Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-30
NEWS AND NOTES.
Mayor r 3che of Chicago estimates there
are 5000 anarchists in that city.

Mayor Roche Of Chicago estimates Their
are 5000 anarchists in that city.
The Baldwirs' of Phi adelphis have
built zee locomotives this year.
Marriage may be a lottery, but there
isn't q new drawing every month.
1. is the contract with the queens
housekeeper that sne will not get mar
ried for At lesst ten years.
Abou. 500 COZ cords OF birch wood have
been manufactured into spools 81 Fox
croft, Me the past few years.
Dorsey to DudIey-"There YVES moth
ing the mstter with that letter except
that 1t should never have been written"
Mrs Harrison is quoted as saying that
chins psi ltipg is TO women what poker is
to men. She evidently regards china
painting In the light Of jIck pottery.
The new administration Is going to
have trouble with the dollar of the dad
dies. That new treasury vault, con-
structed to contain 800, COO, 900 is nearly
full. The law compels their manufacture
at the rate of $4,000. 900 s month.
Thirty-one shsres OF the Chemics n
Bank OF New York of the par value Of
500 were recently sold at from $500
to SSS05 each. These shares pays ABOUT
100 per cent. per annum on their par
value. Importers and Traders Bank
stock, par 500, sold for $500.
Some cotton, bsled while damp, WAS
opened the otherdsy st Washington, N
c., and found almost hot enough to burn
Hence 1t is suggested that many cases Of
mysterious fire st sea may have origin in
the spontaneous com 5ustion Of cotton
picked or compressed in suci conditlons.
In 1900 the population OF Ireland was
80 per cent Of that of the United King.
d IN; in 1886 Il WAS onlv Is per cent In
1861 there were 995, l56 inhabited houses;
1881 only 9l4 Jos; In 1871 there were 3l,-
$50 uninhaoued houses; in 1881. 81, 2tT.
In 1873 thera were 3lS, PAP paupers; in
1856, 655,021.
James Harmon OF Worth county, Gs
has q powder gourd that WAS carried By
hig grandfather in the revolutionary war
[. Is well preEerved and seems good for
several hundred years yet. Mr. Hsnnon
also has single barrel shotgun tina. did
service In the same war, which Is s!ill
capable CT good service.
The fig harvest this year has been coed.
The whole crop that practically supplies
Europe and America sad great part Of
As!s is gathered from a Very limited acre
age. The average yield is shout 5.0CO,.
300 pounds. The hg gardens lie along
the valley Of the meander, especially
,rouna the ruins Of E 2hesus.
Mrs. Harrison is said to be sntagonistic
to the extreme style of decollete dress,
and live stAtusry will not be popular in
social circles at Washington during the
coming administration. Unlike Mrs
Cleveland, the future lady CT the White
House will not declare war upon the
0ustle, but she will make 1t warm for the
Dust.
A Cincinnati establish m 2nt esch year
beats out q COO gold dollars into gold
esf, and IS each dollar can be made into
; sheet that will csrpet two rooms six
teen and one-hali feet square, soma idea
may be formed Of its tenuity. Isrequires
l400 tnicknesses Of gold leaf to equal o
sheet Of this paper, ana $500 to form
IN inch.
Do you want library? Tle tenth
United States census hiss ilst been com.
plated after keeping sn army Of men at
work for eight yesrs, " contains ever
10 900 pages of figures, and will be mailed
to your address by your member Of con
gress il you will make an tffitavit before
8 notary that you will read 1t from the
first figure to the last.
A French physician, DR.. Felz, mentions
) curious apparent Gauss Of left handed
ness. A child in q certain family WIS
left handed and the second appeared to
be so st the age CT one year. It was then
learned that the mother always carried
her children on her left arm. She wss
advised to change and held on her other
arm ihe infant, having It's right hand free
to grasp obi:cte, soon became right
handed.
II there are natives Of this country who
have not heard Of Mary and her "lIttle
lamb" who "1ent,t TO school with her one
day." 1t would be interesting to know
where they are. Certain It ls, that they
never received their education or the be-
ginning of 1t in any Of the red frame or
brick school houses dotted all over the
and. Mary is yet living, so says Ameri-
IAN Notes and Queries, residing near
Somerville, Mass. She Is now 81 years
DID, and still tells the story about
her lamb with keen eliJyment. L! really
lid follow her TO school, and she slowed
& away wrapped In . blanket under her
'eat, and 1t lay down IS gently as could
De. By and BY she had to 60 and recite,
eaviDg the lamb, as she thought, all
light, when clstter, chatter
anne the hoofs Ct the
title animal behind her to her intense
iismay. However, the teacher lsughed
md the children giggled, but Mary was
overwhelmed with embarrassment. A
'oung man visiting the school was so
ID used that he wrote the lines VII en-
lsve ootsined such place in tho hearts
u the children Of this couItIy.