Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-13
NEUS md NOTES.

Liquor dealers who give credit in Yer
mont cannot legally collect the amount
| of their bills. The courts have officially
| declared whisky not to be Il persona grata
! i'll that state.
| About forty petrifed bodies were re-
Gently recovered from the Mike coal
mine in Japan. They were those of
workmen buried alive in the mines sew
eral years ago.
! It was an old woman in Indiana who
invented the whisk broom, and millions
of them are whisking from daylight till
dark without her having made cent out
of her invention.
A Boston Office boy recently asked his
employer for a raise in his salary on the
ground that he didn' know how to whis-
| tie, and he got it, although III other re-
| spects he was not much of an office boy.
| The hooking birds in Orange, Cal.
! feed on the berries that grow in the Chin
ese umbrella tree, and this sort of food
makes them tipsy. They act very fool
ishly just after hearty meal and stagger
about badly intoxicated.
Wesley Banks, resident of Norris
town, is just recovering from an illness
caused by an excessive loss of blood, the
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blood flowed for n week before it was
finally checked, and at one time his life
was despaired of.
J. r. Boggs of Lexington, Ga, has
monstrCsity i'll the shape of three
legged chicken. The third limb comes
from the body between the two usual
ones, and is about as large, but it stands
out behind the fowl and does not seem to
hnthpr IL Tho cbinIy IL
weeks old.
James Cooper, proprietor of a store i'll
Steubenville %. has been totally blind for
number of years, losing his sight by dis
ease contracted in the army, but attends
to his business without help, makes
change of all kinds OF money, paper or
silver, as though he had both eyes, it being
impossible TO deceive him in the denomi-
nation of the bills. He draws large
pension on account of his disability, and
in his business has accumulated quite
fortune.
Telephone girls in London make frcm
81 10 to 81 per week; Typewriter girls
average SG-a few make SO; women teIe-
graphers, civil service examination and
those on government jobs make 81 80 as
a starter, ana in eight years their wages
are SIS rs, the Usual maximum figure.
Some on heavy wires get 81 80 and IS 80
per week; women clerks i'll the postoffie
work six hours per day, and receive at
the beginning 1925 per year. An advance
of 81 per year is allowed till they re-
ceive $500 annually. A few in the gen.
eral postof1ice make $500 per year.
SOrters get Y snillings per week and are
raised to 90 shilIings. Women compost
tors make as high as 25 shllings per week.
Some dressmakers make 81 per day.
The apprentice has to pay from $3.50 to
$3.50 to learn and serve four years. She
lives at the teacher 5 house and receives
no pay. Board is free.
The New York Civil Service Reform
association has adopted resolutions de-
clarine that the declarations and pledges
of the Republican platform, and the
views expressed by the president elect in
his letter of acceptance justify the hope
that the progress in civil service reform
already secured will be maintained and
extended, and deprecating removals from
Office except for reasons connected with
the efficiency of the service. One resolu-
ton says: ''That the interference of
members of congress with the exercise of
the executive power of appointments and
removals, and the laws which, by pre-
ScIlDlIlS II llAtu LtEIu lOT IulPtlOF OINCbS,
facilitate a clean sweep of the civil serv-
ice every four years, are the chief bull
warks of the spoils system, and the rem
edy lies in the repeal of the four years
laws, and the prevention of the interfer-
ence of members OF congress in executive
appointments -
Montreal has been hayinga gas plague
which a correspondent thus describes:
As soon as the gas was lit i'll a room
sulphuric vapor arose which produced q
burning and suffocating sensation in the
throat and sick headaches. and many
cases OF actual prostratiou are reported
to-day. The hotels where gas is burned
have been uninhabitable, guests beng
forced to leave their rooms and walk the
streets to breathe fresh air. In the
stores and workshops where gas is abso-
lutely necessary all the doors and win
dows have to be kept open notwithstand-
ing the cold, in order to get relief from
the intolerable stencil. In houses fur
nished with gas stoves it is impossible to
live, and food has to be cooked by the
neighbors. In the streets not lighted by
electricity the very atmosphere seems
permeated by the poisonous gas. The
superintendent said the trouble was due
to new retorts and would soon be over.