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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17
Improved Electric Bell.
Chambers Journal

Electric bells are now regarded as a
necessity in ali well appointed buildings,
and any improvement IN their arrange
ment or construction is, therefore,
matter of popular interest. Such All ~
provement is indicated i'll the magnetic
system which hiss been designed by
Messrs. Cox, Walker s. Swinton, and
which is now being introduced CONNER
cially by the Equitable Telephone Asso-
citation of London. The bell requires no
battery, and is practically everlasting.
The system consists of two parts. one be-
ing the generator, and the other the
bell itself. The generator consists of
horseshoe magnet, between the two poles
of which is revolved, by means Of Il but
ton easily turned by the thumb and fin
ger, an armature, or shuttle of wire.
This action arOuses Il current of electric
ity, which traverses the wire leading
from the generator to the bell, and rings
the latter. The principle is, OF course,
not new, but has been carried out i'll
manner which at once presents it i'll 4
practical form. Previous attempts in
the same direction have resulted in the
production of instruments which are in
comparison both bulky and clumsy.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17
A NINE THAT CAN'T BE WORKED.
sa08:OO0OOO Worth OF Gold in the Clay That
.UnderiieS Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA Times

The ground Oh: which Philadelphia is
built is one OF the'riohest gold fields in the
world. This is a fact. The only diff
Guilty is that the field cannot he worked.
Nearly the whole city is underlaid with
clay to the depth of about ten faet-an
area say ten miles square. a cubic foot OF
clay, Weighing l2o pounds, taken from a
depth of fourteen feet when
the cellar of the Twelfth
street market house was excavated,
was practically demonstrated to contain
seven-tenths Of grain of gold, or one
pound in ,22t 600. The experiment was
repeated with about the same results
With Clay taken from n bricllyard in the
subur5;s. Surprising the whole mass of
clay to lie 4, 1870 600 900 pounds (and il is
really much grgater) the amount OF gold
would reach in value the enormous sum
of SIPS 600 900. The gravel is much
richer in gold than the clay, but there is
not so much OF it. Undoubtedly $780,
600 600 worth of gold lies within fifteen
feet OF the surface, and still it cannot be
used
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17
SPLITTING PAPER,
Method TO Save Both Sides of Paper for
Scran Books-A Very Simple Plan.

Method TO Save Both Sides of Paper for
Scrap BOoks-A Very simple Plan.
"Oh, dear! have picture printed on
one side of this paper and some reading
matter on the other, and I wanted to
save both, - said a young lady recently
WHO was passing scraps into IL book.
''Weu, you can save BOTH" said her
friend.
WHY how can do that?'
'Thcre are two ways of splitting
piece OF paper. one is TO lay ;he sheet
of paper on a piece of glass, soak it thor
oughly with water and then press it
smoothly all over the glass, with q
little care the upper half of the sheet
can be peeled off leaving the under half
on the glass. Let this dry and it will
come OF the glass very easily; of course
the glass must be perfectly clean. The
second way is better one, but it re-
quires some good practice. Paste piece
of cloth or strong paper on each side Of
the sheet to be split. When it has thor
oughly dried pull the two pieces of cloth
apart suddenly and violently. The
paste can then be softened with water
and the two halves of the sheet easily
taken of the cloths.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17
Old Phrases.
Al The Year Round.

In the older writers the heels take the
place of the toes. Decker, in his 81 Won
derful Teare, - 1903, speaking of per-
son attacked by the plague, says that she
chad like to have turned up her heels
upon il, and four years earlier in
Nashe 5 FLenten StuIfe, - there is a de-
scriptiou OF great sickness at Yarmouth,
when, Gin one yeare, seven thousand
and fifty people turned up their heels
there. To chop the twig,'' to
''peg out to ''lay down one s
knife and fork - and the like are more
fippant than humorous. To "hand in
one 5 checks is one OF the many phrases
of playing card origin imported from
Western America. TO Ego off the
hooks is a modern synonym for dying,
but Mr.. Pepys uses it with the meaning
of vexed or out of sorts. In his
" Diary of May %, 1865, he says: Gin
the evening by water to the duke Of
Albemarle, whom I found nightly of the
hooks, that the ships are not gone out of
the river, which vexed me to see. -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17
ALL ABOUT ALPHABETS.
Some that Have Two Hundred Letters with No
Two Alike.
December St. Nicholas.

~0SN4A-'~NA ~ ~'-~--'tN''
VIII my youngest American readers
my very y0ungest-please give Gie their
attention?
All, here you are! Well, my little
ones, as you very soon are to begin to
learn your letters, if, indeed, you are
not already learning them, it may inter-
est you to know that the babies of other
countries, as well as baby Americans, are
expected to know their alphabets At
very early age; and some OF them, be-
cause there are more letters i'll their alpha
bets, have even 4 harder time than you do.
Some, again, have less 20 learn. For
instance, as Il sprightly and learned COR
respondent informs this pulpit, the Sand
witch Island alphabet has only y letters;
the Burmese, 10; the Italian, 30; the
Bcngalese, q; the Hebrew, Syriac,
Chaldee, Samaritan and Latin, 90 each;
the French, %; the Greek, "a; the Ger
man and Dutch, 20 each, the Spanish and
Slayonic, q each. But, on the other
hand, the Arabic has IS; the Persian and
Coptic, 80: the Georgian, 50; the Arme-
MAN, IS, the Russian, Al; the Muscovite,
IS: the Sanscrit and japanese, 80; the
Ethiopic aud Tartaric. 202.
If this informotion bewilders you, my
poor little letter-learners don t mind it,
1t win keep. One Of these days you will
be big and able TO play tag, and later on,
base ball in these languages. Then, a
few letters, more or less in any one of
them, VIII be a matter of small conse-
quence to you. Even now, dare say at
ter what have told you, you d be able
to play with the letter-blocks of any
country. In truth, if I were you,
think should prefer q box OF Ethiopic OF.
Tartaric Ietter-blocks to begin with.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17


The peninsula of Florida contains in
Vulnerable isolated ponds varying from a
few square rods to many square miles in
area. Many of these are simple hollows
filed with rain water, with
out any connection with other
waters. Some of them are on
high ground, where no flood can establish
temporary connection with other waters
through which fish might be admitted
The smaller ones often dry up entirely in
seasons of drouth, yet when filed with
water they do not seem to
be behind their neighbors in
Population. They all swarm with
fish, whose origin and continued presence
would seem to present an interesting
question. For instance, at Orange
Heights, in eastern Alachua county
which is one of the most elevated regions
OF the state, as is plainly shown by the
radiating streams which rise in the
vicinity, there is small pond on top of
the highest elevation in all that region
l have twice known this pond to be dry !,
vet it now contains an abundance of
small fish. How have they been pre-
served from destruction, and whence
came the original stock?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17
The ToothpIcis Industry.

A toothpick factory is one of the -four
ishing woodworking establishments at
Harbor Springs, Mich, and it is one of
the largest factories OF the kind in the
country. White birch is exclusively used
in the manufacture of the toothpic1s,
and about 800 200 of the handy little
splinters are turned ont daily. The logs
are sawed up into bolts each twenty
eight inches in length, then thoroughly
steamed and cut up into veneer. Rhe
veneer is cut up into long ribbons, three
inches N width and these ribbons, eight
or ten of them at time, are, run
through the toothpick machinery.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17

One of our exchanges declares that
happiness depends on what one is, and
not what one has. Had it been that char
acter and nobility and such like qualities
depend on what one is, and not what one
has, we would agree heartily. But hap.
piness is another thing. If the writer:
had ever chad a jumping toothache
he would acknowledge that one's happi-
ness depends very largely on what one
has-or what has him.-l Louisville Re-
corGer.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17
An Accomplished Young Albanian.
Albany Journal.

a young Albanian who prides himself
on his ability to do queer things, now as
tonishes his friends by tossing by grape
and as it comes down cutting it exactly
in two with one stroke of his razor 1t
took him over five weeks to learn the
trick, and it cost him the end of one of
his fingers before he succeeded.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17

n. c.; grain elevator at Petersburg,
Va; six large warehouses, piers etc. for
railroad terminal at Norfolk: GUAR fac
tory at Taliapoosa, Ga. 800 900 cooper
age factory at Rome, Ga. ; artificial stone
works ut New Orleans, etc. These Qre
but samples OF the week $ record, but
they are enough to show something If the
general advance that is being made.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17
A New Sailing Vessel.


A novel kind of sailing vessel called the
Seafarer has recently been tried at
southampton, with sucn success as to
lead to the belief that it may cause some
revolution in boat building. Its new
features are confined to the hull, which
presents many peculiarities. The vessel
is thirty feet long, with beam of seven
feet, while her submerged part or
draught is only twenty inches, including
the keels, and this with ton of lead on
board to serve as ballast. At first sight
the Seafarer does not seem to differ from
other boats, and it is only when
her submerged parts are examined that
the novel points are apparent. Instead
of having a section of Q or V shape, as
have other vessels, the Seafarer is shaped
more like a w, with the angles well
rounded off AS before indicated, she
possesses two keels, and these are of
brass and hollow, SO that the water flows
through from end to end. The vessel
possesses remarkable buoyance and is
easily steered by a rudder, which also
presents many new features.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17

An old lady, brought up as a witness
before London bench of magistrates {,
when asked to take off her bonnet, refused
20 Go so, saying, ''There' no law COM
polling woman to take off her bonnet -
CON- said one of the magistrates,
s.you know the law, do you? Perhaps
you would like to come up and sit here
and teach us!' mo, L thank you,
sir, replied the old lady; 'there are
old women enough there already.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17

ssThere's one thing like about that
baby of yours, Kidby, - said Mr. Y di-
son Squeer to Mr.. Kidby Nupop, afleShe
had listened patiently to the latest anec-
dote of the infant phenomenon. ''What' g
that?" queried the pleased parent with
glow of happy expectation on his
features. 'What is it you like about
him?" "He amt twin. '-[Puek.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-14
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION,

Programme of Exercises to be Held Next
Tuesday Evening.
On Tuesday, November ID, al 10 a. M,
will assemble in the Idaho street M. e,
Church a convention of the Sunday school.
masters OF Silver Bow County. The OBJ
lects OF this convention are to advance the
interests OF Sunday School work in the
county, and to organize the county under
the Montana Sunday School Association.
1t is desired that all interested in Sunday
School work shall be present to enjoy the
benefits OF the convention and to partici-
pate in it's deliberations. The Territorial
Association will be represented by Rev. F.
D. Kelsey, OF Helena, who will participate
in the exercises. The following interesting
programme has been arranged. all topics
being open for discussion:
10 to 10:30-Devotional exercises.
1890 TO 11-Temporary organization.
IL to 12--Topic: How best to retain
our young people in the Sunday School,"
Led by Rev. G. H. Ryder.
Adjourn to 1:30.
OF Sunday School teaching" Led by j. e.
Richards.
2:30 to 3:3O-Topic: Relation of the
Sunday School to the Church." Led by
Miss j.. M. barrow.
$50 to 4:3O-Topic: How to reach
the masses with the Sunday School,"
Adjourn to 7:30.
7:30-Address by Rev. F. ID. Kelsey, Of
Helena, ON the topic: What benefits are
to be derived from Sunday School Conven-
tions."
Specially prepared music will be rendered
at this session.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-14

- -. "HH
to 400, and / am much disapno;ptsa !.
ghe result, but not in the same wav as or,
Democratic friends are. In the lanpnage 8
nod Leggat, the Old Guard are nee more
Judge knowles,i in a deep cultural voice
salu snas the party who had conquered
the policy Of the South. With 4 few nor
iunctory remarks OF similar tenor. he =.
,ieved the audience Of any further infiiction
oy retiring to his seat, much to the relief
OF his hearers.
Mr. Wright then sang a song to enthuse
ehe large audience which had congrepated
u the hall. Messages OF regret from B. +.
Mhlte, JAS. III. Mills and Isaac d. Nc
O1tcheon were read, when Prot. Firch san.
"Halleluiah," the chairman p-rononnced
the meeting at an end, and the last echoes
OF the campaign died out in the hall when
the audience dispersed.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-14
Decided to Be Insane.

Yesterday afternoon in the Probate
Court, a judicial inquiry was held into the
sanity OF Pat Boland. He has been an in
mate of the county jail for the last ten
days, having been sent there atthe instance
of a physician. He was found to be labor.
ing under an hallucination brought ON by
over indulgence in stimulants and election
excitement. He thought that about the
time he was arrested some men were
conspiring to get him out OF the way
for having deserted the Republicans.
He was still Of this impression
and spoke about it quite positively as
a fact, but was no longer under any appre-
hension, the election being over and the
animosity against him allayed. The Jury,
found him to be laboring under mental
arrangement and unsafe to be at large. A
| similar conclusion was reached in the case
of j. r. Mitchell, a miner, who has been
kept for some weeks at the poor farm, put
whom it was decided to send to Warm
| Springs. They will both be taken down &c
| the Insane Asylum to-day.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-14
REPORTORIAL GLEININGS.

The Rev. W. c. Shipper thai
he will preach at the Congregations Ohuron
tomorrow evening.
The local members of the g. o. p. will
paint the town red tonight with a brass
band and q carload Of speakers.
The Northern Pacific office lately received
a new double rack for tickets to hold a
thousand different forms, which Mr.. Wilson
was Yesterday busy filling with their sur
plus stock on hand.
About 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon an
| engine backed into a coach belonging to a
train OF cars at South Butte depot, smash.
ing it badly and slightly injuring some oil
the inmates.
The returns OF the election have all been
| received by mail or messenger at the County
| Clerks office. No polls were held at French
| Gulch or Browns Gulch.
The earnings of the Northern Pacific
| system OF roads for last month footed up
| 81, 21S, 1894, an increase OF $5S4,413 ove1
| October 1887. Mr.. McCaig thinks this
office here contributed it's quota to the
healthy showing.
In the case against Geoff Lavell in Justice
Herbert's court for perjury at the instance
of O'Donpell, the defendant yesterday
waived examination and was held for the
Grand Jury.
The United States Grand Jury were moi
long in session. There was only one cas-
to come before it, that against the saloor
keeper on Lower Montana street Tor selilnl
LIQUOR to the Indians ashort time ago, ant
he has forfeited his bonds.
The new fee bill goes into effect on tn
18th OF December when the old justices ant
constables retire and are succeeded by tn
newly elected. The fees are SO reduced tina
it will produce active competition between
the new incumbents for business.
A bad man with a formidable gun wa
out last night seeking for gore and made
play with it on one of the sirens OF Tn
White Elephant who climbed out OF tn
cellar on the double and blew her lungs gu
whistling for an officer. The b. M. wa
given quarters for the night III Cast
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-14
THE ENGINE DISABLED.
Particulars of the Collision at the South
Butte Yards.

Particulars of the Collision at the South
Butte Yards.
The following particulars Of the accident
at the South Butte depot were learned yes
terday: The section hands had been re.
pairing a switch in the yards and the Sec
ton foreman in trying if it worked all
right threw the switch SO as to connect
with the track ON which the lao p. N. pas
senger train was standing, the rear car OF
which was a sleeper. Tn air brakes OF this
train were set. A switch engine was switch
ing a train of freight cars in the upper part
of the yard on the track on which the
switch had been thrown. The switchmen
with this engine had left the switch
properly set and the engineer could
not perceive the mistake that had
been made until he had passed the switch
and was within 200 feet OF the lao train,
with a heavy train behind him on a down
grade. He reversed the engine and sanded
the rails, but the momentum pushed the
cars forward until the engine, which was
backing, collided with the rear end OF
the sleeper, and was crushed between the
two. The water tank was destroyed and
the platform of the sleeper. No other dam
age resulted. The report OF anyone on
board the cars against which the freight
train collided being injured was incorrect.
The outgoing train was not delayed at all,
the sleeper going out just as it was.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-14
COURT HOUSE IMPROVEMENTS.
The Jail Birds Will Soon Have a Nice
Cage to Play In.

The Jail Birds Will Soon Have a Nice
Cage to Play In.
The improvements about the Court
House yard are being superintended by
| Sheriff Lloyd with all the energy and
sense of security of a man who is good
for another lease OF official life. The
stone wall about the Court House yard
will be completed to a height OF about
four feet above the present level OF Quartz
| street at the northeast corner OF the yard,
| which is said to be the correct grade OF the
| street, and will be continued at that level
on the north and east sides OF the jail yard
| which commences at the end OF the Court
House proper. The rest OF the east wall
to Granite street will have a stone COPING
similar to that on the Granite street
front, In which will be set
an iron railing Of moderate
height, to be continued round
the south and west sides OF the Court
House. An eighteen-foot, strong boaro
fence will enclose the north half OF the
Court House lot and form the jail yard
The order for the lumber was given yester
day by Sheriff Lloyd and the board fence
will be ready for erection as soon as thu
balance OF the wall is completed
Within it's secure enclosure, tn
prisoners in the Jail can be employed IL
many useful ways to the county "lthou'
any apprehension OF their being able tt
give the Sheriff the slip. 1t is reasonable tx
suppose that in the course of time tn
Court House yard on Granite street will b
relieved of it's present drear and steril
ASPECT and become a thing OF beauty and
JOY forever before the present Sheriff's sec
ond term expires.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-14
SHOT WHILE AsLEEP.
Details of the Terrible Crime Near Canon
City In Colorado.

City In Colorado.
From the Salt Lake Tribune: A crime
similar to Hopt's was committed near
Canon City on October 26, the victims
body not being found for "a week. Charles
& Mccain started from Pueblo with two
teams, having George Witherell In COM
pany. who represented himself 10 be a mine
foreman, and who engaged Mccain to haul
ore. The two camped near Canon City,
and in the night Witherell shot Mccain as
the latter wal lying asleep in his blankets,
the ball going through his head and through
the g bottom and lattened on a
stone, with particles OF bone, blood and
blanket on it. As the victims death was
not as sudden as he expected, Witherell
beat him over the head with an ak till the
head was a mass of jelly. Then Witherell
took McCain's body and buried it in a deep
gully, burning hay over the spots OF blood
on the earth, to obliterate them.
Witherell took the teams next day and
moved to another camp, from which he
wrote a letter to his victims wife, telling
her to meet him at Grand Junction, as he
had sold the teams and bought a ranch.
Mrs. Mccain saw the writing was not her
QuSUduu b, Was dlhTIucu, blu dShOo u
officers to look into the matter. The Off
GERS autographed all over that region, and
Witherell was arrested in Denver with Nc
Gains teams in his possession. They be-
gan a search for McCain's body, as by that
time there was little doubt that he was
murdered, the hole in the wagon bed and
the bloody ak being strong witnesses, and
officer Wellington McCandlass found the
body buried as stated.
Witherell recently sold two teams at
Pueblo, and it is o suspected that he got
them also by numbering the own. The
citizens OF Canyon City were wild with ex-
element and took possession OF two trains
on which they supposed Witherell was,
with intent to lynch him, but he was held
in Pueblo, whittier he had been taken prior
to the finding of McCain'sb body. Witherell
has recently been released from the Colora-
do penitentiary after a service OF sixteen
years for the murder of an inoffensive
sheepherder.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-14
CHURCH SERVICES.

Christian Church.-Services at the usual
hours at Fidelity Hall, No. So West
Broadway. Sunday School at 1890.
Morning theme: 1.-THE wisdom OF the
world" Evening: Salvation" You are
always welcome.
Preaching services at the Mountain View
M. E. Church Sunday at IL a. m. and 1880
d. M, by Rev. j. j. McAllister. Prof. Firch
will conduct the singing. All are welcome.
Sunday School at $50 p. M, j. r.. Rick
ards, superintendent.
German Lutheran.-Service will take
place this afternoon at 2:30 at the Congre'
gational Church on Granite street. Sun
day School before service at l:3O. A
Bartliug, pastor.
Congregational Church.-No services to
day except Sunday School at the usua
hour. Rev. T. G. Lewis, OF Ogden, will b.
! here on Tuesday to take charge OF thu
church
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-14
Knows How to Run a Hotel.

The Occidental hotel is under roof and
the prospects OF it's being finished by
Christmas are favorable. The latestrumor
in connection with it is that it will be run
by Fred Wey. Mr.. Wey has had large ex-
perienee in many OF the best hotels OF the
country in every capacity and says ii he
takes hold OF the Occidental it will be run
as a irst-class hotel, which he thinks ne
knows how to conduct. Mr.. Wey was born
into the hotel business, his father owning
ann managing one in the East, n ne
claims that as his proper vocation. de
would be content to continue IN his pres
emit restaurant, with which he would be
nerfectly satisfied but for the fact that the
constant living in q basement is having an
Injurious effect on his health.