Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-26
NEWS and NOTES.

An artesian well at TripOi, Iowa ,
spouts water twelve feet aobve the sur
face of the ground.
The coal mines at Monterey, Cal. :,
which have been idle for years, are to be
reopened and vigorously worked.
A family at Augusta, Me-, claim to
have been made quite i'll by an electric
light which shines directly in their sleep
| ing rooms.
1t is estimated that the paper making
industry ranks fourteenth in this country
III the matter of labor employed and cap
ital invested.
Georgia is to have an immigration bu-
reau to encourage immigration to the
state of industrious and intelligent far
mers and mechanics.
There are $500 members of the Michi-
gan Anti-hOrse Thief Society, and dur
ing the past year they have not had q
cent s worth of property stolen.
Dr. G. f. Center writes to the Florida
| Times Union that he has gathered thirty
three pounds of beans from one Japan
bean vine, the product of one bean.
Positively the meanest man has been
found. He lives i'll Michigan. and when
hrs wife died kept his store closed till
after the funeral and then locked his
clerks for lost time.
London spends between 81 900 ZOO and
| IS 900 900 a year on pOtted plants and
cut flowers. Many of these flowers come
from Holland, France aud even Italy. A
single culturist in Southern France claims
to send every year $50 900 worth of white
lilacs, snowdrops, lilies of the valley and
roses to London.
California supplies more than half of
quicksilver consumed in the world. The
consumption of quicksilver in the world
has averaged 1873 900 TASKS a year. The
principal uses to which it is applied are:
% Meteorological and other scientific
Instruments; (2) chemical preparations;
81 looking glasses and mirrors.
Nothing remains of the famous English
settlement of jamestown, Va. begun in
1907, save the ruins of a church tower,
and this is crumbling year by year. Tree
roots have cracked the monumental slabs
in the churchyard, and thus one of the
few localities recalling the first years of
American history is slowly losing its dis
tinctlve features.
Joseph Basier, travelling salesman
for a wholesale liquor house of Wheeling,
W. Va, states that out in some of the
lower and back counties of that state,
and in the mountainous portions, colored
women were voted by the hundreds by
Republicans; that their hair was clipped
and the women dressed in men IS clothing
and trotted up to the polls.
There were 1872 suicides in France last
year of which PIGS are attributed to men,
tai Affections of different kinds, 1928 to
physical suffering, 975 to domestic
troubles, 500 to drunkenness, 4S3 to pow
erty, 305 to pecuniary difficulties, POP to
the desire to avoid Imprisonment, 100 to
the loss of employment, SO to the fear of
exposure, 56 to the loss of relatives, % to
the dread of military service and 227 to
jealousy and crossing in love.
There are in the United States more
colored people than there are people of
foreign birth. They constitute more than
one-eighth of the entire population
More than l 800, 200 are legal voters,
nine-tenths of whom live in the late slave
states. At the recent election 20 900 ne
groes held the balance of power between
the two political parties in the great states
of New York, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,
and gave the ninety-six electoral votes of
those states to General Harrison.