Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-25
NEWS AND NOTES.

Newark, n. j., makes the most cork.
screws. One firm makes $50. 900. 900 per
year.
The potato crop this year is 225, 900, OOO
bushels, about four bushels to each OF the
Go,0oO. 900 people in this country. Don't
grab.
The Pastors Alliance OF the District o;
Columbi. has declared against Sunday
funerals.
Three hundred million eggs were i'm
ported into the United States last year,
according to the custom house returns.
There will be : large number Of con.
tested cases in the rext congress. The
ms 0rilies in many districts are very
bad counting.
Candidate Coogsp, who paid 500, 900
to political strikers on the strergsh Of
their ASSURANCES that the expenditure
would elect him mayor Of New York,
threatens to make II warm for the men
who obtained money from him By false
pretenses OF support and success, and
then voted and worked for the other EEL
low.
II Warner Miller doesn't get the tres.
suIy portfolio in President Herrison's
cabinet, 1t won't be for lack OF earnest
prayers in his behalf. Tho Methodist
bishops have formally Endorsed his claims
to the position, and other religious de-
nominations are counted on for their sup,
port. Politics and religion are getting 8
good deal mixed.
The Knights OF Labor evidently believe
in the power OF the printing press. Their
expenses for printing last year amounted
TO $40 .0OO, and Mr.. Litchman, who con-
frscted this account, informs his fellow
knights that this amount would have been
exceeded had not he turned over $40, 900
worth OF the pfintiI G TO his soD, who M
derstsDds economy. Litchmsn is as crest
philanthopist as he is laboring man.
PhiIsdelphla, according 10 a leading
medical journal, is ahead Of ali other
American cities in the matter OF typhoid
fever, and blame is placed upon She city's
sewerage. The water Of Pennsylvania
leading city is said to be none Of the best
1t is surprising how slow people are to
learn the importance. Of good sewerage,
but possibly stupid city fiji ;ials are re-
sponsible 70: carelessness in this respect
more than the citizens. 81
writer In the Boston Medical and
Surgical Journal is much against the
hustle, which, he says, has rexlly cele-
FERROUS effects upon the wesser The
uom,n with hustle, he says, can never
SIT down IN q natural position:ssIt is
absolutely impossible for her to rees her
back against the back Of any ses& f
ordinary construction. He has % 6aabt
that scms OF the severe bsdkSches o.
women whose duties keep them ses.es
ell day are due to, or at least arSsEgsJs
vated by, this disability. In addition,
when the woman STANDS the weight Of the
back bresdths of her dress are thrown SO
fsr behind as to make her lean forward to
maintain the center CT gravity in Its
proper position.
This ia how General Fisk explains Il e
smsllness CT the prohibition vote: The
tariff scSre hurt us In al the East
ern states. For ZONE weeks before
the election 1 was in receipt Of myrizds Of
letters from good cid fashioned Republi>
cans who had pitched their tents with US,
saying that IN view Of the danger to
American industries from q reduction CT
the tariff threatened by the Democrats,
they were constrained to return TO the
old fold this yea. And, on the other
hsgs, many heretofore Democratic voters,
oV& recently with us, advised me that
ISfey must return snd give one more
khack st the high protectionists. This
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