Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-11
NEWS IND NOTES,

New York city has 355 churches and
| 10 600 saloons.
Fifty-three persons under sentence of
death are confined in the Kansas peni-
| Tertiary.
Boston has ninety year-old mer-
| chant who continues business at his old
stand-Ous Monroe, grain dealer.
Pittsburg is agitated over the question
whether it is violation OF the postal law
to send out delinquent tax notices or pos
tai cards.
The official returns give Harrison
90 POI plurality over Cleveland in Illinois
| and Fifer, for governor, y ,547 plurality
over Palmer.
The government pension roll contains
the names of ASP ,557 people. Last year
there were added % ,252 names, while in
creases were allowed in 10, ZIG cases.
A Maine woman has secured a divorce
from her husband on the ground of de-
sertion, alleging that he went to temper
ance meetings six days during the week
and on Sunday went to church.
The career of the famous Little Pitts
burg mine, near Leadyille, furnishes Il
good example of the viciSsitudes of min
ing. Once stocked for $50 ,000 900 and
pay dividends on that vast capital, it
has recently been sold on q judgment for
$50 900.
Three express steamships of 1900 tons
each are to be built TO ply between Ply
mouth, England, and HalifaX-that is,
ii the Canadian government viii award
the mail contract TO the projects of the
enterprise, who are the owners of the
present Orient Line.
The system of sending kisses by phono-
graph is not liable to become much more
popular than the OLD letter method. The
osculatOry sounds may be sent with tam
TALKING correctness, but it is impossible
to transmit the cardamOu seed or Glove
flavor that should characterize a true
lovers kiss.
The attempt to establish daily COM
munication between Lockport, n. Y,
and Buffalo by carrier doves seems likely
to succeed. Tuesday two doves were
liberated in Lockport, with messages to
persons i'll Buffalo. The distance is
twenty-five miles, and the air was full of
flying snowflakes, but the doves arrived
at their destination in Buffalo in safety,
making the journey in little over three
hours.
There was a cotton picking bee on
George Truitt IS, farm, near La Grange,
Ga. the other day, and the pickers came
near breaking the record. One man
picked 55S pounds, another 5G7, another
546, and an old negro woman picked 3l2
pounds, besides milking the cows in the
morning and at night. On being told
what she had done, the OLD aunty said
well, dunno what s Citing III the Old
Niger. Now, when ole master used to
stan obeT me wild a strop l couldu Z do
dat. l spec it am dem big bolls OBJ cot
ton what am de matter wild my ole fin
gers. -
The wave motor, which was begun at
Point Lobos, about three years ago, is
nearly completed AS described by Il
San Francisco paper cit is Il machine for
utilizing the dashiug i'll of the waves by
turning their power into practical
use, such as furnishing water for
sprinklng the streets, flushing the
sewers, and even driving cable cars.
Only one piston has been put in as yet.
This pumps al the rate of three barrels a
minute. The motor Will run from
eighteen to twenty hours per day and if
the wind and the tide are favorable can
be worked throughout the whole twenty
four.
\ Lexington physician makes n sUggfs-
ton which may be of value in cases of
yellow fever. He proposes that. a hos
ptal be so constructed that the tempera-
ture may be reduced to the freezing point
on the same principal as that employed
in the manufacture of artificial ice. The
company lately organized for the purpose
of introducing cold, in any quantity de-
sired, into private residences, would find
numerous customers III yellow fever
towns, and, perhaps, might render the
hospital unnecessary. If cold viii de-
stroy yellow fever germs, assuming that
there are such germs, the production of
the necessary cold arti1icially is quite
practicable.