Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28

and the proportion is rapidly increasing.
1t is estimated that the paper making
industry ranks fourteenth in this country
in the matter of labor employed and cap
ital invested.
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.
In excavating for the foundation walls
for new mill near Rutland, VT, the
workmen found three underground can
non balls and one four-pounder, thought
to be relics of the BurgoyDe campaign of
1777.
There are forty-two firms in the United
| States engaged in the manufa cture of
| chewing gum Their trade is increasing
and it is estimated that the value of their
product this year will not be less than
| $40 800 600.
Capital punishment has been abolished
in Italy. This was done III Switzerland
some seven years ago, but the result was
not regarded as satisfactory and capital
punishment was again -1'e-enacted. 1t is
| curious that it should now be abandoned
in Italy, where the murder rate is the
highest in Europe.
Telegraph operators, it seems, are de-
| veloping disease of their own. One or
two eases recently occurred abroad, in
which the finger nails dropped off, one
| after another. The affection is supposed
| to be due to the constant hammering and
pushing wifi, the finger ends required by
the working of the telegraph instru-
| ment.
! California supplies more than half of
| quicksilver consumed in the world. The
| consumption of quicksilver in the world
| has averaged 1873 900 TASKS year. The
! principal uses TO which it is applied are:
! ~ Meteorological and other scientific
instruments; (2) chemical preparations;
| (3] looking-glasses and mirrors.
Nothing remains of the famous English
settlement of jamestown, Va. begun i'll
1907, save the ruins of church tower,
and this is crumbling year by year. Tree
| roots have cracked the monumental slabs
iii the churchyard, and thus one of the
few localities recalling the first years of
| American history is slowly losing its dis
tinctlve features.
A novel wedding occurred on the boun-
| dairy line between Virginia and West Nir
ginia, near Doe Hill, the other day. The
parties to be married belonged in West
Nh2IlliSt anu lliC IICI lllss II
license to marry in that state, stood on
the ''borders of his land, - while the
contracting parties stood in West Vir-
ginia and were made man and wife in the
presence of many witnesses.
John NJ . Goring, of Wappinger's Falls,
n. Y g, has Il sagO palm with quite his
tory. Its age is $50 years. The palm
was originly grown at Mount Vernon, and
was owned by George Washington. 1t
was brought from there by Mr.. Van
Rensselaer, and planted in Niblo s Garden,
New York, at the time that resort was
first constructed. The plant stands ten
feet high and weighs nearly 400 pounds.
At Paris, Ky, three young lads-Wil-
lie Hall, Kenney Nichols and Wilmot
Kenney-on the 10th inst. captured
| buzzard which had a small brass bell
strapped around its neck with n piece of
rawhide. On the bell was engraved
''Atlanta, Ga. g, April 81, 1866. The
buzzard had gorged itself from the car
cass of a COW and was easily caught.
After OBTAINING it an hour or two they
released it and it flew away.
There were 1872 suicides in France last
year, of which 2l66 are attributed to men
tai Affections of different kinds, 1923 to
physical suffering, 975 to domestic
troubles, 500 to drunkenness, 4S3 to pow
erty, 305 TO pecuniary difficulties, 202 to
the desire to avoid Imprisonment, 100 to
the loss of employment, SO to the fear of
exposure, So 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 800 900 are legal voters,
nineteenth of whom live in the late slave
states. At the recent election 10 ,000 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.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is responsible
for the following: Pink nails, Incidence.
Red nails, Il war-like nature. Narrow
nails incline to mischief. Hilbert nails
are associated with deceit. Small round
nails denote obstinacy. Crooked nails
indicate a fierce nature. Nails abnor-
mally pale, or with black specks on them
denote sickness. Broad nails are con-
sdered to be indicative of bashful and
gentle natures Long nails appertain to
those of a temporizing disposition. These
are the nails of persons who hate scenes.
Tho supreme court Bible is small,
black velvet-covered octave. 1t has been
used in the administering of every oath
since 1908. Every chief justice and every
associate justice of the United States has
held this little sacred tome in taking his
oath of office. Many thousands of law
yers have held it, and to write the names
of the men who have touched the covers
would be TO name the men who have
made the bench and bar of the United
States illustrious. 1t was printed in Lon
don in 1893, and is to-day but little the
worse of wear.
1PnTT 1;EN ND TO3rEN