Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14
NEWS and NOTES.


The population of Germany, according
TO the last census, is 4G $50 ,704.
Fifty-three persons under sentence of
death are confined i'll the Kansas peni-
tertiary.
The government pension roll contains
| the names of 452 ,557 people. Last year
| there were added % ,252 uafnes, while in
creases were allowed III 40 ZIG cases.
| 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 persona grata
in 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.
1t was an old woman in Indiana who
| invented the whisll broom, and millions
of them are whisking from daylight till
dark without her having made a cent out
of her invention.
The two leading questions of the day
may be shaped as follows: First-How
many public offices are there to be filed
i'll the country? Second-What is the
population of Ohio?
A Maine woman has secured a divorce
from her husband on the ground of de-
sertiOn, alleging that he went to temper
ance meetings six days during the week
and on Sunday went to church.
A Boston office boy recently asked his
employer for a raise in his salary on the
ground that he didn't know how to whis-
tie, and he got it, although in other re-
ho Of If Hn,
California shows great increase of
population for the past few years. In
1880 it had S64 1914 people, and an esti-
mate of the present population, with the
vote at the recent election as an index, is
l ,299 ,42S.
The mocking 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 Il hearty meal and stagger
about badly intoxicated.
New Haven proposes to solve the tramp
question By building tramps' hotel,
furnishing meals and lodging ut 10 cents
each and compelling the tramps to saw
wood enough to pay their bills. The
tramps won t consider that town haven
of rest.
Wesley Banks, resident of Norris
town, is just recovering from an illness
caused by an excessive loss of blood, the
result of having a tooth drawn. The
blood flowed for a week before it was
finally checked, and at one time his life
was despaired of.
Subpenas in divorce were granted at
Reading, Pa, on the 4th inst. in the
case of John Miller against Elizabeth his
wife. Both parties are over eighty-five
years of age, and the charge is deser-
ton. They were married in 1929, and he
charges her with deserving him i'll lS43.
Kansas, the banner Republican state
of the Union, has elected one colored
man to her legisiature-the first perform
ance of the kind in her history. Texas,
the banner Democratic state of the
Union, has just elected five colored men
to her legislature.
J.R. Boggs of Lexington, Ca, has a
monstrosity in the shape of n 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
bother it any. The chick is now several
weeks old.
James Cooper, proprietor Of a store in
Stegbenville %. 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 a large
pension on account of his disa bility, and
in his business has accumulated quite
fortune.
An employe of Jay Gould recently re-
marked: George Gould and his father
love each other as much as any father
and son ever saw, and the same is the
case with the other boys, who conse-
quently are always glad to go home to
their parents. Gould has impaired to his
sons skill enough to take care of them
selves. One of his boys is a good tele-
graph operator, another is a good steno-
grapher The old man can go all over
this land and dictate his dispatches to one
boy and the other one can send them by |
wire.
The wave motor, which was begun at |
Point Lobos, about three years ago, is |
nearly completed. As described by |
San Francisco paper cit is IA machine for |
utilizing the dashing in of the waves by |
turning their power into practical |
use, such as furnishing water for |
sprinkling the streets, flushing the |
sewers, and even driving cable cars |
Only one piston has been put in as yet |
This pumps at the rate o.. three barrels |