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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02
500 TONS OF PILLS A YEAR.
An Estimate of the Number Consumed
Each week by the Human Kaco.
Nav yorH I'll and EYrrass

An Estimate of the Number Consumed
Each week by the Human Kaoe.
New York Nail and Express.
"There are eleven and one-half tons OF
postage stamps sold at the New
York postofice every year." remarked q
manufacturing chemist to Mail and Ex-
press rep orter this morning. Snow
guess how many tons Of pills are made In
this country every year"
"Whst have postage stamps to do with
pills"
"Nothing whatever, save THAT each
is useful in its way. only cited the
.postoffice vend to give yeu an idea OF the
great weight OF mall things when con-
sldered in bulk. Give it up? Well, as
nearly as can be figured they will amount
to over ffty-two tons year. A ton a
week is q fair estimate. In England alone
there are 100000, 900 consumed every
year. That reduced to tons would make
about forty. How many are used in
other countries IL would be hard to
saw, but the total estimate would not
come far from $50 tons. Say 500 tons
are used year By the entire word.
The hsbit of pill-taking is ancient. IL is
the most convenient form for carrying
and taking and Is the most popular.
Formerly they were made by hand
Now they are produced by machinery
There are few manufacturers who make
1000 900 pills q week. Big business
isn't it7it
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02
THE Rich DO Grow RICasR.
Facts which shsw Il l. All HumSug 70 Say
They Don't.

They Don't.
The Forum.
Near the close of 1885 there died In
New York city ,izen Of that place. who
left to his children fortune estimated at
s1s2, ZOO, 900, besides makiog q number
of minor requests. II will help Us 10
form an ides Of the magnitude Of this
sum il we consider that 1t would have
80 fficed to give Christmas present OF
$40 to every iuheoitsnt Of the city, or at
the rate Of SOC 70 every family Of FIVE
persons, supposing the population at
that time to have been !, 800. 900. A po-
liticsl committee Of 100, appointed IN the
same city in Octobsr last, comprised
eight members whose estimated wealth
reached an aggregate Of somewhat more
than S30o,eo0,000, and ct least two
of the most colossal fortunes were un-
represented in this number. Estates
rising into the tens of millions are to De
found in various other cities, and
taking the country through, one
might designate twenty-five per-
sons whose united wealth, according
to current estimates. Is not less than two
thirds of 100000, 900, or about per
cent. of the total wealth CT the United
States, supposing this to have increased
over so per cent. since the census OF $50.
Were all the property in the country held
| In equally large amounts, the 4 whole
would barely suffice for $500 proprietors;
or, supposipg these to families averaging
four persons each beside themselves, II
would supply population triie larger
than that of the little town Of Yonkers,
as stated in the last census.
There are no authentic statistics show.
ing the distribution Of property among
different portions OF our people; but
whatever the facts may be as to the com
parstive diffusion of such wealth as Is
held BY the classes outside the circle Of
the extremely rich, it will hardly be dis
puted that the latter now hold much
larger proportion Of the total wealth O.
the country than WAS held by like per
centage of the people twenty-five or thir
ty years ago, for the proofs that thiE
Is the case lie upon the sur
face and thrust themselves upon genera
observation. Moreover, 1 see no reason
to believe that the tendency to increasing
accumulation at the upper end OF the
possessory scale has reached or Is ap.
prosching its limit. A great fortune, Will
ordinarily careful management, possess
es an enormous power of accumulation
Even when invsste in good securities "a
very moderate rate Of Interest," fortune
that rises into the millions affords ample
means of making yearly additions to thu
principal. II invested in real estate II
any of our growing cities, i
yields increasing income from de
csde to decade as the land advances ir
value, putting it in the power OF thu
owner to lay aside an increasing surplus
while, in the hands of the shrewd specu
lator, not over scrupulous in his deal.
ings, its power Of increase may be still
greater. In January, 1880, the New Yorl
Commercial Advertiser reported thu
rumored additions during the precedin.
year to ten or twelve Of "the grea
fortunes identified with Wall street" q
$50, O0o, 0C0.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02
LITTLE BUT MIGHTY.
From the Ptolemys to the oleveisnds-
Queen viotoria's Altitude.

From the Ptolemys to the Olevelands-
Queen viotoria's Altitude.
The famous Infamous widow of Egypt,
whose beauty and witchery have been the
talk of the world for 1000 years, was a
little woman, writes Mrs. R. T. Porter in
the New York Press. Shakespeare must
have known it, for he pictures her greedy
curiosity as to the height of Octavia, her
rival in Mark Antony's love. "Bring me
word how tall she is;" and again when
the messenger returns, Ills she as TALL as
men And when told to the contrary,
and also that Octavia's voice was low,
she exclaims delightedly, "Dull OF speech
and dwarfsh?"
Then following another question that
showed the Queen truly, "as cunning as
mems thoughts" "What majesty Is in
her gait? Remember Ii e'er thou
Iook'dst ON majesty" The answer,
IiShe creeps," is q sweet morsel. why
will be shown further on in the case OF
reigning monarch.
The best proof OF Cleopatra's neisnt Is
to be found in her mummy, which meas
ures precisely ffsy-four iEches-tWc
inches less than the President measures
round the waist. Think OF 1t! The last
of the Ptolemys would not make belt
for Mr.. Cleveland. Fifty-four inches
means that the Egyptian Queen was
four and half feet-a yard and hall
or about the height Of an American girl OF
thirteen. Still, one must allow for shrink
are, unpoetical as the association Is.
Granting that Cleopatra has shrink st
least six inches, or half foot, in lie she
could not have been more than rye iee'
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02
The Ed uoation of Girls.


The education, the life of to.day's
women, has untitled them to be mothers,
but the education OF to-day's girls Ia
bringing them to the womanhood more
perfect specimens of their kind, physically
as well as mentslly, strong and healthy
in mind and body, able to endure the
suffering of motherhood; willing to give
a few years Of life to producing new life,
reasoning with well developed faculties
how to makei that new life stronger and
more fit to take yet another step forward.
Nothingis more marked in our progress
than awakening to the need of less con-
fning clothing for the body, less confn-
ing life for the physical strength, less
combining education for the mind. Little
use is there to discuss the relative weight
and size of the masculine and feminine
brain. No arguments pro or con csn
prove anything; those people Of the latter
half Of the next century will know what
we can only speculate on, for the bonds
are burst.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02
Loss Of Speed in Planets and Com sts.

Is the motion Of planetary bodies per-
petual? At first, everything seems to
show that il is. The earth with Its mass
of three thousand trillion tons turns with
q speed thst enables student to 60 bare
headed good many miles without catch
ing cold in the act Of saluting professor,
for long time def1ed all attempts to de-
tecs in 1t loss of speed; but with the fric-
ton of the tides constantly at work such
loss must take place, and now it is very
certain from the calculations Of Adams, the
astronomer, that the earth loses about
an hour in sixteen thousand years, and is
coming to rest, though 1t must be admit
ted rather leisurelY. So, also, the hurry
ing up of comets as they go round the
sun possibly accounted for by retard-
ing action in space which makes it neces.
sary for them to try and make up, as 1t
were, for lost time, and in fact the gen.
eral arguments in the present day are in
favor of what Sir Isaac Newton believed
that the motions Of ell bodies in space
are suffering retardation, and that their
velocity is becoming less and will ulti-
mstely cease.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02
womsn,s Sense Of oemrade.Alp.

Hester NJ. Poole in GOOD House keeping,
The greatest need at present is for con-
certed action among women. Never min
Cling together as men have done, they
are in general as ignorant Of life, its
temptations and possibilities as OF their
own capacities. That women are harder
upon each other than men are upon them
Is the wickedest lie ever taught and one
that the slightest observation ex-
plodes. II has seemed to keep
them apart and prevent independent,
straightforward action. When they be-
gin to get acquainted, as in clubs and
societies, the mutual surprise and de-
light st finding so much ersnestness and
sisterly feeling is something really pa-
thetic. Many shy, stiff, MARROW woman,
expands under the sense of comrsdeship
and sympathy like fower brought from
the cellar into the sunshine, and blossoms
out in wsy as surprising
to herself as it is delightful
to her friends. Like Gloriana
in one of Mrs. WhitneV's stories, she
knew there were "good times in the
world, but never expected to be in ths M"
and now she learns how to contribute
her own snare to them. More than all
other means of growth are these associs-
tions, and the influence of the many act
ing as the one will be the most powerful
factor in the enlightened womanhood
which will be the salvation OF society.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02
SHE WANTED TO BE A MAN.
Eject on q Young woman of Visiting a
Fifth Avenue Club House.

Eject on q Young woman of Visiting a
Fifth Avenue Club House.
"Where do you suppose went this az
ternoon?"
Ii was at one of the leading theaters re.
Gently, on the evening Of day on which
well known club house had been thrown
open to the inspection OF ladies. TAe
speske. was fsshionably dressed womsn
and she WAS talking to one OF her sex in
the same walk Of life.
"I went all through one of the big clubs
Oh Fifth avenue and it was such fun? You
know it was sort of ladies' day to-day,
when the lady relatives and friends of the
members were allowed to go through the
club house. OF course we had to have
tickets. What was it like? 1t made you
wish with ell your heart that you were q
man and belonged to club. On, dear,
it WAS Just too nice for anything. They
had lot OF pictures In one room for u
to look at, but there was such crush
around them we couldn't half see them
tried to look at them until was nesrly
smashed fist, and then we had Jolly
fsnoope' all over the other rooms"
"You don't ssy they let you go every
where7"
almost. At one place there was 8
card which said on It Positively no ad
mittance down these stairs But do you
know I actually saw two or three ladies
go halfway down the stairs and peep over
the railing. 1 went into enc big ROOM
guess it was aslibrary and smoking room
Lovely big open freplaces and such
chairs! Yeu could lean back about q
mile in them; and they we're so soft and
NIGEL Then there were lots and lots Of
smsller rooms, for goodness knows Whist.
and big dining room and kitchen
We took it all in and do think men have
ever so much better times than girls"
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02
sILYER-PLATED RIBBONS.

A new sndiA,tractive Method of Adding q
R.vei Lustre to the sheen of SILK.
New York Mail and E Zprsss.
"Rsther neat, en7"
A Broadway dealer in fancy goods YVES
showing q Mail and Express reporter q
handsome purple ribbon on which his
initials were written in silver letters.
"You want to know how that WAS done ?
Well, I'll tell you. Make solution OF
nitrate of silver, and add little gum to
it, so thst the liquid will not run.
Then, with camel's-hair pencil
or a quill pen, draw any sort OF
Ornamental figure on the silk. After the
drawing is dry hold the ribbon over
vessel containing water, zinc and little
sulphuric acid. In q short time the
silver will be reduced and adhere quite
strongly to the fabric. By this plan 81
most anything can be written on silk. A
picture could be painted in silver and
there is no end to the fanciful designs
that might be made"
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02
Youths Companion.


A writer gives the following directions
for taking pills easily:
II the pill is tasteless, let 1t be taken
lightly between the lips, and q drink OF
water will carry 1t down with no trouble
II disagreeable to the taste, 1t Is better
to plsce the pill as ar back IS possible
on the tongue, and then take good
drauaht of water or any light beverage
Let the most inveterate OF pill haters
give tris simplest of methods fair trial,
and he will be quite an exception II he
does not own his difficulties gone.
Should he, however, remain obdurate,
another plan may be tried; envelep the
pill in small piece Of rice or wafer pa
per, place this in 8 tablespoon, fill up
with water, put the spoon as far back in
the throat as possible, and the whole
mass Will be swallowed with ease.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02
lt.n. Now you can see why she laid such

t.ll. Now you can zee why she laid such
stress on majesty Of gait.
II . woman knows how to clothe and
carly herself, understands and cultivates
q regal bearing, she can apparently ADD
inches to her figure and impress
beholders with Q far greater sense
of msjesty than another with nat
ural advantages indiferently cult
vated. The most notable instance OF q
little woman triumpning over her scarcity
of inches is presented In Queen Vic
toria. Few people who saw Her Majesty
during the jubilee, Notwithstanding heI
age, her accumulation of flesh and her
Indifference to effect, would believe that
she is but four feet ten inches in height
The reason is, her bearing has become
matter Of habit, and though che walks
with difficulty, seated or standing she IL
yet model of majestic depor ment.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02
A Woman's Ago.

A woman, it is said, is no older than
she looks. Many women, however, look
double their actual sge by reason Of
those functionaEa disorders which wear
upon the nerves and vitality, and which,
If unchecked, 6fe liable to change the
most robust Homan te,a weak, broken
down invalid. DR.. Pierce's "Favorite
Prescriptions will positively cure every
irregularity and weakness peculiar to
the sex, and requires but single trial
to prove its SURPRISING merit. Price re-
duced to one dollar. By druggists.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02

Eighty-three members Of the National
House of Representatives were Union
soldiers, and almost all OF them are en-
titled to wear the Grand Army button.
The leading Grand Army state, as repre-
sented in Congress, is Kansas, all OF her
seven Representatives being members OF
the order.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02
Case Dismissed.

COfTespondence OF the GazeHe.
BRYAN, TEX, March Sit will be re-
membered that at the present term OF
the District court Afford Bell and Ben
Taylor, both eolored, were indicted ior
theft Of hogs over the value OF $40. iselr
case was called this morning ana ols.
posed Of, by motion of the defendants
counsel to dismiss, which motion WAS
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02

One of the newspaper men in Congress,
and one of the youngest members OF the
House as well, Ia Jacob Yost, editor OF
the Valley Virginian OF Ssaunton. His
boyish face is innocent OF beard, and ne
looks half dc zen years younger than e
really is. - .
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02
A Bad Slide.

Correspondence OF the Gazette.
CARRoLLToN, Tx, March sl.-A big
slide in the west bank Of the Elm Fork
has cut Oh all trains temporarily. The
west bent Ct the railroad bridge has
slipped out OF place and the bridge is
badly wrecked.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02

A phiIsnthropist in London has estab-
lished q spectacle mission where poor
people can have their eyes tried and get
spectacles
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02
LIST OF LETTERS

Remaining in the psstotnce at Fort Worth, TeI
Monday, April 2, lsss. To obtain any OF
thepe letters, the applicant must call 70,
"advertised letters" and give the date of the
list; also, all letters advertised shall be
charged with l cent, in addition to the regula,
postage, to be accounted for as part OF the
postal revenue as per section $780,, page 246
United States postal laws.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02

sustained by the court and the defend
ants were released and allowed to go
hence without delay.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02
THE FARMERS TRUST.

4 Gall Has Been Issued for Convention
at Topeka.
TOPEKA, KAN April la call has
been issued for q convention to be held
at Topeka May 1, for the purpose OF or
gsnfzInx tie Farmers Trust. Circulars
have been sent to the governors OF all
ststes west of the Mississippi and to ALI
ances in Wisconsin to send delegates to
the cnnYpntian.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02

Worm one morning after breakfast -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02

Tor arss-clsss An goOdsl
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02

ORDER Fort Worth Grocer
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02

" fi7s feet front with "
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-11-28
P A 7 < N 7 S,
administrators Notice |

NWNHf8A ttVfo tNVbtGt
Having qualified ~ Administrator
OF j t. Driver deceased, nifty AIN
perscns holding claims against his
his estate, " present them 10 me, duly
verified before November lst. 1889
or this notice will bs plead Ia bar
thereof; and all persons indebted 10
said estate must mske payment "a
once. joins l. MARKHAM,
Administrator.
November, LIST. 1883.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-11-28
Christian Young Men.
Chari0ite Chronicle.

Christian young men are the hope
OF The church rs well as the reliance
Of the repablie. Ifthey be trained
70 ways Of righteousness. good will
triumph and evil will 20 down. II
they be charitable, honest, pure,
truthful and industrious, the iniiu-
ence Of their virtue will be poured out
onthe generation that is before them
and the generation that Is pushing
upwards after them, as we'll as upon
their companions in the noon Of
youth.
The county that has . legion 81
young men, guided by lofty princi
pies, building q noble characterin the
tiials Of every day life, animated with
gentle thoughts and hopeful a.pira-
tons, and looking forward with mp
lifted faces 20 the light that falls from
above on men II good will, has what
is better than gold. more precious
than diamonds and more security
than could be given BY an army ID
battle array.
II isa splendid idea 10 institute
this week Of prayer
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-11-28
Charlotte Sends Greetings.
6a..a.-aa. - - -

The failures we're, il 10 stated, IN.
asoidable and honorable. not do 10 !
lack Of assets, but TO q pressure for
cash % lney, that could not b. resist-
Ell or postponed.
The people 81 Durham bnye he.
hayed spe1..illy under II trial, and
the businsss men who hay. suspend
ed, have been comfrp.d In their
overwhelming rey.rses by the stti.
tnde. the courte.y and the sympathy
OF their reighbors.
To Durham IN this dark day, Char.
.lgtte sends greetings and conioIsnce
hopes q . rapid recovery from
lie kets Of ID assignments.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-11-28
Harrison's Southern Policy.

harrfsOnss southern FOIlcys
ArsusfA. Ga, Nov. 19.-The
Chronicle of this city says:
To insure some expression from
the President elect on subjects which
are now nearest the Southern people,
the Chronicle addressed communi.
cation to Indianapolis last week, to
which the following reply has been
received:
Editors Augusta Chronicle: Your
letter OF November 10th has been re
ceiyed. I do not feel that / can COM
ply with your invitation to write
something upon what - commonly
called ''the Southern question" for
publication in your paper. ! have
declined all overtules OF the cores
pondents here to submit to any in
teryiews or TO outline any politics.
What | have said during the cams
paign is accessible 70 you When an
appropriate time comes, / shall not
hesitates TO express such views as J
hold, and shall hold all my views sub
ject to modification upon further cons
alteration. Very truly YOURS,
BExJAMIS HARRISON.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-11-28
stray Bits.

A salt palace is projected al Salt
Lake.
The Seminole Indians in Flcrida
seem 70 be increasing in numbers. N
1t is said that s0,00O,OO0r Goldfish
are caught annually or the New,
foundland coast.
The entire front OF one ofthe banks
at Riverside, CAL. il. constructed If
onyx.
Ice was artifcially manufactured BY
the use Of chemical mixtures as early
as 1888.
Upward of 1000 children are re-
ported to have died from the measels
in Santiago, Chill, in less than two
months.
An interesting ancient canoe, hol-
lowed out by means Of red hot stones,
has been found in south central Nor.
way.
The export of bananas from the is
land of Jamaica to the United States
last year amounted to nearly ZOO
600 lunches.
A newspaper man In Liverpool So
cured the names of 49, sailors, and
only two among them were named
Jack. In all his talk with them be
never heard them use . nautical ex-
preston.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-11-28
POMONA hILL NURSERIES,
POMONA, N @
TWO AND A HALF MILES WEST
OF GREENSBORO, N. g.

The main line OF the Richmond n
Danville Railroad passes through the
grounds, and within 100 feet Of the
Office. salem trains nj Ike regular
stops twice daily. each way. Those
interested in fruit and fruit growing
are cordially invited 10 inspect this,
the largest nursery In the State, and
one Of the largest il the South.
Stock consists oi nipples peach, peur,
cherry, plnms. Japane persimWon,
.,pricois, nectarints. mulserries,
ounce. grapes, figs raspberr es.
gousrherri 3, carranis, pie plant,
English wa'nnt, pecms, chestnuts,
strasoefries. roses. eyei greens, shade
trees, Sc. All the new and rare va.
rieties as we'll as the nl ones. which
my new catalogue 1 r 1883 will
show. Give your orders 10 nv au-
thorized agent, or ord direct from
the nursery. Correspondence solicit
ted. descriptive catalogue free to
applicants. Address,
j. VAN LlNDIEY,
Pomona, Guilforl C.,., NJ.
Reliable statesmen wnniesl in every
county. A good paying commission
will be given.
nay s.tf