Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-24
NEWS NOTES.

NEWS NOTES.
Mount Rose, Cal, has lost its cap O.
snow for the first time within the memory
! OF man.
The whaelhsrrow wzs invented by
Leonardo da Vilci, the italian artist. L
is used now for American betting artists
to pay their Wsgers IN.
The state debt Of California sm cunts Il
2,703 500, and ell falls due In 1898 Pro
visions will have TO be made for it by the
Legislature next winter.
L is said that John Wsnrsmaker Of
P1i!sdelpnia will go into the cabinet. His
qua iisti0n is that he sent the RapuoH-
can Campaign fund 100000
Baltimore has 2OCO bcsrs and 10 OOC
msn engaged in oyster dredging, VINO
take annually from Chesapeake bay 5000, :
| geo bushels of the succulens biyslve
LAtes. estimates place the whest crop
OF France al 273 0C0,00O comme1ci.l
! bushels, with reserve Of wheat and -four
from last years crop "a livsient 70 6S,
600. 0CO bushels.
Discussing the marriage question, one
Eastern writer Ears that the sexes furnish
al tqusl rumber Of fools. That nay hold
gGod sometimes, but in political CAM
psign Gae male m'j 1Ii!y CT fools is i'm
mense.
The old earth is nearing the last month
Of 1888, and the I1aideG's leap year prlvi-
leee val soon vanish. Nov or never is
tbs time TO chooEe. Whether msrrisge
De failure or not, there are two opla-
Ions .concernlUg spils;erhood.
On eccou1t CT the prevalence of diph
thelis a. WsterIoo, Iowa, the town eff.
ctaiS hsVe Issued 8 quarantine proclam2
tton closing indt FINELY sll the schools,
churches End Sunday schools sDd order
i1g that Eli persona dying OF the disease
oe buried within twenty four hours.
AlSSsn2 is proving spro ftsbIe fad fer
the Mormon missionary j1sE Iow. Thirty
converts in charge OF Mormon eldel
pissed through Montgomery on the 10 n
f2et, ell coming from the immediate
Most oi hem were
women, not 9 lev beng children, all
ItkeGed for U.sa. A carload went from
North Alabama ten days sgo, and big
gang went from South Alarane week
ego.
Very likely the Bell telephone pltent
Will nave expired By limitation before &
Uaited States supreme court teci.ion
sEsu have been rendered in the caee Il |
the government against tie America
Bell Telephone Company, iff3cting the |
validity OF the Bell patent. Having pos
sassIon Ct the feld, the monopoly can
make the people pay the cost of the lil |
gedOn. The vexs,iOu ness Of the LAWS |
delay nss rarely been more sptly Illus
Ifs!ed than IN this case.
Nd Wi.hstanding the enormous popu-
.et!on Ct India. there are vast tracts al |
lGiIhabited territory. According to fl
ciSl returns Ct the total area OF 364 600 eco |
acres under the direct admlnlstIsEiop,
only l52, eco. 600 acres are under cultiya.
lion a very large portion Of the re-
nGfnder is returned rs urft for cultivs-
.iCn, End the forests are credited with
10, coo, 900 acres, but there still remains
10 less than SO, 600 cultiysole acres rs vet
untouched by the ploW.
case In which suit WAS brought by
Catholic taxpayers to preVeot the reading
u the King James version CT the Bible In
he public schools has been decided At
Jsnesville, Wis. Judge Bennett held
hat such reading WAS not sectsrian n
'.ruction, the children of the petitioners
not being obliged to listen If they did not
1esire, and the Btole having been decided
upon Dy the authorities IS one of the text
books for Wisconsin schools. There
Tas nothing, however, to prevent the
children from leading q version OF the
Bible accepted By the Catholic church, If
hey preferred.
l. is said that ths tree from which the
'hlttim wood of Noa1's srk-fame WAS ob-
aimed has been found within radius OF
J KY miles Of Nashville; Ten. Cele-
9ra!ed bots1iss from eli paris OF the
worlj have examined the trees and agreed |
hat they grow in no other place on tbs
ace Of the earth. The tree Is OF medium
'iz9, with very DARK, smooth bark and the
wood is Of & bright gold colcr. In esriy
'pri6g the trees xre laden with long white
blossoms closely resembling large os
rich plunes. There seems to be little |
iauo. IS to the Identity CT the trees and
Il hss bsen decided that it is the shittim
wood Of which the ark was constructed,
and 81 which mention IS made several
i'm: IN the Bible. The moss remarka-
Die feature Is ttat ;hey are found OILY in
. small area end very few OF them at |
hat.