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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
WHO SHOULD COME TO TEXAS.
Texas Advertiser.


l. Persons suffering from incipient
consumption, asthma, eatarrh and ner-
vous debility.
2. Persons wishing to build themselves
into big business from small beginnings
with but limited means.
3. Persons wishing to secure first class
Investments at heavy interest and won
derfully remunerative returns.
4 Persons who are skilled in mechani-
cal, industrial, manufacturing or me-
chanical pursuits.
8. Persons who prefer to mingle with
people who are striving to push them
selves ahead i'll the business world and
subordinate politics to business.
6. Persons who are in search for health
full climate. superior soil, and educa-
ti0nal facilities.
7. Persons who love a seIpi-tropical
section with all its fruits aHHowers
combined with all that nortksrAs chimes
produce. 60
S. Persons who have brain 4Adsbrawn
alone, but resolved to conqueFnaee in
place where it is most reada Ind each
9. Persons DESTROYS ,Asssettn2g they
children in healthful, pi5ductiv s1eeaa-
ties in the grandest sta1 the g1ionY
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28

TO the figures the Day is undoubtedly
correct. The great improvements in ma
chinery during the last forty years have
largely reduced the labor cost of manu-
featured products and to certain
though not as great, degree their mar
ket price.
After all, however, the figures are de-
lusive and the results they show in this
respect, artificial. The real issue with
the producers of the country is not what
dollar will buy, but what bushel of
corn or wheat or bale of cotton will
buy.
If bale of cotton were worth $50 in
President Harrison S time and with the
proceeds of it two suits of clothes could
be bought leaving surplus of $40 over
clothes were cheaper then than now ,
when bale OF cotton may be evenly ex-
changedifor two suits of clothes.
Another vital fact has escaped the
Days attention: That the $50 dollar
suit of the FIRST Harrison Is day was of
agood homespun cloth, capable of use
through an entire administra-
ton, while the $40 suit of
to-day is of shoddy material that never
fails to display an unsightly patch after
one season S wear.
We cheerfully join the Day in appeal
ing to the experience of the men whose
lives reach back for half century,
confident that it will verify the accur-
acY of our assertion, that the credit side
of the ledger of the average man made a
better showing forty years ago than it
does now. VIII the Day abide the teskof
its covert protection theories upon such
an issup2
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28

older cotton states have triedSfhis and
failed, and the people of 1e&as are
mostly from the older SoutheTS states,
and they have simply continuesSAe sys-
TEN in vogue there years ag6fsTimes
will be hard with you rs long US you con-
tinue this custom.
You ruy your meat from the west,
your Irish potatoes, your pickles, grits,
cabbage, canned goods molasses, sugar,
tobacco, beer, whisky, apples, lard,
jelly, peas, beans and Il hundred other
things you can produce right here with a
very slight effort. Then the plows, the
wagons, the buggies, pillow stocks, hoe
handles and many other articles of this
kind are brought from Northern or
Western manufactures, when they can
be made here and the money paid out
for them, rs well rs for supplies, could
be kept at home to enrich our farmers
and the people generally.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
THE QUESTION IS NOT "LNTER-

Isn't our esteemed contemporary, THE
GAZETTE, drawing the long low-that is
stretching the blanket" as it were-in claim
ing that the state taxes the settlers on state
lands $64 year? This alleged tax is the inter
est on the money value of the lands that the
settler occupies, and is getting the use Of The
state sells him $40 acres of land for Sl2S0, and
charges him interest at the rate of per cent. n
year on the deferred payments. He can pay the
$3.50 in cash if he wants to, and in that event he
escapes the so-called tax of S64 a year. But
suppose he borrows the $3.50 from a money
lender to purchase his land outright from the
state and pays the ruling rate of interest II per
cent, though he no longer pays the tax of
s64, he pays an interest charge of Sl53.60 year.
The question is, whether it is better to pay the
state per cent. interest, or to pay money
lender II per cent? Fort Worth Mail.
1t is the poor man who settles a new
country, and the man who goes into West
or Northwest Texas and makes home
and creates taxable values is worth as
much to the state as the state is worth to
him-if not more. The man who goes
out west and aids in developing that sec
ton pays interest enough in opening up a
new country. If the state is Indifferent
TO the settlement of the west, it can hold
the lands; but, in that case, the discus
sion of state immigration fund Is incon-
sistent. If the state would find profit in
tbe settlement of West and Northwest
Texas, then the state should not charge
men for producing that profit to the state.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
1900 Not to be a Reap Year.
London Standard.

The following explanation is given why
the year 1900 will not be counted among
leap years. The year is 365 days, five
hours and forty-nine minutes long;
eleven minutes are taken every year to
make the year 36514 days long, and
every fourth year we have an extra day
This was Julius Caesars arrangement.
Where do these eleven minutes come from?
They come from the future, and are
paid by emitting leap year every 100
years. But if leap year is omitted regu-
larry every hundredth year, in the course
of 400 wears it is found that the eleven
minutes taken each year will not only
have been paid back, but that a whole
day will have been given up. So Pope
Gregory XIII. who improved on Caesars
calendar in 1882 decreed that every CEN
turial year Invisible by four should be
leap year after all. So we borrow
eleven minutes each year, more than
paving our borrowings back by, emitting
three leap years in three centurial years,
and square matters by having leap year
in the fourth centurial year. Pope Greg
ory's arrangement is so exact, and the
borrowing and paying back balance so
closely, that we borrow more than we
pay back to the extent of only one day In
1856 years.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28

PARTICIPATING III the general discus
sion of how to elect the president, the
Boston Globe suggests that the electors
should be chosen by congressional dis
tricts, so as to give the minority voice
The Globe says: The electoral system
should be retained, but the electors no
longer be chosen all on one ballot for
each state. If each voter were allowed
to vote for only three electors-two for
his state at large and one for his congress
sional district-the votes of the "doubt-
full states'' would no longer be the gilt
tering prize they are now, for they would
be divided almost evenly between the two
parties. Under that system New York
would have given about nineteen cleo
tora1 votes for Harrison and seventeen for
Cleveland. Massachusetts would have
given twelve votes for Harrison and two
for Cleveland. Under this plan the min
GRITTY in each state would have some
representation, unless the state is over
whelmingly one way, as in the case of
Vermont or Texas.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
DIPHTHERIA SPREAD BY CATS.
Interesting Report of an English Physician On
Epidemics.

science.
Domestic animals have often not only
been suspected but found guilty of
spreading infection. In his report on the
recent sustained prevalence of diptheria
in Enfield, England, Dr. Bruce Low OF
the medical department OF the local gov
eminent board, incidentally states that
during the continuance of the
epidemic cats were observed to
suffer in considerable numbers
from Illness; and in December, 1887,
and in January 1888, there was large
mortality among those animals-sO much
so that the attention of the dust contrac-
tor was directed to it. He stated that
never in his previous experience had he
seen so many dead cats in the dust heaps.
Some households seeing their cats i'll de-
stroyed them. Though there were no
known eases of diptheria occurring in the
practice of the veterinary surgeons at En-
field, yet they saw many cases of ''inffti-
enza'' ut this time among animals. The
following is an illustration of the possible
connection between diphtheria in children
and in cats: A little boy was taken ill
with what turned out ultimately to be
fatal diphther'ia. On the erst day of his
illness the cat, which was in the room at
IUc IllIlbs IChGJl tut NULllJ Oh IHt HOOT.
In few days (the child meanwhile hav-
ing died) the animal was noticed to be
i'll, and, her suffierings being so severe
and so similar to those of the dead boy,
the owner DESTROYED her During the
early part of its illness this cat had been
let out nights in the back yard, as usual.
few days later the cat of a neighbOr
who lived few doors farther off was no
ticed to be i'll. 1t had also been out in
the back yards at night. The second
animal, which, however, recovered,
was the pet and playfellow of
four little girls, who, grieved at
the illness of their favorite, nursed
it with great care All four girls devel-
oped diphtheria, the mother being con-
WINGED that they got it from the cat; and,
indeed, no other source of contact with
infection could be discovered. 1t is easy
to imagine cats catching infectious dis
eases like diphtheria, when we remember
how often milk and other unused food
from the sick-room is given to the cat, or
by some people thrown out in the back
yard for the benefit of their neighbours
cats if they have none of their own. 1t
is frequent occurrence to see children
CARRYING cats in their arms, and even
kissing them. 1t is obvious that, if the
cats were i'll with diphtheria, the children,
under such circumstances, would almost
inevitably contract the disease.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
ABOUT MEN IND WO4fEN.

Queen Victoria owns 81 900 acres of
land.
w s. Forman, who defeated Jehu
Baker for congress i'll Illinois, was a
Natchez, Miss, boy.
General Greedy of the United States
signal service predicts that the coolest
day will be between January 30 and so .
There is little hope that the empress of
Russia will recover from the nervous
shock caused by the recent railroad acct
dent.
A man named Limburger, out in New
ark, has applied to the court to have his
name changed. He has strong reasons
for doing so.
Miss Frances E. Willard says that, in
the interests of the living, cremations is
the most unobjectionable way to dispose
of the dead.
Robert Stevenson, engineer, of Glasgow
is the first one TO claim an invention
which will drive ocean ships up to forty
knots an hour.
When an infant, fifty-four years ago,
Bernard Never of Omaha swallowed
needle and il has Just emerged from I'M
der his left shoulder.
At ninety two years of age, Ex-Gov-
ernor Berry of New Hampshire. il in Wig
orous health, and goes out WMing or
driving almost every day.
The South Carolina senate hSs pissed a
bill Furnishing with dismissal members of
that body who ''ride on a ffsF railway
pass This is English as shsE spike. :.
The little town of Milburyy Iasss, has
become locally famoass as the xesd ID
of Mrs. Anne De gfoot4, who als Gust
given birth to four girl Satses atA siagEs
confinement. AltAIsliving fsd rafssse
from five pounds 90 eight ounces in
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
NEWS IND NOTES.

There are $50 900 investors in De Les
seps' useless ditch.
The vote cast in the last election was
the heaviest known in the world S his
tory.
A Chinese dealer in Fresno was sent to
Jail for eight days for plucking live
turkey.
Over IS 200, 900 was invested in roller
skating Kinks during the craze, and most
of it proved n total loss.
= The number of streets in London is now
upward of % 600, and new ones are ad-
!, ded NJ the rate of 500 per year.
NDne ont of every FIVE school children in
Philadelphia is obliged to wear glasses,
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
A ouEST1oN OF KAL YES.

The Waco Day took THE GAZETTE to
task for seeming to say that a suit of
clothes that cost $50 in Grandfather Har-
rison IS time would cost more than $50 to-
day. By way of criticism the Day asserts
that wages have been constantly ad-
yancing and manufactures constantly
lowering in price since the days OF the
first President Harrison. Looking soleW
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28

the bleach is becoming popular. Boards
are treated in the same way, and men
with dark hair and light mustaches are
increasing every day. The bleach is in
furious to the hair, and the only way to
restore the original color is to shave the
mustaehe off and let it grow out again.
1t is hard to detect bleached mustache,
but experts can do it every time
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
LEAP YEARS LAST NOTCH.

Young Lionel, the truth to tell,
Called somewhat Oft on Isabel.
Twas hard to say, from day to day,
With what precise intent he went;
With perSiflage and badinage
Sped on the hours, and not sign
There was of motive Or design,
Nor any trace of sentiment.
Now, Isabel, who liked him well,
Was fain to hasten Lionel
In proper way, to plainly say
Exactly what intent he meant,
For persiflage and badinage
Amuse one, but they give no sign
OF matrimonial design.
If unalloyed with sentiment.
So Lionel, it soon befel,
Observed change in Isabel.
She turned away from triHes gay,
Her manner. coy, but gentle, lent
To persifage and badinage
A subtle meaning. and sign
OF something-if 'twere not design
Decidedly like sentiment.
Thus Isabel contrived so well
That, pleased and flattered. Lionel
Became one day her willing prey;
For, knowing not her bent, he went
Left persihage and badinage-
And plumplv said to her, BE minei''
Since then, 'twere fair to state, in fine,
No lack there is of sentiment.
Walter Clarke, IN December Table Talk
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
AHHe to Mothers.
WHY Times are Hard.

The Terrell Star sums the maHerup as
follows: In this county and thTSug hout
North Texas everybody is crying out
hard times.'' But what makes it
hard? The people of this section have
tried to get rich on the mortgages on cot
ton, and the people have fallen into the
habit of trying to make living and put
aside some money by raising cotton to
the exclusion of everything else. You
can Il succeed at this and never win. The
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
CHE stetethlg Gagrtte
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
BY THE
DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Publishers and Proprietors.

ACCORDING to GAZETTE specials from
Washington, the Texas delegation seem
to be acting in hearty obedience to the
wishes of the people as expressed in con-
vention at Fort Worth and Denver.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
Bleaehed bTustaches in
Buffalo Exress.

A man wearing head full of black
hair and lip full of white bristles at
tracted the attention of dealer in wigs
YESTERDAY: He said: s'That is the
latest fad. The man has bleached his
mustache. The bleach is not applied by
hairdressers, but is sold in bottles and
applied at home One application of the
bleach will turn fierce red mustaehe
into lovely blonde or old gold tint.
You can It find as many red mustaehes
now as were worn six months ago, for
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28

SUI Ross is in hearty sympathy with
the needs of the people, and any practi-
cal, feasible plan to give Texas a better
public road system will have the gov
he does not point the way himself.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28

THE GAZETTE yesterday sent Dick Coke
his Christmas present from the people of
Texas, in the shape of a printed notice
that ''Old Brains'' would have no DEM
ocratic opposition to his reelection.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28

A Clairville, Ca, druggist recently
captured young snake, to which he has
been giving a certain amount of whisky
every day. At first his snakesaip did not
take kindly to the beverage, but of late
has shown decided hankering after 1t.
When given all it can drink it rolls
around on the floor and performs num-
Der of odd antics.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28

ED1soN's invention comes too late for
many pair of bright eyes TO open in
wonder hereafter if all that is said of it
be true. The statement is made that
this wonderful man has invented a doll
that will repeat, photograph fashion,
what is said or whistled to it,
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28

MAKE No MISTAKE If you have made
up your mind to buy Hoods SarsapariIla
do not be induced to take any other.
Hoods sarsabarilla issa peculiar medi-
cine, possessing, byrfrtue of its peculiar
combination, prsssftion and preparation,
curative power,siperior to any other ar
ticle of the. l5bd Eefore the people For
all affectloy arisifS from impure blood
OF low stas of the sNtem it is unequaled.
Be sure toKet Hood q.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28

over gas to protect ceilings from being
blaCkcned. and scarcely less lucrative
patent was that for simply putting emery
powder on cloth.
IN recent legal action it transpired in
evidence that the inventor of the metal
plates used to protect soles and heels of
boots from wear sold upward of - 900
600 plates in 1879, and i'll 1887 the num-
Der reached 143 600 900, producing
realized profits of a quarter Of million of
money.
Few inventions pay better than popular
patented toys. A clergyman realized
$500 a week by the invention of strange
little plaything to be seen for long time
in every toy shop window, and even in
the streets of London. That favorite
ii wooden ball with an elastic
attached-yielded the patentee an
income equal to so 900 q year,
and an income of no less than fl5 900
per annum to the inventor of the
'dancing Jim Crow The inventor of
"PharaOh s serpents, - n toy much in
vogue some years ago, was the outcome
of come chemical experiments, and
brought the inventor more than El0 900.
The sale of the little wooden figure John
Gilpin, - was incredibly large for many
years, and very ingenious toy known
as the ''wheel of life - is said to have
produced upward of El00 900 profit to its
inventor. One of the most successful of
modern toys has been the ''chameleOn
top, - 3&e sale Of which has been enOr-
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
Once n Year.
N..,a.a.o noLI.4

IF some men knew as much when they
are sober as they think they do when they
are drunk, Solomon's saying would be
nowhere compared to their wisdom.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
Pafs2 in the Side

ENearEgs alwayss6 from a disergered
..iiver,sbnd ispgSmptly issieved,FliE Car
*tsss ehirtfs layer PiEs<sapon ii Forget
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
Children starrina to Death

On accoEss of their inability to digest food. viii
sffid Ssskt maEellous food and remedy in
Scott's Emulsiqfbf Pure Cod Liver Oil with
HypopsesphitesysSe palatable andaBsily di-
sgestedksD Dr.. S. ~ COHEN nj Waco .YZ2 says:
lFiI hASah sed sS EmuEae in Izzafle vast
SssssSd tfssssss but Us Strength snaaacreases
the appetite. am glad to use sachE reliable
article.''
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
BIG MONEY IN LITTLE THINGS.

The rubber tip at the end of lead PEN
ellis has yielded ego 900.
Upward of $1,000 year was made by
the inventor of the common needle
tllreader.
The inventor of the roller skates made
over goo 900, Notwithstanding the fact
that his patent had nearly expired before
its value was ascertained.
a large fortune has been reaped by a
miner who invented a metal rivet or eye
let at each end of the mouth of coat and
trousers pockets to resist the strain
caused by the carriage of pieces Of ore
and heavy tools. =
The gimlet-pointed screw has 6oaAced
more wealth than most silver Esuiesi and
the American who first thought al put
ting copper tips to children .&Shgss q as
well off as if his fathsF hAd @ftAim
800 ,0g0 in United StatesBonds. j
As large a sum as wss evSs oirfnisa
for any invention was Mioyed " He 10
Of rho ,.f1sfrlJrs bdISTqh bor
The Washington critic., 1888-07-21

The steamer Thomas p. Way, owned
by MCssrs. Stevens and Condit Of Newark,
n. Jn and run as an excursion boat to
Staten Island and Coney Island, was
while lying at the commercial wharf
The loss is $4,000, partially insured.
The Car and the German Emperor
VIII confer upon each other the title of
honorary admiral. Their meeting is said
to have been extremely cordial.
SUBSCRIBE for stock of the Rock Creek
Railway Company Subscription books
open at office of j, Il. Winner, 1913 Il st.
Daniel Johnson, colored fell from his
wagon az Twelfth and q streets yesterday
RfleTn0pn and dislocated his shoulder.
The Washington critic., 1888-07-21
THE ARMY AND NAVY.

A general court-martial will meet on
Monday at Fort Macinac, Michigan.
The Dolphin has arrived at San jose
Mex. The Saratoga arrived at Newport
to-day.
Army farriers will hereafter wear q
horseshoe of cloth, -four and a-half inches
long and three and three-quarter inches
wide, worn toe uppermost.
Leaves of Absence. FIRST Lieutenant
J. V. S. Paddock, Fifth Cavalry, granted
an extension until further orders; Captain
James Halloran, for ten days.
Major General o. o. Howard has as.
sumCd the immediate command of the
Department of the Columbia during the
absence on leave of General Gibbon.
Blacksmith Peter Rise of Troop B,
Fourth Cavalry, stationed at Fort Myer,
has been granted n furlough for four
months, with permission TO go beyond
the sea.
The following officers have been do.
from time to time at Omaha, Neb.: Brig
adler. General ]. II. Brooke, Colonel FRANK
Wheaton, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel
Breck, Major j. NJ. Brown, and First
Lieutenant q. S. Black.
Army Orders.-First Lieutenant X. l..
Robertson, assistant surgeon, relieved
from duty at Fort Keogh, NJ. r., and or
dercd to report for duty at Fort Buford,
OAK; Second Lieutenant II. L. Allen
and MAYOR o. J. Dickey ordered to report
for examination for retirement at Omaha;
Major A. Q. N. Pennington, Fourth Artil-
lery, ordered to Philadelphia, and from
there to the Pennsylvania National Guard
epCampment at NOrristOwn,
The Washington critic., 1888-07-21
An oror.rncotions CIerl,.

A young clerk in the County Treas
urers Office at Omaha has just lost his
position for trying to be facetious with
President Cleveland A week ago in
making out notices to interested property
owners Of an increase in the assessment,
he came across the name Of Frances Fol
eom. A fellow clerk suggested that as
the lady was now Mrs Cleveland he
should send the notification to the Presi-
dent. He accordingly wrote out the
usual formal notice, addressing it TO "Mr.
Grover Cleveland, d. 7. U. s. A; G., y,
s. A.; G.. A. r., ETC., Washington, u. Co."
an q signed County Clerk Roche's name
to it,.
Yesterday, to the surprise and chagrn
of Mr.. Roche, who is Democrat and an
ardent Cleveland man, he received a letter
from the Executive inoosing the postal
card. The communication, which was
in the Presidents own handwriting, stated
that the property referred to probably
belonged to his wife, but suggested that
the notification had been sent out rather
late, as it was mailed on the 7th and APP
pearance was to be mad Q on the 9th. The
letter was written in a good.humored
vein, and concluded: 81 have noticed the
additions to my address, and am at q loss
to know what they mean. Can you ex-
plain them to meY'
Mr.. Roche at once wrote back explain
ing the matter and apologizlng for the
flippant use of the President s name. The
mcetious clerk is looking for another
situDtiOn.