Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-24
NEWS AND NOTES.

44iN NOtt N'tHi III iliI -ti1b NANN'A'iA " 80
the heaviest known in the worlds his
tory.
1t is said that nearly 500 900 has been
sent from Boston to Ireland, mostly By
servant girls, for Christmas gifts to
friends at home.
A Philadelphia lady, who has been
twice happily married herself, lately
gave this advice TO 4 young friend just
entering society: keep your eyes wide
open, SO that when the right man comes
along you vii! see him; you will surely
recognize him, and the recognition will
be mutual.
Capital punishment has been abolished
in Italy. This was done in Switzerland
some seven years ago, but the result was
not regarded as satisfactory, and capital
punishment was again re-enacted. 1t is
curious that it should now be abandoned
in Italy, where the murder rate is the
highest in Europe.
Telegraph operators, it seems, are de-
veloping a disease of their own. One or
two eases recently occurred abroad, in
which the finger nails dropped off, one
after another. The affection is supposed
TO be due to the constant hanmcring and
pushing with the finger ends required by
the working OF the telegraph instru-
ment.
It was Baron Munchausen who first
suggested the Panama canal, and the last
of the barons in Il direct lire will not live
to see It completed. Only one-tifth of
the line is even approaching completion.
1t has cost millions OF dollars and thou
sands of lives. Now let the Nicaragua
canal be pushed. 1t can be opened for
navigation i'll 1895.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is responsible
for the following: Pink nails, Incidence.
Red nails, WaT-like nature. Narrow
nails incline to mischief. Filbert nails
are associated with deceit. Small, round
nails denote obstinacy. Crooked nails
Indicate a fierce nature. Nails abnor
mally pale, or with black specks on them
denote sickness. Broad nails are con-
sideTed to be Indicative of bashful and
gentle natures. Long nails appertain to
those of q tempOrizing disposition. These
are the nails of persons who hate scenes.
Tho supreme court Bible is a small,
black velvet-cOvered octave. 1t has been
used in the administering of every oath
since 1908. Every chief justice and every
associate justice of the United States has
held this little sacred tome i'll taking his
oath of Office. Many thousands of law
yers have held it, and to write the names
of the men who have touched the covers
would be to name the men who have
made the bench and bar of the United
States illustrious. Il was printed in Lon
don in 1893, and is to-day but little the
worse of wear.
A young lady of Providence, r. l.,
hoe sbo.I-a1 how friends by- MARRYING q
Chinaman who was u member Of her
Sunday-school class. For this act she
was expelled from the City Missionary
Society. The New York World suggests
that this is all wroug-that the surest
way to convert a susceptible young
"heathen' is to "let Jealous Ameri-
can girl marry him. - Domestic life
affords opportunities for bringing
Chinaman under the influences of civili-
cation that no Sunday-schOol can supply.
And it may be al open question whether
the Providence girl, and not the mission
airy society, has not hit upon the true
method of the evangelizatiOn of China.
The new notes which the bank of Franc
is about to issue will be in two cOlOrs,
blue and pink, and so blended as to pro-
cure general tint approaching violet.
1t is believed at the bank that these
notes are inimitable except at an eXpendi-
ture of time and money that would
effecually check enterprise in that direc-
ton. The new fifty and hundred france
notes are now being printed, and those
of tive-hundred and thousand
franc will soon leave the engraver's
hands. The new notes, respecting which
the chemists and engTavGrs are so conf
dent, have been produced i'll twentieth
part of the time spent on those which
are now to be gradually withdrawn
from circulation. NJ. Barre was three
years engaged upon the model of the
present thousand frame note, and that
of the hundred frame was five years in
the artist s hands.
Minnesota, as well as some other states,
has prison labor problem. The Mime
sofa legislature abolished the contract
system i'll 1887, and in haste to comply
with the demands of labor organizations
no proper provision was made for the
employment of conVictS. The prison in
spectors of that state are now visiting
states similarly afflicted to report sugges-
lions to remedy the evil at
the next session of the legislature.
They find everywhere feeling
of uncertainty regarding con-
Wet labor, but are satisfied that the
clamor regarding competition with hon
est labor was greatly exaggerated. The
chief trouble with the contract system
had been, they find, the difficulty of pre-
serving the reformatory principle and
prison discipline and in checking the
greed of selfish contractors. They are
satisfied, however, that laws can be
passed which viii reform the prison labor
system and still give the conyicts employ
ment.
The state of Alabama enacted law
prohibiting persons afflicted with color
blindness from serving on railway lines
within that state in the capacity OF loco
motive engineer, fireman, brakeman,
station agent, switchman, hagman, gate
tender or signal man or in any other po-
sition in which it is necessary TO discEH
nate color signals, and it provided HFsS=
aminations and fixed penalties for Gre viN
lation of its commands by corporaaSsfis
employing persons not qualified pndesthe
statute. a railroad running thrgHeh Ala !
bama violated the law and SFaSz N dietedl
and convicted. Its manaS INA gin&
that this was an infringemHfof their COZ
freedom, and as their road is an
inter- state line they carried the case to the