Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21

tage Tor unl0aQmg. Car tracks VIII run
| all through the structure, which will
have storage capacity of / 500 900 tons
! of coal. Work commences next Mon
! day.
In the South Carolina state house of rep
resentatiyes joint resolution has been
introduced providing for the submission
to the people of an amendment to the
state constitution, making the citizen S
ability to read that instrument, as also
the constitution of the United States,
and to write his own name, o condition
sine qua non of his voting at any election,
state or national. According to the re-
port, there is no doubt of the bill IS
passage.
The postage stamp collection mania
cannot be said to be dying out. At a re-
cent auction in London the following
prices for rare specimens were realized:
The blue block Cape error, Els; the
Lady Mcleod - Trinidad local, Els l3S;
the three-lyrc Tuscany on the original
envelope, f12 lbs; the New Brunswick
shilling, G5; Nova Scotia shilling, 81 IS;
the penny black Great Britain, with V
r. in corner, e5 I5s All the colonial
stamps realized good prices, showing that
the interest in varieties has largely in
creased.
1t is stated that there are more ducks
in China than in all the world outside of
it, They are kept on every farm, on the
private roads, and on all the lakes, rivers
and smaller streams There are many
boats on each of which rs many as 1000
are kept Their eggs constitute one of
the most important articles of food. They
are Matched in establishments fitted up
for that purpose. Some of them turR
out as many as 80 200 young ducks every
year. Sailed and smoked ducks are
sold in all the towns, and many of them
are exported TO the countries where
Cinnamon reside.
The number of animals killed in Siberia
every year for their fur is enormous. At
the last fair of Irbit, which is market
for only a part of the furs exported from
Siberia, no less than 3,1S0 900 furs of
squirrels were offered for sale. OF
these l ,olS 900 were killed in the for
ests of Yeneseisk, 455 200 i'll the
Altai mountains, 200 600 in Yakutsll and
800 600 in Transatlantic. A consider
able number of the furs of squirrels
killed III the last two provinces are eX-
ported directly both to China and to
Russia without passing through Irbit. 1t
is worthy of note that this year there was
considerable decrease in the furs of the
black squirrel. Only half million of
these furs were brought to the fair, as
against more than a million in 1887. OF
other furs there were II 600 blue fox,
from Obdorsil and Berezoff $40 900
marmot, chiefly from the AltaB 3e, coo
polecat, 10 ,000 badger, / $3.50 ,4D Fare,
2000 fox and a number OF bearAnd fox
skins. q =
New York viii want more wafer, soon :
y syndic;.t of capitalists odSISs TO supply
so 600 900 gallons daily to La loves p0pr'
ton of the city at 8 cost lfsf7t excegGsSz q!
per 600 900 gallons, and t6saasagsz th6Fs
system in operation in five years. The
scheme is gigantic i'll its proportions. 1t
includes Brooklyn, Jersey City, Eliza
beth, Newark, Paterson and several
small New Jersey towns. The idea is to
take the headwaters OF the Passaic and
its tributaries, pump into reservoirs III
the Orange mountains and distribute
from there to the various cities and
towns, carrying under the Hud-
son by tunnel The water shed of
the Passaic is nearly three times the size
of the Croton, and the distance from the
city is much less j The reservoir sites are
800 feet above tide water, which is con-
siderably higher than the Central Park |
reservoir. The syndicate claims capac-
ity of 800 900 200 gallons daily for the |
Passaic water shed and great superiority |
for the.water. 1t has secured also nearly |
or quite all the riparian and water rights !
on th&ffver through an ancient corpora
ton in=which they We're vested nearly 100 |