Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-07
eight to eleven feet high snd who could
ssep over q common rail fence.

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eight to eleven feet high snd who could
step over q common rail fence.
The women OF Americ. txper d SS,000,-
600 annually for paint snd powder for
their faces.
PolYaem7 is being gradually stamped
out 10 Uiah, and the young Mormon wo-
men are glad Of II. The Que wife plan
will always be Endorsed By the ts!rer hall
OF creation.
The new administration Is going to
have trouble with tie dollar OF the dad
dies. That Few treasury vault, con-
structed to contain S1o0, 600 Is nearly
full. The law compels their manufacture
st the rate Of $4,000, COO 9 month.
A buffalo rancs hiss been started in
Kansas and pays well, for buffalo meat
! readily brings Fly cents pound In Chi
cago. About the only specimens OF this
animal will soon be found tame on
ranches, and yet within twenty years
there were millions Of them on the plains.
In 1906 the population of Ireland WAS
SO per cent Of tha. of the United King
dom; in 1886 1t was only Is per cent. In
1861 there were 995, 156 inhab ted houses ;
1881 only Tics; In 1871 there were 3l,-
$50 uninbsbited houses; in 1881, 57.267.
In 1873 there were 3ls. PAP paupers; in
1885, 633,021.
The Florida Grange crop is estimated
at 100000 boxes, which is more than
double the product Of any previous year.
| Each box holds on an average $50
oranges, which will be ten fer every per-
son in the United States. But these
$50, 900, coo F.oridas will not be s-hali
the oranges sold in our markets.
A Cincinnati establishment esch Jesr
beats out 2l,tO0 gold dollars into gold
leaf, end as each dollsr can be made into
sheet that will carpet two rooms six
teen ard one-half feet square, some idea
may be formed of its tenuity. It requires
400 thicknesses Of gold lesf TO equal 3
sheet of this paper, and 2SO,0C0 TO form
an inch.
Many years ago Amos Bsuasm got the
first set Of false .esth ever eeen in Con-
necticut, valued It $50. They were buried
with him. By ge! ing possession of the
ismilY burisl lot d! HsUptoD, grsndeoD,
Gilbert Bepham, pr cured these teeth and
now carries tLen IN his pocket. They
are wanted by others, among them the
New Haven Historical lciety. Gilbert's
uncle, MerWip, thresteIs 10 bring suit
tor the teeth.
II is nearly nine years since the work Of
tsking the teLtA census Of the United
States began, snd it is only now that the
snnour cement is made that the twenty
second and final volume Of the statistics
have been published. No plan Of s census
was ever more elaborate than that of the
census OF 1850, but il vas altogether too
elaborate. committee Of congress liz
already beginning to make preparations
for the census Of 1890, and il should be
careful not to undertake too much.
The postmsstef-ganeral has submitted
to the secretary OF the treasury his esti-
mates for approximations for the postal
service for the fiscal year, ending June
80, 1900 They aggregate SGT, 1912, 073, as
against $50. $50. 333, the appropriation for
the present fiscal year. This is an IN
crease Of S5,951 ,e39, and is stated to be
necessary to meet the present and PROS
pectlve extension OF the postal service.
The revenue OF the department for tie |
hscsl Yesr, ending June 80, 1890, are esti.
mated st SCI. 508.65s, an ircresse Of
SIS, Sl3 1852.
There sre shout 265, 900 Indians In the |
United States, not counting the A}asksrs. |
About 5000 Of them are in Arizona. l2,
600 In California, 1000 in Dakots, 76 900 |
in Indian Territory, $4,000 In New Mex
leo, l5. 900 in MOL sus. COO in Wash
Irgton Territory, 5000 in Nevada, 5000 In
Wisconsin, 1000 in MICHIGAN, COCO In
5000 in New York and 5000
along the line between North Carolina
and Tennessee, and fewer thousands in
Oregon, Idaho, Nebraska, Utsf. Kansas
md Wyoming, and scattered hundreds
n Colorado. lows, Texss, Indiana,
FloriGs and Maize.
The Milwaui es Sentinel says: The
arge cities OF the United States may be
iivided into four CLASSES: l. New York,
With more than l 100000 Brooklyn, prac-
ically Q part OF New York, with nesrIy
700. 900; Philsdelphis, with more than L.
iG0, goo, and Chicago, with over 700, 900.
!. Baltimore, Boston and st Louis, each
lsving more than 400, 900. 8 Cincinnati
nd San Francisco, with nearly 800, 600.
!. Milwaukee, New Orlesne, Buffalo,
;levelsnd and perhaps Pittsourg ana
Washington, with more than 200, COO. II
maintains its present rate Of increase
,r two years Milwaukee will head the
let in this class at the mex census.
Two nuggets Of gold recently found in
he Rseburne district of Western Austria
Ia weighed 100 and 103 ounces respec-
lvelY. The smsller one was found near
be surface and was at first kicked away
y its discoverer. At Bendigo they are
iggirg for gold 2400 feet under ground,
the grestest depth to which the gold
miners In Australia have yet pushed their
esrch for the precious metal"
There Is to be railroad built from the ,
'sltic to the Pacific through the interior
I Siberia, total distance OF $3.50 miles ,
rem S.. Petersburg to the eastern ter ;;
Anus the total length will be nearly COCO ,,
lilies, or g quarter way around the globe. .
seventeen days will be required to make )
be journey. In this expsnse our flight !
rom New York to SIN Frsnc:sco looks !
mall. The cost Of the roads construc. :
ion Is estimated at isem 800. 009sn0o TO :
90, 900 900 roubles. OF from S375, 900; 600 :
D s525.C00,oo0. Wben ahe worldcozaes !,
, see this road completed, seye4hs 1ns !
annapolis News, and HE PsnsmS Canal :.
pened what new saiystment off@Ations =
nj await II! Andssfhel, when - con-
der the opsningeSaf Africa 1ads It's e
to cisiisEasi6n andth3pks eta
le developmedsxof ne wfoxSes, hich =
zen We now are Constantly seeing, merei
opear many pages CT this worlds WON
srful history yet TO De turned, the I
,omise Of whose record Is the most t
.illisnt Of all.