Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28

were two divorces granted of couples who
had celebrated their golden weddings.
The monster III ton cannon recently
manufactured in Germany throws pro-
jeetile twenty miles.
Spaniards. in the sixteenth century
believed that spiders indicated gold when
they were found in abundance.
A geologist has come across evidences
in Scotland to prove that the earth lay in
liquid state for 150 200 years.
The White Caps are trying to curry
favor with the public now by getting
after coal dealers who give short weight.
The house to house milliner is becoming
very popular i'll New York. There is a
| school taught by modistes who learned
their trade abroad, and their pupils
| after three months training, if expert
| and tasteful, find circles of employers
waiting for them, and they go from
house to house, like the dressmaker, do
| ing up the family millinery by the day g.
| 1t is very economical method.
The next solar eclipse will be visible
| in San Francisco on New Years day. Ac-
! cording to well-known French scientist,
| it is extremely rare for the year to open
with q total eclipse. 1t has not occurred
| since 1861 new style), and will not &C.
| cur again till 2lG1. The coincidence has
| and 500 and 1905 A. D.-the two latter
dates being of the Julian calendar.
The new explosive now being rlanufac-
tured in Germany is called secunte. 1t
| is described as Il graduated powder of a
light yellow color, with an odor resemb-
ling that of bitter almonds. 1t is quickly
manufactured does nj ip+nriOra tp o1lI
costs about the same as dynamite and is
of nearly equal explosive power. 1t can
not be fired by friction, blow or jar, only
strong Illuminating caps producing the
explosion.
The farmers of Dakota have been util-
iZing the fine November and December
weather which prevailed this year in pre-
pairing their fields and seeding them with
wheat. Their teams and men were idle,
and the experiment is tried in the expec-
tation that they will reap as good or
better harvest, and save time from the
hurry of the spring seeding. The results
of the experiment will be awaited with
great interest, as it is the first time it has
been tried on an extensive scale.
Tobacco raising in Florida bids fair to
amount to something. \ single company
has taken up y 200 acres Of land and
divided it into eight plantations and the
entire tract is under the supervision of q
general superintendent. Last summer
from 800 to 500 hands were employed,
and 79l acres of tobacco and 920 acres of
corn and oats were raised on so much of
the tract as had been cleared. The to-
bacco acreage yielded 500 900 pounds of
the different varieties, Sumatra, Penn
sylvania, Connecticut and Wisconsin
seed leaf, and Cuban, new, and one year
Old. The Sumatra, it is reported,
gave the best results, the soil being very
well adapted to it. The average yield of
the several varieties, $50 pounds to the
acre, was far under the yield of seed
leaf in Connecticut, but as & large part of
it was Sumatra and Cuban tobacco, the
crop must nave been a profitable one.
Colored labor was cheap, Sl3 per month
cash, or $40 with house rent and certain
articles of food. An increased tobacco
acreage will be planted next year, and
also of corn and oats, which are largely
consumed on the plantation, and can
be raised far cheaper than they can be
imported.