa, Ont, is being
prosecuted Tor maintaining a nuisance
via, lot of bees which are in the habit
OF visiting neighbors and leaving their
cards in the shape OF stlngs.
In Ada county, Indian Territory, the
bounties on rabbits at cents apiece for
July amounted to 80, 49l 60, representing
60, S8g of the animals killed. Men are
making as high as 5000 month in the
business.
Two young men of Warwick, N. Y, re
Gently purchased from farmer an old
violin for $40. They took it to New
York city, where they were told 1t was q,
real Stradiysrius, and was worth nearly,
$1,000.
The first city in Europe where electric
lily has been entirely substituted for gas
for lighting the streets, is the town of
Hernosand, In switzerland. The motive
power is water, which Is very plentiful
there, rendering the light cheaper than
gas.
An immense quantity of jewelry is now
made from thin layers of gold ALLOW upon
an lngot OF brass, formed while 1t is hot.
On the ingot cooling it is forced between
steel rollers into a long, thin ribbon,
each part OF which is OF course still
covered with the gold alloy, intellectually
thln, but which wears for years, and can
be nodded into any shape.
Rocky Mountain sheep use their huge
horns to assist them in descending from
one eminence to another. If, in skipping
from crag to crag and from ridge to
ridge, 1t should become necessary to
make jump downward, no matter what
tne height, they roll themselves up into
KIND OF ball, vault into the air, and,
turning a succession Of somersaults, keep
the ball rolling, so to speak, until they
strike on their powerful horns below.
The amount of matter in solution an
nnally poured into the Gulf of Mexico by
the Mississippi is estimatedas l5O, 900 600
tons, at which rate one foot of land over
the whole basin would be removed in four
thousand years. Similar calculations ap-
plled TO the st. Lawrence, La Plata and
the Amazon reach the resalt that one
hundred tons per square mile are removed
from the American continent every year.
Again, 1T Is calculated that not less than
one cubic mile of earth is deposited every
year In the Atlantic from America, Africa,
Europe and Asia.
Pittsburgh mechanic thinks he has
invented device which will revolution
ize the barb-wire fence business. The
Invention is for barking metallic strips
ABOUT three-quarters OF an inch wide.
Inc machine outs barb ranging from
one,quarter to one-sixteenth of an inch in
thickness machine capable of prodnc-
ing sixty miles of this barbed metallic
strip per day can be buils for $500. Ma
cnlnes fol the same purpose now in use.
Wnlch are practically owned by a monop.
oily, cost $4,000 apiece, and are only
capable OF producing thirty miles of wire
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